Harold Camping’s followers may believe they’re headed to heaven on Saturday, but in the weeks and months before, his true believers have been busy spreading the doomsday message. Family Radio has reportedly spent $100 million on thousands of signs and billboards warning of what they believe to be the biblically-”guaranteed” May 21, 2011 rapture date.
Below, scenes of the (pre-) apocalypse.
FILE - In this Dec. 12, 2002 file photo, Harold Camping speaks while holding the Bible, in San Leandro, Calif. A loosely organized Christian movement has spread the word around the globe that Jesus Christ will return to earth on Saturday, May 21, 2011, to gather the faithful into heaven. While the Christian mainstream isn't buying it, many other skeptics are believing it. The prediction originates with Camping, the 89-year-old retired civil engineer, who founded Family Radio Worldwide, an independent ministry that has broadcasted his prediction around the world. (AP Photo, File)
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 13: Julie Baker walks the streets proselytizing with other believers that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, on May 13, 2011 in New York City.
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An advertisement is seen in a New York City subway by the U.S. religious group Family Radio, a Christian radio network, warning of an impending Judgment Day at Times Square in New York May 13, 2011.
(SHANNON STAPLETON - REUTERS)
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 5: Gary Voller, of Alexandria, Virginia, gathers his team to discuss their departure for their next stop in Washington, D.C., on on Thursday, May 5, 2011.
(Nikki Kahn - The Washington Post)
NEW YORK, NY - MAY 13: Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, walk through the streets on May 13, 2011 in New York City.
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 13: A bracelet reading "Judgment Day" is viewed on the wrist of a participant in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, on May 13, 2011 in New York City.
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NEW YORK, NY - MAY 13: Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, gather on a street corner on May 13, 2011 in New York City.
(Spencer Platt - GETTY IMAGES)
More on May 21, 2011:
— Matthew Paul Turner on the harm that judgment day will do
— The Washington Post’s On Faith section on ‘The end of the world as we know it?
— Q&A with Baylor University professor of religion Doug Weaver
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