Followers of an evangelical broadcaster who declared that Saturday would be Judgement Day are trying to make sense of the failed prediction. Some believers expressed bewilderment or said it was a test from God of their faith, after the day passed without event.
Meanwhile, the evangelist at the centre of the claim, Harold Camping, has not been seen since before the deadline.
He had predicted that Jesus Christ would return to earth on Saturday.
True believers would then be swept up, or "raptured", to heaven, he had pronounced.
The 89-year-old has used broadcasts on a Christian network and billboards to publicise his ideas as part of a campaign that went global.
He said biblical texts indicated that a giant earthquake on Saturday - which he said would begin at 1800 at various time zones around the world - would mark the start of the world's destruction, and that by 21 October all non-believers will be dead.
Robert Fitzpatrick, a retired transportation agency worker in New York, said he had spent more than $140,000 (£86,000) of his savings on advertisements in the run-up to 21 May to publicise the prediction.
After 1800 passed and nothing had happened, he said: "I do not understand why... I do not understand why nothing has happened."
"I can't tell you what I feel right now. Obviously, I haven't understood it correctly because we're still here." (read more)
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The rapture never came on May 21st because there is NO GOD! It is really as simple as that. If any of you actually took the time to research ancient history - research other gods, other cultures, other belief systems you woul understand this. Religions are the fraud of the age. The bible took it's creation story from ancient Sumeria. The Jews created the singular God by chnaging plural references in the earliest texts of the bible to singular creating monotheism. Jesus never existed. His alleed life is near identical to the God Mithr and several other Pagan gods. Leaern your history!
We will learn our history when you learn how to spell "learn"..now you can believe in what ever you believe in it's your choice, but because someone else believe in something that doesn't make it stupid or non-existent, answer this since you know everything. You believe science explains everything about this earth right, then why no scientist or any other atheist can answer this simple question I'm about to ask you, if we all come from reproduction and all had to be made by two people that reproduce, then who made he first two to reproduce, every living thing came from a womb, from bugs to humans? Don't say it was a big bang and cells just pop up cause if you believe that you just as fair tale as us you call Christians
Anonymous... Did you drop out of your science class during Highschool?
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