Harold Camping, Serial Doomsday Predictor, Dies at 92
Harold Camping, the radio preacher who famously (and incorrectly, obviously) predicted the end of the world on more than one occassion, died on Sunday from injuries suffered after a fall. Camping's Family Radio network announced his death in a late Monday statement. He was 92 years old.
Camping's fame — and his fortune — rose and fell on his ability to promote his calculations for the end of the world, often through his Family Radio broadcasts. His last big Doomsday prediction, promoted for years by the ministry, fooled thousands into abandoning their worldly possessions and devoting their lives to spreading the news that the end was due on May, 21, 2011. That day, according to camping, would be the day of Jesus's Second Coming. It wasn't, so he revised his big prediction to October 2011, a date that also fed off the coming hysteria over 2012 Mayan "prophecies."...
