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Rapture Rupture: When Your Parents or Boss Expect the End of Days

Employees at Family Radio, the deep-pocketed nonprofit that has been spreading Harold Camping's prophecy that the

t believe in any of this stuff that' sgoingon,andiplanonbeingherenextweek,= parbasesectionentrytext= josephcarsontoldtheTimes. His parents stopped saving for college two years ago and his mom quit her job to spread the news about the End of Days.


“I don’t really have any motivation to try to figure out what I want to do anymore,” he said, “because my main support line, my parents, don’t care.”

His mother said she accepted that believers “lose friends and you lose family members in the process.”

“I have mixed feelings,” Ms. Haddad Carson said. “I’m very excited about the Lord’s return, but I’m fearful that my children might get left behind. But you have to accept God’s will.

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