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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on December 17, 2013, 2032 UTC

Title: Doomsday preacher Harold Camping dies at 92
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 17, 2013, 2032 UTC

OAKLAND, CALIF. –  Harold Camping, the California preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast the end of the world and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays did not come to pass, has died at age 92.

Family Radio Network marketing manager Nina Romero said Harold Camping, a retired civil engineer who built a worldwide following for the nonprofit, Oakland-based ministry he founded in 1958, died at his home on Sunday. She said he had been hospitalized after falling.

Full article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/17/doomsday-preacher-harold-camping-dies-at-2/ (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/17/doomsday-preacher-harold-camping-dies-at-2/)

Title: Re: Doomsday preacher Harold Camping dies at 92
Post by: cmradio on December 18, 2013, 0720 UTC

Of all the nutters the world has, he was just a funny old kook :(

Peace!

Title: Re: Doomsday preacher Harold Camping dies at 92
Post by: Zoidberg on December 25, 2013, 0231 UTC

Rest in peace, Brother Sominex.  The night's are too long without your somnolent tones, and the end times turned out to be porklips instead of apocalypse.

And shall we take our next call...

Title: Re: Doomsday preacher Harold Camping dies at 92
Post by: Pigmeat on December 25, 2013, 0250 UTC

Do you think he predicted it?

Title: Re: Doomsday preacher Harold Camping dies at 92
Post by: Zoidberg on December 25, 2013, 0630 UTC

Dunno, but he managed to outlast Sylvia Browne.  Bet she didn't see that coming either.