Rapture Entrepreneurs Rush to Fill a Void Since Alameda Preacher's Ilness

The illness of preacher and radio personality Harold Camping of Alameda left a void in the Rapture business that prophets, or profiteers, are rushing to fill, reports Peter Savodnik of Bloomberg Businessweek in an article published Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Camping, who is in his 90s, had predicted the world would end May 21. When that didn't happen, he revised his prediction to Oct. 21, 2011 and, shortly afterwards, suffered a major stroke.

Rapture entrepreneurs — some of them evangelical ministers — are now hawking everything from survival kits to end-of-the-world erotica, Savodnik writes. Read his full report here.