Saturday is the Rapture

**Lemur** · 05-23-2011, 16:11

I know it isn't sporting to beat a man when he's down, but I continue to see comedy potential in this:

The man who said the world was going to end appeared at his front door in Alameda a day later, very much alive but not so well.

"It has been a really tough weekend," said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old fundamentalist radio preacher who convinced hundreds of his followers that the rapture would occur on Saturday at 6 p.m. [...]

"I'm looking for answers," Camping said, adding that meant frequent prayer and consultations with friends.

"But now I have nothing else to say," he said, closing the door to his home. "I'll be back to work Monday and will say more then."

Camping's followers will surely be listening.

"I'm not as disappointed as everyone since I didn't fully believe him," said one, who asked to remain anonymous Sunday because he worried he would be shunned for admitting he was "upset" with Camping.

The middle-aged Oakland resident said he'd been listening to Camping since 1993, when he said the world would end in 1994.

That was strike one, the man said. And this is strike two. Even so, he said, that doesn't mean the message is wrong.

"I just know he's biblically sound," the man said. "I've never been one of these guys who think everything he says is true.

"I don't think I am going to stop listening to him," the man added, heaving a deep sigh before continuing: "I don't know, I gotta listen to him on Monday, see what he says on the radio."

**Ronin** · 05-23-2011, 17:05

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink.

**Veho Nex** · 05-23-2011, 17:08

Of course you can, shove a feeding tube down its throat

**The Stranger** · 05-23-2011, 17:53

People in a partying mood, including performing artists the Phenomenauts, gather in front of the closed Family Radio station offices of radio evangelist Harold Camping, to celebrate irreverently, the non-destruction of the world predicted by Camping, Saturday in Oakland.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...#ixzz1NCAfzirU

the fact that theyre all dancing out there makes it seem as if they actually did for a second doubt their own beliefs and are now so happy that the priest has been proven wrong... if not it cant be anything else but gloating and that would be just sad...

**Ronin** · 05-23-2011, 18:05

Originally Posted by Veho Nex

Of course you can, shove a feeding tube down its throat

not another feeding tube religion debate......
some of these people are kinda brain dead...but that might be taking it too far! :P

**Fragony** · 05-23-2011, 19:12

Originally Posted by Ronin

not another feeding tube religion debate......
some of these people are kinda brain dead...but that might be taking it too far! :P

Braindead Ronin, braindead

**Samurai Waki** · 05-23-2011, 19:26

This still cracks me up... it's so reminiscent of Sunday School growing up (Except for whatever reason; Catholic "Sunday School" Fell on a Wednesday).

**Lemur** · 05-23-2011, 22:17

Apparently we are all going to get an explanation.

The Christian radio host who predicted the world would end over the weekend said Monday he's ready to talk about why the apocalypse didn't arrive. [...] "I will have more to say tonight," said Camping, a retired civil engineer who previously maintained there was no possibility the Rapture would not occur at 6 p.m. Saturday. "I will be putting out a message in our broadcast." [...]

Gunther Von Harringa, who heads a religious organization that produces content for Camping's media enterprise, said he was "very surprised" the Rapture did not happen as predicted, but said he and other believers were in good spirits.

"We're still searching the Scriptures to understand why it did not happen," said Von Harringa, president of Bible Ministries International, which he operates from his home in Delaware, Ohio. "It's just a matter of OK, Lord, where do we go from here?"