Harold Camping Wrong Again
This won’t come as much of a surprise, even for Christians, or even for his many former followers. The world did not end on Oct 21 2011.
The good news is there’s a new writer on the 2012 scene. While he is all-skeptic (and I’m half-skeptic, but concerned about all the real possibilities for 2012), his blog is very well written and fully-referenced. Here’s what Justin Deering has to say about Camping at 2012Delusion.com:
Yes, he’s gone into hiding. This is in stark contrast to the high-profile Project Caravan just a few short months ago, in which Camping’s followers left their families and their jobs, gave away their possessions and their pets, got into buses and RV’s and toured the country, warning everyone who would listen of the impending doom and plastering billboards everywhere along the way.2 The followers, based solely on Camping’s predictions, were extremely vocal with their message: Repent, before it’s too late! The end is near!
And now, he cannot be reached for comment.
I agree that false prophesies of doom are harmful, but I look upon it much as Blaise Pascal’s divine wager, acknowledging that no one knows for sure if there is a God, a heaven and hell awaiting us after death: lead a good life and if there is a heaven you will be there. If not, then you will enjoy the contentment of a life well lived.
If believing the world is ending soon causes you to be an honest and upright human being, even if motivated only by fear of punishment, then the world will be a better place. (Okay, I’m beginning to sound like Don Quixote, who, though foolish, did enrich the lives of those he touched.)
Long live the world and all of us in it!
So much for Mr. Camping’s insight. Not that anyone with intelligence took him seriously anyways.
“Strike Three You’re Out.”