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May 21, 2011: the end of the world?

Family Radio evangelist Harold Camping believes that he has calculated the exact date of the rapture: May 21, 2011. While many are laughing at the suggestion, Camping’s followers are taking him seriously, bringing his message of impending doom to billboards and public spaces around the country.

Posted by On Faith  on May 10, 2011 11:37 AM
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A just world in the world to come

Christianity teaches that this world will end with the coming of a new heaven and anew earth of righteousness, justice, and peace.

Posted by Valerie Elverton Dixon

In Hinduism, no destruction is final

Time is considered cyclical and not linear.

Posted by Rajan Zed on May 13, 2011 6:23 PM

End times theology: an insider’s guide

I grew up in a Christian tradition called Dispensationalism. Although we shied away from predicting specific dates, we sang and preached and even made scary movies about the coming “Rapture,” Great Tribulation, coming of the Antichrist, and eventually the Second Coming

Posted by Brian McLaren on May 10, 2011 1:08 PM

Science explains the end of the world

The end of the world will be a parochial little affair, unnoticed in the universe at large.

Posted by Richard Dawkins on May 10, 2011 1:13 PM

Our imaginations are apocalyptic

Since the beginning of time people have predicted the end of time.

Posted by David Wolpe on May 10, 2011 12:03 PM

Post-Rapture theological education?

I am not canceling the May 21 taping session on “The Seminary of the Future.”

Posted by Richard Mouw on May 10, 2011 11:59 AM

May 21, 2011? I have other plans...

Secular humanists don’t believe the universe has a sell-by date.

Posted by Tom Flynn on May 11, 2011 2:30 PM

Nobody knows when the Lord will return

In the Catholic Faith, we teach that the Lord Jesus, as he said, is coming back to earth on a day that nobody knows.

Posted by Frank Pavone on May 11, 2011 2:44 PM

Harold Camping does not represent Christianity

The idea that anyone would pay attention to someone who thinks he or she can calculate a divinely-instigated end of the world by reading texts in either the book of David or the book of Revelation is both ludicrous and crazy.

Posted by John Shelby Spong on May 11, 2011 2:48 PM

What happens when the Messiah doesn’t show?

I am pretty confident that the world will still be here after May 21st.

Posted by Brad Hirschfield on May 11, 2011 2:55 PM

A godless apocalypse

According to modern astrophysics, the world will end when our sun runs out of hydrogen, its primary solar fuel.

Posted by Herb Silverman on May 11, 2011 2:58 PM

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