Doomsday clock rescheduled by Harold Camping after blunder

Doomsday was supposed to happen last Saturday according to Harold Camping but the apocalypse never came to pass. Now, the Christian radio preacher says a merciful God and a slight miscalculation on his part was the reason.

Family Radio evangelist Harold Camping now says doomsday really happened on May 21, 2011, albeit a spiritual one. But the real thing is supposed to happen on October 21 later this year.

Camping explained his revised timeline of events leading to the end of the world on his radio program on Monday, refusing to give any apologies to the thousands of Christian believers who made drastic choices to prepare for the end times.

Many of those who believed gave away their possessions, reunited with their families and emptied their savings in anticipation of doomsday that never came. The 89-year-old Camping advised those people who continue to pray.

As for the financial impact of those people's choices, he only had to say people have always coped, as the recession showed, and said he was not in the business of dispensing financial advice.

Camping and his followers were nowhere to be found after Saturday's doomsday prediction did not materialize. Monday's public appearance in an open forum was the first for Camping since Saturday.

The doomsday scenario has been given much attention by the media leading up to the supposed Day of Judgement. After Saturday came into pass and we're still here, Camping's botched prediction has only drawn ridicule and contempt. It will likely grow after the readjustment of his doomsday clock.

For what it's worth, Camping says we have an extra five months to prepare for Doomsday Part II, and we should not dare waste any more time.