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Is Harold Camping the Boy Who Cried Wolf?

Back in May, when Harold Camping predicted (not for the first time) that Judgment Day was upon us, a lot of people paid attention -- believers and nonbelievers alike. "Doomsday" was among the most popular Google search terms for days leading up to May 21; when followers of the Family Radio host reached out their open arms to the heavens and waited for the Rapture.

City last spring that was a direct plug for Camping's Family Radio (which, presumedly, could have kicked in a little something). But Fitzpatrick, a former MTA worker, was convinced of Camping's prediction. Still, he said he was only "fairly certain" he would be lifted up in the Rapture himself.

"There is nothing you can do on your own to be saved," Fitzpatrick told IBTimes in May. "God chose us before the foundation of the world." Whatever one's perceived fate, "the bottom line is that we're supposed to sound the warning."

Fitpatrick was the subject of a mini-media blitz on Judgment Day (Part One) itself, when he marched to Times Square to await the Rapture. His bewilderment and dejection when it didn't come was captured in print and on video . 

Shortly after, he stopped talking to the press altogether, explaining to IBTimes this summer that "this decision was based on my understanding of what the Bible is telling us about the nature of this time after May 21."

We have no way of knowing if Fitzpatrick is waiting once again to be lifted up. But we do know that even Camping himself has dampened the strengh of his prediction this time around.

"I do believe we're getting very near the very end," Camping, 90, said during a podcast recorded earlier this month and posted on his Family Radio website, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "Oct. 21, that's coming very shortly, that looks like it will be, at this point, it will be the final end of everything."

In May, IBTimes spoke to religious scholar and author Amy Frykholm, who closely interviewed dozens of evangelicals for her book "Rapture Culture." Frykholm observed a clear pattern among her interviewees of estimating the Rapture to coincide with the end of their own expected lifespan.

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