The Rapture Is Now Set For Oct. 21; Harold Camping Relevant For One More Week

by Nando Di Fino | 9:16 am, October 14th, 2011

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Back in the spring, doomsday soothsayer Harold Camping had told the world that the Rapture would occur on May 21. Billboards were erected across the country, a buzz generated over the prediction, and Camping became a bit of a celebrity. The date came and went without much incident (outside of some awesome mock photographs and a wonderfully spot-on piece of pop art). But Camping wasn’t content to just give an “Oops” and move on. He told the world that he miscalculated — he had two previous miscalculations in 1992 and 1994 — and the actual date of the Rapture was really October 21. One week from today.

This time around, however, it’s not as much fun to paint Camping, 90, as a kooky old man, as he suffered a stroke in June and just recently was released from a nursing home and rehab facility. Plus, the media presence is nowhere near where it was earlier this year, so bringing it up just to mock Camping seems almost mean. It’s one thing to have painted him as a dottering old man with his silly doomsday prophecy in May, but it kind of pulls at the heartstrings to make fun of him now, especially since most people have forgotten about the new date anyway. On his Family Radio website, there’s an audio greeting from Camping, explaining how he is coming along with rehab from the stroke: “I am now able to live with my dear wife at home, and that has been very, very comforting and very happy for me.” His language is also toned down. He says that the rapture will “probably” be happening on the Oct. 21 date. “That looks like it will be, at this point, the final end of everything,” Camping says. You can almost hear him shrugging through the audio.

Camping’s latest prediction has a fun quasi-political twist, too. Pastor Robert Jeffress, who called Mormonism a cult last weekend, talked to The Christian Post about Camping’s predictions and blamed Camping for being an alarmist. “I think he is doing Christianity and non-Christians both a great disservice,” Jeffress told Herbert Pinnock. “This is like the boy who cried wolf so many times… I think by Harold Camping continually making these ridiculous prophecies, he is making unbelievers immune to the truth of the true message of Christ and helping make them unprepared for when Christ truly does return.”

Doomsday, Harold Camping, Robert Jeffress

http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

I didn’t know he was relevant at all.
Anonymous

Just cancelled next Saturday’s tee time and asked the post office to hold my mail .

All set .
mosesdinoark

psst..Herman is the aniticrist not Obama…Cain (wheres Abel?)… 9 9 9 plan? More like 666!! MUHAHAHAHaha!!! Be ready!
mosesdinoark

psst..Herman is the aniticrist not Obama…Cain (wheres Abel?)… 9 9 9 plan? More like 666!! MUHAHAHAHaha!!! Be ready!
Tim Tebow

I hope Palin is first on the space ship!
Tim Tebow

I hope Palin is first on the space ship!
Exgoper

If the rapture really comes to pass this time, how many pious Bible-bangers will be left to vote in the GOP primaries?
bcsusmc75

All the GOPers are going to be disappointed when they miss the bus to Jesusville on account of all their bigotry and hatred.
Mia

I have dibs on the Apple store and Ikea for the post rapture looting.
Anonymous

DANGIT NANDO…..now you done went and scared the hobbits…..now theres gonnna be a run on spam, bottled water and glen becks survival seeds….surely you realize how afraid of the rapture wingnuts are…with only a week left in their miserable existence, finishing all the things on their bucket list becomes a top priority….pray wingnuts pray…….7 days and counting
Anonymous

DANGIT NANDO…..now you done went and scared the hobbits…..now theres gonnna be a run on spam, bottled water and glen becks survival seeds….surely you realize how afraid of the rapture wingnuts are…with only a week left in their miserable existence, finishing all the things on their bucket list becomes a top priority….pray wingnuts pray…….7 days and counting
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UDWHA7HYHWEJRHNAFB2NYWBDAM Ray Darr

If you read the Bible you find out that Christ never left…one of his followers asked him about it and Jesus said you could always find him among the refuse of humanity, the throw aways, the disenfranchised……hmmmm..sounds icky..don’t want to go looking there…most of these “Christians” better hope that Rapture isn’t coming anytime soon…the disappointment, when they don’t dematerialize, maybe too much for them to take….
potvin

The Lord always said to beware of false prophets and smart-ass liberals.
bcsusmc75

I guess it’s better to be a smart-ass liberal than to be a dumb-ass evangelical, right? Get back to me when Sky Daddy gives you an answer to that question.
Roger_Fails

*citation please
Anonymous

Your Lord, maybe. Not mine.
Anonymous

Camping’s got us talking about him, doesn’t he? He’;s a publicity hound, just like Palin. Talk, talk, talk, but don’t do anything worthwhile. Yea, they are alike.
Anonymous

[Mediaite - Ran into this google goodie that Romney etc. may or may not like!]

    LDS a “cult”? What about the “rapture”?

               by Bruce Rockwell


Mitt Romney, a Mormon, is “not a Christian” and Mormonism is a “cult,”
according to Rev. Robert Jeffress, pastor of the Dallas (TX) First
Baptist Church.
     His “cult” remark is based on his belief that
the Latter Day Saints church (which didn’t exist before 1830) is outside
“the mainstream of Christianity.”
     But Jeffress hypocritically
promotes the popular evangelical “rapture” (theologically the
“any-moment pretribulation rapture”) which is outside mainstream
Christianity (Google “Pretrib Rapture Politics”) and which also didn’t
exist before 1830 (Google “Pretrib Rapture Diehards” and “Pretrib
Rapture Dishonesty”)!
     And there are 50 million American rapture
cultists (some of whom turn Wikipedia into “Wicked-pedia” by constantly
distorting the real facts about the rapture’s bizarre, 181-year-old
history) compared with only 14 million LDS members.
     The most
accurate documentation on pretrib rapture history that I have found is
in a nonfiction book titled “The Rapture Plot” which is carried by
leading online bookstores. I know also that the same 300-page work can
also be borrowed through inter-library loan at any library.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

what space ship??? There all gone since obama defunded NASA.
Anonymous

Anyone want a 2 day old brand new iPad?
Hlozaw

People who don’t know what they are talking about should keep their mouth shut. Like mr. Camping
Adse

Let’s Parteeeeey!!!
Laurence Glavin

The ratings for his owned-and-operated radio stations went up as a result of all this publicity. Now he is in the process of selling the full-power FMs he owns for more money than they would be worth if this had not happened. He may not profit since he is at the checkout counter, but his estate would.
Tricianmiss

bullshit
Tricianmiss

its not the end of the world
Nature Freak

This Rapture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g
Deborah Harry deserves to make a comeback. Good for her.
Nature Freak

At this point I am beginning to believe a “cult” is any religion one personally disagrees with.

The term “cult” is becoming useless. It is thrown about on a whim way too much. It is now nothing more than a perjorative term. As a sociological term (that’s where it comes from) it is misunderstood by most. Many sociologists themselves differ with its meaning.

Need a better word.
Nature Freak

I heard Apple technology is supported in Heaven. Just make sure not to drop it in the process of Rapturing. You may want to use duct tape that day to tape it too your body.

Some friendly advice from Nature Freak.
Nature Freak

You do realize you may not be Raptured?
You will want to use your iPad during the five months of fire, brimstone and plagues on Earth. It will be a much needed distraction from hell on Earth. Either way, keep it.
Nature Freak

I heard his radio stations are worth a fortune and in major markets (he received the radio licenses many decades ago).

The estate is a multi million dollar cash cow. His children are probably waiting for Harold to die so they can buy mansions in St Tropez. The licenses are worth that much.
Nature Freak

Funny you say that. I compared the two of them here on Mediaite last May.

They have common ground.
Nature Freak

Glenn Beck’s “survival seeds” probably hatch into Xenomorphs.
http://aliens.wikia.com/wiki/Xenomorph
Nature Freak

Almost all of them. You really don’t think they will actually make it to heaven? The Bible Bangers are in for an unpleasant surprise.
Nature Freak

I doubt either Jesus or Satan want anything to do with Sarah at this point.
Nature Freak

The actual number of the beast is 999. Iron Maiden did the math wrong.
Anonymous

I like a lot of your threads. This is one of the few times I have received a positive response on this site. Thank you.
Anonymous

“…… I think by Harold Camping continually making these ridiculous prophecies, he is making unbelievers immune to the truth of the true message of Christ and helping make them unprepared for when Christ truly does return.”

One nut calling another nut…a nut. Classic.
Haroldtards

Haroldtards:
Followers and believers in Harold Camping’s prophecy’s.