I last wrote about the End of the World in July, so I thought it was time for an update. Apparently, it’s still scheduled for May 21.
Actually, May 21 isn’t technically the end of the world. Rather, it’s the Day of Rapture, when the righteous are magically taken up to heaven. Which also means, as anyone who has read the Left Behind series knows, that suddenly pilotless planes will fall from the sky and driverless cars will crash. So folks might want to be cautious about their transportation arrangements that day.
The actual End of the World won’t be for another six months, according to Harold Camping, a San Francisco-area radio host and the owner of Family Radio. His web site, wecanknow.com, says that Oct. 21 will be the day “when He will destroy the world and all that is therein.”
Camping’s followers around the country have been promoting the big day by putting up billboards and driving vehicles with placards.
But this is not the first time Camping has predicted Judgment Day:
On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered inside Alameda’s Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error.
I’m going to be in the company of a bunch of scientists on May 21, talking about communicating human evolution. (I’m so doomed.)
