WE'RE STILL HEREby HazedAs I write this story on Friday evening, I can only hope you are all still here to read it on Sunday. You see, the world is scheduled to end tomorrow. Or yesterday, to you readers. A strange American Christian sect is claiming that Saturday May 21 is Judgement Day. Harold Camping is the leader of the sect and he's convinced it's all coming to an end. He's not the first to predict the end of the world, but he has come to prominence because, using money raised from his followers, he's been able to publicize his apocalyptic warnings. He runs a radio station, and has paid for huge billboards to warn people about the end of the world, so he's attracted quite a lot of attention. This isn't the first time he's predicted the end, either - he said it would happen back in 1994, but the fact that the world kept on turning didn't deter him or his followers, who simply announced that he had been referring to an intermediary stage. So the big day is (or was) Saturday. Camping says that his interpretation of the bible indicates that a giant earthquake is going to sweep around the world so that by the end of the day, all non-believers will be dead. The rest? "...God plans to rescue about 200 million people," says his website. What if it doesn't happen? Oh, it will, he says. "There is no Plan B." So, assuming you are reading this, and we're all still here, and the world didn't end, I can't wait to hear how he explains his way out of this one!
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