Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Rapture Day on 21st May!

I have to thank the Doonesbury cartoon strip for alerting me to this. If your non-sinning and righteous neighbours (think Ned Flanders) simply disappear on Saturday don't say you weren't warned!
The 2011 end times prediction is a prediction made by Christian radio host Harold Camping that the Rapture(in Christian belief, the taking up into heaven of God's elect people) will take place on May 21, 2011[1][2] and that the end of the world as we know it will take place five months later on October 21, 2011.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction

Lots of coverage of this in US media via Google News

UK Guardian touched on it yesterday

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