Harold Camping

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Harold Egbert Camping (born July 19, 1921 in Boulder , Colorado , † December 15, 2013 in Oakland , California ) was an American radio preacher , who with his prophecies about the rapture on May 21, 2011 and the end of the world that followed caused a stir on October 21, 2011. He had previously predicted a possible rapture in September 1994.

Life

Camping moved to California as a child. In 1942 he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, from training as a civil engineer . Shortly after the end of the Second World War, he started a construction business, which provided him with a living. He married his wife Shirley in 1943. He was the father of seven children. In 1958 he was one of the founders of the radio station Family Radio , which is aimed at a Christian-conservative audience. Over the years, the station's activities have expanded.

Warning of the end of the world

In 1988 Camping left the Christian Reformed Church in North America and distributed his own interpretations of the Bible on Family Radio. He caused a stir with his prophecies about the rapture and the end of the world, which he believed to have discovered through numerological analysis of the Bible. At first Camping assumed the rapture would take place on September 6, 1994. When the event did not materialize, however, he prophesied the rapture on May 21, 2011 in 2005. Numerous followers believed his prophecy and warned the population in cities such as New York with posters and stickers of the presumably impending apocalypse, which did not materialize this time either. Campers fans had given up their jobs, terminated rental contracts or separated from their partners. Many had donated almost their entire fortune to camping or had started expensive information campaigns on their own to draw attention to the supposed end. There has also been murder, suicide, and attempted suicide.

He explained the absence of the rapture on the announced date with a misinterpretation: The rapture did not take place on May 21st, but on that day Jesus passed his final judgment on all people. He held fast to the end of the world, which had also previously been announced, on October 21, 2011. His daily radio broadcast was suspended in June 2011 after Camping suffered a stroke . When the end of the world did not materialize on October 21, 2011, he was heavily criticized by fellow preachers for his prophecies and lost a lot of credibility among his followers. On March 10, 2012, he withdrew his doom forecast.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Controversial preacher Harold Camping dies at 92 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 17, 2013  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kake.com
  2. ^ Doomsday Minister Harold Camping Dead at 92 , accessed December 17, 2013
  3. ↑ a b Harold Camping: 1994? Vantage Press, New York 1992, ISBN 0-533-10368-1 .
  4. ↑ The Christian Post: Harold Camping, Who Are You, Really? , May 21, 2011
  5. ↑ Harold Camping: Time Has an End: A Biblical History of the World 11,013 BC - 2011 AD , March 2005
  6. ↑ FAZ: We are all pretty disappointed , May 22, 2011
  7. ↑ orf.at: Heaven can wait , May 22, 2011
  8. ↑ Florian Freistetter: When religious madness meets doomsday panic ... In: ScienceBlogs . May 22, 2011, accessed December 20, 2012 .
  9. ↑ Doomsday postponed. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. May 24, 2011, accessed May 24, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Washington Post: Doomsday predictor Harold Camping's weekday radio show being replaced after he has stroke , June 23, 2011
  11. ↑ welt.de: Third false prognosis: Doomsday preacher now threatens the muzzle , October 22, 2011
  12. ↑ Doom prophet. The end of the world is canceled , Spiegel Online, March 10, 2012

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SURNAME Camping, Harold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camping, Harold Egbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American radio preacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulder , Colorado
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 2013
Place of death Oakland , California