The Farce Goes On: Ham Fisted Prophets

"Hey you, we've got a monopoly franchise on this business!"

We all know about the above "prophetic" farce. As in all the best farces we find earnest blockheads like Camping, with their wacko projects, played off against knowing and terminally cynical characters. In the latter role we have, of course, PZ Myers and his rabid raiders. The whole fundagelical business just wouldn't be so funny without PZ Myers and co to witness and react to it. And do we need the medicine of a little black humour, for in many ways the extreme antics of the fundamentalists, which they carry out with a straight faced seriousness of purpose, are really no joke at all.

In  this blog post  PZ brings together the Camping affair with his other favourite buffoon, Ken  Ham. The post links  to one of Ken Ham's facebook pages.  As a rule fundamentalists never see themselves mirrored in other fundamentalists; they are egotistical enough to think of themselves as somehow different and set apart with a monopoly on truth. They continue to show no coyness or embarrassment about themselves; they remain as ebullient and irrepressible as ever: On Ken's facebook page one of his admirers says: "Thank God for true prophets like Mr. Ham!!!;-)

No End to End of World Predictions

PZ Myers blog is required reading if you want to keep up with the weird and wonderful world of fundagelicalism. His latest catch of a strange fish can be seen here. Basically it’s yet another fundamentalist (lauded by gullible followers) predicting the end of the world; in fact 10 days from today on the 21st May. The man at the centre of this latest prediction is someone called “Harold Camping”. More details are available here. Let’s give Camping some leeway: This is probably his best shot at making sense of life. But like a large swath of religious humanity he is spiritually egotistical enough to be absolutely sure he is right and can write off as damned so many individual human stories of experience, hope, endeavour, aspiration, seeking, encounter etc. without so much as a second thought: “My way or the damned way” says the fundagelical with bullet proof confidence.

Keep an eye on this blog if you want to find out the latest news on the end of the world. On the 22 May I’ll up date you on whether it has happened or not – provided you haven’t been raptured, that is. When the rapture does come there's a chance atheists might get raptured too: God will hardly be able to blame them for not believing in Him given that the Christian world is suffused with the fallible utterings of the Harold Campings of this world......and the William Tapleys, the Weatherbill7s, the Barry Smiths, the Gerald Coates...... etc.; its all down to a toxic mix of egotism, spiritual elitism, authoritarianism, Biblical legalism, wish fulfilment, gullible followings, fideism, and spiritual spin - a list of all too human failings that provide a very plausible basis for a belief that religion is nothing but a quirky human foible. But it's going to be tough on the atheists if they are raptured: The're going to have to spend an eternity worshipping "Jebus" with some of the world' most egotistical spiritual pundits. In short heaven's going to be hell for them.