Harold Camping: a prophet or profiteer?
The earth has continued to revolve and we continue to have pancakes or bacon and eggs for breakfast. Nothing has changed.
He promised earthquake that would split the world into half leading to total destruction. But May 21, 2011 came and went the same way: quietly.
The earth has continued to revolve and we continue to have pancakes or bacon and eggs for breakfast. Nothing has changed.
Except that Family Radio Christian host, Harold Camping and his staff had gone quiet and off the air since the predicted Rapture that never came.
Nothing has changed except for some philanthropist who gladly deposited donations to charitable accounts provided by Camping and his personnel.
ChristianPost.com estimated that approximately $100M was spent by Family Radio, a non-profit organization that initiated telling the whole world about the predicted apocalypse and which Camping founded with his partner, Lloyd Linduist.
Camping may have been all over the news giving the warning but his personnel at Family Radio were the ones doing the dirty work. According to Media Bistro, Camping has a group of people soliciting donations that would finance the advertisements.
“My understanding is that they were soliciting money to help people understand the word of God,” Charity Navigator vice president, Sandra Miniutti was quoted as saying by Media Bistro.
Charity Navigator is a company that monitors more than 5,500 charity organizations in the United States, including Camping’s Family Radio. The self-proclaimed Bible scholar’s charity has been rated 4-star by Charity Navigator.
Family Radio international projects manager, Matt Tuter confirmed the organization’s solicitation efforts. And he reiterated that the Family Radio has spent $100M for successful dissemination of the supposed Judgment Day.
He clarified, however that these expenses would not have not have been met from the donations alone and insisted that Camping had to resort to selling his own properties in order to finance the advertising costs.
And with the failure of the 89-year-old self-taught “seer” to keep his promise that the world was to end, questions now have been raised whether or not he is legally liable for making such pronouncements that left some people scampering for a safer place for their families.
Was he really a prophet or just one good profiteer?
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