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Have Camping's Followers Set a New 2012 Rapture Date?

Unless you were living underneath a very isolated rock in 2011, you heard about the rise and fall of Harold Camping. After hosting the Open Forum on Family Radio (Christian broadcasting station) for 50 years, Camping began to claim that he’d uncovered a numerical certainty within the Bible that prophesied the rapture on May 21, [...]

Failed Doomsday Prophet Harold Camping Suffers Stroke

The man who sparked international pandemonium and ridicule with his May 21, 2011 rapture prophesy has been hospitalized after he suffered a stroke at his home. Harold Camping, age 89, was taken by ambulance from his Alameda home on Thursday night. According to his neighbor, Camping’s wife Shirley was very distraught as her husband was [...]

Harold Camping Sets New Date For Rapture: Offers Only Feeble Apology

According to Prophet Harold, the best way to handle this bit of bad PR was NOT to admit he was wrong, but to claim that God’s mercy lead to the “disappointment” of May 21, 2011. In fact, rather than making humanity suffer for 5 months, until the FINAL DAY… he’s decided to just let the [...]

May 21, 2011: Judgement Day? Open Discussion

**Update: With only 7 days left until Camping’s “Rapture” date, I’ve written a follow up article that I’d love you to take a look at here: Further Observations on Harold Camping and the May 21 Cult*** Recently, there has been a lot of buzz coming from a select but loud group of Evangelicals [...]