1/27 pop occulture: bunkers, kaboom & emotional collapse

'end-of-world' threat stirs interest in scottish nuclear bunker*
indie film 'the sound of my voice' portrays documentarians investigating a cult & falling under its sway*
'the rite': 14 vatican-certified exorcists working in & on US*
gregg araki & 'kaboom': end of the world? maybe. first, sex.*
lisa marie presley undergoing 'emergency treatment' for 'frightening emotional collapse' at church of scientology*
flashback: how ghosts, superstitions & vampires have been used for psychological warfare*

aging radio evangelist says the end of the world is near - again

from statesman: Soon it will be spring again. The leaves will turn green; the bluebonnets will flower. Or trumpets will blast, graves will open, and Earth will begin a five-month descent to its fiery end. Radio evangelist Harold Camping can hardly wait. May 21, he asserts, is Judgment Day, when "this world will be a horror story beyond anything we can imagine." A fixture on Christian airwaves around the world, Camping, 89, is exhorting all who are listening to "make ready" for Jesus' triumphal return, whose precise date he says God has revealed to him with "fantastic proof" in the Bible. Of course, Camping has missed the date for the end of the world before, having previously forecast that the Apocalypse would be in 1994. Lately, many other end-of-timers have been fixated on a doomsday date of Dec. 21, 2012 — when the "Long Count" calendar of the ancient Maya ends and, they say, the world with it. According to Camping, there won't even be a 2012. His website displays that number with a red slash through it.

governor quickly apologizes for saying only christians are his brothers

from canadian press: Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley said he was sorry Wednesday for his inauguration day remarks about only Christians being his brothers and sisters and said he would work over the next four years for people of all faiths and colours. Bentley said he didn't mean to insult anyone with comments he made from the pulpit of a church once led by Martin Luther King Jr. He said he was speaking as an evangelical Christian to fellow Baptists... The Republican is a former legislator and Southern Baptist deacon who emerged from the back of a crowded field to win the governor's office. He told the church crowd just moments into his new administration that those who haven't accepted Jesus as their saviour are not his brothers and sisters. "Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus Christ as their saviour, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister, and I want to be your brother," Bentley said. Some in the crowd at the church said "Amen," but groups representing other faiths in Alabama called the remarks shocking.

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