{"id":817,"date":"2015-10-07T01:48:16","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T08:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/?p=817"},"modified":"2015-10-07T01:53:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T08:53:46","slug":"once-more-with-camping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/lateraltruth\/2015\/10\/07\/once-more-with-camping\/","title":{"rendered":"Once More, with Camping"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"apocalypse\"<\/a>Ho hum, here we go again.\u00a0 The world is going to end today…maybe.\u00a0 Probably.\u00a0 In all likelihood.\u00a0 This is according to one Chris McCann of eBible Fellowship<\/a>, the never-say-die spiritual heir of the infamous failed prophet Harold Camping<\/a>, who entertained us all greatly in 2011.\u00a0\u00a0 Who could forget the billboards and wild pictorial vehicles paid for by Camping\u2019s followers, spreading the news that the world would end in May 2011?\u00a0 Whoops\u2014he meant October 2011.\u00a0 And whoops again.\u00a0 After the second great disappointment in a year, Camping had the grace to admit he was wrong, that maybe it was not such a good idea to try and pin God down, and then he had a stroke and died at the age of 93.<\/p>\n

But some of his believers, in a dazzling display of cognitive dissonance, found a way to believe Camping was right all along, though perhaps a bit naive in expecting the cosmic symptoms of apocalypse to look like they do in the movie 2012<\/em>.\u00a0 Chris McCann, the most vocal of these believers, has come out with a complex apologia<\/a> for Camping\u2019s apparent failure, plus a new date for the fiery destruction of the sin-soiled old world: 7th<\/sup> October 2015.<\/p>\n

It seems that, to McCann, the end of the world is a process rather than an\u00a0 event.\u00a0 Here is his calendar of events, based in large part on Camping\u2019s timeline:<\/p>\n