'Rapture Parties' Planned to Celebrate Doomsday Saturday May 21 | LiveScience
A portion of an ad on page 176 of the April issue of Reader's Digest tout's Harold Camping's prediction for this fateful Saturday, along with an invitation to the website where a countdown clock confirms time is running out.
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With the end of the world looming this Saturday (May 21), non-believers are planning "Rapture parties" to poke a little fun at the Doomsday prediction and also raise awareness for other causes.
Harold Camping, 89-year-old leader of the ministry Family Radio Worldwide, has predicted that a five-month destruction of humanity will commence Saturday with a Rapture, in which believers will ascend to heaven. "Whereas this five-month period will be an enormous horror story for those who have not been raptured, it will be a time of great joy and wonder for those who are raptured," according to the Family Radio website. [Infographic: A Brief History of Doomsday]
Camping uses a mathematical formula linked to prophecies in the Bible. He once predicted Sept. 6, 1994 as Judgment Day, but that math didn't quite work out. This time around, Camping's organization took out an ad in Reader's Digest, stating: [...]
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Smart advertising. Everybody loves a good doomsday theory. :)
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