The Rapture Index: Quantifying the end-times

By at 8:56 am Monday, Jun 24

Is it the end of the world? How to tell? The Rapture index keeps a running total of Revelations-style events and lets you see at a glance how close we are to the End-Times:
1 False Christs 3
2 Occult 4
3 Satanism 1
4 Unemployment 3
5 Inflation 1
6 Interest Rates 1
7 The Economy 3
8 Oil Supply/Price 3-1
9 Debt and Trade 5
10 Financial unrest 3-1
11 Leadership 3-1
12 Drug abuse 2
13 Apostasy 5
14 Supernatural 1
15 Moral Standards 5
16 Anti-Christian 5
17 Crime Rate 3
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