Friday, October 09, 2015
If at first you don't succeed....
Try, try again. An old saying that is a good idea if you are working for something useful. Probably not a good idea if your prediction for the end of the world was wrong. Once again a pseudo-Christian cult following in the footsteps of its legendarily wrong founder Harold Camping has made a prediction for the end of the world that just didn't happen.
The leader of a Christian group who claimed that the world would end on Wednesday has admitted his prediction was “incorrect”.And God will always have His fun with the perfect fools who follow these cults. And like the voice in your GPS, McCann will be "Recalculating" until the next time.
Chris McCann, head of the eBible fellowship, warned that the planet would be destroyed “with fire” on 7 October. This did not happen.
“Since it is now 8 October it is now obvious that we were incorrect regarding the world’s ending on the 7th,” McCann said.
McCann originally told the Guardian that by Thursday the world would be “gone forever: annihilated”. McCann based his claim on an earlier prediction by Christian radio host Harold Camping , who said the world would end on 21 May 2011. Camping’s forecast also turned out to be incorrect.
As the clock struck 12 in timezones around the globe, turning Wednesday into Thursday, it became apparent that the planet had not been destroyed. McCann, who is based in Philadelphia, said on Thursday it was “surprising” that the world was still in existence.
Prior to 7 October he said there was a “strong likelihood” the world would be wrought asunder, but did admit there was a chance he could be incorrect.
“Well, a strong likelihood means that something was pretty well set to happen (in this case according to the biblical evidence),” he said. “Yet there is a possibility it may not happen.
“So it was surprising that it did not occur. But the comforting thing is that God’s will is always perfect.”
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