There ought to be a law. But there isn't.
So, religious hucksters like 89-year-old Harold Camping continue to operate monumental con-jobs that bring in multiple millions of dollars in donations from gullible people.
In case you missed the details: Camping's latest doomsday prediction stemmed from what he described as an intricate mathematical formulation taken directly from numbers in the bible. As he figured it, all good and righteous Christians would be taken up to heaven 722,500 days after Jesus' crucifixion — on May 21 at 5:59 pm. (He didn't bother to say which time zone would be hit first.) The rest of the world's population, his outlandish prophecy promised, would be left to suffer five months of cataclysmic earthquakes and other biblical tribulations, until the whole planet ceased to exist sometime on Oct. 21. More...
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I'm not taking up for the guy but what he did (is doing) is not illegal. People are willingly giving him money. Then again, wouldn't you get in trouble if you said you or a child would die and it didn't happen? If yes, Camping should face charges under the same charges. If no, then that's too bad.
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