May 22, 2013

Harold Camping Throwing in the Towel on Rapture Predictions

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*Finally after preaching false prophecies and losing the millions of followers, Harold Camping might be throwing in the towel. The Family Radio founder and preacher predicted the arrival of the rapture at least four times since his rise to fame. This year, he told Christians that Jesus was coming back on May 21. When nothing [...]




Preacher Says World Ends Today, Friday, Maybe

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*The Seattle PI reports that this time, Harold Camping sounds like a man who has suffered the whisper of self-doubt. The Oakland minister’s latest prediction of the end of the world – which he’s set for Friday – is couched among words like “probably” and “maybe,” a far cry from the carved-in-stone certitude he projected [...]




What Really Happened to Harold Camping Followers

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*It was a shock when Harold Camping followers and doomsday believers watched as the world didn’t end on May 21, 2011, especially those who spent their life savings on pushing the agenda. According to CNN one believer never lived to see the day. She left nearly her entire estate — around $300,000 — to the [...]




Harold Camping: Dead Soldiers Will Raise from Graves

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*While President Obama and the rest of the nation spent Memorial Day paying tribute to American veterans, doomsday preacher Harold Camping predicted Monday that corpses of the “unsaved,” which includes those in the U.S. Armed Services, will be flung out of their graves and on the ground like “manure” on October 21, according to The [...]




The Journal of Steffanie Rivers: Sleeping With the Enemy

If you’re reading this, then the Rapture did not happen on May 21st as predicted by Christian evangelist Harold Camping. But if all the recent revelations of marital infidelity are forewarnings, Camping might be onto something. What makes a married man think that he can have unprotected sex with the maid, get her pregnant at [...]




Since no Rapture, Church Comforts Disappointed Christians

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*While standing in Times Square and watching the clock tick, one avid believer of Harold Camping’s May 21 rapture prediction stood there perplexed by his obvious earthbound stay. “I don’t understand why nothing has happened,” Robert Fitzpatrick said, according to the New York Daily News, after waiting for the end of the world to begin [...]




The Rapture Didn’t Happen, So No Plan B?

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*To the shock and distress of a handful of ultra-devout Christian believers, the sun went down yesterday on an America and a world that had  failed to end. Instead of a series of earthquakes hitting successive countries at 6pm local time and heralding The Rapture – in which millions of the Faithful would ascend to [...]




Man Claiming Rapture Challenged to Give Up Possessions

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*A Christian broadcaster says “the Bible guarantees it,” but so far he’s given no indication he’s getting rid of his earthly possessions including his radio network, as other Christians label him a false prophet with a dangerous teaching. In fact, when asked how he was feeling in this so-called final week, Camping admitted he’s already [...]




Will the Rapture Happen May 21?

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*You may want to recheck your to-do list for May 21. That’s when, according to some predictions, Jesus will return. Last year, WeCanKnow
.com, a Christian-based website in North Carolina, selected metro Atlanta as the site for dozens of billboards proclaiming Christ’s imminent return and the Rapture of Christian believers. In Nashville, similar billboards were paid [...]