Surprise, surprise: the world didn’t end on Saturday at 6:00pm. Harold Camping is apparently “flabbergasted” that his prediction didn’t come true. What he should be “flabbergasted” about is the fact that with no Biblical training, and no knowledge of Greek or Hebrew, he was able to decipher the day of Judgement, convince hundreds/thousands of people to follow him, and build a $120M radio empire with 160 stations in 49 countries. I’m flabbergasted about that, too.
What does he say now to the followers who spent their life savings on billboards? What does he say to the mother in California who slit her daughters’ throats and wrists? Mr. Camping is supposed to make a statement later today.
For those who *did* believe Saturday was the end, you might want to check out this article for your next steps.
If Harold Camping is correct and the world does end tomorrow, do you think it could happen before my son’s minors Little League game? I wouldn’t mind skipping yet another 2.5 hours watching the kids mindlessly heave the ball all over creation. Then again, Mr. Camping apparently miscalculated in his earlier date of September 6, 1994, so maybe he confused sine and cosine again.
But, if indeed his calculator gave him the right date and this is the last post of our blog, I thought it best to go out with a laugh. Take it away, Onion:
Happy New Year, everyone. I love this time of year. You start a fresh new calendar, and everything seems possible. Resolutions are made and, hopefully, the soil is loose enough for them to take root. New goals to achieve, personal records to break, and new persons (kinder? more patient and tolerant? more willing to help?) to become.
Leave it to people like Marie Exley and Harold Camping to burst my bubble. Based on Camping’s reading of the Bible, they and the rest of Family Radio Worldwide are convinced that the Judgement Day is soon to be upon us:
“Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment.” – Harold Camping
Believers will go to heaven on that day, and the rest of us will be left down here on Earth in torment until October when the leaves change the end of time comes.
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