Deja Vu: World To End Again on Oct. 21 [POLL]

May 21, 2011 was a nice spring day in Framingham, and somewhat at odds with the end of the world prognostications that faced it. The people on bikes, walking dogs, playing baseball and flying kites didn't seem overly concerned that the "world was ending."

And they were right. As we know, it did not, because you are reading this.

This was just fine with the billions of people across the globe, save for a small group led by radio evangelist Harold Camping who had slotted Saturday, May 21, as the end of time. Whoops.  

And like every other doomsday prophecy throughout history, the May 21 rapture promised by the Oakland-based Family Radio network owner never materialized. The 90-year-old, self-styled prophet now claims the world will end by this Friday and not with a bang, as previously predicted, but rather with a whimper, said a report by the Huffington Post.  

"The end is going to come very, very quietly probably within the next month...by Oct. 21," said Camping in a radio address delivered earlier this month, reported the Huffington Post. "Probably there will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against God...We can become more and more sure that they'll quietly die and that will be the end of their story." 

Though many Christians believe that Jesus Christ will indeed return someday to rapture his church, few in the mainstream agree with Camping who originally had designated the Oct. 21 event as the day God would destroy the earth subsequent to the May 21 rapture.