As you have undoubtedly heard, there are a host of people who believe that the Mayans predicted that the world would end in just a few days time. These doomsayers are far from the first to proclaim with absolutely certainty that "the end is coming." Today's longread looks at another set of people who put full faith in a coming apocalypse -- the followers of Harold Camping -- and how they reacted when it didn't come.
"A Year After the Non-Apocalypse: Where Are They Now?" by Tom Bartlett
Published in Religion Dispatches, December 18, 2012
http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/culture/5983/a_year_after_the_non-apocalypse:_where_are_they_now/
Eric
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