Broadcaster silent as "Judgment Day" hours tick by

[steve2470]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/21/us-apocalypse-prediction-idUSTRE74I3KS20110521

By Gabrielle Saveri

SAN FRANCISCO | Sat May 21, 2011 4:01pm EDT

(Reuters) - With no sign of Judgment Day arriving as he had forecast, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent on Saturday.

Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was playing recorded church music, devotionals and life advice unrelated to the apocalypse.

Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.

In his latest pronouncement, he had said doomsday would begin in Asia, but with midnight local time come and gone in Tokyo and Beijing and those cities already in the early hours of May 22, there was no indication of an apocalypse.

[malaise]

1. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah hahahahahahaha

Thankfully we have been left behind. :rofl:

[TheBigotBasher]

6. Maybe he was raptured?

All that money spent on advertising, how stupid. How ridiculous to spend £150 million on such lunacy.

[onethatcares]

14. maybe if he spent a bit more time worrying about

what Jesus really said, he'd have spent that 150 million on feeding the hungry and opening some group homes for the homeless.

But hey, what do I know, I've never had 150 very, very , very, large.

[rrneck]

2. Ahhhhhhhhh. Quiet for a while at least. nt

[Avant Guardian]

3. We are all doomed to hell

EVERYBODY was left behind, apparently.

[Liberal Veteran]

4. Oh, crap! I thought that smudge was a decimal point!

Silly me. Now I have to recalculate the prediction.

[RedSpartan]

5. For my 666th post...

Hopefully he and his ilk will now shut up permanently. But I doubt it.

[Snoutport]

9. OOOH! your post could be message of the anti-christ!

Nothing personal RedSpartan...but, that's the flip side of the Rapture. Satan and his minions come to munch the people left behind...

Your 666 message could be the beginning of the end!

[Avant Guardian]

11. That post was so epic I had to do a screen print of it

Saving it for posterity

[FarLeftFist]

7. Post Rapture politics

[LadyHawkAZ]

10. HA! +1

[TheDebbieDee]

8. This Camping guy will be laughing all the way to the bank

on Monday morning. Eachel Maddow or Larry O'Donnell reported that this jokker had 72 million dollars in his bank account earlier this week!

[alcibiades_mystery]

13. At what point does this sort of thing become outright fraud?

Yeesh.

[obxhead]

12. My prediction?

A new date will be set by Camping. Probably a date say 20 years in the future when the old fuck will not be alive to be criticized.