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 Some Christians believe Judgment Day is just around the corner. Their job is to warn the people.
March 8th, 2011
06:00 AM ET
Your Take: Is it the end of the world as we know it?By Jessica Ravitz, CNN Note to self: When writing about the End, expect no end of comments. On Sunday we published “Road trip to the end of the world,” about a group that’s traveling by RV to spread a May 21 doomsday warning. You’ve posted about 10,000 comments on the story. And that doesn’t touch your responses to a sidebar, in which we took you on a historical journey called “Doomsdays throughout time.” There’s no way to condense the opinions of all of you who expressed them, but here are some of the themes that seemed to emerge. Doom and gloom has never been so fun Plenty of you responded with humor, grateful for the news that will let you max out credit cards, avoid summer lawn mowing and forget about studying for final exams. Some bemoaned the fact that plans you'd looked forward to would be canceled, like JohnDoee who said:
Others invoked a certain headline-grabbing celeb, saying you’d put his antics to shame. Said GQPulbic:
Still others decided to use the space as a virtual Craigslist of sorts, a venue to snag belongings that have been left behind. Wrote PL90210:
No laughing matter What you read also worried you. You expressed concerns about potential violence and mass suicide, and some even worried that these faithful RV travelers might be “terrorists.” Said Buddesatva:
More than anything, those expressing such concern pointed to children who are not only being exposed to these teachings but are actually out there spreading the word, too. We introduced you to one young girl, Arianna, and learning about her got SpaceyG, who quoted part of the story, going:
To believe or not to believe The story drew in many believers, though your beliefs differ, as well as those of you who dismiss religion altogether. Summing up his (or her) anger was the aptly named AngryAtheist:
But these sort of responses had plenty of faithful readers fighting back. Some voiced that you, too, believe the end is near, but unlike this group of travelers you refuse to nail down a date. Hundreds threw out scripture, reminding us that “No man will know the day or hour,” and that Jesus will return “like a thief in the night.” Said SBack89:
What’s next? Countless readers wondered what these doomsday travelers will do when they wake up on May 22 and nothing has changed. Chilcat: "I Reeeeealy hope CNN will do a story on the poor deluded folks on May 22nd." In a quick response, we heard from Wzrd1: "One can wish. But, given CNN's attention span, or lack thereof, they won't. : ( " Oh, Wzrd1, ye of little faith ... soundoff (1,121 Responses)« Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Next »
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These idiots continue to proclaim the end of the world is coming and then when the date passes and nothing happens they will just pick another date sometime in the future. When will the majority of people in the world finally wake up to the fact that there is no God, never has been and never will be. Nobody in factual recorded history has ever seen God because you can't see what isn't there. Most people are just weak minded and need to believe in some higher power that they hope will take care of them. Being a practicing Christian does not make you a good person, 75% of prisoners are Christians. 10% of Americans are atheists, only 0.2 of atheists are in prison. You want to believe in fairy tails, fine by me, just don't try and make me believe in what you do.
Excuse me but for this analogy to be correct you need to state the percentage of Christians that are in prison. 75% of those in prison may be Christian but the overall set of Christians is larger than the set of atheists, so the Christian prison population may actually be lower than the atheist prison population.
I truely believe the end is here. May 21, 2011, probably not. But get ready folks for impact. Satan is here with all of his peeps and one of them is running this country.
I agree that it will be humans that wipe out the population, not "God" lol. Isn't cancer something that eats up human resouces inside, being blood cells or what not. I'm not a doctor. And multiplies and spreads untill all the resources have been destroyed? Isn't that exactly what humans are to earth? We are multiplying like crazy, and using up all of earths resources. Are we not earths cancer?
David Johnson; You present a clear, concise, logical and rational argument. While I fully agree with the posts you have made regarding "god", evolution, and the other basic scientific truths included in your posts...I hate to burst your bubble. As I'm sure you know, most the the "believers" cannot intellectually comprehend what you have stated.
As Mahatma Ghandi said, “Faith... Must be enforced by reason...When faith becomes blind it dies.”
Keep up the good work Not that it will make a difference to those whose minds are more easily consoled by faith than by reason.
Question for all the religious folks who say that because we can't DISprove the existance of God, that's evidence of God's existance. My question is, no one can DISprove the existance of a flying spagetti monster, is that evidence that a flying spagetti monster exists??? If it works for proving God, why wouldnt the same logic work for proving the exitance of flying spagetti monsters?
Thank you to South Park for this hypothetical.
I am not mean spirited or evil, but if the end of the world came for just this group it would be okay with me.
why does CNN push this cr*p? These are theological idiots who are taking advantage of weak minded or disturbed people.
I just wish I could find someone who would take a financial bet that May 19 IS the end, because I'd bet every penny I have. NO ONE who has EVER predicted this, NO ONE has ever been right!!!!
I'm always right because I'm Charly Sheen
more people brainwashed by religion
How is the world going to end on May 21, 2011? Any predictions? Will Charlie Sheen have anything to do with it?
The bible ( and the Koran) present false Gods created by men. Not only have these foolish books caused men and women to behave foolishly, as in this case, they have also caused much harm in this world. Look at the millions killed by jewish, christians and moslems over the last 4,000 years, in the name of god, to see the ignorance and deadliness of these so called religions of god.
The world is going to end at some point. I have to agree with whoever said those people are terrorists. They roll around in their RV causing people to panic. If they were who they say they were they would know that God would not do that to people. I wouldn't want to be them on the 22nd because they are going to be waking up to the birds singing and the sun shining and probably thinking wow we screwed up. I think CNN should be outside their RV waiting to interview them lol!
I will chucknorris the apocalypse back to the abyss....
All joking aside, if this behavior is not sufficient to lose the custody of one’s children, then all the children in this cult are as good as dead.
We need to stop being afraid of violating the “political correctness” threshold, and speak out clearly.
These people are ill, and a threat to themselves, their children and society as a whole.
They should be detained until after the lunatic deadline, and then they should be forced into therapy.
It’s past the point of being cute, these people are desperately ill.
I think it is interesting how many people are complaining about this type of stuff being reported by making a commentary about it. Really, if you don't care for the topic, don't comment. For the rest of us, it is either interesting to read, entertaining, and even insightful.
Comments about the comments. Interesting.
A comment, about someone commenting about comments.
Hey , we gots us a comment train going
Climb on board
@ Steve in St. Louis... haha! I will extend the same offer 🙂
This reaction to this cult was funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3T9rDHaK9g
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YEAH, well not this one. Matthew 24:36. End of story. Have a nice day!
Hitch a ride in the RV you space cadet.
Your God is a lie, and you are a sucker!
How do you KNOW god inspired this stuff?
Hey, that's my child's birthday, reschedule.
LMAO! THATS A GOOD ONE!
If the world ends than at least I won't have to go to work anymore.