Top ways Harold Camping might respond to Doomsday dud

Top ways Harold Camping might respond to Doomsday dud

Doomsday was suppose to happen at 6pm local time all around the world, but with the 'judgment day' no where to be found, the question now turns to where Harold Camping is, the proclaimer and perhaps now: "false prophet."

What of him now?

While IBTimes could not make contact with Camping or his associates, IBT conducted another survey, this time of 20,000 people asking what would be Camping's most likely response now that the earth is still here.

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Photo:REUTERS/Reuters Television Harold Camping, 89, the California evangelical broadcaster who predicts that Judgment Day will come on May 21, 2011, is seen reading the Bible in his office at Family Stations Inc. offices in Oakland, California in this still image from video May 16, 2011. The U.S. evangelical Christian broadcaster predicting that Judgment Day will come on Saturday says he expects to stay close to a TV or radio to monitor the unfolding apocalypse. The head of the Christian radio network Family Stations Inc says that he is sure an earthquake will shake the Earth on May 21, sweeping true believers to heaven and leaving others behind to be engulfed in the world's destruction over a few months.

Repent

Of those polled by IBTimes regarding Camping's next moves, just over 8 percent believe the 'doomsday' preacher will come out and say he was wrong.

Photo:REUTERS Camping, California evangelical broadcaster who predicted that Judgment Day will come on May 21, 2011

God had mercy

Roughly 19 percent of respondents said that Camping would "claim God had mercy on mankind and spared the earth," much like God had mercy on the city of Ninevah in the book of Jonah.

Photo:Reuters Harold Camping's follower holding the Doomsday banner

Miscalculated

The majority, 54 percent, believe that Camping will unrepentantly claim a calculation error and form a new Doomsday date. As outrageous as they may sound, this wouldn't be unprecedented. Camping famously claimed that the world was going to en in 1994, but, being here 17y later, cited calculation mistakes.