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December 17th, 2013
01:43 PM ET
Radio preacher who predicted doomsday dies(CNN) - The broadcast preacher who predicted the world would end in 2011 and spread his doomsday message through billboards and RV caravans has died, according to a statement from his Family Radio network. Harold Camping died Sunday afternoon after suffering a fall in his home on November 30, the statement said. He had suffered a stroke in June 2011, a few weeks after his doomsday date came and went. He died at age 92, an operator at Family Radio said. "He passed away peacefully in his home, with his family at his side," the statement said. Camping is survived by his wife of 71 years, Shirley. For months in early 2011, Camping predicted that Jesus Christ would return to the earth on May 21 that year, and that a select 2% to 3% of the world’s population would be raptured, or taken to heaven. Those left behind would face months of tribulation before perishing in the Earth's destruction, which Camping said would happen on October 21, 2011. MORE ON CNN: Road trip to the end of the world When his May 21 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. The following year, Camping admitted he was wrong and said he was getting out of the forecasting business. "We humbly acknowledge we were wrong," Camping and his staff members wrote in a letter to supporters posted on Family Radio's website in March 2012. "We must also openly acknowledge that we have no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world. Though many dates are circulating, Family Radio has no interest in even considering another date." 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 had gathered many followers. Some gave up their homes, entire life savings and jobs because they believed the world was ending.
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We shall all see. One way or another, we shall all see who is right and who is burning.
Or not.
We will see, "let the first man without sin cast the first stone" comes to mind.
unless we just cease to exist, in which case nothing is revealed
Or, we can tell right now who is being rational and who is being ridiculously, childishly superst_itious.
People gave up their life savings and homes. Fools they are all fools.
Aliens do exist – and apparently live amongst us. Your life savings? Really?
If he had a stroke within a month of his prediction, I'd say his prophesy was more or less correct, in a more personal way than anticipated.
Kind of reminds me of the part in Forrest Gump where all of the people start running across America behind him,following wherever he goes,thinking he has the answers to life,until he says."I'm tired, I think I'll go home now." And they are all left standing there looking at him like,now what do we do.
Yeah everyone just started runnang and runnang and runnang and runnang.
Hahaha ahahaha ahahahaha
The magnitude of gullible people ,such as the followers of this man ,is astonishing. I once heard of a guy that predicted the end of the world in 1966 ,even though that obviously never happened and he is long dead his followers still cling to his so called blarney like glue.
Come on, the whole religion is built upon a crowd of people selling off everything they owned in anticipation of a guy making good on his coming back from the dead. Once you accept that, you'll accept any old crazy claim.
Does anyone else find it funny that he couldn't predict this? How can he know the end of the world but not his own life.
Psychic Sylvia Browne apparently couldn't predict her own death either, amongst many other things, but she still made a fortune off of her "talent".
At least he admitted that he was wrong, after only three mistakes, that's more than can be said of others.
Somebody just had their doomsday!
But honestly, he's in for quite the surprise.
What makes you think that he isn't just dead?
I predict that everyone reading this post will die someday, hopefully a long time from now, SEASONS GREETINGS
LOL And I predict that you are absolutely right. Season's Greetings to you and yours
OMG!! how did you know? Witch!
not me....I'm going to live forever. So far, so good.
These dude was a nut job burn in hell homie
It bothers me a little that you call people nut jobs, mental illness is just that, an illness – a physical or chemical issue – but to wish anyone to burn in hell, baffles me. If you truly believe in hell, what makes you think that your hateful judgment won't put you there?
his mental illness is the bible
It has been discussed a lot that religion is a mental illness. Something has to explain their behavours.
Lou
Maybe not a mental illness, but more something like an optical illusion, where most people "see" something that simply isn't actually there.
I wonder if this crazy guy made more money than Richard Dawkins who believes that a frog can turn into a prince... He also believes that aliens planted the seeds of life here on earth. Why do people throw money at these lunatics? The religious nuts putting their hard earned cash in the collection plate to have their ears tickled and the atheists nuts buying up evolution mythology books from Dawkins and others to have their ears tickled
Try not lying about what the facts of evolution, and then maybe get some formal education on the subject. Better yet, go get a degree in genetic research. lol
It is like throwing money at Sarah Palin or the Tea Party. It's all politics is about.
Where can I get a copy of your scholarly article that successfully corrects Dawkins?
When asked how intelligent design could have worked, Dawkins mused that aliens could bring specially designed life to barren worlds, but that these aliens would have had to have evolved some way naturally. He never said that he actually believed that this happened anywhere, so why are you lying?
James, what would be their purpose to bring life to this planet? Why is that more plausible than God creating life and programing it to evolve into intelligent beings capable of sustaning a soul for the purpose of personal growth and to either choose GodI.E. love instead of the alternative,hate, destruction and death. It seems that some people are ready to believe unplausible things in order to deny God.
Why is "Some god did it it" a better answer than "It was aliens" or "We don't know"?
Yes, they can!
Apparently his dooms day finally came. Now Fortunate the rest of us are still here, Some people might thank god , I'm pretty sure he wasn't involved.
I am obviously in the wrong profession. $80MIL in a few years? Damn, there's money in them there fundamentalists! I wonder if it's too late to start my own doomsday cult. I could use some extra cash 😀
And you'll never be brought to justice. Ponzi schemers sometimes go to jail, but religious nuts only have to say they made a mistake, and ask for forgiveness. How sick is that?
Thats where scientology came from – and likely several others.
Just a piece of advice: if you ever think you have discovered a revelation in the Bible that no one else has ever seen, slap yourself. Then show it to a lot of other people so they can stop you before you go Jeremiah.
False phophet...
Unless you have actual (factual, objective, verifiable, independent) evidence for your god, it is highly probable that all alleged prophets are false.
amen!
He won't be missed, and there will be another one just like him soon to scoop up the sucker money.
that's what suckers are for
Guess he knows the real deal now! Too bad he didn't refer to the Bible warning that only God knows when....
The Bible's probably why he was nuts to begin with...
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On behalf of the rest of us, thank you so, so much sir/ma'am. It is greatly a-p-p-r-e-c-i-a-t-e-d.
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Testicles says it all