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Rapture preacher suffers stroke | |
2011-06-14 | |
[Straits Times] THE California radio preacher who predicted that the end of the world would take place last month has suffered a stroke. So the world wasn't gonna end for all of us, just for him... The Oakland Tribune reports that 89-year-old Harold Camping was hospitalised after suffering the stroke on Thursday night at his Alameda home. "Don't smite me, Bro!" Charles Menut, a regional manager for Harold Camping's radio company, Family Stations Inc, told supporters about Mr Camping's stroke in an online message posted on Saturday. Mr Menut gave no other details. "Ay-yup. Popped a vein whilst he was having his Fruit Loops!" Mr Camping's radio company spent more than US$100 million (S$130 million) publicising the evangelist's Rapture prediction over the past seven years. When it didn't happen on May 21, Mr Camping was widely mocked and he called it 'a very difficult time.' "I felt like such a clone!" He has insisted that his prediction was correct and said the end would become apparent on Oct 21 instead.
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Posted by:Fred |
#5 The world DID end on May 21st. THIS IS THE AFTERLIFE. Get used to it. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-06-14 23:08 |
#4 Things got very bad, TW Thank you for those critical details, Ptah -- I'm not nearly as knowledgeable about early Christian history as I ought to be. Someone ought to share that with poor Mr. Camping... and remind him that while numbers in the calculations are always exact as far out as deimal places can go, this rarely reflects the precision with which things can be measured out in the real world. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2011-06-14 14:40 |
#3 |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-14 14:13 |
#2 The world did end on May 21st. We just haven't been garbage collected yet. BTW: Didn't he state that the Rapture would occur then - not the end-of-the-world. |
Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-06-14 13:00 |
#1 Things got very bad, TW: In their enthusiasm to help the poor, they began selling off their means of production (mines, businesses, land), reasoning that it would all burn in the end. This so impoverished the Christian Church in Palestine that they had to get help from the Greek believers several times, one of which was organized by Paul and mentioned in passing in some of his letters. The tone of the book of James becomes clear if you know the economic situation and realize he's jawboning charity out of the believers who didn't join in on the selling frenzy. |
Posted by: Ptah 2011-06-14 12:45 |