Harold Camping isn’t a fringe Christian
Believers weren’t “raptured” up into heaven on May 21st, 2011, like Harold Camping had predicted. That’s no surprise. Camping was a fringe kook. Right?
Don’t be so quick to judge. A 2010 Pew Research poll found that a staggering 41% of Americans believe that Jesus of Nazareth will probably return to earth by 2050. That’s not 41% of evangelical Christians, or even 41% of Christians. That’s 41% of all Americans.
The only difference between Harold Camping and that 41% percent is that Camping picked a one-day span, and they picked a 40-year span. Many of the Christians who mocked or decried Camping’s prediction were not doing so because they thought the prediction was wrong, but because it wasn’t as vague as their prediction. Harold Camping isn’t fringe. He’s just more specific.
