December 21, 2012

The World Will Not End Today

Rob Phillips, Baptist Press

If you believe doomsayers or John Cusack movies, the world will end Dec. 21. That's the date of the so-called Mayan Apocalypse, when an important cycle of the Maya Long Count Calendar draws to a close.

Not to worry. End-of-days predictions have made and broken pundits and self-proclaimed prophets for millennia. Not to be outdone by religious fanaticism, contemporary culture embraces the drama of a cataclysmic end to the world. 

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TAGGED: Bible, Apocalypse, Mayan Calendar

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