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Harold Camping Finally Admits Not Knowing When the Rapture Will Come

"Yes, we humbly acknowledge we were wrong about the timing […] We must also openly acknowledge that we have no new evidence pointing to another date for the end of the world." —From a message posted on the website of Family Radio by its octogenarian founder and frequent Judgment Day prognosticator Harold Camping. Last year, Camping predicted first May 21 and then October 21 as the day the world would end.

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