Link roundup: 20 May – 27 May

• In case you haven’t heard, the Rapture begins tonight. Get your playlists ready!
• If you have some spare time tomorrow evening, be sure to attend a Rapture party.
• Turns out the same pastor who has predicted this apocalypse has done so before… and been wrong.
• According to the US government and the CDC, the apocalypse is more likely to come in zombie form.

• In other news, Romans are disappointed with a new statue of Pope John Paul II.
• The head of the IMF’s arrest this week is dashing the hopes of Jewish communities on both sides of the Atlantic.
• A former boxer now fights for reproductive rights in the Filipino congress.
• A Catholic church in Florida intends to pray for bin Laden on Sunday.
• Is Apple a religion?
• The Huffington Post has a piece about the wave of anti-Sharia sentiment sweeping US state legislatures.

• Well… the Rapture didn’t happen.
• The Pope speaks to and blesses astronauts at the ISS.
• A Saudi woman is campaigning for the right to drive.
• Leonard Nimoy speaks about his Jewish roots.
• The Pope has closed a monastery after unusual practices are discovered.
• Is atheism a religion?
• A psychologist argues that religion is not delusional.
• Oprah owes her success to god.