I still can't figure out why this story has been so publicized. It's been the lead story on CNN half a dozen times since I first read about it. So a fringe cult thinks the world is going to end? And everyone else cares because...?

(FWIW, when I was in high school and my Bible Study started on the Book of Revelation, that was the moment, I think now in retrospect, though I wasn't aware of it at the time, that I began my journey towards atheism. Because shit does none of that make sense.)