We need to pray for Harold Camping and his followers.

As you may have noticed, the world did NOT end Saturday night.  And, for the most part, I think people are pretty okay with that.  I agree with the mentality of, "Even so, come now Lord Jesus," but that doesn't mean I'm in a hurry to leave this world.  There's still a good bit I would like to do, and I'm not disappointed that I'll have a little bit more time to do it in.

But there are a lot of people who are very, very disappointed.  Most notably, those poor misguided souls who truly believed the Rapture was going to roll around at 6:00 Saturday night.  Many of Harold Camping's (the May 21st Doomsday predictor) followers spend through their savings, racked up credit card debt, and moved their families across the country to spread the message of Jesus's immediate return.  Unfortunately, their faith was misplaced, and they were left broken and disillusioned.

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Is the world ending...now?

Yesterday I wrote about my new favorite, love-to-hate-em, religious fringe group, Project Caravan, who are saying May 21st of this year is Judgment Day.  (Sorry Quiverfullers, you've been bumped off the top of my list.  Rest assured, I still think you're completely insane, too.)

As I promised in yesterday's post, today I want to take a little time to catalogue many (though nowhere near all) the times someone got a big head and thought they personally knew when the end of the world is coming.  Considering I'm sitting here with such luxuries as civilization and internet (as opposed to digging locusts out of my boils while accidentally stepping on all the frogs hopping around), they were obviously incorrect.

Without further ado, 8PP presents...

Times the World was Supposed to End

(and Totally Didn't)

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