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Rapture: Oct. 21 Now Day For Liftoff

The end is still near, radio preacher Harold Camping said in a broadcast Monday night, but the world will be around until Oct. 21. Camping, the 89-year-old East Bay preacher who gained international fame with his prediction that the rapture would come at 6 p.m. Saturday, said that he misinterpreted the Bible and that May 21 was not really the end of the world but the spiritual beginning of the physical end. "Were not changing a date at all; we're just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this," he said in a rambling 90-minute radio broadcast that was part sermon, part press conference. "But on Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed. It won't be five months of destruction. It will come at once"/San Francisco Chronicle. More here. (Photo: Associated Press)

Question: How should Camping have spun his botched May 21 prophecy?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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