The Rapture is almost upon us. According to Harold Camping, the 89 year-old Family Radio network in Florida. The righteous, he has calculated, will ascend to heaven at 6pm EST tomorrow (11pm in the UK). Those of us not fortunate enough to be called to Heaven must suffer the consequences of the damned. As you might expect this has occasioned much hooting and hollering on Twitter today. I made a feeble joke about it myself.
And now, via Hopi Sen, I feel a wee bit of a heel for mocking the afflicted. This is Camping’s second Rapture date, the first having mysteriously failed him. While we need not necessarily spare too much sympathy for him, his poor followers, few though they may be, merit are in a pitiful place tonight. Bogus as it all may be (nay is) there comes a moment when it all feels a bit like piling on to an unecessary degree.
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