rapture

I think it's fascinating to see what we were talking about one year ago. The results are often surpising, but always interesting. Here's what we were talking about in May of 2011.

So, the rapture is coming. Again. Yup, Harold Camping — the preacher whose prediction the world would end this past May 21 — now says the apocalypse is set for Friday, October 21. So, make sure your checkbook is balanced, you’ve turned off all the lights and filled your dog’s bowl with water. But, if we’re going to leave this world, why not leave with a smile, right? Here are 10 jokes about the ra

In case you don't think that Harold Camping is crazy. Here is some more proof. According to Gawker, 89-year-old HAROLD CAMPING, the preacher who runs Family Radio and made the prediction, must realize that he screwed up.  Right?  Wrong. Harold's full prediction claimed that May 21st was supposed to be the Rapture.  The righteous would be called up to heaven, earthquakes would devastate Earth, and

In 1987 college rock band R.E.M. wrote "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," and 24 years later I feel curiously similar. Recently a fringe Christian sect predicted the rapture is happening today.  Yahoo News reports they made the same prediction in 1994 and were wrong, but this time they were serious. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it)

As May 21, the day a loosely organized ministry predicts to be Judgment Day, approaches, comedians and the every-day Tweeter took to the Internet to poke fun at the idea of a rapture occurring this weekend. Below are some of the funniest tweets about the rapture. Today's top tweets includes quips from Jason Santa Maria, Craig Phillips, Dan Cronin, Jill Kushner, Damien Fahey, Amber Tozer, Adam Hamm