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Camping: World to end on May October 21
2011-05-24
Harold Camping says he got it -- slightly -- wrong. In a 90-minute speech broadcast from Oakland, California, on Monday, Camping said May 21 was actually "an invisible judgment day" in which a spiritual judgment took place. The real apocalypse will be five months later, on October 21.
Ah. Invisible. Figured it was something like that...
"We've always said May 21 was the day, but we didn't understand altogether the spiritual meaning," he said, according to the Associated Press. "May 21 is the day that Christ came and put the world under judgment."
Kinda like Invisible Apocalyptic Spring Training...
This is the second time Camping has gotten the apocalypse wrong. He initially said the end of the world would come in 1994. When the date came and went, he said he made a mathematical error.
Bet he balances out that bank account just fine though...
Camping's Family Radio network spent millions to promote his prediction of May 21 through billboards and other outreach, the New York Times Report. He said during his speech he would not return the money, mostly donated by followers to spread the message about May 21."We're not at the end," he said. "Why would we return it?"
So let's keep those donations rolling in, rubes. Gotta spread the word ya know...
Posted by:tu3031

#12  I don't have a problem with that.
Posted by: tu3031   2011-05-24 22:36  

#11  I believe in biblical times, if a prophecy did not come about - the person making the prophecy would be stoned to death as a false prophet.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-05-24 22:34  

#10  Jan. 19, 2038
Posted by: CincinnatusChili   2011-05-24 21:23  

#9  You would think God would let us have one more Christmas
Posted by: chris   2011-05-24 18:31  

#8  Whew! I'm glad we got this misunderstanding about the date of rapture all cleared up. I will keep my calendar clear for October 21st. Thanks for the FYI memo.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-05-24 13:16  

#7  Deuteronomy 18:20-22 (King James Version)

But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken?

When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-05-24 11:32  

#6  Noone knows the hour or the day!
Posted by: Korora   2011-05-24 10:17  

#5  He'd be better predicting an event that he'd NOT be alive to see, or is that the idea?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-05-24 08:05  

#4  I get it, we're on double secret probation.
Posted by: Spot   2011-05-24 07:59  

#3  Doubling down on stoopid? Get this guy an Obama Czar position!
Posted by: Frank G   2011-05-24 07:50  

#2  I'll hold the ball and you come running and kick it.
Posted by: European Conservative   2011-05-24 04:58  

#1  Is there a remedial math course for calculating armegeddom? Enroll Camping...
Posted by: gk   2011-05-24 02:19  

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