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June 13th, 2011
04:41 PM ET
Leader of May 21 doomsday movement suffers strokeBy Dan Gilgoff, CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) - Harold Camping, the leader of the apocalyptic movement that predicted the end of the world would begin on May 21, has suffered a stroke, according to a statement on his ministry's web site on Tuesday. Camping suffered a "mild stroke" last Thursday, according to the statement posted on the website of Family Radio, Camping's California-based broadcast ministry. "Mr. Camping is receiving excellent care, and the doctors treating him are encouraged with the progress he is making," the statement said. "Mr. Camping's family appreciates everyone's thoughts and prayers." “This was all we were told to tell everyone,” an operator at Family Radio said Monday, after she read the same statement that later appeared on Family Radio's website. The operator, who would not give her name, said she and Family Radio’s other operators came to work Monday morning to find the statement from the Camping family on their desks. For months, Camping predicted that Jesus Christ would return to the earth on May 21 and that a select 2% to 3% of the world’s population would be raptured, or taken to heaven. Watch as the apocalypse flops and the Rapture leader wonders what went wrong Those left behind would face months of tribulation before perishing in the Earth's destruction, which Camping said would happen on October 21. Camping, who is reported to be 89, spread the word through a national billboard campaign and caravans of RVs that toured the country spreading the doomsday message. When his prediction failed to pan out, Camping took the radio airwaves to say that he had misinterpreted the nature of the rapture but that the world would still end on October 21. “We've always said October 21 was the day," Camping said. "The only thing we didn't understand was the spirituality of May 21. We're seeing this as a spiritual thing happening rather than a physical thing happening. The timing, the structure, the proofs, none of that has changed at all." Camping founded Family Radio, a nonprofit Christian radio network with about 65 stations across the country, in 1958. It received $80 million in contributions between 2005 and 2009. He first inaccurately predicted the world would end in 1994. Despite his poor track record, he has gathered many followers. Some gave up their homes, entire life savings and jobs because they believed the world was ending. |
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Religions are not needed for modern humanity any more. Back then there was very little
education. People needed to be threatened & rewarded to be good citizen,
hence religions were invented, and today there is no need for that any more. We should do right things just because we are
all human beings. The bible did not fall from the sky, man invented the bible to bring discipline amongst people. If the bible was invented today, i bet my last dollar that somewhere at the back would be the words "made in china"
I just feel sorry for all those that get brainwashed on a daily basis.I guess the Nigerian 419 scam will always get someone to coff up their life savings.
The guy is a scam artist plain and simple no different than Bernie Madof except he wraps himself under the protection of religion. Steal money from people on the market your a theif, steal money from people in a church your a prophet
Well said Keith.
You took the word right out of my mouth!!
YES!
A false prophet's family is cursed by God for generations. They might as well party till they drop, there's no heaven in their future.
When this old F***er kicks the bucket....can you guess how long that 80 mill will last? I would say that the foundation will disappear pretty quick with it's staff getting rich quick.......hope he dies a painful death...and begs for "god" to take him quickly....and that it doesn't happen.....maybe then he will realize that he's wasted his life and that of others on this fable called religion ......
it wont happen. there are no gods
a stroke of good luck for all of us
So what...
Why do people use a religion that promises eternal life need a rapture event to get eternal life? I guess that's proof in itself they don't know what the hell they're talking about. Somehow these chosen people by divinity theories just never seem to work out. History and religious books are full of examples to put that one to rest for all eternity.
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oh, how awful–I guess that's why he was not in the debate last night with the rest of those highly entertaining folks who have little idea about the difference between rapture and rupture.
he couldnt go because he was painting palins new house. she said she likes the way he paints, he has nice strokes.
haha
Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh!!!
white power
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Why you rippin on Hans? Poor dude never got his big penis he prayed for. Some of us are just "blessed" I suppose
Guess it might be his gods way of saying. Don't f with me.
I sooo agree with you!
oh, thats brilliant. no one has ever had a stroke before.
80 million? Hell, he must have been doing something right. Just not quite sure what that is as of yet. Obviously didn't get paid for his accurate prediction skills!
Haha, sell sell sell lol
"No man knows the day or hour" Matthew 24:36-...
Ted Bundy knew the day and Hour.
I think that was before anyone had clocks, Stephanie. These days we DO know what time it is if we have a clock or watch.
seriously, how hard is it for people to read and see what the bible really says rather than some guy telling you what it says or what will happen. Its pretty clear that no man knows.
His bible was missing that page.
camping and the christian/jewish manual are both wrong
I guess his rapture is nigh.