gimme that ol' time religion......

So, the end of the world arrives May 21, 2011 at around 6 pm (eastern, central or pacific?) I think I wrote about this in the past- Family Radio stalwart, Brother Harold Camping, after years of exhaustive Bible study is confident that this is the date. He had written a book about 20 years ago, claiming that the end was coming in '93 or ' 94. oops. At the time he claimed that the fault lay with the fact that his study at the time had not been exhaustive enough. As I listen to him make this claim , time and again, on the radio , I always wondered "what was he going to say on May 22? The other day he began to set the foundation for that possibility- once again, not enough study. C'mon Harold, pull an all nighter or two if you're going to make such brash proclamations. Nonsense, but in small doses it can be entertaining and enlightening.As we go through the day, it's easy to believe that most everybody thinks like we do- our friends tend to share similar beliefs , that's why they're our friends. That's part of the reason, I try to read and explore some ideas, social, political, religious, etc- that I don't agree with, to see what's out there. Some of it is entertaining, some of it makes you roll your eyes and then some of it will make you.......... ( you can fill in whatever- variation of disgust, you prefer) Oh, Look! Here's one! That Pastor in Florida, who had threatened to burn 200 Korans last year (he eventually backed off) held a trial in his church the other day. He put the Koran on Trial- it must have been fun! There was a prosecutor and a defender and 12 members of the congregation were Jurors! When I was a kid we used to play "Store" in my friends garage down the street (the same guy who cut off his finger with a hatchet) It was great fun! Some of us were the clerks and some of us were the customers and we "bought" and "sold" things we took from our moms kitchens. (sometimes they knew, sometimes...not) After a while we grew up and stopped playing "Store" These grown ups still play! Yay! Hmmmmm I wonder if the Koran was found "guilty"? It Was! 5 crimes against Humanity. The Koran was sentenced- it was burned. A couple of days later the news made it to Afghanistan- A crowd attacked a group from the UN and killed 12 of them. The people in Florida church are shocked- The Pastor is demanding that action be Taken! Retribution! Oh, here he is talking: "It's not that we burn the Koran with some type of vindictive motive.We do not even burn it with great pleasure or any pleasure at all. We burn it because we feel a deep obligation to stay with the court system of America. The court system does not allow convicted criminals to go free. And that is why we feel obligated to do this" Oh, here's an assistant from the church speaking: "We have a huge stack of death threats. We take precautions. I have a hand gun. A lot of us have concealed weapons permits" The assistant is a woman. The french film director, Francois Truffaut, said in an interview once that ,the world would probably end in the year 2,000, because we were all so freaked out by the possibility that we would inadvertently make it happen. Maybe Brother Camping is correct