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Tired of fundamentalist fear-mongering? Have a Rapture Party!
US atheists are to hold parties in response to an evangelical broadcaster’s prediction that Saturday will be “judgement day”.
The Rapture After Party in North Carolina – “the best damned party in NC” – is among the planned events.
Harold Camping, 89, predicts that Jesus Christ will return to earth on Saturday and true believers will be swept up, or “raptured”, to heaven…Mr Camping has predicted an apocalypse once before, in 1994, though followers now say that only referred to an intermediary stage…
The Rapture After Party in Fayetteville, North Carolina, is a two-day event organised by the Central North Carolina Atheists and Humanists.
“Though the absurdity of this claim is obvious to the majority of the world, it’s a great opportunity to highlight some of the most bizarre beliefs often put forth by religious fundamentalists and raise awareness of the need for reason,” said a posting about the party on the group’s website.
Atheists in Tacoma, Washington, have headed their celebration “countdown to back-pedalling”.
Events are also planned in Houston, Florida and California.
Invite a few politicians. You won’t have to spend any money on them because guaranteed they won’t show up to something irreligious – even if it’s just laughing at a noodnik like Harold Camping. Besides – he has the millions he’s scooped up from True Believers to keep him comfy.
Glad to see me – or is that salmonella in your pocket?
A North Carolina produce company has issued a recall for cucumbers because they could be contaminated with salmonella.
Raleigh-based L&M Companies, Inc. said it distributed 1,590 bulk cartons of the cucumbers in question between March 30 and April 7 to New York, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Nebraska. Texas and Wyoming.
The recalled cartons are marked Nature’s Delight and contain the Lot # PL-RID-002990 on the side of the carton. Only this one lot is being recalled.
The nationwide recall Friday came after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration inspectors in mid-April found salmonella on a randomly selected sample of cucumbers in a cooler at Four Seasons Produce of Central Florida.
“Despite the limited direct distribution of the one recalled lot, L&M Companies is issuing a nationwide recall out of an abundance of caution because the company recognizes the possibility that wholesale customers could have redistributed the product in states beyond those listed above,” a company statement said.
Salmonella infection is a common bacterial disease that affects the intestinal tract. People become infected most frequently through contaminated water or food sources. Or cucumbers from North Carolina?
