Day of Rapture May 21 ,2011

**Monseratto** · May 13th, 2011 04:54 PM

I wonder why the goverment has allowed this cult of religious nutcases spread fear among the populace...

Kasama ba diyan si OB?

http://www.3news.co.nz/Religious-gro...9/Default.aspx

Religious group: Judgement Day looms on May 21
Fri, 13 May 2011 4:01p.m.

A US-based Christian group took to the streets of Manila this week to spread its Judgment Day prediction of May 21, 2011.

Volunteers from religious group Family Radio wore neon coloured t-shirts and walked along Manila's main thoroughfares giving out pamphlets to passersby and warning them of the impending doom.

They believe that the end of the world, predicted by Harold Camping, the president of Family Radio, will happen during the sunset of May 21.

Camping is said to have predicted that date through a series of mathematical calculations and unravelling of codes hidden behind the story of the great flood in the Bible. He was convinced that God gave hints of the doomsday in the scriptures and that it was their job to decode it.

Camping also predicted that the world would end in September 1994, following his previous calculations based on a specific event in the 1980s. When his prediction failed, he said his other prediction in 2011 would definitely come true.

The group, made up of members and volunteers from the US, left their jobs and even their families to travel the world to spread the message.

Kenji Hoffman left his family and his successful job as a mechanic in the US to join the Family Radio crusade around the world. He used his savings to facilitate his trip to the Philippines. He said he believes God has left clear signs that the world is coming to an end.

Professor Gerardo Lanuza, from the University of the Philippines' Sociology of Religion said that the Judgement Day groups have increased in recent years due to the unstable political and economic climate around the world. He says groups like Family Radio take the signs of the apocalypse to form communities to support each other.

"They want to offer people some kind of security; a type of security amidst an insecure world," Lanuza said.

Despite Family Radio's insistent campaign, many of the predominantly Catholic Filipinos paid little heed to the warnings.

"It might really happen since there's a lot of sin in the world… it will happen, but not in what they were predicting. Judgment Day can't happen on May 21," said bus inspector Rico Almasan.

Professor Gerardo Lanuza said Family Radio's prediction will not affect much of the Philippines' citizens because the majority of the citizens listen to head of the Catholic Church in the country.

Despite the sceptical response, members of Family Radio are unfazed and believe they are serving a higher purpose.

"The world is temporal, we are seeking for an eternal one, eternal things," says Leo Arenas, a recent convert of Family Radio.

Family Radio is a Christian radio broadcasting network in the US. It was founded in 1959.

More than 80 percent of the population in the Philippines is of the Catholic faith.

**robot.sonic** · May 13th, 2011 05:27 PM

hahaha. ayos. sayang ang buhay ng mga sumasali dyan.

**jojomonsalud** · May 13th, 2011 05:59 PM

even sa mga bus marami silang ads na ganito, meron din akong nakikitang mga billboards about sa day of rapture

**ghosthunter** · May 13th, 2011 06:11 PM

My bet is still on the Mayan calendar prediction in 2012...

**shadow** · May 13th, 2011 06:42 PM

Again!!??? Pag natuloy lahat ng doomsday eh ilan beses na ako namatay at nabuhay

**vito corleone** · May 13th, 2011 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by shadow

Again!!??? Pag natuloy lahat ng doomsday eh ilan beses na ako namatay at nabuhay

haha. . .exactly. . .don't these people realize that they will eventually be proven wrong?

**Monseratto** · May 19th, 2011 01:25 PM

Sali tayo.

'Rapture Parties' Planned to Celebrate Doomsday Saturday May 21
LiveScience.com Robert Roy Britt,
livescience.com – 38 mins ago

With the end of the world looming this Saturday (May 21), non-believers are planning "Rapture parties" to poke a little fun at the Doomsday prediction and also raise awareness for other causes.

Harold Camping, 89-year-old leader of the ministry Family Radio Worldwide, has predicted that a five-month destruction of humanity will commence Saturday with a Rapture, in which believers will ascend to heaven. "Whereas this five-month period will be an enormous horror story for those who have not been raptured, it will be a time of great joy and wonder for those who are raptured," according to the Family Radio website. [Infographic: A Brief History of Doomsday]

Camping uses a mathematical formula linked to prophecies in the Bible. He once predicted Sept. 6, 1994 as Judgment Day, but that math didn't quite work out. This time around, Camping's organization took out an ad in Reader's Digest, stating: "The Bible guarantees the end of the world will begin with Judgment Day May 21, 2011."

A Web group called TalkAndAct.com is sponsoring a Rapture party because "skeptics, activists, comedians and others don't believe his apocalyptic warning for one second," organizers said in a statement Wednesday. The live streaming "Judgment Day Party" will start at 00:00:01 on May 21 and run until midnight, other events permitting, of course.

In Tacoma, Wash., producers of a local talk show "Ask the Atheist" will sponsor a Rapture party themed "Countdown to Backpedaling: The End is Nah!"

A group called American Atheists has a short list of Rapture parties occurring in a handful of other cities.

Might the world really begin to end this weekend? Even many Christians aren't buying it.

"There are a long line of brilliant people who, through intricate calculations, have made predictions about the end of the world," Pastor Joseph Fuiten with Cedar Park Assembly of God Church in Bothell, Wash., told the Seattle Times. "Unfortunately they have overlooked the obvious words of Jesus: 'You do not know the day or the hour' of such events."