Apocalypse Not Now:
The Rapture Fails to Materialise
Christian doomsday prophet,
Harold Camping, looks likely to be less than rapturous after his
2011 End Times Prediction did not, in fact, come to pass. The 89-year old Californian preacher had prophesied that the Rapture would begin at 6pm Saturday in each of the world's time zones, with those 'saved by Jesus' ascending to heaven and the non-believers being wiped out by an earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet.
As the deadline for the Apocalypse passed, it became apparent that his prediction was to end not with a bang but with a whimper. Only on Twitter did the supposed Armageddon sweep the world, with users planning doomsday parties and expressing mock disappointment at the absence of dead people rising from their graves.
...Better luck next time, then.
