Harold Camping Dead: Judgment Day 'Family Radio' Host Dies At 92 After Controversial Career
Source: Huffington Post
(RNS) Harold Camping, the radio preacher who convinced thousands of followers that Jesus would return on May 21, 2011, to usher in the end of the the world, has died, according to a statement released late Monday (Dec. 16) by his Family Radio network. He was 92.
Camping died Sunday evening, the report says. He had fallen at his home on Nov. 30 and had been in weak health due to a stroke since 2011.
Camping first predicted Jesus return in 1994, but his most recent forecasts gained national attention through advertisements and the Family Radio network of stations he founded. He warned that judgment day would occur in May 2011 and said the world would end in October 2011.
When his prophecies turned out to be false, he declared in March 2012 that his May 21 prediction had been incorrect and sinful and said his ministry would get out of the predictions business.
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Say what you will about the guy, I think he genuinely believed his own bullshit.
Meanwhile, Bill Kristol, Glenn Beck and Dick Morris will carry on the work of making wildly inaccurate predictions.
RKP5637
(67,111 posts)profits in their pockets.
skamaria
(329 posts)durablend
(7,460 posts)jmowreader
(50,560 posts)Read Matthew 24.36, on predictions on the time of Jesus' return: But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
Trying to overthrow The Lord gets you a confirmed, non-cancellable, ticket on the Hell Express. Your seat is next to the guy who shot the Pope.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)He did recant his last failed prediction, calling it wrong and sinful. I guess it took him a little longer to get to/belief that verse in Matthew.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)I dunno.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)kimbutgar
(21,163 posts)For his lies, being a false prophet and fleecing ignorant people of their money.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)cactusfractal
(496 posts)Sensitive "someone loved him/he was someone's dad" feels aside, this guy misled thousands based on his wacky beliefs. Too bad he didn't find his end before getting on the radio in the first place.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Too bad there is no Hell; the look on his face would be priceless.