Apocalypse not now: Rapture fails to happen
Christian doomsday prophet Harold Camping looks likely to be less than rapturous after his prediction that the world would end on Saturday failed to materialise. The 89-year-old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm in each of the world's time zones, with those "saved" by Jesus ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet. But as the deadline for the ... Full Story »
Posted by Fabrice Florin - via Google News (U.S.), The Guardian (US), Memeorandum, Lynnette Fusilier (t)
Still waiting for a through investigative report from some media outlet on this doomsday organization. The way many media dealt with this story was, "Well, IF it were the end of the world, what would you do? Go to our website and tell us....." Their angle drove TV and radio viewers to their websites for increased traffic and ad revenue; it did not responsibly cover this story.