Today will be The day, judgement day, apocalypse, Armageddon, the end of the world. A calculation has been made based on biblical data that god will pass judgement on all human beings and end the world on the 21st of may 2011 at 6pm local time all over the globe. Eighty-nine-year-old tele-evangelist Harold Camping has taken the duty upon him to warn those willing to listen to his prophesy and followers from all over the planet have spread the word.
As I’m writing this word has arrived from New Zealand, which would be the first country to be swallowed by the ocean, that god has at least slightly delayed his judgment on the kiwis. 6pm precisely apparently was slightly inconvenient for him, or maybe the prediction was slightly off and he will select one moment to deal with the whole planet at once.
One might wonder why on earth I’m writing this blog when at most a few people might read it during the last day of their lives. Well, just between you and me, I must admit I’m a little skeptical. Predictions like this one have been made before and Mr. Camping himself has already stated that today might just be the beginning of a state of pre-damnation for all none believers and the world will end no earlier than October 21 this year. It could be seen as slightly peculiar that Camper does these predictions at an age at which one is generally unlikely to live for all the much longer.
Infinite mocking jokes could be made about such predictions, but instead I’d like to leave you with a question to think about: What is this difference between people predicting judgment day and those stating that, just to mention an example, homosexuality is a sin because god created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve?
Those still wondering where I’m going I’ll leave with a quote that is so universal it’s impossible to trace who first uttered it: “Live and let live”.
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