Religious Prophets.
Family Radio’s Harold Camping, famous for his failed May 21, 2011 prediction, has been rushed to the hospital following a stroke. The Oakland Tribune wrote:
ALAMEDA — Harold Camping, the Doomsday radio preacher who sparked international media attention by predicting the end of the world last month, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke at his Alameda home Thursday night.
The 89-year-old radio evangelist and president of the Oakland nonprofit Family Radio was taken by ambulance from his house Thursday night, a neighbor said, but his well-known, gravelly voice that led many believers to donate millions of dollars to his cause may never be the same.
Well, if we could have only got lucky enough for old Herbie to have been silenced when the first date he set failed to come to fruition! But as we know, the old goat was not the first heretic when it came to religious charlatans. From some recent headlines we learn of other profit$ of doom.
Taiwanese ‘prophet’ may be sued over doomsday rumors.
Nantou County police, in central Taiwan, Thursday (May 12) moved to question ‘Teacher Wang’ who recently made a doomsday forecast on charges of spreading rumours that incited people to panic.
Teacher Wang, whose real name is Wang Chao-hung and a resident of Nantou County, foretold that a magnitude 14 quake and massive tsunami would devastate Taiwan on May 11, at 10:42:37am.
To prepare for the looming disaster, some of Wang’s followers rented vacant lots in Puli Township of the county and filled them with nearly 200 containers that were converted into shelters. They stockpiled daily necessities for emergency use.
The doomsday gossip, which was circulated online, has caused some people to panic. But it proved the doomsday prophecy was groundless, and nothing happened on May 11.
The police said that Wang may be detained for a maximum of three days or fined NT$30,000(US$1,000) for violating the Social Order Maintaining Act by spreading groundless doomsday rumours.
There are others.
Ex-doomsday followers fight for money back.
One of two civil claims brought against religious group Agape Ministries may be settled out of court. That plaintiff and another former church member, Martin Penney, are suing pastor Rocco Leo and two of his associates, Joe Venziano and Mari-Antionette Veneziano.
They want their money back, claiming they handed over more than $400,000 and $1 million respectively to the church based on lies about a doomsday scenario.
Jack Van Impe.
I know less than nothing about this character but he does call into account some of the glum doomsayers and false prophets: Jack Van Impe on false prophets. (Right click and open in new tab, watch for one minute or so.)
Jack call this time of the end a “Happy Time” not a time of destruction and judgment that the Armstrong brand of prophets and apostles declare. So what is with this doom and coming gloom? Well it has always been with mankind since the times they could write on bone or bamboo. It persists to this day using electronic media in the form of TV or DVD and of course, the Internet.
All this bad news is now put forth by only religious nuts either. Secular sources put forth their dribble as to dooms day. It’s a magnet and is amazing how susceptible people are to believing this doom and gloom crap.
Secular Prophetic Scum.
“The Population Bomb”
Paul R. Ehrlich, author of the above title, 1968. Ehrlich argued that birthrates were out of control and would cause a worldwide crisis. He came to this conclusion not through Divine Revelation but through Divine Equation, the liberal scripture of pseudo-science. Ehrlich ‘calculated’ using the equation I = P x A x T. This means that Human Impact (I) on environment equals the product of Population, Affluence and Technology. The conclusion was that in the decades of the 1970’s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death. Did it happen? Was he called on it? Read more HERE. Ehrlich later stated he was kind of right. Read the link I gave. You’ll learn something of value as to understanding his thought process.
Kenneth Watt, ecologist, said there wouldn’t be any crude oil left by 2000.
Harrison Brown, at the National Academy of Sciences, said the world would be out of lead, zinc, copper, tin, gold and silver by this time.
Michael Oppenheimer, author of “Dead Heat” in the mid 90’s, predicted global warming in 20 years. Opphenheimer predicted that “1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots . . . [By 1996] The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers.” Despite the fact that “data from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shows that precipitation-rain and snow-has increased slightly over the century,” Oppenheimer has further said: “On the whole I would stand by these predictions-not predictions, scenarios-as having at least in a general way actually come true.” Just like Harold Camping and Herbert Armstrong!
But Wait, There’s More!
Dr. David Viner, senior research scientist at England’s climatic research unit of the University of East Anglia, said in 2000 that because of global warming, within just a few years “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is and flurries will be a very rare and exciting event.”
In the 70’s you could read in TIME or LIFE magazine that there would be no United States by the year 2000.
In the endgame there is nothing scientific about these predictions of failure for the human race. These “authorities” just make it up as they go along on their path of deceit and destruction.
To the current Armstrong member, you can ignore this current blog entry. Honesty and objective thinking is lost on you.
To those who have left the gulag of Armstrong-ism, let me ask you “why do you embrace the religion of scientific and/or political whores that puke forth heresies that entice you further down the road of another pseudo slavery?
Just who is it that you follow so blindly?
Very timely reminder. Some people seem to be driven to give horrendous forecasts whether they’re religious or not. Extreme science can be just as fanatic as extreme religion.
I do think we’re in for climatic upheavals and are experiencing some of them right now, but I’m not so sure it’s going to lead to the wholesale devastation some expect and confidently predict.
As for climate change, its a hoax. “Deniers” like myself look at the world from a different view. Let me ask you, who is going to make a buck off this global warming crap? The guy who’s only source of income is in the form of grants to gather “data” in order to purchase the general public’s minds and hearts. You think that the American cancer society REALLY wants to find a cure and lose its income?
If your going to scam the people tell a big lie. The bigger, the better. In the end fear always wins with those who are subject to the blowing winds of such mongering.
When politics hijacks science, it quells true scientific debates. The consequences in the end is the ruin of the American economy and standard of living as China rises above us. The master/slave relationship between the United States and China is in development and the Americans want to be the slave.
A side bit of information, China builds one efficient coal fired plant a month and uses more coal than the United States, Europe and Japan combined, making it the world’s largest emitter of so called green house gases. America is still “talking about it.”
Much of what you say is true. I’m not ready to call it all crap, but I wonder just how much is actual fact. It will be intesting to see what the projected drop in sunspot activity, a new minimum, will have — if it comes off as expected. The Maunder Minimum led to the little ice age.
Of course we should all be aware of existential threats, but the problem comes in when those looking to build a following attempt to make the threat of their choice the defining element in their followers’ lives. Many of these alleged or self-proclaimed leaders are single topic, or one-dimensional thinkers. Lives are thrown totally out of balance by these people. I say, run, don’t walk!
BB
“I say, run, don’t walk!”
Gotta agree, BB. Both sides of any issue tend to rant and concentrate on carefully chosen slogans and cliches. The same tactic was used by the Armstrongs.