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'Rapture' Prophet Camping: Did I Say May 21? I Should Have Said Oct. 21

Harold Camping speaks during a taping of his show <em>Open Forum</em> in Oakland, Calif., on Monday (May 23, 2011).
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Harold Camping speaks during a taping of his show Open Forum in Oakland, Calif., on Monday (May 23, 2011).

He says he's not going to talk about Judgment Day anymore and that his Family Radio network will now focus on Christian music and related programs.

Oh, and religious broadcaster Harold Camping also now insists that the world will be destroyed on Oct. 21, The San Francisco Chroniclereports.

And what about his infamous prediction that The Rapture would begin on May 21, this past Saturday? That millions of believers would be whisked away?

His calculations were off, Camping said during a broadcast on his network Monday. But he maintains that Saturday marked the "spiritual" beginning of The Rapture.

And now, if he's not going to talk about it again, perhaps we shouldn't either (at least until October).

Update at 1 p.m. ET. Our friends at The Picture Show have a gallery of photos of Camping taken Sunday morning by Oakland-based photographer Brandon Tauszik. And Tauszik recorded this short clip of Camping saying he was "totally bewildered" about the fact that nothing really happened on Saturday:

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