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[DodgyPhil]

Hmmm.. I always find people so eager to laugh at rapture-believers and creationists. The media loves it, but they always seem to make the assumption that all Christians believe in this kind of stuff. I know a lot of these hardcore athiests (the kinds who pick fights over YouTube and think of themselves as vigilantes, saving the world with their Renaissance ideas) will have woken up on the day of the rapture and thought: HA, take that organized religion! But in all honesty, this kind of stuff is believed by less than 5% of Christians and other religious folk. With that said, yeah. It's stupid, but people are entitled to their own beliefs (not something I say a lot).

[anwiii]

well this wasn't a belief. this was a prediction made by someone who has tried to predict other things that turned out to be false. where does it end? i doubt even 5% believed in his prediction. people have a right to believe what they want, sure....as long as i have a right to make fun of them and believe they belong in jail or a nut house

[DodgyPhil]

anwiii, on 05 June 2011 - 04:40 PM, said:

well this wasn't a belief. this was a prediction made by someone who has tried to predict other things that turned out to be false. where does it end? i doubt even 5% believed in his prediction. people have a right to believe what they want, sure....as long as i have a right to make fun of them and believe they belong in jail or a nut house

Oh yeah, I'm all for tolerance, not automatic respect. Feel free to laugh at any organisation, it's important to keep everyone in their place. I was just more concerned about the media and some of the more hardcore atheists doing the standard thing of lumping in an entire group with a few mental cases.

[iAssistant]

The end of the world for everyone will surely come. The end of your world is when you die. So why bother about that?