I do remember Harold Camping on WFME when I lived in New Jersey. It was in the mid or latr 80’s when he went on the shackey tangent. No more people were going to be saved, so there is no point in spreading the Gospel further. Everyone should just hunker down, keep everyone from backsliding, and reduce contact with outsiders. This is what I called at the time “hidey hole bomb shelter Christianity”, and looking back now this also resembles some cult behavior.
As for the picture at the top of this thread, Harold Camping smiling? The rate he was going, I wondered if he knew the Joy of the Lord (as in the song “The Joy of the Lord is My Strength). Some of my Pentacostal friends prayed that he would be really filled with the Holy Spirit and start speaking in toungues.
I used to love the music from WFME, that is how I initally began listening.
He sounded so learned. But I knew there was something wrong. I do remember him saying that Christians should only give money to ministries that spread God’s word - not feed people - and then he’d next say no one else could be saved.
I’m trying to remember but even beyond Calvinism (you know, you are chosen and that’s it) he was saying no one else could be saved after a certain date. Like heaven was full or something. And I knew that wasn’t right, of course.
His staff was probably going berserk. He seemed to have an elitism; I’ve studied this so long and know so much so I am right and everyone else is wrong. He was just about the most bullheaded person I’d ever heard on Christian radio.