The Four Horsemen send their regrets

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/25/the_end_of_the_world/index.html

In a recent poll, 8 percent of respondents in New Jersey admitted to thinking that Barack Obama is the antichrist. As in, they think the president is the Beast of Revelation, he whose coming portends the rapture, the battle of Armageddon, and the end of the world as we know it. Thirteen percent weren't sure, perhaps waiting for more and better evidence to arrive via chain e-mail.

If you're shocked by those stats, remember just how many Americans think the apocalypse is right around the corner. In a poll from earlier this decade, 17 percent said they expected the world to end in their lifetime. Perhaps that's why, even though Jesus may have admonished that no man knows the day and hour, so many people can't resist making a pseudo-educated guess about the day and hour.

One of the more popular theories making the rounds lately has centered on the Mayan calendar, which runs out in 2012. You get the drift -- don't make any plans for 2013. The New Agey claptrap is popular enough that it inspired Roland Emmerich's upcoming apocalypse-porn blockbuster "2012," due in multiplexes everywhere this November. With a hat tip to the citizens of New Jersey, Roland Emmerich and the ancient Mayans, we present this honor roll of doomsday panics and false messiahs -- a whole lot of past predictions that didn't pan out, and a few more current revelations that are looking iffy. This is the way the world doesn't end. No bang, lots of whimpers.

more: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/25/the_end_of_the_world/index.html

This has been another episode of Simple Answers To Simple Questions.

No man knows the day or hour... if you believe this stuff, anyway.

passed away.

Oops!

You know the OT test for determining a false prophet? If they're wrong even once, they're a false prophet. Cue the entrance music for Jesus!

Of course, Paul's epistles were written before the Gospels, so who knows where the gossip all started?

Like Pat Robertson, Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Baker, Jerry Falwell?

Yet, people listen... weird. Seems they'd know better.

I wonder if that's that part of the reason why many people think he was talking about Rome.

:rofl:

these New Jersey rapture-ists, they're probably not long for this world anyway. I mean seriously, have you ever been to New Jersey? It's a toxic dump.













No, no, seriously, I kid the Garden State...Garden State, yeah that's a stretch. Sorry, sorry, I did it again. :evilgrin:

i want one with puppies.