Friday: Lance Armstrong went on the attack amid accusations he used performance-enhancing drugs; Then, Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been released from prison while his sex assault case goes forward; Also, Harold Camping spread his end of the world prophesy with a billboard campaign costing as much as $1 million. At the time of this report, Harold Camping believes that doomsday is eminent. CNN rode along with his followers. Family Radio network owner and self-taught biblical sage Harold Camping spread his end of the world prophesy with a billboard campaign costing as much as $1 million. Bill Whitaker looks at how his message has become a cultural touchstone. Harold Camping claims this Saturday, May 21, is the rapture, when a huge earthquake will end life on earth and only the true believers will be taken up to heaven. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports. (Nightly News) Self-made prophet with $117 million radio network spreads worldwide message that the Apocalypse will begin at 6 p.m. ET Saturday According to some Bible-thumper who's been wrong before, The Rapture arrives Saturday. So multimedia remix champs Eclectic Method and others have stepped up their sarcasm before the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse arrive. Method's killer reel "The Apocamix" (above) splices kinetic electro with alternately brilliant and cheesy sci-fi staples like Dr. Strangelove, Independence Day, Armageddon and [...] Dallas minister, Robert Jeffries, says Harold Camping is wrong about the end of the world. May 21, we're told, is the end of it all. Harold Camping tells us it's the day when the Rapture of the church will happen. Historic Christianity, of course, stands with Jesus over anyone who claims he knows the day or the hour of Jesus' coming (Matt. 24:3-8). But what about the larger idea here? Is there a secret, sudden Rapture? Is that what we should expect? Friday, May 20, 2011 What do the stars of "The Hangover Part II" have to say about Harold Camping's May 21st end-of-the-world prediction? Well, for starters, their movie comes out on May 26th. According to Harold Camping, the Oakland minister who's predicting the end of the world Saturday, a great earthquake will first shake New Zealand, ... For rational people, dismissing the silliness around the supposed end of the world on May 21 is all too easy. In case you haven't heard, Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping has done some questionable math based on Biblical writing to determine that the faithful will be "raptured" tomorrow and that nonbelievers will be left behind to fester to death over the next few months. (You may think it'd be cool to be left behind with the likes of Steven Hawking and Richard Dawkins, but the cast of the Jersey Shore would be around, too.) [More] A radio host named Harold Camping says the world is going to end Saturday. Other Christian leaders are mostly dismissing this idea. Michele Norris speaks to one such pastor, the Rev. Brooks Morton of First United Methodist Church in Idalou, Texas. He once believed in a previous judgment day prediction, but this time around, he's prepping a sermon for Sunday. Predictions on Christ's return give false hope, disrepute on Christianity; 'been there, done that' In 1994, Christian talk radio host Harold Camping first predicted that the beginning of the end comes on Friday, May 21st, 2011. Host Michel Martin talks about apocalypse predictions and movements they inspire with Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, president of the National Center for Jewish Learning and Leadership, and Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
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