The Rapture II: This Time, It's Fireballs:

[underlankers]

http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/05/24/camping-issues-apocalypse-correction-its-really-in-october/

And you thought this was over. Nope, Camping won't strike the tent on the old camp ground, he's going to try for round III of his little scam. Perhaps it's just me as a cynic here, but if anyone takes this guy seriously a third time, they forfeit

Comments

[tridus]

Preying on the stupid is one of the oldest and most successful industries out there.

[htpcl]

Alas, very true. I've been having arguments with colleagues about how much % of the general population are stupid simpletons. I know it sounds arrogant but it looks like it's true. Observations show that this could reach 95% and beyond, though I can't provide verifiable data for that. ;-)

Who was it that said...

[sophia_sadek]

... "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public?"

[root_fu]

Hence why education sucks.

[anosognosia]

To be fair, he had always said the Apocalypse would be in October, so this is more like time 2.5

[soliloquy76]

This guy is doing more for atheism than Richard Dawkins.

[meus_ovatio]

Anybody with a non-negative impact is doing more than Richard Dawkins.

[ddstory]

Fortunately there's Neil deGrasse Tyson to amend the damages done by Dawkins. And occasionally to school him on being a cool (i.e. useful) advocate for science (as opposed to being a blatant asshole for its own sake just because he can).

[meus_ovatio]

Yes. Dawkins contributes only his personal feelings, which will not stand the test of any sort of time, and he will be a forgotten footnote in due time.

Fooled me once...

[sophia_sadek]

We will have to add to the old adage:

Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me.
Fool me thrice, shame on my religion.

Re: Fooled me once...

[underlankers]

Or in other words, It's Miller Time all over again.

[paedraggaidin]

I know I shouldn't let it, but this stuff really makes me angry. I know that, in every belief system, there is a going to be a small minority of completely guano loco idiots willing to buy into the most outlandish, nonsensical drivel, but with the way this has been portrayed in the media, you'd think all Christians subscribed to this crap and it's only a sour-grapes minority calling bullshit

[anosognosia]

I'm pretty sure we can drop the "quasi-" qualifier on "heretical

[gunslnger]

it's an evidently pernicious error of American culture that it is happy to bestow sacred authority on any one who so much as hangs out a shingle declaring themselves such.

Yeah, I think this is a general problem regardless of the occupation in question.

[anosognosia]

For sure.