Yesterday was December 21, 2011 — a year away from the alleged 2012 doomsday date — so I began my last year on Earth explaining to the readers of "On Faith" at the Washington Post why I didn't think the coming 12 months would be our last:

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We've been here before. We humans, regardless of our religious persuasion, are obsessed with figuring out when we're going to die. From famed pastors and authors to obscure conspiracy theorists who are a few nuts short of a fruitcake, one of us is always predicting the end of the world.

These doomsayers have been wrong every time. Every. Single. Time.

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