NPR Media Player (this podcast)
Reporter: Barbara Hagerty
October 18th 2011
Well, prepare for destruction AGAIN everyone. Harold Camping, a prophet of the doomsday and head of Family Radio has recrunched the numbers and it turns out he was about 5 months off in his last prediction. He also might have been wrong about the world ending in destruction, stating his new conviction with a few 'probably...''s thrown in there.
"Probably there will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against God. Unbelievers might just fall asleep and never wake up." -Camping
Hagerty, the reporter, had the same attitude I do: skepticism. To me this seems like a desperate, embarrassing ploy to convert more people to Christianity. Totally legal, yes, but are we really reverting to the SCARE factor to have people follow a religion? Isn't the belief in a God supposed to rely on faith, not fear?
I'm not sure why but this podcast made me consider that although I find Hinduism and Buddhism to be a little different than my daily life and quite repressing toward females, I also can't think of a single instance when anyone has tried to shove either of those religions down someone else's throat. It's a nice 'take it or leave it' approach, with no threatening consequences other than you might be reborn again as a goat or something, but have another opportunity to create better karma for yourself.
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