American radio preacher is predicting the end of the world will begin on May 21 Judgment Day May 21: Harold Camping, the head of the Family Radio broadcasting network, has calculated that the apocalypse will begin on May 21. Do his numbers add up for a judgment day this weekend? Judgment Day is coming this Saturday, May 21, beginning at 6 p.m., according to Harold Camping, the president of the Christian broadcaster Family Radio. Could he be wrong? He wouldn't be the first. Here are five failed Judgment Day predictions. **By YONAT SHIMRON** _c. 2011 Religion News Service_ (RNS) Harold Camping's campaign to warn Christians that the rapture is coming on Saturday (May 21) may have won him a band of followers, especially among those who have reportedly quit jobs or used up their life savings. But Camping's acolytes may pale in comparison to the number of atheists and agnostics who are outraged -- and perhaps a little amused -- by the California radio evangelist's predictions that... Read the full post here » Harold Camping, the founder of Family Radio, is the man behind the prediction that judgment day is coming May 21, 2011 - this Saturday. KPIX's Mike Sugerman interviewed Camping on his belief. Recent full-page ads in newspapers and signs on street corners carry a dire warning: Judgment Day is here. Followers of Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping believe the Second Coming of Christ is this Saturday May 21, 2011. The wait has been long and the predictions many, but according to Christian broadcaster Harold Camping, the enlightened will finally be called home on May 21. Author Rhoda Janzen offers three redeeming suggestions to help you prepare for the upcoming apocalypse. The church is not to be arrogantly setting dates, but instead to be eagerly waiting for him. Of that we can be truly certain. Wednesday, May 18, 2011 The Daily Swarm: > Welcome to Rapture Week 2011! As everyone knows by now, Saturday, May 21 is the beginning of the end of the world. That's right, this weekend all the Born Again Christians will be whisked up into Heaven to be with Jesus, while the rest of us have five months to party it up before God finally destroys the world on October 21, 2011. It's a fact. Harold Camping said so… Read and comment. From thedailyswarm.com. The Christian radio network Family Radio warns that the end will come on May 21. Yet there is still some doubt, considering the hype over the 2012 apocalypse and that Family Radio president Harold Camping has foretold the end before. Contributor: Robert Dougherty Published: May 12, 2011 Various religious group are constantly predicting the end of the world. However, predictions for a few days over the next couple of years have gotten more press than most. Saturday, May 21, 2011 is the nearest predicted date, and enough people have been convinced of it that some of them are paying for things like billboard space announcing it in the hopes of saving a few more souls before the end. But why May 21? This date was computed by Harold Camping, who has a broadcasting network - Family Radio - through which he has spread the word. Like many Christians trying to compute the End of Days, he attempts to calculate the exact days of various Biblical events (May 21 is the 7000th anniversary of Noah's Flood, according to Camping) mixed in with some pretty hefty numerology and numerical symbolism. For more information, check out Why the World Might End Next Saturday. May 21: End of the World originally appeared on About.com Alternative Religions on Wednesday, May 11th, 2011 at 19:17:41. Permalink | Comment | Email this People have been predicting the end of days ever since the beginning of days and May 21st is the new end of the world date. A broadcast ministry called Family Group based out of Oakland, has set up billboards and Guarantee: 21 May 2011 will be Judgment Day -- 100% guaranteed! Throughout our history, religious leaders and organizations have claimed that their holy books provide accurate prophecies about the End Of The World. The examples shown in this video are (relatively) fringe organizations, but despite their overt activism and cult-like behavior, organizations like FamilyRadio.com provide a glimpse into what the more mainstream religions adhere to and believe. Pastors, priests, apologists, ministers, religious philosophers and leaders of every kind, from every generation, have quoted from the books of Daniel and Revelation about the End of Days. Are their claims any less ridiculous? And should they be held any less accountable? First, Harold Camping is a good reason why our schools need to do a better job teaching mathematics. Second, how does Harold Camping _know_ that god hasn't already raptured his true believers, leaving him and his pals behind, along with all of us non- believing hedonists and failed religious people? Third, what happened to Earth's date with divine destiny on 21 December 2012? Or was that Hollywood film wrong? GrrlScientist guardian.co.uk (C) Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | ... Yes...the childhood story we all loved is examined (aka: skewered) with a slightly more critical view. If you think the biblical account makes sense...think again. Noah's Ark is the name for a large boat that, according to the Book of Genesis (chapters 6-9) and the Quran (surah hud), was built by Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from a worldwide deluge. This Great Flood was a response by the Abrahamic god to address his displeasure with the wickedness of man. However, after noticing that Noah was "righteous in his generation", the Abrahamic god makes an exception for him and his family and gives Noah detailed instructions to build the Ark. Noah's Ark is a religious myth that is part of the biblical canons of both Christianity and Judaism as well as being an important story in other traditional Abrahamic religions, especially Islam. As such, many scholars think that the Noah's Ark flood myth may in fact be derived from older Mesopotamian stories. Many biblical scholars interpret this story as metaphor, but biblical literalists are still digging up the mountains of Ararat, where the Bible claims the Ark came to ...
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