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Skriven 2010-01-03 14:19:17 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: The Mayans are wrong!
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It's going to be 2011, instead of 2012!
Well, at least according to this guy... -eyeroll-

Biblical scholar's date for rapture: May 21, 2011
Justin Berton, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, January 1, 2010

 Harold Camping lets out a hearty chuckle when he considers the people
who believe the world will end in 2012.

"That date has not one stitch of biblical authority," Camping says from
the Oakland office where he runs Family Radio, an evangelical station
that reaches listeners around the world. "It's like a fairy tale."

The real date for the end of times, he says, is in 2011.

The Mayans and the recent Hollywood movie "2012" have put the apocalypse
in the popular mind this year, but Camping has been at this business for
a long time. And while Armageddon is pop science or big-screen
entertainment to many, Camping has followers from the Bay Area to China.

Camping, 88, has scrutinized the Bible for almost 70 years and says he
has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden
within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil
engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd
found: The world will end May 21, 2011.

This is not the first time Camping has made a bold prediction about
Judgment Day.

On Sept. 6, 1994, dozens of Camping's believers gathered inside
Alameda's Veterans Memorial Building to await the return of Christ, an
event Camping had promised for two years. Followers dressed children in
their Sunday best and held Bibles open-faced toward heaven.

But the world did not end. Camping allowed that he may have made a
mathematical error. He spent the next decade running new calculations,
as well as overseeing a media company that has grown significantly in
size and reach.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
f=/c/a/2010/01/01/BA8V1AV589.DTL

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