What's Behind the Doomsday Hysteria?

Having been out of the USA for the past few months I was not aware of the extent to which Harold Camping had publicized his May, 21, 2011, rapture/doomsday message. It seems to be a national phenomenon with freeway billboards, people carrying doomsday placards and passing out handbills. And bemused journalists and TV reports have spread Camping's message to an even greater extent. Jehovah's Witnesses ought to be envious at all of the media coverage the Family Radio host has garnered, or maybe not. It will be interesting to see how he responds on May 22nd and thereafter, when his rapture predictions are proven to be a fraud.

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