Ed Morrissey comments on all the rapture nonsense:
I suspect that the media feeding frenzy Stanley describes has less to do with an impulse to lampoon the ridiculous than an impulse to ridicule Christianity in general. Despite Camping and his followers being an extremely small fringe group, the media has covered this story as if the entire Southern Baptist church made this prediction.
Indeed. I never heard of this guy before a few days ago. Since when does an obscure preacher’s prediction of the end of the world constitute top news?
Contrast this with the prediction in 2005 by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, that the end-times were less than two years away. That prediction, by a man eager to play a role in the end of the world, actually mattered. But almost no one ever heard of it.
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