Family Radio chief Harold Camping silent as Rapture fails to occur

[Playinghardball]

Source: Reuters via Raw Story

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With no sign his forecast of Judgment Day arriving on Saturday has come true, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent.

Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was on Saturday playing recorded church music and devotional messages unrelated to the apocalypse.

Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.

In his latest pronouncement, he had said doomsday would begin in Asia, but with midnight local time come and gone in Tokyo and Beijing and those cities already in the early hours of May 22, there was no sign of the apocalypse.

The Oakland, California, headquarters of the network of 66 U.S. stations, which has international affiliates and had posted billboards around the country warning of a May 21 Judgment Day, were shuttered with a sign in the door that read "This Office is Closed. Sorry we missed you!"

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/21/family-radio-chief-harold-camping-silent-as-rapture-fails-to-occur/

[Zoeisright]

1. I'm sure he's skipped town with all his new millions.

Fuck him. And the idiots who fell for it - well, they deserve what they got. Unfortunately, their children and pets didn't deserve it.

[pepperbear]

2. Skippy is counting the hard earned cash he extracted from his followers. n/t

[Poll_Blind]

3. Wassa matter, Preacher? Jesus got your tongue?!

:rofl:

PB

[calimary]

4. Ahh... the Krapture.

Such incredible, amazing bullshit. I'm astounded that there are people who actually believe this stuff. People who think WE can push the Hand of God.

Btw, it's about 7pm here on the West Coast. We are not only still here, but the wine-tasting I just attended was GREAT!

[Motown_Johnny]

5. it is a pretty safe bet that in '94 he figured he would be dead by now

maybe he should have gone for 2021

[spin]

11. But he wouldn't have gotten all those contributions. (n/t)

[ladyVet]

6. Pssssttt...

quote::: Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.:::end quote

Just thought I'd let you guys know, since all you guys on DU are my good friends, that Jesus DID return in 1994, on August 25th, to be exact. He has been living with me, posing as my son, and biding his time until all this fundy foolishness ends.

So anybody that didn't disappear on that day, tough luck. Looks like you got left behind. :evilfrown:

By the way, I call Him Sk8monkey, which amuses Him tremendously. :evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

14. Does He know Avril Lavigne? What's His favorite sk8park?

Tell him I think ladyVet is the way coolest DUer, too! :hi:

[sensate2000]

7. Does anyone think he drank the cool aid?

[rocktivity]

8. Maybe that's because HE'S the only one who got raptured!

One of his billboards turned up in my neck of the woods. I couldn't figure out why it was announcing the end of the world AND the hours of his radio show. I heard that his web site is down -- maybe that got raptured, too.

:think:
rocktivity

[izquierdista]

9. Did I say it was 5/21?

No, no, I meant 12/5. Not that Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is dyslexic, my fault for not realizing that the date was given in the Aramaic style of day/month.......er....and reversing the month digits. But the 11 part, I'm SURE it's 2011........unless....

[Sky Llama]

10. What does he need to say?

He got rich, his only goal. That it want he cared about and we all know it.

[center rising]

12. Another religious loon that flocked his sheep.

[dangin]

13. Religion is a test from god.

Everyone who believes fails.

[freshwest]

15. He's hanging out at 'an undisclosed location' with the rest of the crooks, laughing at everyone.

[chillspike]

16. Little Tin God (nt)

[bklyncowgirl]

17. Somewhere God is laughing his ass off. nt