Harold Camping "Flabbergasted" by Another Failed Rapture

The only world that came to an end this weekend was Harold Campings

​I don't know what you were doing on Saturday, Rapture time, but being the hedonist I am, I was cramming in one of my favorite pleasures -- eating several scoops of ice cream (mint chip, chocolate, peanut butter) simultaneously.

And then I was pleased to indulge myself again on Sunday.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, a distraught Harold Camping stood in his Alameda home alive and well -- and not happy about it.

"It has been a really tough weekend," he told the Chronicle on Sunday afternoon.

Tough, because the 89-year-old evangelical preacher has some explaining to do, especially to the hundreds of disappointed followers who had believed Camping when he told them -- with awesome conviction -- that the world was coming to an end on May 21.

You would expect an 89-year-old man to know better. But when SF Weekly interviewed him earlier this month, Camping, president of Family Radio in Oakland, was so adamant about his premonition that he refused to answer the question: "What happens if May 22 arrives, and the world is still alive and well?"

"If I tried to answer that, it would indicate I have some tiny bit of doubt. I do not. On May 21st, judgment will happen," he told us then.

Now, more than 24 hours after another failed Rapture, Camping tells reporters he is still looking for answers.

And so are his followers, many of whom went to great lengths to prepare themselves for their departure to heaven. As one displeased rapture-believer noted Sunday afternoon: "He's in big trouble with God."

And that's not the position you want to be in come Rapture time, whenever that may be.

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