Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people who believe the world will end in 2012. ”That date has not one stitch of biblical authority,” Camping says from the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station that reaches listeners around the world. “It’s like a fairy tale.” The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.
This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about Judgment Day.
On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping’s believers gathered inside Alameda’s Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven.
But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations, as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in size and reach. ”We are now translated into 48 languages and have been transmitting into China on an AM station without getting jammed once,” Camping said. “How can that happen without God’s mercy?”
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what a tool.
Well you know, twenty-third time’s a charm
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Oh bugger, my birthday’s the 28th of May…
Christian fanatics (the <1%, not out to offend the normal Christians) have been waiting for the world since the religion was founded.
They've been wrong on an annual basis for going on two aeons.
The only way they'll be right is if they keep harping on about it until the end of time!
It's like a mystic who has convinced a group of people the sun only rises when they say so and they sit through the entire night saying "any minute now, any minute now" until eventually they get the inevitable right.
I’m busy then. I think I’ll catch the next one.
LMAO – this ‘Camping’ guy is clearly an absolute bellend…
Well there goes my 21st birthday plans
Well at least he’s keeping busy between now and the end of the world…
It’s a money-making business. You say the world will end, offer to sell stuff to help them prepare or they donate money to the person giving the message to help spread the word, and when it doesn’t you blame it on a mathematical error. They said the same thing about 2000. This guy will say it’s another mathematical error and decide to make another prediction. I’ve heard 2012 myself, but chances are the world will not end then and they will say, “Sir Isaac Newton had it right! It will end in 2060!”
OK so the ‘scaremongers’ say the world will end in 2012 due to Mayan calenders stopping, but did they take into consideration the change in the calendar system we use now to when the Mayans made their ‘predictions’? Also isn’t the world meant to end every year. Would be good to know for sure, then I could max my credit limit and get 4 years intrest free credit and buy now pay later and never have to pay it back!!
omg omg omg hahahahahaha
This is HILARIOUS!!!! Here he is… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SH_PMyIAhI&feature=player_embedded#!
Nothing mathematical about it at all. Just another stupid dick head. Mind you mathematically there is a very slim chance he may get lucky and some form of natural disaster may occur at the same time. Here’s hoping that natural disaster occurs in Alameda…
My fiancee picked up a leaflet off a subway floor in NY which was published by these guys. Don’t get me wrong she doesn’t generally pick up leaflets off the floor, but it caught her eye as it said ‘judgement day will be May 21st 2011′ – which is our wedding day! Not sure why our wedding has incured the wrath of God but hey, atleast we’ll go out in style!
My understanding is that the Mayans didn’t predict anything for 2012, that’s just when they happened to stop counting for their calendar.
I am so happy that the world will end for the Christians.
Then the rest of us can get on with our lives and do something worthwhile without idiots harping on and on!
I am going to be sitting on a rock on my tropical island and laughing as I watch sipping a Mai Tai
Actually, after seeing the video link posted above.
I believe the doctors gave this guy until 21st May before he would die. He misunderstood, probably under some heavy medication and thought god was talking to him.
Simple mistake to make… twice
@Chris. Have fun with your wedding : )
My b.day is 21-05. Another euphoric evening ahead. Enigma last year, end of world for this.
If you go through lifefeeling thatyou are in the grip of fate then will you do anything or justwaitfor random chance because ” it’s fate?” Or your horoscope says so. How about thinkingwhat you want and going for it? At least if theWorld does ened you tried and scueeded or failed and learned
I find it highly amusing that some people actually believe in this.
Nothing mathematical about the end of the world and even when itdoes happen we won’t know it. Maybe if this guy Camping put some research time into something useful like a cure for cancer with his determination we could be facing world dominance by may 2011
Well that’s gonna put a dent in my theatre trip. Could he at least make it November? After my birthday?
But what day in May? A whole mnoth isn’t very precise
He must must have skimmed over the paragraph which says “only the Father knows”. Just this piece of information should put doomsayer believers off as being equivalent to “there are no clues about the date, all you can do is wait it out” and “when the 7 years start you’ll know, ’cause a bunch of people will disappear in thin air, and the remaining ones will be so stupid that they’ll start a war for no real reason”.
Yet another instance of Apocalypse or STFU. Pity they never do.
So God created me knowing I wouldn’t believe in him so he could destroy the earth and kill me a day before my birthday? What a jerk.
they’ll have to be another movie made lol!
This will mean that I’ve spent my entire life at school, I miss my aunties wedding, gcse’s, and will miss my birthday on 12/12/12. -.-
Stamping Out Harold Camping
Is Second Coming date-setter Harold Camping worthy of death? He already has a zero batting average after his September 1994 prediction fizzle and, according to the Bible, is a false prophet.
Nevertheless that California shaman, who should be ashamed, claims he’s found out that Christ’s return will be on May 21, 2011 even though Matt. 24:36 says that no one knows the “day” or “hour” of it!
A Google article (“Obama Fulfilling the Bible”) points out that “Deut. 18:20-22 in the Old Testament requires the death penalty for false prophets.”
The same article reveals that “Christians are commanded to ask God to send severe judgment on persons who commit and support the worst forms of evil (see I Cor. 5 and note ‘taken away’).”
Theologically radioactive Harold Camping and his ga-ga groupies (with their billboards featuring “May 21, 2011″) should worry about being “stamped out” if many persons decide to follow the I Cor. 5 command.
The above article concludes: “False prophets in the OT were stoned to death. Today they are just stoned!”
PS – For many years Camping was not known as a pretrib rapture teacher. But now, for $ome my$teriou$ rea$on, he seeks support from those who believe in and teach an imminent, pretrib rapture which supposedly will occur SEVERAL YEARS BEFORE the traditional SECOND COMING to earth! For a behind-the-scenes, documented look at the 181-year-old pretrib rapture belief (which was never a part of any official theology or organized church before 1830!), Google “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty,” “Pretrib Rapture Diehards” and “Pretrib Rapture – Hidden Facts.”
Well… It is May 2011…. No Fire-y balls yet hailing from the sky… =)