While Harold Camping and his followers were claiming that May 21st was going to be the time of the “rapture,” various Christian apologists were busy warning what they say are “would-be-victims of doomsday hoaxes.”
On their web site, one group said, “Groups like this make Christianity a target for ridicule as in the atheists. It is people like Camping, Jehovah’s Witnesses and other modern-day religious groups which give liberals and atheists ammunition in which to use against Christians. These people do not represent the Christian church in any form or fashion.”
A company known as Eternal Earth-Bound Pets was formed two years ago to “look after your dog or cat or hamster or even llama once you are spirited away to heaven”, says a recent report by NPR. The report says the company’s owner has already contracted with nearly 260 clients and that there is a no money-back policy should the rapture fail to become a reality.
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Monday, attorneys filed a lawsuit against the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia accusing the Archdiocese of attempting to cover up various sex crimes by a particular priest. The lawsuit goes on to say that the victim was lead to attempt suicide as a result of the sexual abuse.
A court in the town of Gorno-Altaisk is continuing hearings in a trial against Alexander Kalistratov, local leader of Jehovah’s Witnesses.