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This Just In: World Ending (Again) On May 21
I know you are waiting in anticipation for the end of times on December 21, 2012, but I have some bad news: according to several poorly designed websites, the Day of Judgment and the Rapture will begin...
View ArticleChristian Fundamentalists Making Road Trip To The End Of The World
Jessica Ravitz tries to find out why, for CNN: If you thought you had less than three perfectly healthy months to live, what would you do? Would you travel? Spend time with loved ones? Appreciate the...
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Apocalypse Survival Goes Mainstream
In the “first” wave of 2012 apocalypse fears a couple of years ago, the media often paired disinformation (as the producers of the film 2012: Science or Superstition) with Dennis McClung, owner of...
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Atheists Plan May 21 No Rapture Parties
Only in America folks. Not satisfied with having a good laugh at the believers who spent all their savings in advance of Judgment Day (May 21, 2011), atheists are planning their own celebrations. From...
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Let’s Punk the Rapture
Fun idea from MLKSHK that Gizmodo is making a contest out of. Mat Honan writes on Gizmodo: A lot of people think the Rapture is coming May 21. It’s not. But assuming your pets are okay, here’s a prank...
View ArticleThe End Of The World: It’s In The Numbers (Video)
Via Modern Mythology: Or maybe some of us only wish it was…
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The Incredibly Tiny Christian Fundamentalist Universe
Maybe those 21 May 2011 “End of the World” folks were right, and only their tiny universe disappeared? Jim Walker writes on NoBeliefs.com: Incredible as it may seem, many Christians today believe that...
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Two Idiots Name Their Baby Girl ‘Like’ After the Facebook Button
Jesus Diaz writes on Gizmodo: Lior and Vardit Adler just had a baby girl. She’s probably all cute and wrinkly! But they hate her soo much that they named her Like, in honor of the Like button in...
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Joel’s Army and Omnicide in the Name of God
If you’ve never heard of omnicide this article on Daily Kos from a few years back is helpful: Yesterday, we revealed that John Hagee’s church is confirmedly within the “Joel’s Army” movement — a group...
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Rick Perry’s Ties to Joel’s Army
The Prophet Joel as imagined by Michelangelo Glenn Wright wrote recently in the Examiner (before Gov. Perry officially declared his presidential candidacy): If Governor Rick Perry (R) of Texas runs for...
View ArticleJesus Antichrist: Does Joel’s Army Actually Worship Satan?
A central theme in Christian eschatology is the rise of the Antichrist. This Antichrist is supposed to trick millions (even billions) into worshiping him and, according to many on the Christian right,...
View ArticleThe Condo at the End of the World: Life Inside a Nuclear Missile Bunker (Video)
Via The Verge: Edward Peden purchased a former U.S. military launch site in the 1980s, and has been living in it ever since. Meanwhile, Larry Hall is building million-dollar condominiums inside of an...
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Is 11.11.11 On 11.11.11 Doomsday?
Surely a rhetorical question if ever there was one, but the Times of India takes it seriously: At 11.11.11 on 11.11.11, the time and date will be a perfect same-numbered palindrome, reading the same...
View ArticleNASA: Solar Flare Can’t Destroy Earth
Feeling the heat from 2012 apocalypticists perhaps, NASA feels the need to reassure people that we won’t be fried in 2012. Mike Wall reports on NASA’s Nov. 10, 2011 statement, for Space.com: If the...
View ArticleWorld Will End In Exactly One Year
Well … maybe. A couple of years ago I produced a documentary about the now infamous end-date of the Mayan Long Count Calendar, December 21, 2012. Today is the Winter Solstice, and exactly one year...
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Guatemalan Mayans to World: 2012 is Not the End, and We Should Know
President G. W. Bush at a demonstration of a Mayan ritual at Iximche, Guatemala in 2007. This breezy seemingly fluffy travel article in the Guardian just days before NYE that somehow got overlooked as...
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Newly Found Mayan Calendar Goes Far Beyond 2012
Wikimedia Commons (CC) World to end on December 21st, 5012? Brian Vastag writes in the Washington Post: The ancient Mayans were masters of time, keepers of good calendars. And now we have one of their...
View ArticleWaiting For Armageddon (Video)
Via Waiting For Armageddon: Americas 50-million strong Evangelical community is convinced that the worlds future is foretold in biblical prophecy — from the Rapture to the Battle of Armageddon. This...
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A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?
Photo: O'Dea (CC) There will be someone new to take Harold Camping’s place, these end-timers never seem to go away. Writes Tom Bartlett on Religion Dispatches: For a while, their message was...
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