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Fraudulent Leader of the May 21 Doomsday Movement Suffered a Stroke

Harold Camping, the leader of the apocalyptic movement that predicted the end of the world would begin on May 21, has suffered a stroke.

According to multiple followers from his California-based broadcast ministry, Camping, 89, only suffered a mild stroke. “He’s presently recuperating in a local hospital and doctors are pleased with his progress…This was all we were told to tell everyone,” said a broadcast ministry operator, who said she and Family Radio’s other operators came to work Monday morning to find a short statement from the Camping family on their desks.

Camping’s first pathetic attempt to predict the end of the world came in 1994. Despite many false predictions, he has amassed arguably a cult-like following. Camping’s followers have donated their homes, life savings, retirement accounts, and left their jobs to donate time spreading Camping’s message.

Camping’s main monetary stream comes from his Family Radio front. Established in 1958, Family Radio is supposed to be a non-profit Christian radio network, but has received in excess of $80 million in “donations” between 2005 and 2009.

Camping used the donated assets to spread the word through a national billboard campaign and caravans of RVs that toured the country spreading the doomsday message. When his prediction failed to pan out, Camping subsequently took the radio airwaves to say that he had misinterpreted the nature of the rapture but that the world would still end on October 21.

For months, Camping predicted that Jesus Christ would return to the earth on May 21 and that a select 2% to 3% of the world’s population would be raptured, or taken to heaven. Those left behind would face months of tribulation before perishing in the Earth's destruction, which Camping said would happen on October 21.

Despite prior predictions obviously not coming true, many innocent, but gullible lives have been ruined. Camping is nothing more than a con-man that is using religion to build his ego and self-wealth. When will someone step in and stop this madness!