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Doomsday Is Just Another Day for End-Time Evangelist

By David MoyeJan 5th 2011 – 8:09AM
S.F. Chronicle / Corbis

S.F. Chronicle / Corbis

What would you do if you knew the world was going to end? Family Radio Worldwide evangelist Harold Camping has received a lot of attention in the last few days for announcing the exact date of the Rapture -- May 21, 2011 -- but he tells AOL Weird News that he's not making any big plans for the big day. "The Bible says...

Close Encounters of the Sacred Kind

By Lee SpeigelOct 1st 2010 – 7:06AM
Monarca Lynn Merrifield

Monarca Lynn Merrifield

(Oct. 1) -- A group of people has a mass sighting of a huge, airborne glowing object that follows them for many miles and even protects them from attack. Someone is seen being lifted into the sky on a beam of light. A man witnesses unexplained circular vehicles with living creatures on board. Pretty much sounds like your...

Opinion: Suicide Bombers in Heaven? Imam Rauf Won't Say No

Aug 26th 2010 – 12:19PM
HASAN JAMALI/AFP/Getty Images

HASAN JAMALI/AFP/Getty Images

(Aug. 26) -- When you detonate explosives attached to your torso, simultaneously decapitating people on a bus or disemboweling little children at a kindergarten, do you go to heaven or to hell? Are you a martyr or a murderer? Heroic or heinous? While the answer might seem straightforward to some, it clearly flummoxed Imam...

Background on heaven

Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious, cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings (such as a Sky deity, God, angels, King or Queen of Heaven, Heavenly Father or Heavenly Mother or Son of Heaven, heavenly saints or venerated ancestors) originate, are enthroned or inhabit.

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