Sure, we don’t yet know if the U.S. has bypassed any rapture threats. But by all accounts, much of the eastern hemisphere has ticked over to May 22nd unscathed. And the jokes and sarcasm have continued to flow through the Twittersphere.
apocalypse
Forget Judgment Day: 5 Religion Stories Actually Worth Your Time
Sensational Rapture headlines have dominated the media recently, but is that what you really should be paying attention to?
Reading While Eating for May 20: Rapture Eve
Read these links before the world ends.
Your Pop-Culture Guide to the Upcoming Rapture
Apocalyptic predictions may be few and far between, but apocalyptic depictions are rather frequent.
Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Businesses Offer to Care For Pets, Post-Rapture
If the Rapture happened right now, what would happen to your pets?
Craigslist Opportunist Sees the Positive of the World Ending on May 21
You have to hand it to this Craigslister–this is certainly the silver-lining of people believing in the end of the world.
Judgment Day? No Way! What’s Behind the May 21, 2011, End-of-the-World Rumors
Forget the Mayan calendar’s 2012 doomsday. One Christian radio network has calculated its own apocalyptic date: May 21, 2011.
Sign of the Apocalypse? Bunker Sales Increase After Japan Earthquake
In times of natural disaster, war and nuclear fears — not to mention the Mayan calendar predicting that the world will end in 2012 — it’s only natural that people would consider buying space in luxury fallout shelters. Right?
Judgment Day: Will May 21, 2011, Be the End of the World?
According to a small Christian movement, yes, it will.
It Gets Creepier: 100,000 Fish Die in Arkansas
What is going on in Arkansas? First we learn of the death of thousands of black birds in Beebe, and then comes the news that thousands of dead fish have washed ashore a river near Ozark.
Phew: Impending Mayan Apocalypse Has Been Postponed
Have you been stockpiling Glenn Beck’s freeze-dried food, waiting for the world to end? You can climb out of that bunker now.
Doomsday: Could BP Spill Kill All Life on Earth?
Could the Deepwater Horizon spill cause a massive eruption of methane that destroys civilization as we know it, bet-hedging question mark?