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With the modify of the concern looming this Sat (May 21), non-believers are thinking "Rapture parties" to poke a little recreation at the period prediction and also improve awareness for another causes.

Harold Camping, 89-year-old cheater of the ministry Family Radio Worldwide, has predicted that a five-month conclusion of humans module commence Sat with a Rapture, in which believers module ascend to heaven. "Whereas this five-month period module be an enormous horror programme for those who hit not been raptured, it module be a time of enthusiastic joy and astonishment for those who are raptured," according to the Family Radio website. [Infographic: A Brief History of Doomsday]

Camping uses a mathematical instruction linked to prophecies in the Bible. He erst predicted Sept. 6, 1994 as Judgment Day, but that math didn't quite impact out. This time around, Camping's organization took discover an ad in Reader's Digest, stating: "The Scripture guarantees the modify of the concern module begin with Judgment Day May 21, 2011."

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

In Tacoma, Wash., producers of a local speech exhibit "Ask the Atheist" module advocator a Rapture band themed "Countdown to Backpedaling: The End is Nah!"

A assemble titled American Atheists has a brief list of Rapture parties occurring in a handful of another cities.

Might the concern rattling begin to modify this weekend? Even many Christians aren't purchase it.

"There are a long distinction of magnificent grouping who, through intricate calculations, hit prefabricated predictions most the modify of the world," Pastor carpenter Fuiten with Cedar Park Assembly of God Church in Bothell, Wash., told the Seattle Times. "Unfortunately they hit overlooked the manifest text of Jesus: 'You do not know the period or the hour' of such events."

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