Post- Apocolyptic Monday

Sincerely, and I mean this with all my heart, for those looking forward to the Rapture, a new body and a clean soul, I’m sorry it didn’t happen for you. However, end-of-the-world prognostication is neither an art nor a science.

The First Commandment reads:  “And God spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:1-3)

Thus one is prohibited from “worshipping” money, sex, success, beauty, status, or another human, etc. This is where Harold Camping falls on the God-O-Meter of faith.

Because he is “religious” leader, some people assume he has a direct line to the Almighty. He has no more a direct line than you or me.

He claims to have “found a code hidden” in the Holy Bible that showed him a specific date. And now it can be said that hidden code was a falsehood.

As a believer in Jesus Christ — I’m willing to go on record as saying  the hidden code, and it’s revelation, to Camping is nothing more than the trickery of Satan. Period.

This led Camping to spend millions of dollars on billboards across the nation, trumpeting his message. The sad thing is — not one hungry mouth was directly fed and not one homeless person was directly sheltered by that cash spent on advertising.

At least five people I know truly believed that they were about to find themselves in Heaven having been Raptured. One of those five people tell me they gave over all their worldly assets to the preachers radio network.

That smacks of a scam. Furthermore, MinistryWatch.com, which grades Christians organizations on financial transparency, Family Stations, Inc., which does business as Family Radio, which Camping founded, has a transparency grade of “C.”

I’d like to add — Camping’s actions have painted all Christian with the same brush — so look for your faith to be lampooned by the media, comedians and such.

There must be something that can be learned from this over-publicized, much laughed at and joked about event that each person can take home. I think that lesson will be different for each of us.

For me, I’m considering it a dry-rehearsal for events much ballyhooed by those infatuated with the Mayan calendar. For those believers, the world either ends December 21, 2012 or we shift into a new plane of existence within the universe. 

Sigh…

I can only deal with one belief system per life-time.