Harold Camping Recovering From Stroke, Radio Show To Be Replaced

OAKLAND, Calif. — The California radio preacher who predicted the world's end on May 21 has been moved to a nursing home, where he is recovering from a stroke he suffered last month.

Harold Camping's daughter confirms her father recently moved from an area hospital to a skilled nursing facility. He is undergoing rehabilitation there to regain his strength following the June 9 stroke.

Camping's Family Radio network is working to replace the 89-year-old's show, Open Forum, with interim programming. The station has been playing repeats since his stroke.

It's unclear if the show will return.

Camping predicted Judgment Day would occur, first in 1994 and again in May. His media empire spent millions of dollars, some culled from followers' donations, over seven years on billboards and other publicity for his 2011 predictions about the spiritual Rapture in May and the end of the world in October.

Comments

[leogeee]

05:00 AM on 07/15/2011

He had a stroke due to the pressure of having to be held accountable for his proclamations and the foolish people who over-reacted to it. It is those people who need sympathy. Imagine taking such a prophecy literally and disposing of all your worldly goods only to wake up to have nothing but nothing left for the rest of your life. I listened to several "post May 21st" Family Forum programs and several callers used foul and hostile language (not even censored) having done just that. How sad. (Remember 1 Thessalonians, Matthew 24, Luke 12 & Revelations 3. He will come like a thief in the night.)

[Charlie Rizzo]

04:18 PM on 07/10/2011

It gets really irritating when people make surface judgement's re prophecy. Facts are stubborn things. FYI Christian eschatology through the 2nd and 3rd centuries was chiliastic( Literal return and reign). Many early Christian interpreters applied the earlier Jewish apocalyptic idea of a temporary Messianic kingdom to their interpretation of chapter 20 of John's apocalypse.Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Tertullian all made explicit references to the concept of a thousand year earthly kingdom at.The ante-Nicene age is the prominent chiliasm, or millenarianism, that is the belief of a visible reign of Christ in glory on earth with the risen saints for a thousand years, before the general resurrection and judgement. It was indeed not the doctrine of the church embodied in any creed or form of devotion, but a widely current opinion of distinguished teachers, such as Barnabas, Papias, Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Methodius, and Lactantius, while Caius, Origen, Dionysius the Great.Many of these theologians and others in the early church expressed their belief in premillennialism through their acceptance of the sexta-septamillennial tradition. This belief claims that human history will continue for 6,000 years and then will enjoy Sabbath for 1,000 years (the millennial kingdom), thus all of human history will have a total of 7,000 years prior to the new creation.
Whatever your view kindly KNOW what you are talking about.

[PaulInMiami]

02:20 PM on 07/09/2011

Family Radio provides excellent Bible readings and Christian hymn music--combined with some fine "family living" instruction...BUT, sadly, laced through and through with Camping's perverted and warped theology regarding salvation and his twisted, nonsensical version of "final events."
After May 21 passed uneventfully, he claimed that the Day of Judgment really had occurred, just not the way it had been expected. Perhaps, in a sense he was correct: his stroke may have been God's judgment on him (not for me to say).
But one thing is certain: ALL OF US WILL STAND BEFORE CHRIST, TO BE JUDGED BY HIM on that last day, the day of judgment. The current fad of "Rapture" teaching (mixed up with a Millenial Reign, world-ruling Anti-Christ and Great Tribulation--all fiction never once mentioned by the apostles but constantly emphasized by false teachers/preachers of the last two centuries), depicted in such rubbish as the "Left-Behind" writings, is totally NON-Biblical!

[Charlie Rizzo]

04:08 PM on 07/10/2011

Pre-millenial eschatology is NON_BIBLICAL? Really? Forget the pre-trib thing.....the first 3 cent ALL of the Church expected a literal return and reign of Christ. It is one thing to disagree about prophecy but to label Pre_Mils as FALSE teachers only shows your ignorance.

[irishkids1234]

10:46 AM on 07/07/2011

By looking at this old koot, he probably is right about the end of the world for "him" if he pretty much picked out any day. There never seems to be a limit on the number of morons in the world.

[Bills Catz]

12:22 AM on 07/07/2011

Yeah, a stroke caused by being asked to GIVE BACK back all those donations, maybe. A delusional old fool who found a whole gang of fools to follow him...

[Lady In Silhouette]

02:52 PM on 07/06/2011

Predictors of doom and gloom beware, the end of the world/rapture, you say is coming may be your own, and 'yours alone'.

[GeorgieMark]

02:13 PM on 07/06/2011

HE WAS RIGHT!!!!!!

The end times did come in 2011, the end of his time that is!

[trekie70]

01:00 PM on 07/06/2011

Hmmm......could this be God's way of telling Camping he needs to quit taking people's money based on a lie and devote his time to a more worthy cause?

[powercosmic]

12:23 PM on 07/06/2011

Why doesn't this fool just croak already?

Shouldn't he be with jeebus already?

I know that if I believed in the same nonsense that he does, I would not wait to start my eternal worshiping session in the great big revival tent in the sky!

Ohhhhhh....the horror....the horror...

[PaulInMiami]

02:26 PM on 07/09/2011

Agreed that Camping played/plays the fool.

But, there is a greater fool than that: the one who says in his heart, "There is no God."
Take care: your Master is that Deceiver called Satan, for whom you labor so devotedly.
Following him, you will end up where he is surely going.

[JeffWayne]

08:32 AM on 07/12/2011

This can not be true because I know many people who spend thier lives being honest, working hard and helping fellow man every chance they get, yet they do not believe in god. They are obviously not mastered by Satan. Yet YOU feel the need to slander thier names.

[TeraWatt60]

10:39 AM on 07/06/2011

I'm sorry but I simply have no sympathy for this superstitious carnival barker and his fleeced "flock" of f.ools

[Bob Wood]

10:23 AM on 07/06/2011

It's fascinating that the vast majority of Americans believe, and support the acceptance of the supernatural...and make bazillions of dollars from its promotion...when there's never been proven the existence of even one supernatural place, being, or event. I feel badly for Harold Camping as he earnestly believed that he'd determined the end of the world. He's dumb...but not malicious.
It surprises me that people can make so much money peddling the patently unbelievable. That being the case...it's surprising that the radio show hasn't been replaced sooner. Plainly, there are gullible people...by the droves...who would rather accept magic and superstition than to actually think the proposition through...exercise reason...and change the channel. Then again...the Discovery Channel airs an awful lot of hauntings, UFO's, and Bigfoot sightings. We humans are a gullible group...(sigh)

[Misterioso Adversario]

11:43 AM on 07/06/2011

But does the fact that it may not be malicious, lessen the severity of what he did?

[Bob Wood]

06:58 PM on 07/06/2011

No it doesn't...but most of those who suffered as a result of his delusion...were just as delusional themselves. I don't think we can protect people from themselves...(sigh)

[sweetgreensnowpea]

06:22 PM on 07/06/2011

not so dumb that he didn't make he make a fortune.

[Bob Wood]

06:56 PM on 07/06/2011

One can be brilliant in business...and otherwise dumb. The vast majority of Americans believe patently unbelievable things..(sigh)

[kwrxxx]

10:08 AM on 07/06/2011

FYI, For the 50 years that Camping has led Family Radio he has never received a Salary or a dime from them. The highest paid board member is a lawyer/treasurer for about $60k.

[asta1968]

10:11 AM on 07/06/2011

He could be burning the donations in his front yard, the money was wasted. But you know the saying, a fool and his money are soon parted, apparently Camping has cornered the fool market.

[Bob Wood]

10:56 AM on 07/06/2011

My niece informs me that a fool and his money make a pretty good date...(sigh)

[Misterioso Adversario]

11:43 AM on 07/06/2011

And your point is?

[Reg Corleonis]

08:27 AM on 07/06/2011

I feel sorry for Camping up to a point. He genuinely believed his own BS and when it was shown to be the BS it always was before the entire world it brought on a stroke. Had he not fleeced thousands of sincere, albeit gullible, people out of millions of $$$$$, I would wish him well. But I don't. If and when he recovers from his stroke, best he pays back the money or somebody should lock him up.

[JohnFromCensornati]

08:24 AM on 07/06/2011

The End is near.

[karen1e]

10:51 AM on 07/06/2011

hahaha

[koyak23]

02:48 PM on 07/06/2011

That's what Jesus said. Alas, he was wrong, too.

[EvilRabbit]

08:11 AM on 07/06/2011

I, as a Secular Humanist, wish him nothing but a full recovery and the absolute best based on nothing other than basic human kindness and compassion. He doesn't have to believe as I believe or read the same books. He's still my brother with no equivocation or separation. No chosen people. Just all of us here on Earth going through this human experience together.

Too bad that some Christians don't feel the same. The irony is that their own Jesus saw things closer to my way than theirs.

[asta1968]

10:13 AM on 07/06/2011

Excellent!

Happy to be #70!

[koyak23]

02:51 PM on 07/06/2011

Wait a minute Bub !

There is no way that you can have the capacity engage in acts of kindness and compassion unless you are doing so in order to enter Heaven and avoid the fires of hell...

[sweetgreensnowpea]

06:26 PM on 07/06/2011

not true.
and i've had animals who exhibited kindness and compassion who weren't concerned about heaven or hell.