Harold Camping, a Christian radio broadcaster and president of Family Radio claims that the world will be coming to an abrupt end this coming Saturday, May 21, 2011. He also predicted that the world would end in September of 1994, however, surprise surprise, that prediction did not come to pass. He blamed his previous failure on a mathematical error. Yeah right.
He’s basing his second end of the world prophecy on several mathematical calculations which you can read about further here. If you ask me these are just numbers with no real significance of their own. Anyone can manipulate numbers to work in their favor if they play around with them long enough.
Camping also has his own Youtube channel that he’s been using to countdown to Judgement day. In his latest video he talked about how the acceptance of homosexuality was a sign of the end. Really Harold? The acceptance of others for who they are is a sign of the end of the world? I think not. It’s a sign of a more civilized world, a sign that people are finally breaking free of religious intolerance, but certainly not a sign of the end.
Camping claims that this Saturday at 6:00 PM there will be a catastrophic earthquake in every city around the world. I am not sure why 6:00 PM exactly, apparently God wants to interrupt our last dinner. It also makes absolutely no sense for earthquakes to happen in an organized manner. Earthquakes happen randomly and without warning.
The Family Radio network has been receiving loads of donations due to Camping’s claim. I have to ask myself why would anyone donate to them if the world is ending in a few days? None of it makes any sense. It’s a good money making scheme. Tell your followers that the world is about to end and they’ll send you money. Then when it doesn’t happen, run, hide, and hope they don’t find you!
Camping says “I know it’s absolutely true, because the Bible is always absolutely true”. However the bible is not absolutely true, the majority of it is fiction. I’m hoping on May 22, more people will understand this. You can’t just go around telling everyone the world is going to end because you have a hunch. Some people are ignorant enough to believe it.
In truth, there are many ways that the world could actually come to an end. I’m not going to start listing them here, but I can assure you, when it does happen it will not be because the bible said so. Everything has a beginning and an end, that’s how everything in the universe works. That’s just science.
- Shane
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