Posted 5/21/2011 09:16:00 PM by Douglas

So I guess Jesus saw his shadow today, but nothing happened.

With no sign his forecast of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday has come true, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent.

Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was on Saturday playing recorded church music and devotional messages unrelated to the apocalypse.

Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.

Ooops. So how many mulligans does this guy get before people quit listening to him? Is there a better way to make use of this idiot's time? Sure there is.

After all, it might be if the Rev. Harold Camping is right. The 89-year-old California religious leader has pinpointed the human race's expiration date with mathematic exactitude: May 21, 2011.

In honor of that pronouncement, more than 200 people have signed up for tonight's "Rapture party" at the Fox and Hound English Pub and Grille on Westheimer, hosted by the Texas Free Thought Convention.

A table will be set up where people who expect to disappear in the Rapture can leave behind their possessions, such as car keys and bank account numbers.

"We'll make sure their stuff is in good hands," said Paul Mitchell, president of the Texas Free Thought Convention. "And if Camping is right and the Rapture does happen, we want to make sure we have a really good time beforehand, so we can say we partied like rock stars as the world came to an end."

Party down!