Harold Camping, the Oakland minister known for his predictions of the end of the world, made another attempt at deducing the apocalypse without success. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the 90-year-old minister who said the world would end Friday.
“I do believe we’re getting very near the very end,” camping said during a podcast recorded on his Family Radio website. “October 21, that’s coming very shortly, that looks like it will be, at this point, it will be the end of everything.”
Camping admitted to being “flabbergasted” when his last end of the world prediction turned out to be incorrect. He has since reconsidered his calculation, but maintains that May 21 was still a “tremendous event” that led to a spiritual judgment day.
He’s also changed his tune as far as what the end of the world will be like. Prior to his May 21 Doomsday prediction, Camping said the world would end violently with much pain and suffering for those who rebelled against God. Now, he says, things will probably be a little less dramatic.
“I really am beginning to think as I’ve restudied these matters that there’s going to be no big display of any kind,” he said. “The end is going to come very, very quietly.”
According to the Washington Post, that was a good way to "hedge his bets" as the end of the world has so far failed to materialize.
