Does Weinland really believe we're going to outlive the Mayan calendar?Ronald Weinland, Doomsday Prophet, Found Guilty Of Tax Evasion
If you thought the end of the world was near, would you pay your taxes? For Ronald Weinland, 63, the answer was no. Weinland -- who runs a church from his home in Cincinnati, Ohio, and delivers sermons via the Internet -- warned his followers that the world was going to combust on Sept. 30, 2008 and then again on May 27, 2012. But as the world kept spinning, the Internal Revenue Service grew suspicious of Weinland's personal finances.
On June 13, Weinland was found guilty on five counts of tax evasion, according to Northern Kentucky News. He avoided paying more than $300,000 in taxes between 2005 and 2010 by funneling money into a foreign bank account, lying on his tax forms and writing off personal expenses as church expenses, according to the grand jury indictment. Weinland reportedly defended his actions by telling the jury that the U.S. financial system would collapse before Jesus returned and the world expired, according to Northern Kentucky News .
...The doomsday prophet might be praying the end of the world will come sooner than May 19, 2013 -- his latest doomsday prediction. He'll be sentenced on Sept. 24 and faces five years in prison.
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Sorry 'bout the number of posts on this idiot, but he lives in town, so you know.......it's hard to let it go....
. The story is, that as a cub reporter for a samm newspaper, he was sent to inteview the leader of a group on a hillside outside town, awaiting the end of the world, which was supposed to occur that afternoon. Mencken got his interview, returned to the paper and wrote the standard 'flake' story. He was about to submit it to the copy editor, when inspiration struck him. He returned to his typewriter (this was earth 20th centure, well before word processors), inserted a fresh sheet of paper and typed:
