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When May 21, 2011 Backfires. Will the world end today?

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itself a fully demonstrable proof of the living God. A teaching that by an act of faith is directly confirmed by that absolute reality. A teaching that delivers the first ever religious claim of insight into the human condition that meets the Enlightenment criteria of verifiable, direct cause and effect, evidence based truth embodied in experience. A moral teaching that represented a paradigm change in the nature of faith and in the moral and intellectual potential of human nature itself; untangling the greatest questions of human existence: sustainability, consciousness, meaning, suffering, free will and evil.

Take a deep breath and think about it for a moment. There is nothing in scripture that contradicts such an iconoclastic idea, and much to support it. Only existing theological traditions don’t have such a proof to offer. And as they have throughout history provided the dominant body ideas that make up our conception of God, ironically, none have done more to discredit the very idea of God than religion. It is no wonder that reflective, thinking individuals are now leaving religion in droves, atheism is on the rise and religious ideas are coming under increased critical scrutiny from outside.

There are few things other than the secular nation state that have been as destructive and divisive among humanity as religion. The opportunity to resolve the God question, should that opportunity ever exist, must be at the top of any dream list for Progressives. Even if that means questioning what has never been questioned before, beginning with ourselves as species. The final act of that ongoing tragic/comedy we call civilization may very well be for humanity to discover the greatest roadblock to progress, other than human nature itself, has been and is religion.

For all our idealism, neither secular nor religious thought have provided the values to reach out and satisfy the greatest longings of the human soul, have failed to deliver an enduring peace, quench our thirst for a higher justice or secure a sustainable materialism. We have the dream but not the means. What has held those aspirations prisoner is rarely imagined, but if the catalyst with the necessary authority to realize the Dream were ever revealed, who would care enough to act? Unfortunately, the world has usually preferred the soft, the easy and more convenient paths of intellectual vanity, political correctness and spiritual confectionary than the honesty and courage to confront human nature itself.

The ‘world’ is what we’ve made it and that’s a pretty big mess. I wouldn’t mind seeing the ‘end’ of it! If that simply means accepting a little help from above as the price for certain progress. But first we need to discover and know the difference between the illusions of men and the mind of God…. absolutely.
Without doubt, nothing is going to happen on May 21 2011.

Existing religion is a human fabrication founded upon a vain intellectual imagination, yet the aspirations they represent are both real and mostly sincere and deserve better then the existing empty hope traditions offers. What might happen if they were pointed in the right direction? Our understanding of ourselves and our universe is far from complete. For all it’s pretensions, science has little voice in the God question, but in demanding the scrutiny of any claims, visible or invisible, they are spot on. Should a time ever come, when the human imperative is to escape the gravity of our own thought, having as little prejudicial baggage to dump, religious or secular, could be a considerable advantage!

Will the world end on May 21st, 2011?

Man spends entire retirement savings on May 21 end of world doomsday coming.

Robert Fitzpatrick’s ‘Doomsday Code’ is now shackled on the side of a bus shelter.(he may not be so stupid as we all wonder he is)

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  1. I guess we’re all waiting now for October 21st, 2011…ugh. Can’t wait to read the posts on Oct. 22nd.

  2. Evolutionman, you are a bigot it seems with your view of religion. Did you conveniently forget about Lenin, Stalin, Mao, the Killing fields of Cambodia, North Korea and on and on? All these purely secular, atheistic and anti religion states caused more millions of deaths and suffering by the millions than all the other wars adn crusades combined up to that point!

  3. Religion is a long passed story of good society building blocks. It’s caused nearly every if not every war or attack in history. It got us to where humans are today and now we can put faith and other bedtime stories to bed and put real thought to the real answer to human existence. The bible was extremely altered. Follow an ancient story altered by a greedy ruler who made a devine Jesus? Think not. How can you trust in a story when its the cut version. Religion were man made understandings of life and rules to follow. Don’t think it’ll last as long as man’s last day. Science will prevail.

  4. Religion is a long passed story of good society building blocks. It’s caused nearly every if not every war or attack in history. It got us to where humans are today and now we can put faith and other bedtime stories to bed and put real thought to the real answer to human existence. The bible was extremely altered. Follow an ancient story altered by a greedy ruler who made a devine Jesus? Think not. How can you trust in a story when its the cut version. Religion were man made understandings of life and rules to follow. Don’t think it’ll last as long as man’s last day.

  5. Religion is a long passed story of good society building blocks. It’s caused nearly every if not every war or attack in history. It got us to where humans are today and now we can put faith and other bedtime stories to bed and put real thought to the real answer to human existence. The bible was extremely altered. Follow an ancient story altered by a greedy ruler who made a devine Jesus? Think not. How can you trust in a story when its the cut version. Religion were man made understandings of life and rules to follow. Don’t think it’ll last as long as man’s last day.

  6. It’s been predicted lots of times that the worlds going to end like on new years eve in 1999 it was gOing to end it didn’t and this Harold is old he’s probably had a dream about t and told people it’s going to end , they would know if it was because it wouldn’t end in one go Cus earth is a big place ‘ I’ve seen loads of websites about tomorrow ones saying it’s goin to en at 6am an the others are saying night time it’s blantley not ending it’s sick to make people scare about it.

  7. “The second thing they all have in common, is that in spite of their conviction of having a ‘hotline’ to the almighty, not one has ever been able to offer any demonstrable prediction of that divine will. …And every time it happens, the failure demonstrates just how dead, stone cold that hotline has gone.”
    — Your assertion only works if mankind is to be exalted but that is contrary to Christianity where we understand that God “confounds” the wisdom of the (so-called) wise. After all, it is only in humility can we come in repentance for our self-centred selfish ways and recognize that we indeed to need a saviour, just as Christ claimed.

    “The anomaly should be obvious to all, but even love is not as deaf, dumb and blind a religious conviction.”
    – That’s a pretty arrogant sweeping judgment, don’t you think?

    “So any true revelation must provide a path for human reason to follow,”
    – Says who? In fact Christianity claims it is a matter of the heart.

    “There are few things other than the secular nation state that have been as destructive and divisive among humanity as religion.”
    – I always am amused at this assertion, completely ignoring all the far greater good that has been done in Christ’s name than bad. Even the whole concept of adoption, taking care fo the poor and homeless and sick, hospitals, literacy, aid to the poor in other countries all done and initially forged by Christians—far more than any purely secular/atheistic society or group has ever done. Your focus on the negative here shows your bias I’m sorry to say.

    “For all our idealism, neither secular nor religious thought have provided the values to reach out and satisfy the greatest longings of the human soul, have failed to deliver an enduring peace, quench our thirst for a higher justice or secure a sustainable materialism.”
    — Again, says who? You clearly don’t know the myriad of born again Christians who have been saved from horrific drug abuses, violence, abuse, etc and have truly found peace and lasting joy in Christ, being completely transformed from their old destructive or self centred ways. You again assume with judgment.

    “Existing religion is a human fabrication founded upon a vain intellectual imagination,”
    – This statement alone is vain intellectual imagination. I suggest you put aside your lofty judgments of others who have been convicted otherwise.

  8. “The second thing they all have in common, is that in spite of their conviction of having a ‘hotline’ to the almighty, not one has ever been able to offer any demonstrable prediction of that divine will. …And every time it happens, the failure demonstrates just how dead, stone cold that hotline has gone.”
    — Your assertion only works if mankind is to be exalted but that is contrary to Christianity where we understand that God “confounds” the wisdom of the (so-called) wise. After all, it is only in humility can we come in repentance for our self-centred selfish ways and recognize that we indeed to need a saviour, just as Christ claimed.

    “The anomaly should be obvious to all, but even love is not as deaf, dumb and blind a religious conviction.”
    — That’s a pretty arrogant sweeping judgment, don’t you think?

    “So any true revelation must provide a path for human reason to follow,”
    — Says who? In fact Christianity claims it is a matter of the heart.

    “There are few things other than the secular nation state that have been as destructive and divisive among humanity as religion.”
    — I always am amused at this assertion, completely ignoring all the far greater good that has been done in Christ’s name than bad. Even the whole concept of adoption, taking care fo the poor and homeless and sick, hospitals, literacy, aid to the poor in other countries all done and initially forged by Christians—far more than any purely secular/atheistic society or group has ever done. Your focus on the negative here shows your bias I’m sorry to say.

    “For all our idealism, neither secular nor religious thought have provided the values to reach out and satisfy the greatest longings of the human soul, have failed to deliver an enduring peace, quench our thirst for a higher justice or secure a sustainable materialism.”
    — Again, says who? You clearly don’t know the myriad of born again Christians who have been saved from horrific drug abuses, violence, abuse, etc and have truly found peace and lasting joy in Christ, being completely transformed from their old destructive or self centred ways. You again assume with judgment.

    “Existing religion is a human fabrication founded upon a vain intellectual imagination,”
    — This statement alone is vain intellectual imagination. I suggest you put aside your lofty judgments of others who have been convicted otherwise.

    The anomaly should be obvious to all, but even love is not as deaf, dumb and blind a religious conviction.

    So any true revelation must provide a path for human reason to follow,

    There are few things other than the secular nation state that have been as destructive and divisive among humanity as religion.

    For all our idealism, neither secular nor religious thought have provided the values to reach out and satisfy the greatest longings of the human soul, have failed to deliver an enduring peace, quench our thirst for a higher justice or secure a sustainable materialism.

    Existing religion is a human fabrication founded upon a vain intellectual imagination,

  9. for all you know it could be tomorrow. YOU DON”T KNOW. NEITHER DOES HAROLD CAMPING. NEITHER DO I. It could happen today, stop being so moronic everyone, stating it WILL NOT FOR SURE happen is just as dumb as stating IT WILL FOR SURE. Why can’t all the skeptics see they are the ones that make themselves look like complete idiots, along with the “PROPHETS” Might happen before I finish typing this WE DON’T KNOW

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