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This week's failed rapture prediction joins a long list of embarrassing doomsday dates, but it reveals something deeper about human psychology and social media manipulation. We explore the 200-year history of rapture theology, the pattern of failed predictions from 1988 to today, and why TikTok has become the new frontier for apocalyptic anxiety.
From Edgar Whisenant's mathematical certainty to Harold Camping's billboard campaign to today's viral prophets, the cycle never ends because the underlying psychology works. The rapture industry offers certainty, control, and cosmic justice — even when it's completely wrong.
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