What happens when your end-of-the-world prediction is wrong

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9. Hilarious Xian schadenfreude over Camping

Camping had some followers in the area where I'm living now - the buckle on the Bible Belt in the rural South.

They went around telling all the slightly less insane Xians that only Brother Camping knew the Day and the Hour when Jesus would return, etc. etc. And evidently they were pretty arrogant and stroppy about the whole thing.

I've heard some good stories. Like some of the Apocalyptists were opportunists who took out 2d/3rd mortgages, and ran up their credit cards to the max. Because Jesus would make sure they never had to pay it back when the world ended!

And they didn't necessarily turn that money over to Bro Camping to buy his billboards. Some spent it on splurgy family trips to places like Mouschwitz/Orlando or Myrtle Beach. To "say good-bye to the sinful material world" etc.

Their preaching to other believers certainly came back to bite them in the ass. On May 22, they were broke, homeless and carless.

And where did many of them go looking for charity? The same churches they had previously criticized for not believing in the prophecy.