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Doomsday predictor wrong again, world still doing just fineHarold Camping’s end time predictions have failed for a second time, and he’ll likely experience an existential crisis of faith, experts say.

Doomsday predictor wrong again, world still doing just fine
Harold Camping’s end time predictions have failed for a second time, and he’ll likely experience an existential crisis of faith, experts say.

Harold Camping Says Rapture, End of World is October 21

For those of you who stopped paying attention, the world is ending again.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/227622/20111008/harold-camping-rapture-end-of-world-october-21-judgment-day-may-21-god-family-radio.htm

Harold Camping, the Christian broadcaster who said the end of the world would be May 21, has revised his date of the Rapture to October 21.

Having just recovered from a stroke back in June, 90-year-old Camping pronounced the world will end on Oct. 21 on Earth, as his previous prediction from May only affected those in Heaven.

“Thus we can be sure that the whole world, with the exception of those who are presently saved (the elect), are under the judgment of God, and will be annihilated together with the whole physical world on October 21, 2011, on the last day of the present five months period,” Camping said on his Web site, Family Radio. “On that day the true believers (the elect) will be raptured. We must remember that only God knows who His elect are that He saved prior to May 21.”

Camping said he was “flabbergasted” that his predicted Judgment Day on May 21, which followed two failed doomsday predictions, had been false and without multiple days of fires, earthquakes and plagues. He said that Oct. 21 would mark the official end of the world on Earth and this time around, the Rapture would be quick with “no pain” for those who do not believe.

“The whole world is on Judgment Day. It will continue to Oct. 21, 2011 and at that time the whole world will be destroyed,” Camping said in a public statement.

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Camping said he made a calculation mistake in 1994, which ended up being “spiritual, not physical.” In May, 2011, he said the Judgment Day had come again spiritually, without the massive earthquakes set to hit Earth at 6 p.m.

“I have never, never, told anybody that I am infallible… But what I am saying is I am not infallible,” he said.

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Note to self: new translation (2011, Andy Orchard). Looks good. Contains chronology and extra poems and end notes. Oh, the end notes.

I’m very tempted to buy it now but I’m going to be virtuous and wait until Hannukkah.

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