Harold Camping dead at 92

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That's a pretty good run, and he was actually capable of admitting he was wrong. I hope it was peaceful.

That's the odd part:

On Saturday, November 30th, Mr. Camping sustained a fall in his home, and he was not able to recover from his injuries. He passed away peacefully in his home

He passed away peacefully from the injuries sustained in what I can only imagine was a pretty violent fall. That's like dying peacefully from a gunshot wound, it seems to me.

He is a reminder that being wholly convinced that you are right doesn't mean much if you happen to be wrong. By all accounts, Camping was utterly shocked when May 21, 2011 came and went without incident. But that didn't stop him from what amounted to admitting a rounding error and giving it another go. When October 21, 2011 passed as uneventfully he appears to have decided that end-of-world predictions wasn't really his bag, baby.

Afterwards Camping apparently discovered the teachings of Jesus Christ, who said it was a waste of time to try and predict the end of the world and it wasn't up to puny humans to do so anyway. It's a great example of how some Christians can simply hop from one justification to another with the expectation that this wipes the record clean. "Oh, my end-of-world predictions didn't pan out? PRAISE GOD!!" Sure thing, bud. Whatever you say.