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BY LEXA DECKERT
ANCHOR CHRISTINA HARTMAN
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For all of you who survived the rapture Saturday -- you’re not in the clear just yet. Where Harold Camping, the rapture predictor, told a CBS reporter he was once so sure...
REPORTER: “Just in case this doesn’t happen, can we do an interview with you the next day?”
CAMPING: “It is absolutely going to happen. There is no way that I could schedule an interview because I won’t be here.” (CBS)
...now Camping is changing his story. He publicly apologizes for the confusion during an interview with BBC.
“If people want me to apologize I can apologize, yes. I did not have all of that worked out as accurately as I should have or I wish I could have had it, that doesn’t bother me at all. I’m not a genius.” (BBC)
Although the world was not destroyed on May 21st as predicted, Camping tells NBC it was still the beginning of the rapture, just not in the physical way he expected.
REPORTER: “His explanation--Saturday marked an invisible judgment, the real end comes in five months.”
CAMPING: “God brought judgment day and it will continue right up until October 21, 2011 and at that time the whole world will be destroyed." (NBC)
This is Camping’s third rapture prediction. Now his 1994 and May 21 predictions have failed to produce results Camping advertised with similar reasoning.
Fox News says, “He has said that his earlier apocalyptic prediction in 1994 didn't come true because of a mathematical error.”
Whether it is a coincidence Camping’s mathematical skills have backfired both times, believers and non-believers had strong reactions to the failed prediction. One man shares his feelings with NBC.
REPORTER: “In Maryland, Gary Vollmer, a long-time listener who had prepared for the end to come Saturday, is angry.”
VOLLMER: “He never did really say anything about being wrong or, you know, what havoc he’s caused.” (NBC)
But some still have faith, and CNN reports the other responses of a few nonbelievers to Camping’s prediction.
REPORTER: “Kids on YouTube rapped about rapture.”
YOUTUBE: “R, D, rapture day. Look right here it’s 6:02, I’m still alive and so are you.”
REPORTER: “In response to judgment day billboards, nonbelievers raised enough money to post a counter a billboard in Greensboro, North Carolina saying, ‘That was awkward.’” (CNN)
Despite the skeptics - Camping seems determined to have enough belief for all of us during his interview with BBC.
CAMPING: “The sense of it is still the same, that judgment has come. The world is now under judgment, where it was not prior to May 21. Spiritually there is a big difference in the world but we can’t detect it all with our eyes, but we can know from the Bible.'" (BBC)
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