In three days - May 21 at 6 PM to be exact, the
rapture will commence and 3% of the world's most gullible, err.. 'devote' will be magically teleported off the surface of this world. Just imagine - Jesus at the helm of a ST:TOS transporter, cross circuiting to "B" to bring up the faithful!
And at 6 PM? Is this EST? UT? (-4 hrs) or Jerusalem time (- 6 hrs)?
The answer is easy - its EST because its Obvious that GOD loves Americans in the South the MOST! I see the evidence *everywhere* - as signs of Jesus is coming SOON are common along the roadways of rural Georgia.
Seriously, why does the news media (local AND nation) give time to these wingnuts? And FYI here are other predicted 'rapture' times:
1981 - Chuck Smith predicted that Jesus would probably return by 1981.[62]1988 - Publication of 88 Reasons why the Rapture is in 1988, by Edgar C. Whisenant.1989 - Publication of The final shout: Rapture report 1989, by Edgar Whisenant. More predictions by this author appeared for 1992, 1995, and other years.1992 - Korean group "Mission for the Coming Days" predicted October 28, 1992 as the date for the rapture.[63]1993 - Seven years before the year 2000. The rapture would have to start to allow for seven years of the Tribulation before the Return in 2000. Multiple predictions.1994 - Pastor John Hinkle of Christ Church in Los Angeles predicted June 9, 1994. Radio evangelist Harold Camping predicted September 6, 1994.[64]2011 - Harold Camping's revised prediction has May 21, 2011 as the date of the rapture.[65][66]2060 - Sir Isaac Newton proposed, based upon his calculations using figures from the book of Daniel, that the Apocalypse could happen no earlier than 2060.[67][68]Hmm - they left out that suicide cult called
Heaven's Gate (1997) - as a quasi rapture group.
And one last question - why are fundamentalists more inclined to believe this inane numerology/death cult crap over real science such as geology (age of the Earth) and evolution?
REAL critical thinking should be taught in schools -and NOT the pushing of illogical creationist voodoo agenda by certain state school boards.