Rapture Across Country
The man who spent his life savings to tell New York the end was near.
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Julie Baker walks the streets proselytizing with other believers that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, on May 13, 2011 in New York City. The Christian based movement, which claims thousands of supporters around the country and world, was founded by the Oakland, Calif.-based Harold Camping. Camping is president of Family Stations Inc., a religious broadcasting network that promotes the belief that May 21, 2011 is Judgment Day. Camping claims to have come to this date by a deep and complex study of religious texts. Camping was wrong on his prior end-of-the-world prediction in 1994.
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A "Save The Date" for Judgement Day is seen in Southern California.
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Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, walk through the streets on May 13, 2011 in New York City.
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Osvaldo Colon walks the streets proselytizing with other believers that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, on May 13, 2011 in New York City.
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A Judgement Day billboard is seen in Petaluma, CA.
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Sheila Jones, from Sacramento, California said that she was at first skeptical about the "End of Days" prediction but that she could not disprove it Biblically, so she joined the Family Radio crusade to tell the world of the coming end times.
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In this Dec. 17, 2010 photo in Raleigh, N.C., Allison Warden poses with her car showing a message about the rapture. Warden, of Raleigh, has been helping organize a campaign using billboards, post cards and other media in cities across the U.S. through a website, We Can Know.
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A man holds a sign proclaiming the world will end this May 21, 2011.
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A billboard by the American Atheists is shown here in Florida.
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Author of 'The Doomsday Code,' Robert Fitzpatrick, poses an ad he purchased at a bus stop on Victory Blvd. in Staten Island. Fitzpatrick is so convinced the end is near he's betting his life savings on it. The retired MTA employee has pumped $140,000 into a NYC Transit ad campaign to warn everyone the world will end next Saturday. "Global Earthquake! The Greatest Ever - Judgment Day: May 21," the ad declares above a placid picture of night over Jerusalem with a clock that's about to strike midnight.
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