Save The Date! World Ending In May

Cries of atheist arrogance are hysterical to me.  Especially because they come from religious people who know – absolutely know – all that is true in the world.  Now a whole mess of whackadoodle fundies have announced that they know when the end of the world is coming.  It will be on May 21, 2011.

The latest prediction comes from a verse in Luke 17: “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the Son of Man.”

It’s a matter of simple math, said [Tom] Evans [a spokesman for Family Radio].

According to [the] prediction, the Rapture will happen exactly 7,000 years from the date that God first warned people about the flood. He said the flood happened in 4990 B.C., on what would have been May 21 in the modern calendar. God gave Noah one week of warning.

Since one day equals 1,000 years for God, that means there was a 7,000-year interval between the flood and rapture.

“We hope that anyone would get a Bible out and try and prove that this is wrong,” he said.

To spread their message, Family Radio is also sending out caravans of RVs across the country, with the Rapture message. One should make its way to Nashville after the first of the year. They’re sending missionaries around the world to hand out tracts.

I have to give them chutzpa points.  When you start circling the dates you’re definitely going out on a limb.  They’re really no more silly than many “respectable” fundies who basically have the same beliefs without a date marked on the calendar.  We laugh at these people, but their only slightly less crackpot brethren are serving in Congress and running for president.  That’s not as funny.

If you want a big belly laugh, visit the group’s website.  There are lots of free downloads there to keep you busy right up until May 21, 2011.