False Prophet Harold Camping made Millions on Doomsday Scam

Camping, the 89-year-old East Bay preacher who gained international fame with his prediction that the rapture would come at 6 p.m. Saturday, said that he misinterpreted the Bible and that May 21 was not really the end of the world but the spiritual beginning of the physical end.

"Were not changing a date at all; we're just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this," he said in a rambling 90-minute radio broadcast that was part sermon, part press conference. "But on Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed. It won't be five months of destruction. It will come at once."

Last time around, the native-Boulderite and biblical number-cruncher predicted the the end for May 21, 2011 -- the same day that the messianic Bono was in Denver, a coincidence (or not) that filmmakers Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle did not fail to note in their just-finished documentary Jesus vs. Bono. And Camping is giving it another go: Now he's saying the world is definitely going to end Friday. And this is not a coincidence: That's the day Jesus vs. Bono premieres.

It came to pass that either the Rapture didn't happen or very few people got Raptured, and Camping was not one of them. But that's not stopping Camping from sticking to his guns: He's still standing steadfast behind his prediction that the world will end for real on Friday -- and while it's true that far fewer people are paying attention this time, we always like to help out charlatans when we can, so we're spreading the word.

Plus, we have a good reason for doing so, because even though Jesus didn't end up coming to town as promised back in May, Bono did, and that was enough for Jesus vs. Bono. And now, after six long months of production, it's ready for the masses: The mock-umentary makes its world premiere at 7 p.m. October 21 at the new Voodoo Comedy Playhouse.