Sue Espinoza, 89 year old Harold Camping’s daughter, received a telephone call from her father, after the “End of the World’ was as expected, proven false.
Ms. Espinoza watched television before the call, awaiting news of her father’s prediction. Harold Camping’s Bible based calculations were said to be focused on 7,000 years to the day after Noah’s flood: May 21, 2011 at 6:00pm.
Sue Espinoza, 60, picked up the phone, with her father Camping, the Oakland preacher on the line — Espinoza recalled, “He just said, ‘I’m a little bewildered that it didn’t happen, but it’s still May 21 [in the United States],’” Espinoza said, standing in the doorway of her Alameda home. “It’s going to be May 21 from now until midnight.”
Camping added later outside his home, “I’m looking for answers,” adding that meant frequent prayer and consultations with friends.
“But now I have nothing else to say,” he said, closing the door. “I’ll be back to work Monday and will say more then.”
With his bewilderment, he leaves thousands of followers who maxed out their credit cards and emptied their savings, saying good bye to their children because Camping claimed a vast amount of children would be destroyed. Lives were broken, family’s forsaken and trust abandoned.
Instead of devastation, including hurricanes and earthquakes, children as well as millions of people left dead, it was a sunny day, with people mocking the failed doomsday in the streets.
Perhaps some of his followers can join the festivities now.
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