Make My Bed? But You Say the World’s Ending

[cali]

Monica Lopossay for The New York Times

Abby Haddad Carson and Robert Carson say Saturday is Judgment Day; the children, Joseph, Faith and Grace, right, do not. More Photos »
By ASHLEY PARKER
Published: May 19, 2011

The Haddad children of Middletown, Md., have a lot on their minds: school projects, SATs, weekend parties. And parents who believe the earth will begin to self-destruct on Saturday.

The three teenagers have been struggling to make sense of their shifting world, which started changing nearly two years ago when their mother, Abby Haddad Carson, left her job as a nurse to “sound the trumpet” on mission trips with her husband, Robert, handing out tracts. They stopped working on their house and saving for college.

Last weekend, the family traveled to New York, the parents dragging their reluctant children through a Manhattan street fair in a final effort to spread the word.

“My mom has told me directly that I’m not going to get into heaven,” Grace Haddad, 16, said. “At first it was really upsetting, but it’s what she honestly believes.”

Thousands of people around the country have spent the last few days taking to the streets and saying final goodbyes before Saturday, Judgment Day, when they expect to be absorbed into heaven in a process known as the rapture. Nonbelievers, they hold, will be left behind to perish along with the world over the next five months.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/20/us/20rapture.html?_r=2&hp

[NightWatcher]

1. DFACS should go get those children before their parents do something horrible

[Drale]

2. What horrible parents

This is the type of situation, that those children should be removed from their parents custody and the parents should be institutionalized.

[dana_b]

3. poor kids

especially this: “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.”

Wow.... what will these kids have to deal with on Sunday?

[cliss]

4. I got news for these folks -

the kids are going with them. I know Cuz I heard it meeself. Went to one of those stupid Church Plays "Left Behind" or maybe it was Don't be left behind. Either way, those nutcases up on the stage said For Sure kids get raptured up No Questions Asked because they are under 18. Anyone under 18 gets an automatic free pass.

Sheesh you would think these Einsteins would know that. :smoke:

[Brickbat]

5. How sad. Those poor kids.