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No apocalypse means no reason to seek forgiveness
Rats. I thought I could get out of writing a column this week. I had marked May 21 as the end of the world because a preacher named Harold Camping in California (that should have been my first clue something was amiss) said on that day the Earth would be obliterated.
Harold Camping Quits Evangelism, Focuses Only on the ‘Saved’
Harold Camping is tossing the witnessing tracts and no longer focusing on bringing people to Jesus Christ. His main task now, he said, is to nurture those already saved. For others, he suggested, it’s already too late.
Harold Camping, Not Again!
A Family Radio spokesman had “guaranteed” that the May 21st rapture date was “the day”! May 21 was the date Harold Camping had predicted would bring the judgment of God upon the world. That day was to be marked by an immense, global earthquake, but the day came and went without worldwide incident—and without the occurrence of the rapture of the Church.
You promised me the apocalypse, Mr Camping, but you let me down
It’s been the better part of a week now, and I think I’ve finally processed my disappointment enough to move on. Even so, I know I’ll never completely get over the feeling of being ripped off. We were promised the end of the world – and we got nothin’!
Oops! Preacher Admits ‘Apocalypse’ Date Wrong
The American preacher whose “end of the world” prophecy went conspicuously unfulfilled has a simple explanation for what went wrong – he miscalculated. Harold Camping had said he believed “beyond the shadow of a doubt” that Judgement Day was upon us on Saturday when rolling earthquakes would strike at 6pm.
New Billboard Calls Harold Camping’s Rapture Dud ‘Awkward’
A new billboard making fun of Harold Camping’s wrong prediction of the May 21 rapture went up Sunday in Greensboro, N.C., calling the situation “awkward.” Camping, president of Family Radio, said the rapture and Judgment Day would take place on May 21, 2011 at 6 p.m.
Harold Camping delays Doomsday till October 21, 2011
Family Radio President Harold Camping delayed his Doomsday prediction till October 21, 2011, in an Open Forum at Family Radio headquarters at Oakland, California. The radio evangelist, whose messages are broadcast over 66 radio stations worldwide, ranging from US toKenya, China and Taiwan, told the media, Monday, that the world will survive for another 5 more months.
Preacher says world will actually end in Oct
As crestfallen followers of a California preacher who foresaw the world’s end strained to find meaning in their lives, Harold Camping revised his apocalyptic prophecy, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Harold Camping now says end is coming Oct. 21
The end is still near, radio preacher Harold Camping said in a broadcast Monday night, but the world will be around until Oct. 21. Camping said that he misinterpreted the Bible and that May 21 was not really the end of the world but the spiritual beginning of the physical end.
Really? No rapture? Atheists celebrate
As the last minutes of May 21, 2011, left the Pacific time zone, with it went any hope here that this is indeed the biblical beginning of the end predicted by a California-based Christian radio broadcaster.
