Harold Camping, prophet of May 21 doom, faces the music

By Cathy Lynn Grossman
USA TODAY

The San Francisco Chronicle has tracked down the failed prophet of the Saturday doomsday prediction, Harold Camping, and found him subdued and somewhat “flabbergasted.”

Ya think?

He answered his door in the early evening, hours after the world was supposed to face Judgment Day with Christian believers airlifted to Heaven. Alameda, Calif., may be heavenly but there’s no pearly gate there.

It has been a really tough weekend,” said Harold Camping, the 89-year-old fundamentalist radio preacher who convinced hundreds of his followers that the rapture would occur on Saturday at 6 p.m.

He told the paper he was engaged in prayer and consultations and expected to be back to his radio network office Monday to face the music — and it’s not harps. He told the Chronicle:

I’m looking for answers. But now I have nothing else to say. I’ll be back to work Monday and will say more then.
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