A few billboards in the area announced the end of the world was coming May 21st. Didn't happen. "That was awkward," is the billboard response.
The Family Radio Group, led by Howard Camping, launched an expensive advertising campaign to promote judgment day. Saturday was supposed to be the beginning of the end - the first day in a five month event that would end with the universe destroyed on October 21, 2011. Other church groups shared the belief and purchased their own billboards and advertising vehicles to spread the message. Here's a link to some of the hundreds of billboards across the country that went up. Below you'll see a billboard from Seattle's Interbay neighborhood, sponsored by Camping's group.
Photo by Stephanie Klein, MyNorthwest.com
What are your post-rapture thoughts? If you believed it would happen, how will you defend yourself against the people who will make jokes at your expense? A sociologist, who's studied these kinds of doomsday predictions, says for some it'll reinforce their beliefs.
"A third of believers become disillusioned after a failed prediction, while another third find reason to believe more strongly. The remaining group members fall somewhere in between," says Stephen Kent with the University of Alberta, in an interview with Live Science. (Gee, what a brilliant scientific mind - "Well, some folks will still believe, other won't, and the rest will fall somewhere else along the continuum.")
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