{"id":32977,"date":"2011-05-24T09:21:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T17:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32977"},"modified":"2011-05-24T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T17:21:51","slug":"doomsday-scenarios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32977","title":{"rendered":"Doomsday Scenarios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/267939\/rapture-wasn-t-dennis-prager\">Dennis Prager writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>It appears that The Rapture leading to the end of the world predicted by a Christian radio broadcaster for this past Saturday, May 21, did not take place. And the failure was covered worldwide. A Google search on Saturday evening yielded over 32,000 articles \u2014 in English alone \u2014 in the world media.<\/p>\n<p>The secular, especially the anti-religious, Left enjoys these spectacles of religious foolishness. They seem to confirm not only how absurd these end-of-days predictions are, but how absurd religion is in general.<\/p>\n<p>But the Left should not laugh too loudly. The religious world has far fewer doomsday predictions than the Left does. At least every few years, the secular Left frightens itself \u2014 and tries to frighten everyone else \u2014 about another doomsday scenario.<\/p>\n<p>The most obvious current example is, of course, global warming. For years now we have been told by the world\u2019s left-wing media that scientists are united in predicting that there will be worldwide catastrophe as a result of global warming caused by manmade carbon-dioxide emissions. Oceans will rise so high that they will drown many of the world\u2019s great coastal cities; entire island-countries will disappear; vast areas of the world will dry up; and countries will fight one another for the little remaining fresh water.<br \/>\nCompared with the global-warming scenario, I\u2019ll face the Rapture \u2014 and I\u2019m not even Christian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager writes: It appears that The Rapture leading to the end of the world predicted by a Christian radio broadcaster for this past Saturday, May 21, did not take place. And the failure was covered worldwide. A Google search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=32977\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[25059,29761,26487,26488,26486,2786],"class_list":["post-32977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","tag-carbon-dioxide-emissions","tag-dennis-prager","tag-doomsday-predictions","tag-doomsday-scenario","tag-doomsday-scenarios","tag-google-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}