The Odious Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson is at it again.  In the aftermath of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, Pat Robertson's remarks on the Christian Broadcasting Network about Haitians making a pact with the devil confirm my worst suspicions about the "good and religious" Pat Robertson.

Here is a man who was tied to blood diamonds in Africa now having the gall to tell innocent victims of a natural disaster that is their fault.

With such vile front-men as Pat Robertson, is it any wonder that Christianity gets a bad name?

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!  I am glad to see that 2010 rolled around right on schedule.  I hope you were able to enjoy the holidays.

I guess a number of "Rapture Prophets" were disappointed that nothing happened in 2009.  I am sure they will be busy putting their "calculations" in order and coming out with updated "prophecies".

If nothing else, it will make for some cheap amusement in 2010 when their prognostications fail to come true.

Another 2009 Rapture Fantasy (um, Prophesy)

With less than three weeks left in 2009, Duncan Long dot com is not looking so hot as an accurate prognosticator.  Like many, this site also does the weasel words trick of a question mark in their claim; hence, they will say they never meant 2009 when nothing happens by New Year's Day, 2010.

Rapture by 14 December 2009?

Another amusing, bound-to-be-wrong, update at EVT:

I don't know about you, but I plan to be be around on the 14th, 15th, 16th, ...

I Survived Halloween!

Well, I survived Halloween!  It was a great night: a Saturday, an almost full moon, daylight savings for an extra hour of sleep afterwards, and a happy mixing of Christians, Atheists, Buddhists, and others (no, I didn't ask).  I did not see any Wiccans getting treed like they do over at Landover Baptist but one can't have everything now, can one?

I didn't get any of the so called witch-cursed candy that some bubbleheads like Kimberly Daniels apparently believe in.  My own view is that people like Daniels just do this to goose their own ratings; she is a pastor and we all know that clergy are ever in search of more gullible donors.

I Can Prove That God Exists

This is from www.2009-rapture.com.  Another site from a "prophet" thinking that 2009 might be the year of the Rapture (of course, no year is the year of the Rapture).  Wonderfully symbolic.  Here is the orginal:

Some Christians Worry that Harold Camping Makes Them Look Dumb

According to Harold Camping and Family Radio, the end is coming in May 2011

A number of Christians are upset with Harold Camping (see here and here for examples) because he has predicted the Rapture before and has always been wrong.  He is batting 1.000 - just in the wrong direction!  Other Christians worry, rightly in my view, that Harold Camping's highly public but failed predictions portray the entire religion in a bad light.

Harold Camping has always been wrong about predicting the Rapture (and always will be) because there is no chance that there has been a Rapture in the past, there is no Rapture happening now, nor will there ever be a Rapture in the future.  Only one simple reason is needed to account for this: there is no God.

Harold Camping's failed predictions are a stark reminder of the gullibility and superstition that underlie religion.  Without realizing it, he is doing the world a great favor.