Harold Camping
Don’t be shocked that Harold Camping's predictions that the end of the world would come on Saturday May 21, 2011 had something to do with a making a choice not to vote.
Camping and his followers wanted local, state, and, world political change. Although they just might swear to it that they are not participants in any form of politics because of their religion, their believing that they were to live in paradise forever is political news. Groups that explain God's Judgment are called society organizations. Harold Camping believers, Charles Taze Russell believers, Jehovah’s Witnesses believers, or any other believers, be they Christian or non-Christian, work franticly to educate about religious politics without voting. In the process of their sort of news making Harold Camping believers and JW’s give meaning to bible-based-political events which both Camping believes and JW’s use to interpret and define daily bible-based-political situations. So how do believers cope when their doomsday predictions fail without voting?
It’s rare that the group falls apart. Most often, the answer given by the group is that the prophecy is true, there is no need to apologize that the interpretation was in error, and that what they believe is better than voting for any political candidate for government office.
In 1994, Camping predicted a September doomsday so don’t vote, but with a question mark. Camping explained that he misunderstood a key biblical passage, but since that time, biblical evidence for a 2011 end had greatly solidified. Do these doomsdays without doom and voting sound familiar?
I’ve done my classic study of religions going door to door convincing prophets doomsdays are near at hand. I’ve looked at the time from the years 1824 to 1914. I mean, that’s really good enough for me to explore voting and society organizations. Several men and woman who lead a no voting but we must preach we’re living in the last days now groups all came up with a face-saving explanation when there was no dooms day for true believers. And each group completely ignored that all the while there was an election day with some sort of change in government for non-believers.
Information control is how mind control becomes successful. And this is one of the real reasons voting in worldly governments political processes is not allowed. The more people have connections outside of the group, the more likely it is that they're going to stop looking to the One True Religion for political governmental change.
William Miller predicted the end of the world on Oct. 22, 1844. When nothing happened people who were elected to political office during that generation didn’t struggle to explain the doomsday mistake. People who did not believe in voting were convinced of doomsday for real rather than perpetuating a hoax or running a scam. They were as is now controlled in their own minds that voting is the hoax because Satan the Devil is the ruler of this worldly system. Voting will fail but there will never be a failure by having received a holy and firm belief that the Kingdom of God eliminates the need to vote. In their case choosing not to vote is not the same as being a conscientious objector.
A belief in doomsday does not give followers a clear sense of the world and their place in it. At least if you did not vote this time you have the free mind to comfort yourself that you can vote in the next election to come no matter how difficult it may be to choose a candidate for government office. And you don’t have to save-face if the government doesn’t get any better.
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