May 2011
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“William Miller was a farmer and self-anointed Bible interpreter from Low...”
– Randall Balmer, “The Great Disappointment: When the World Fails to End on Schedule,” via Religious Dispatches.
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“Five Lessons from Harold Camping’s Apocalypse Fail:
1. Old white male...”
– Gary Laderman, “5 Lessons Learned from the Apocalypse Fail, Or, It’s Not the End of the World as We Know It, and I Feel So-So.” via Religious Dispatches
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“The great majority of interpretations of Apocalypse assume that the End is...”
– Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending
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“Witnessing that terror and hopeless fear, seeing the suffering that it brought,...”
– Fred Clark, Slacktivist
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Sunday mornin' coming down
Fred Clark over at Slacktivist has a great post up about some of the possibilities for the followers of Harold Camping when Sunday morning rolls around.
Check out Disappointment, despair and Harold Camping.
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Rapture-Related Stat of the Day
motherjones:
According to the Pew Research Center for People & the Press, 52 percent of Southerners believe that Jesus will return by 2050.
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The Armageddon we should be worried about... →
Sarah Posner at Religious Dispatches on how American Armageddonist beliefs are influencing our foreign policy.
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The first American Armageddonist
Ferdinand and Isabella might have been in it for the money, but Christopher Columbus was hoping to hasten the Second Coming of Christ when he found the Caribbean.
In 1500, returning from his third voyage to the Americas, Columbus wrote to a Spanish court member:
“God made me a messenger of the new heaven and the new earth of which he spoke in the Apocalypse of St. John, after having...
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