THE California radio preacher who predicted that the end of the world would take place last month has suffered a stroke.So the world wasn't gonna end for all of us, just for him...
The Oakland Tribune reports that 89-year-old Harold Camping was hospitalised after suffering the stroke on Thursday night at his Alameda home.
"Don't smite me, Bro!"
Charles Menut, a regional manager for Harold Camping's radio company, Family Stations Inc, told supporters about Mr Camping's stroke in an online message posted on Saturday. Mr Menut gave no other details.
"Ay-yup. Popped a vein whilst he was having his Fruit Loops!"
Mr Camping's radio company spent more than US$100 million (S$130 million) publicising the evangelist's Rapture prediction over the past seven years. When it didn't happen on May 21, Mr Camping was widely mocked and he called it 'a very difficult time.'
"I felt like such a clone!"
He has insisted that his prediction was correct and said the end would become apparent on Oct 21 instead.
| No man can know the day of my coming... or something like that, which suggests that doing ever fancier calculations is pointless. Much better to live as if each day might be it, but plan for a long future, so the children don't go hungry if you're wrong. After all, that first generation thought the return would take place in their lifetime, and look how wrong they were. |