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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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dooms day is inevitable for everyone and he got his.
Exactly.
How do you know there is not something after this earth?
How do you know there is?
C'mon, enough with the cop out. Develop a spine and stop preaching against it. Or prove your version of the earth's creation/life is correct.
I believe in a higher power/law. god being it. those who say he doesn't exist, well that's fine. there's no proof either way, so it's just opinions. I choose to have a little faith. why not!
why do you equate belief with knowledge?
Religion and the worship of god(s) is a filthy perverted disease of the mind
You are very confused and lost, and hurt. Go find a good Christian Church and start reading and opening your heart to the lord while you still have time.
LOLOL, every church believes they are a "good christian church" you knucklehead.
It is not filthy, perverted or a disease. It is however, ignorant.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
I predict the rapture will not happen today 12/17/2013!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PP
I don't blame him for being a wackadoo, after all, preaching can be very profitable if you scare people enough. I think all the dumdums that followed him are hilarious.
The bible does say no one will know the time. As for the 'dumdums', those are just people that have been saturated with bad news from a 24×7 news cycle. Most people cannot withstand the constant negativity that they take in for decades, to them the world will end.
I don't know why everyone's so upset about this guy dying. It's not the end of the world.
Hey! He was finally right!
Moral of Story:
God chooses dates not man.
No, the moral of the story is that greedy men will lie no matter what to make a buck.
Also, your statement is a complete non sequitur:
it would only be true if
1) God and the guy chose dates, and God won,
2) the guy chose the date, but it happened on a different date.
Since the Rapture hasn't occurred, you cannot make your original claim.
Oopsie!
Religion breeds ignorance.
Two thumbs-up!
Ignorance is Strength
Only if you are a Republican Candidate!
Two thumbs up!
The only real wisdom involves a knowledge of the Creator. Seek and ye shall find. You don't get it for free.
That's not knowledge. That's called a delusion.
the problem is that believers equate a creator with a god
it's as if they are saying "something created us, therefore (my view of) the bible is correct"
it is a huge non sequitor
"Seek and ye shall find" = definition of confirmation bias.
All these so called prophets have predicted the "end of times." Seventh Day Adventist founder White did it unsuccessfull (now shes past so no more predictions, so much for her prophecies). I remember that there have been a bunch of these loonies growing up. In fact in Pennsylvania and West Virginia I remember seeing signs that said "the end is near", "Prepare to Meet your death", "Get out of the UN NOW!"
Same nuts that do not believe in medicine, dance with poison snakes, think the earth is 5000 years old, don't believe in science, believe men walked with dinosaurs, and that the President was born in Kenya.
And you wonder why we have so many people becoming athiests?
Bet he see THAT coming.
The end is never more than several decades for all of us. Important to remember that.
But the Bible warns about those that predict the end.
John Compere, PhD
I was a fifth-generation Baptist minister, ordained at age 18, while in college. I served until age 32 when I left the ministry and the church to get a PhD in Clinical Psychology. I had already completed a three-year seminary degree following college, which only increased my doubts about the authenticity of the theology I had learned from childhood. Leaving the ministry was not an easy decision to make since all my friends and family were in the church. But it was a decision I ultimately HAD to make if I didn't want to risk being publicly phony and privately cynical. I became an agnostic, then an atheist, NOT because I hadn't read the Bible, but because I had! An atheist, by the way, is simply someone who does not believe in a supernatural being. I am convinced that the evidence supports that view. All religion suffers from being bound by unchanging myth.
As a psychologist, I continued to try to help people find meaning in their lives. I taught at the university and medical school, had a private clinical practice, and then became a professional speaker on "Psychology You Can USE!" I seriously doubt that life has any ultimate meaning, but I'm convinced that we can make our own meaning, and I have spent the last 45 years since I left the ministry trying to help people do just that. Success is not the goal - all therapists have dealt with many a successful person who was miserable - life satisfaction is the goal.
When I made my career change, I was essentially on my own. I wish something like The Clergy Project had been around then. I could surely have used it. The goal of this project is not to try to convince believing clergy to give up their faith. Rather, it is to help those in the clergy who, for their own individual reasons, are no longer able to believe, to try to figure out how to make a huge sea-change in their lives. It may well be the absolutely most challenging career change anyone can make. We simply want to help make it easier.
Read Dr. Michael Newton and Dr, Brain Weiss books.
"AUSTIN, Texas (RNS) A former United Methodist minister-turned-atheist was dismissed from her high-profile position at Harvard University on Thursday after it was revealed she falsified her resume.
Teresa MacBain, one of the most high-profile nonbelievers in the country after profiles by NPR, The New York Times and Religion News Service, was fired from her newly created position with the Humanist Community at Harvard.
MacBain, who started her job at the beginning of September, had planned to travel the country starting humanist communities at schools and organizations nationwide.
In a statement posted on Facebook Thursday (Sept. 26), MacBain acknowledged she had misrepresented her education to Harvard, to the broader atheist community and to reporters.
“I have committed a grave error in judgment that I deeply regret,” MacBain wrote. “While I did not do anything with malice or with intention to harm others, my actions were still wrong.”
If you are so interested in educating believers, why did you pick the screen name of a liar and a fraud?
Well the world did end. For him.
The BIble says no one knows the time for the end of the earth. We should always be ready for the coming of Jesus by doing what he wants us to do. This could happen at our death or at the end of this world.
Wonder what his estimated worth was when he died? If it was't for bible nuts and their idiotic zeal make donations to these Elmer Gantrys, this kind of garbage would never happen.
What?
Obviously he was making a good living, preacher, radio show, bill boards, trucks. Probably had a mega church, everything belongs to his church so no taxes, kids get sent to univeristy, big house, new cars. Radio and TV brings in big donations from all these lonely desperate people. Widows, people with guilt. I bet he was worth millions.
Thats what is wrong with these huge churches, lots of power, lots of money, lots of curruption. Probably like the Bakers, had an air conditioned dog house.
Another nutcase who will no longer be bothering us.
How did he bother us?
Personally I was not bothered by him, or anyone I know.
He should have read his bible.........
2.Mark 13:32
“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.
Bible is only right when it's convenient for an agenda....then it's wrong
I hope he gets to see everything he believed in. We will find out out day. Rest in peace.
He got what he deserved... a big steaming pile of nothing... he's dead. There's nothing else.
I hope so too Daniel.
In a way, his prediction might be viewed as correct, in his own case. My sympathies to his family.
I've got popcorn for this shitfest, who's got the beer?