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Harold Camping does not represent Christianity

The world will end either when the sun burns out in about seven billion years or when it gets reabsorbed into the sun, which might take about the same amount of time. Human life will come to an end a lot sooner if politicians lead us into either nuclear holocaust or environmental disaster.

The idea that anyone would pay attention to someone who thinks he or she can calculate a divinely-instigated end of the world by reading texts in either the book of David or the book of Revelation is both ludicrous and crazy. Anyone who thinks that these ideas have credibility is either profoundly ignorant or profoundly manipulative. To identify Christianity with this nonsense is simply not worthy of anyone. The fact that anyone takes this foolishness seriously only proves what P.T. Barnum has said about human beings!

John Shelby Spong  | May 11, 2011 2:48 PM

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