The Mayans were wrong! It's going to be 2011, not 2012!

[Archae]

Well...that's according to this guy... :crazy:

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

[rcrush]

1. It like a fairy tale! Thats why I use the bible!

[MrsMatt]

2. Amazing - after almost 2000 years of scrutiny

only ONE person, and an amateur at that, was able to reach that conclusion.

Looks like I should hold off on purchasing that new car.

[susanr516]

3. Yeah, after the Rapture

Maybe I can find a nearly new Prius--the fundy who owned it sure won't need it anymore.

[quakerboy]

6. Now your just being silly.

Everyone knows its immoral to own a Prius. We were given dominion, you know, and we have to exercise that. I seriously doubt anyone without a Hummer can expect to be raptured.

[qnr]

4. Since the bible states you can't know the time, and he claims to know the time,

does that mean that he will miss The Rapture if it happens to come because he didn't believe the bible?

[TheMightyFavog]

5. 2011? Reminds me of the Shadowrun Universe, where magic came back in 2011.

2011 was also when the first Elves and Dwarves were born. Fortunately for us, large multinational corporations are not eligible for extraterritorial status... yet.

[sakabatou]

7. I'll bet Camping $10 million against the rapture at that date

[UrbScotty]

8. Remind me to schedule my colonoscopy for May 22, 2011 (nt)

[trof]

9. Oh crap.

Now I have to rearrange my whole schedule.
Bother.
:-(