Judgement Day? No Way! What's Behind the Rumors (4 days left)

TIME
By Megan Gibson

Artist's imagining of Judgement Day. Thomas Jackson/Getty Images.

WORLD - Forget the Mayan calendar Doomsday in 2012. One Christian radio network has calculated its own apocalyptic date – and it falls next Saturday. You've seen the billboards and heard the ads. The Christian ministry Family Radio has hearkened for months now about the impending Judgment Day on May 21. But how did they come to such a seemingly arbitrary date that they're basically guaranteeing will be the beginning of the end? The network's president, 89-year-old Harold Camping, is a decades-long student of the Bible who claims all the numbers add up to Christ's second coming on the 21st. [link]