Oakland minister Harold Camping is betting that the world will end at the close of the work week—although he does seem quite a bit less certain this time around.
Earlier this year, Camping captured the intrigue of North American cynics, believers, and the generally curious alike with his end-of-days prediction and the rapture of all repentant Christians on May 21, 2011. Those he managed to convince donated tens of millions of dollars from their emptied bank accounts, dropped out of school, and left their jobs in order to warn others of the impending destruction. On the morning of May 22, the credulity of Camping's followers left them to be derided or pitied, and Camping himself allowed that he was "flabbergasted." The apocalypse didn't come. In the minds of many, they simply had been duped.
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