Heaven Can Wait (But Dinner Can't)

By Elina Shatkin Wed., May 25 2011 at 3:30 PM

Photoshopped nonpocalypse billboard making the internet rounds.

Yeah, that was awkward.

So Harold Camping's prophesied apocalypse never materialized. First, he was "flabbergasted." (Because it's devastating when millions of people don't perish.) Then, he backpedaled, taking to the airwaves of Family Radio to explain that May 21st was an invisible, "spiritual" rapture. The end of the world will actually occur on October 21st, according to Camping. Save the date. He really, really, really means it this time.

Aside from eating a few bad backpackers' meals for our series of Apocalypse Food Reviews, it's no skin off our ass. Camping is just the latest huckster in a long line of con artists, lunatics and false prophets. But he's also a financially savvy one.

It makes us sad (read: angry) to see reports that over the last few years, Camping may have spent over $100 million on billboards, radio programs and other forms of propaganda to promote his nonpocalypse.

We don't need horror stories about cataclysmic earthquakes and fire-spouting demons to understand suffering. Every day, people go hungry, people starve -- right here, in the very real world. If Harold Camping had any interest in actually helping people instead of smugly predicting their slaughter, how much good might that $100 million have done? Plenty. It still wouldn't make him a prophet, but it would, at the very least, make him a decent human being.

Tags:

Apocalypse, Con Artist, Elina Shatkin, False Prophet, Family Radio, Harold Camping, Judgment Day, Nonpocalypse, Rapture

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Skye Saathoff

I agree to the fullest about that man. I can't believe he has all this money, yet he could care less to the suffering in this world. Before one predicts the end, one needs to know that you can't have all the wealth you have, and expect to enter the Kindom of Heaven. You can't buy your way to Heaven, and if you think you can only do good deeds to enter Heaven, your sorely mistaken. There's only one way to enter the Kindom, and that is to Repent, and be Born Again. How far are you from doing that? I guess it's more fun to Sin (Right) Tell that to Jesus!!! When your having that illegal pleasure!!!!!!!

Dave Lieberman

Hear, hear, Elina.

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Sounds like he must at least be a decent nutcase of a human being if he raised $100 million and spent it advocating a cherished cause rather than on wine, women, and song. Are any of your friends or colleagues that crazy? As I understand it, even Gandhi drank only the finest-quality urine.