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Originally Posted by photon
Camping's organization isn't mainstream for sure, but his teachings still fit with a lot of people. Not the specific day, but "soon".
EDIT: These are for Christ returning by the year 2050.
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The second coming of Christ and the Rapture are long standing Christian doctrines. Harold Camping has taken that ball and added to it. He has made himself the only path to God. Don't pretend it is all the same.
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Originally Posted by photon
And it's not atheists that claim religion is dying, it's the statistics that show religion is on the decline. An overall trend does not preclude variations within the whole.
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Yes but, you atheists quote those statistics gleefully and think the end of it will be the rejection of all religion. Your making the same mistake as the global warming crowd and assuming that this is the only time such a thing has happened and it won't reverse itself. Voltaire infamously once predicted the demise of Christianity within 50 years. 50 years later his own printing works were producing Bibles.