Failed Doomsday Has Real Deadly Consequences (woman cuts kids' throats w/boxcutter, etc)

[The Straight Story]

Failed Doomsday Has Real Deadly Consequences

Harold Camping, the 89-year-old leader whose study of the Bible convinced him and his followers that the world would end, has been described by his wife as "flabbergasted" that the apocalypse didn’t start over the weekend. There are some red faces out there. And if that's all it had been, then one could argue no great harm had been done.

But while Camping and his followers try to figure out what went wrong (or right) — with news Monday night that he now says Judgment Day will come on Oct. 21 — the failed prophecy did more than just damage Camping's credibility: It also appears to have caused death and serious injury to true believers.

A California woman named Lyn Benedetto was one of millions who heard Camping's message, and became concerned that her daughters would suffer terribly in the coming apocalypse. She allegedly forced her daughters, 11 and 14, to lie on a bed and then cut their throats with a box cutter. She then tried to kill herself, though police arrested Benedetto and all three survived.

Others were not so lucky. An elderly man in Taiwan reportedly killed himself on May 5 ahead of the Rapture by jumping out of a building. He had heard that doomsday was imminent, and had taken recent earthquakes and tsunamis as early warning signs.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20110523/sc_livescience/faileddoomsdayhasrealdeadlyconsequences

[flakey_foont]

1. Oh My God!!

That is awful! Those poor, innocent girls; this is heartbreaking.

[qb]

2. I hope that loon and his media empire get socked by a mega class action lawsuit.

[slackmaster]

3. Stupid people do stupid things

I hope the girls recover.

[abelenkpe]

5. And grow up to be skeptic of those making such

outrageous claims. Hope they live long long healthy happy lives.

[Blue Owl]

4. Jaysus Saves?

More like insanity kills.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Gretzky scores.

Religions kill. Let's be honest.

[panader0]

6. It seems like there should be charges brought against the idiot

Like the law againsy screaming "Fire!" in a theater. But I doubt it. Either way the guy has blood and misery on his hands.

[Taverner]

10. I agree. It's fraud, pure and simple

[cbdo2007]

8. Sounds like it was almost Doomsday for them.

I don't believe in a universal "doomsday" or "rapture" that overtakes the whole world at once, but rather it happens to each of us when we die.

[soleft]

9. A guy in my town committed suicide on May 16th

I live in a pretty religious community - in fact Billy Graham Jr. came into down for the apocolypse.

[Electric Monk]

11. Camping is a terrorist. Call in SEAL team 6.

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