Doomsday 'prophet' suffers a stroke
After his prophecy failed to materialize, he said he had simply miscalculated and pronounced a new date
Evangelical broadcaster Harold Camping, who rallied thousands of followers with a failed prophecy that the world would come to an end last month, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.
Camping, 89, fell ill following a broadcast of his daily "Open Forum" radio show last Thursday evening in Oakland, California, and was admitted to an undisclosed hospital in the San Francisco Bay area, Tom Evans, a spokesman for his Family Radio network, said yesterday.
"He's doing well, and that's all we want to say right now," Evans said.
Camping drew international headlines by predicting the biblical Judgment Day would occur on May 21, launching a doomsday countdown in which some followers spent their life's savings in anticipation of being swept into heaven that day.
But after Camping's prophecy failed to materialize, he said he had simply miscalculated by five months and pronounced a new date for the apocalypse, October 21.
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Black-Rain
Very soon he's going to meet his 'doomsday'.Hamba Camping, o rata maaka!!!
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risc
Rra maaka!!!!!! he is the one who gonna endReport Abuse
portable
Maaka a lwatsa ebile a tla go bolaisa stroke papa !Report Abuse
leShandis
- B4 May 21 came, it was said May 21 is judgement, which will be followed by October 21 which will be end of days....- if you do a simple research, you will find similar people to Camping did the same, after their prophecies didnt come to pass, they said its mis-calculations and a new date came, only for that date to come and pass and nothing happened....
- This is also how the people who carry colourfull booklets going door to door, usually on saturdays were formed.....
- what is the motive of this? this is to get people out of faith, get people out of churches and not listen to pastors (rebel).....
- Aisingazo dlala abantu la, instead of seeking Gods kingdom, people seek attention, what use is that attention gonna be when its end time.
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monnawaka
Ne o bolela ka ur own world monnamogolo. Eish ntate o ke legwala ga anyake go swa a le one.Report Abuse
Shredder
Mare le wena mdala, why did you fabricate such a story?Solve for "X" e tshwarisa tlhogo and "X" can be solved when you have a formula. Now how can you solve what the Bible says nobody knows?
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matzzzzz
his been a liar for as long as i can remember..now let me sing for him..EMPA HOFEDILE..MOLAO O PHETHILWE..*SINGING* tsamaya o loaraba dibe tsa gago ..O MAAKA O LESHANO..aaaagReport Abuse
nevus
where is his lover uGalfrend?now Teduetee ha na niks ke maaka a bone.Report Abuse
Ann
come to think gore ne ke tshogile jang ramakaReport Abuse
Sefolo
A circular that went out on the 22nd of May 2011 from this madala went like:Dear Citizens of the World
Due to a slight technical error,the world was unable to end yesterday(21st May 2011).Our technician are however working on the probelm and we will communicate once the issue has been resolved.Once again,we'd like to apologise for any inconveniences caused.
Regards,
Harold Camping
Head of the End of the World Commitee
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