192: Is Today the Rapture?
Saturday, May 21st, 2011The news stories of the last few days have focused on the predictions of an evangelist preacher which state that today is the day that the Christian faithful will be physically raised up to heaven. It’s supposed to happen around the world as the local time reaches 6PM. Australia, the first to have crossed that time line today, must be completely inhabited by heathen unbelievers because by all accounts no one was seen rising up into the skies of the Down Under.
Although this hapless prognosticator got it wrong again (this was the second time he prophesized the end of the world), he resonated with many who feel apprehensive about a nameless world changing event that seems imminent. Be they focused on the Rapture, the Age of Aquarius, or the end of the Mayan calendar, many people feel that “something’s coming.”