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End of Days in May? Believers enter final stretch

Tom Breen
Posted: January 3, 2011.

Print: AP

Excerpt:

Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin on May 21, 2011.

To get the word out, they’re using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling in countries from Latin America to Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.

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1. Brian from Texas

If I owned a grocery store I’d have a sale on Kool-Aid this May.

posted on January 3, 2011
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All the loons are gonna disappear on May 21st? Awesome.

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3. Sir Crispin IV

Let us start selling them Rapture pet insurance, so we sinners left behind can look after their beloved Sparky.

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It’s the “lunatic fringe” that provide me the best entertainment.  Great stuff !

posted on January 4, 2011
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oo yeessss, i really hope these christians are being raptured on the 21st of this may, i can’t stand their ignorance anymore, god would do us such a big favor

posted on January 4, 2011
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I say we get together build a spaceship with some of those roller bumper stickers on it and launch into deep space full of these buggers.

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Wholeheartedly agree with ‘ninda’~God will be doing us big favor~then it might really be ‘heaven on Earth’ for the rest of us!

I received a post card about two months ago ‘informing’ me of the event~they spared no expense~high quality and expensive to print. But hey they won’t need their cash after 5/21 anyway right?

According to the postcard you can get all the skinny at wecanknow.com. Couldn’t bring myself to check it out.

I’ve already offered one person who believes this the opportunity to sign over all his worldly possessions to me on May 20th; I told him if he was that committed then he surely wouldn’t mind~it would be of no use to him anyway once he is taken in the rapture~can you believe he wasn’t willing to do that~imagine that!

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I wonder what excuse will they use when May 21st comes and goes without anything happening.
Whatever it is I’m sure I’m not the only one who’ll have a good laugh.

posted on January 5, 2011
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9. Sir Crispin IV

Yes I too am waiting for the excuses, they should be quite entertaining.  However, I am sure they will just say they made a computational error, recalculate and pick another date.  You know what they say, a fool and his money are soon parted…at the collection plate.

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