Friday, January 1, 2010
Oakland Radio Evangelist Predicts End of World
Chris Thompson — Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:09 AM
The San Francisco Chronicle's Justin Berton has a righteously excellent profile of Harold Camping, the engineer-cum-Christian radio broadcaster who has done the math and pegged the date of the Rapture — and the beginning of the End Times — at May 21, 2011. Justin's a good friend and a former staff writer at the Express; having disclosed that, go read his latest story right now. Camping has gotten the date of the end of the world wrong before, leading his followers to gather inside the Alameda Veterans Memorial Building in 1994, eyes straining upward, waiting for the Lord to show up. (The first place Christ will visit is the Alameda Veterans Memorial Building? Mad props to the architect.) But apparently he forgot to carry the one, an oversight he's corrected now. Camping says delightful things like, "We are now translated into 48 languages and have been transmitting into China on an AM station without getting jammed once. How can that happen without God's mercy?" It's the kind of story that makes us scourge our flesh, for letting this wonderful character operate in the East Bay for years without a decent profile.
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Camping is only doing what religious apologists have been doing for years - selling a fake. Yes, he's barking, but he is far from alone...
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Katy St. Clair has indeed written of the dreadful fraud, Harold Camping. I wish she would follow up her excellent profile in the East Bay Express with further investigations. Cam;ping spreads his dark fantasies in all directions and continues to steal savings and incomes from gullible followers. How he gets away with fraudulent lies and continues to not draw attention from the FCC is beyond me. Give a crazy man a microphone and the world follows. Sad. To repeat. I wish the East Bay Express would investigate this mad man. In depth. The bible doesn't proclaim anything out of the ordinary for May 2011, Harold Camping has created this additional information to the bible; Harold Camping refers people to additional sources, his books, as proof. In fact the Bible says nowhere of the "end". In truth, very different messages are supplied by the inspired writers of the Bible. Alas. Harold Camping is neurotically terrified of the death process and he wants everyone in the world to die with him. Harold Camping envies the living and any idea or person with living ideas. Investigate him. He's a mentally deranged human being who owns a radio stations and broadcasts fear and loathing. He's a menace to the spirit of the living God.
Any and all predictions of the end have and will fail. However, God's Holy Bible neither predicts nor bluffs. The Holy Bible proclaims. Therefore the only real point of interest is each person's response to God's proclamation (5/21/2011). To answer the question "no man knows the day or the hour?"
(concise, brief, accurate) http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/nomanknows/nomanknows.html
Whatever ya do, if you are interested in finding out more about the man Harold Camping, read this:
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/quit-your-church/Content?oid=1070870&showFullText=true
THANK YOU, Stephen Buel, for pointing that out in the first comment, and THANK YOU Katy Saint Clair, for writing the most DETAILED and IN DEPTH article every written about Harold Camping! :D
~Cindy! :)
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There's a much darker side to Harold Camping's message, a la Jim Jones, found in the fine print of his daily teachings. His real message is one of fear of being "left behind". According to Camping, 5/21/2011 is the rapture and a literal, world-wide earthquake. During the five months between May 21 and Oct. 21, there will be a "hell on earth" for the naysayers of the world who reject his prediction. Be on the lookout for a spike in world-wide suicide rate this time next year, before May 21st.
Harold Camping is begging for attention. His invitation to the media is at www.frtothemedia.com.
Uh, Chris. Not to take anything away from Justin's fine story, but Katy St. Clair profiled Harold Camping on the cover of the Express way back in 2003. Maybe you and Justin were out to lunch that day.
Here's her story.
eastbayexpress.com/eastbay/quit-your-churc…
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