Family Security Matters
By Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret)
June 1, 2011
For most of us, last month’s day of the Rapture, May 21st, proved uneventful. The Day of Judgment prophesized by a Christian fundamentalist group leader came and went without the predicted global natural disasters occurring. That leader, Minister Harold Camping, supposedly was to be among those achieving eternal salvation that day—ascending to Heaven for having lived a strict Christian life, leaving all sinners remaining here on Earth to be subjected to torment.
Camping emerged a few days after his failed prophecy to explain his calculations were wrong (as they had been 17 years earlier when he also incorrectly predicted we would witness the world’s end). Apparently, Camping’s new date for global destruction is October 21st. At this rate, if his prediction slides another 14 months, it will eventually fall in line with that of the Mayan Indian “long count” (5,126 year) calendar, which suggests the world will end December 21, 2012.
While a date with destruction does await us, it is not the date predicted by Camping or by the Mayan calendar we should fear. It is a date, predicted to be coming soon by an Islamic fundamentalist leader, that we need fear. The basis for fearing the date predicted by an Islamic fundamentalist but not by a Christian fundamentalist is the perceived role man is to play in both events: Man need do nothing for the Christian apocalypse to occur while the Islamic apocalypse depends on an active role by man.
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Family Security Matters
By Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret)
June 1, 2011
For most of us, last month’s day of the Rapture, May 21st, proved uneventful. The Day of Judgment prophesized by a Christian fundamentalist group leader came and went without the predicted global natural disasters occurring. That leader, Minister Harold Camping, supposedly was to be among those achieving eternal salvation that day—ascending to Heaven for having lived a strict Christian life, leaving all sinners remaining here on Earth to be subjected to torment.
Camping emerged a few days after his failed prophecy to explain his calculations were wrong (as they had been 17 years earlier when he also incorrectly predicted we would witness the world’s end). Apparently, Camping’s new date for global destruction is October 21st. At this rate, if his prediction slides another 14 months, it will eventually fall in line with that of the Mayan Indian “long count” (5,126 year) calendar, which suggests the world will end December 21, 2012.
While a date with destruction does await us, it is not the date predicted by Camping or by the Mayan calendar we should fear. It is a date, predicted to be coming soon by an Islamic fundamentalist leader, that we need fear. The basis for fearing the date predicted by an Islamic fundamentalist but not by a Christian fundamentalist is the perceived role man is to play in both events: Man need do nothing for the Christian apocalypse to occur while the Islamic apocalypse depends on an active role by man.
Continue reading here.
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