DOTD For Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Today We Drink To The Rapture...Or Lack Thereof...

Today’s DOTD - Drink Of The Day - is a Judgement Day Cocktail inspired by the rapture that didn’t happen on this day in 2011, according to that one guy who never stopped spouting about the rapture, Harold Camping.

By the way, the rapture isn’t happening today either.

Harold Camping, the doyen of doomsday mongers, is one of few people to have predicted the End of the World no fewer than three times - and appears, in all honestly, to have believed it each time.

Camping, a right wing American “Christian” radio broadcaster and evangelist, first predicted “Judgment Day” would occur on or about September 6, 1994. When the rapture failed to occur on that date, he revised the date to September 29, 1994 - and then to October 2, 1994. When the rapture failed to happen on that date, Camping retreated again, only to predict the Second Coming of Christ would happen on May 21, 2011, when he insisted the saved would be taken up to heaven in the rapture. Camping then said “there would follow five months of fire, brimstone and plagues on Earth,” with millions of people dying each day, culminating on October 21, 2011, with the final destruction of the world.

Which didn’t happen either.

More predictably, Camping’s own demise preceded that of the world, and he died on December 17, 2013, two years after he’d given up the predictions game for good. Already 90 at tat point, he had spent much of the profits from his evangelical Family Radio station advertising the upcoming Rapture, when the righteous (AKA members of his church) would fly up to heaven, leaving everyone else to a welter of plagues and brimstone that would destroy the earth.

Many of Camping’s followers gave up homes and jobs in preparation for his first rapture, back in 1994, the second in May 2011, and the third, rescheduled for this day in 2011.

Thankfully, you don’t have to give up your house or car or anything big for today’s DOTD, the Judgement Day Cocktail. You may have to give up some time to order a few of the rare items for this drink, but doing so won’t cost your soul.

Ingredients

Here’s what you’re going to need for this drink: