So it's Sunday, two days after the supposed "rapture" that Harold Camping and his $72 million dollar radio station called "Family Radio" said that May 21, 2012 would be the time of rapture. To quote my friend Chris Hokanson on twitter #immabehere.
I think the thing that got me about the whole rapture business is that I think the christian community had a chance to rally around this guys heretical preachings and not only denounce it but to say foremost that "no one knows the hour" as well as use it for eschatological preaching.
Why aren't we using this guy who certainly got his 15 minutes of of fame to promote the gospel accordingly. I felt like leaders of the faith didn't vocalize against it. Heck, my own pastor used it as a joke and a punchline this morning to open up the service.
Perhaps i didn't truly get a good perspective of the whole event, but I definitely did feel like Christianity got the forefront of the "news cycle" for the first time in a long time and rather than hit a home run with it we struck out looking.
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