An open letter I wrote to Mr Harold Camping, an evangelical radio personality who has predicted that God will take from earth all the true believers, May 21 2011. I asked him to ‘put up or shut up’....see below...
Dear Mr Harold Camping,
I have a proposal for you.
Please exercise your faith by selling me everything you own for $1.
We can contract it so that I take possession on May 22, 2011.
According to your ‘prophecy’, you and all the other believers will have departed the Earth the day before, so you will have no need for your possessions any longer.
I am dead serious. I want your home(s), car(s), cash, investments, other real estate, contracts, accounts payable, securities, any position of leadership that you occupy, and any interest in any form of business (sole proprietor, non-profit, corporation).
If you refuse, then I must take that to mean that you don’t really believe your own words to be true, which would make you a false prophet.
Sincerely,
Nice initiative, a rhetoric question: Did you get any answer?