Harold Camping Family Radio End Of The World Apocalypse, Wrong

The Golden Gate Bridge, a photo by zennie62 on Flickr.

Well, it's Saturday, May 22nd, 11:42 AM, and we're all still here. That means Harold Camping Family Radio's "End Of The World Apocalypse," was just plain wrong. And I use this photo I took of the Golden Gate Bridge from yesterday's cruise about the yacht America, to illustrate how wonderfully awesome it is to be alive.

(But what's neat is to see all of these words dominate search trends: apocalypse, end of the world, doomsday, rapture, mayan calendar 2012, world clock, and May 21)

And what does Harold Camping himself have to say about it? Well, at this point and as of this writing, nothing at all. Silence.

But Camping does owe some explanation to those people who believed him. People who've sold their possessions, or spent their life savings all because they believed him.

What they didn't believe in was God.

There's nothing in the Bible that expressly points to this day as the end of the World. Moreover, regarding The Second Coming, the Bible also states that we will not know when that happens.

You do know what the real problem is, don't you? It's what I'm going to start called The Stephen Hawking Problem. That's where people have faith in a person for a set of reasons that are really just based on their desire to have faith in what that person says.

Hawking says Heaven's a "fairy tale" because he can't see it. His believers agree with them because they have faith in what he says.

Harold Camping said the World's end would be today, and his believer's had faith in his words. Camping's wrong and because of the basic fact that we're all here.

Hawking's believers should take that as a warning not to blindly follow what another human being says. And by "blindly," I mean without a solid set of reasons for doing so.

If you're going to have faith in that person, just admit that's what it is, and stop trying to rationalize it.

I have faith that God, my Mother, and my friends love me. That's enough for me.