Reading Time: 5 minutes Unable to watch another global conflict unfold without making it about his own team, televangelist and former Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson popped his head in again last week to comment on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. To the surprise of no one, he informed his followers that this is the sign of the apocalypse […]
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Celebrate Harold Camping Day, the Day to Remember Our Favorite Doomsday Prophet!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s celebrate Harold Camping Day and remember why Brother Harold is so special.
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Ray Comfort Says We’re in the End Times®
Reading Time: 4 minutes Have you heard that the world ended last week? Something about the eclipse and numerology. Let’s check in with Ray Comfort, one of our favorite experts on the end times.
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Deconstructing the End of the World
Reading Time: 14 minutes Back when I was in junior high I got invited to a weekend-long retreat that my church put on called Disciple Now! Given the evangelical church’s relentless obsession with branding (“Makin’ Jesus kewl since Century One!”), they’ve since changed the name of the retreat in a rather futile attempt to obfuscate the religiousness of the […]
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Armageddon Within Our Lifetime? (2 of 2)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are conditions really deteriorating, with signs of the apocalypse visible to those wise enough to understand? Or do people’s natural instincts to overestimate fears (and many leaders’ instincts to fan these flames) cause them to imagine an imminent Armageddon though conditions are actually improving?
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Armageddon Within Our Lifetime?
Reading Time: 3 minutes What fraction of Americans believe that we’re nearing the end? Perhaps a lot more than you think. Let’s consider their reasons for seeing Armageddon around the corner.
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The Twin Selling Points of a Fundamentalist Rapture Scare.
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the same way, it is simply bizarre to me that people who have built up this total conspiracy theory around all these “Bible codes” and arcane secret societies and government plots seem to be so incapable of coming up with what really should be one of the easiest parts of their predictions: what’s going to happen, exactly, and when. But that’s not even the worst part of these constant streams of Rapture scares.
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A Response to the Response to Ryan Bell.
Reading Time: 14 minutes We’re coming back to the Handbook for the Recently Deconverted shortly, but I saw this today and it just cried out for examination. Ryan Bell is a Seventh-Day Adventist minister who decided to go one year as a functional atheist. For one year, he’d abstain from prayer and all outward shows of Christianity; he’d read […]
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Left Behind: The Pandering.
Reading Time: 11 minutes When a horrible remake gets made of a movie that was already horrible to begin with, though, that’s when things have potential to get really bad. Left Behind is one such movie franchise.
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Ray Comfort Says What Needs to Be Said
Reading Time: 4 minutes Let’s conclude Ray Comfort’s list of clues that we’re in the end times to see if he’s onto something. Or smoking something.