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Friday, May 20, 2011

Why we're enraptured by the Rapture

If you're reading this, the Rapture hasn't happened yet.

If it had happened, you might have been taken up to heaven with 200 million other members of the elect. (Or is that 144,000?) The alternative is even spookier: being left behind to face five months of tribulation leading up to the end of the world and Jesus' judgment. (Or is that seven years?)

The prediction that the end times would begin in earnest on May 21, 2011, was made years ago byHarold Camping — the preacher who heads Family Radio, a worldwide religious broadcasting concern. His prophecy is based on calculations so kooky that other end-time prophets say he's giving them a bad name.

The real question is: Why has there been so much buzz over Saturday's scheduled Rapture?

"Obviously, what could be a bigger news story than the end of the world?" University of York historian Nicholas Guyatt, author of the book "Have a Nice Doomsday," told me. "It's absurd to think the world is going to end on Saturday, but even if there's an infinitesimally small chance that it's true, we should be interested."

More Here: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/05/20/6683707-why-were-enraptured-by-the-rapture

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