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A variety of blogs have some reflections on the latest instance of the Rapture failing to occur when someone predicted it would.<\/p>\n

Joel Watts<\/a> derives an idea for a meme from John Loftus<\/a>, and asks how you think Harold Camping will excuse himself and his prediction in light of their failure. I\u2019ll join the fun and suggest that he\u2019ll say that God saw people trying to swim from Tonga to Samoa to postpone their being raptured, and as a result judged humanity unworthy to experience it at this time. What other \u201cexplanations\u201d can you come up with? <\/p>\n

There\u2019s still time before we are likely to hear from Harold Camping himself \u2013 his Family Radio website is currently down<\/a>. In the mean time, Otagosh asks what will happen with their countdown counters<\/a> and compares Harold Camping<\/a> to the prophets of Ba\u2019al in a famous Bible story.<\/p>\n

Daniel Kirk looks at a Biblical example<\/a> of a prediction not coming true and being reinterpreted\/rescheduled.<\/p>\n

The Lead<\/a> mentions Andrew Brown\u2019s article in The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, offering a brief history of the end of the world.<\/p>\n

Tim LaHaye complains that Harold Camping makes him look worse<\/a>. Ken Schenck, on the other hand, focuses on Camping making God<\/em> look bad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unorthodoxology has a round-up of rapture church signs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Michael Gorman links<\/a> to his son\u2019s thoughts on replacing rapture with enrapture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Clever Badger tried liveblogging the rapture<\/a>. Peter Kirk<\/a> did something similar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mason offers a round-up of last week\u2019s rapture blogging<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Eddie Arthur offers last words on the last days<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bob Cornwall wonders how Christian<\/a> popular beliefs about the Rapture are.<\/p>\n

Paul Barford emphasizes that all mentions of an alleged date for a global flood are bogus<\/a> in light of archaeological and geological evidence, or rather the lack thereof.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"