This is Why People Believe Crazy Things.
6 min readNov 9, 2021
Faith is a firm and devout belief in something you know ain’t true
- Mark Twain -
This is a true story. On May 21st, 2011, I was in Central Park in New York City with my wife and a couple of friends. That happened to be the day when a Christian minister named Harold Egbert Camping promised the world that Jesus Christ was returning to Earth. On that day, he assured us…