Preacher 'flabbergasted' as Rapture fizzles

[marmar]

Doomsday prophet, followers ‘flabbergasted’ world didn’t end
By Liz Goodwin


It's hard to feel bad for someone whose doomsday predictions caused so much anxiety, but 89-year-old Harold Camping's recent admission that he's "flabbergasted" the world didn't end last weekend sounds somewhat pitiful.

"It has been a really tough weekend," Camping said Sunday, after emerging from his Alameda, California home for the first time to talk to a reporter from the San Francisco Chronicle. "I'm looking for answers ... But now I have nothing else to say," he said, adding that he would make a full statement today.

Camping's PR aide, Tom Evans, told the L.A. Times that the group is "disappointed" that 200 million true believers weren't lifted up to heaven on Saturday while everyone else suffered and eventually died as a series of earthquakes and famine destroyed the Earth. "You can imagine we're pretty disappointed, but the word of God is still true," Evans said. "We obviously went too far, and that's something we need to learn from." The group posted 2,000 billboards around the country warning of the rapture, while Camping--an uncertified fundamentalist minister--spread the word on his radio show.

Camping's Family Radio, which airs on 66 U.S. stations, has apparently rebranded itself quickly. Business Insider notes that the station's website has scrubbed all mentions of the Judgment Day. The site previously featured a countdown clock to the May 21 rapture on its homepage. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110523/ts_yblog_thelookout/doomsday-prophet-followers-flabbergasted-world-didnt-end

[lob1]

1. I'm flabbergasted that he's flabbergasted.

[Warpy]

2. I think they're all pitiful but he's still got his media empire

and too many of his followers literally lost everything. If he really gave a shit and wanted to buy his sorry ass out of hell, he'd liquidate all his holdings and set up a restitution fund for all the poor, desperate saps who were unhappy enough to follow him.

[hlthe2b]

3. As opposed to most of the entire world... that is outraged.....

by the (lack of) outrage. :eyes:

[C_U_L8R]

4. Flabbergasting all the way to the bank

this conman swindled millions of dollars from fundie suckers

[Angry Dragon]

5. I know the Rapture came on Saturday

The problem with these people is that they expected to go.
The Rapture came and these people were just Left Behind
These people need to work harder on being Christians instead of just mouthing the words...........

[hobbit709]

6. He looks like he's related to that E-harmony clown.

[LARED]

7. What's more delusional, believing

that on 5/21/11 at 6:00 PM the rapture would take place, or that 200 million people believed his nonsense.