What are you doing Saturday?

Now I don't want to mislead anyone.  I am not a Christian.  I do not believe in The Rapture or anything else tied in with the Christian idea of the Apocalypse.  I have no problems with people of the Christian faith, they for the most part of wonderful people.  This is just my humble opinion on this matter of the coming Rapture.

It seems that this Saturday, May 21, 2011 is the day that the Rapture happens and all good Christians are taken up to Heaven while the rest of us heathens get to suffer here on Earth.  The Rapture you say?  Yes my friend, The Rapture.  That time when God will gather up all his Sheep into his bosom and the Anti-Christ will take over the earth and there will be great Tribulations for all us non-believers to live through until the Last Day when God will end it all and the Beast will be thrown back into the Pit for all eternity. 

The person making this claim is one Harold Camping and Family Radio.  These people also believe that the world was created thirteen thousand odd years ago.  Ignore the fact that the Bible teaches that God will not reveal the exact day of His Judgement but that you will know it by the signs.

Now the Bible does not mention the word Rapture but there are passages that describe such an event.  These passages are from the King James Version of the Bible.

1 Thessalonians 4:15-18 (King James Version)


15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 (King James Version)


51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

Luke 21:36 (King James Version)


36Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Matthew 24:40-41 (King James Version)


40Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.

41Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.


So if you are a believer in Christianity, the Rapture is something that is supposed to happen one day.  Just not this Saturday. 

It really saddens me that people believe this is going to happen.  People's lives are going to be changed when the day comes and nothing happens.  How many poor dogs, cats and other pets are going to be put down because some idiot believes that the Rapture is this Saturday and does not want their pet to suffer?

Of course there is that part of me that hopes when the Rapture does not happen a large percentage of the idiots off themselves.  Of course they are probably to cowardly to do so.

I am curious as to what excuse will be given when the time comes and goes and nothing happens.  I am hoping they get creative with it but I'm not holding my breath.