Apocalypse averted...whew

The sun has risen six times, the NYSE's opening bell has rung has five times, and America got a new idol. All this has happened within the time frame between now and Harold Camping's failed prediction of Judgment Day being last Saturday May 21, 2011. Luckily for the majority of the world it wasn't so, because according to Camping only 200 million Christians were going to make the ascension to Heaven.

The Family Radio broadcaster is a bit confused but has not given up hope on his apocalyptic prediction. Camping says that May 21 was in fact Judgment Day, but was a spiritual event and not a physical one as he thought it would be. He still stands strong to his belief that October 21, 2011 will be Doomsday, the day that we as human beings cease to exist. We will have to wait five months to see how that prediction pans out and hopefully we get the same result as we did this time around.

Camping may have not had many believers in his words but there's no doubt his words reached a massive amount of ears. In the days leading up to last Saturday Judgment Day was one of the hottest topics on main stream news broadcasts along with social networking websites. #endoftheworldconfessions quickly became a trending topic on twitter Friday night and garnered millions of tweets, some of them quite hilarious.

For many the Judgment Day that wasn't became the butt of a international joke, but for those who believed in Camping's prophecy it was no laughing matter. Many of his followers had quit their jobs, given away all their earthly possessions, and some even left their family months ago to spread the message of impending doom that was supposedly heading our way. One in particular is a man named Robert Fitzpatrick who spent $140,000 of his life savings to help spread the word. When 6:00 rolled around on Saturday evening Fitzpatrick was in New York City's Time Square awaiting the return of Christ, when that did not occur he stated "I do not understand why nothing has happened."

My question to you is do you think Harold Camping's prophecy was financially motivated, or do you think he truly believes May 21 was Judgment Day?