It’s deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra would say.

Taking to the airwaves on Monday, Doomsday Prophet Harold Camping said May 21 was an “invisible Judgment Day,” rather than, you know, the fire-and-brimstone, earthquakes-and-tsunamis type Judgment Day.

The real destruction of the world will be October 21, saith Camping.

The fringy, 89-year-old radio preacher brushed off questions from reporters, according to the NYT, and said he won’t do any more interviews. The Family Radio website has been scrubbed of dire predictions.

It will be interesting to see how Camping followers and the media respond to the new Rapture date, when “it won’t be spiritual anymore,” as Camping says.

Several churches were destroyed in Missouri’s devastating tornado, according to HuffPo. The still-standing churches have become shelters and gathering spots for neighbors and friends.

Twenty-one Christian organizations that endorse military chaplains sent a letter to the Chief Chaplains of the three services urging the adoption of broad conscience protections from the effects of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell’s repeal.

Oregon is on the brink of ending the legal protection for parents who rely on faith healing instead of seeking medical care for their children, according to the Oregonian.

Minnesota Republicans are apologizing for inviting an anti-gay, anti-Obama preacher to deliver the invocation before a state House session. Bradlee Dean used the prayer to say that every president until 2008 acknowledged Jesus as “head of the denomination.”

A Roman Catholic order of priests sacked its leader in the Netherlands and disciplined another priest after the two publicly defended pedophile sex. Randy Alan White, co-founder of the Without Walls International Church, was arrested and charged Saturday night with driving under the influence, according to the St. Pete Times.

For the first time, Russians can see documents that appear to confirm long-standing rumors that Vladimir Lenin had Jewish roots.

A Knights of Columbus hall and a tattoo parlor in Brooklyn have bonded over shared burglaries. Both are thought to be inside jobs. The NYT imagines the APB, “Be on the lookout for a skinny guy with a Catholic friend and a fresh tattoo.”

The producer of “Survivor” is making a docu-drama about the Bible, and wouldn’t you just love to see Joseph’s brothers vote him off the island.

Yr hmbl aggregator,

Daniel Burke