Doomsday believer donates entire inheritance to Family Radio

Yahoo Finance ^ | June 1, 2011 | Blake Ellis,

[Abin Sur]

When the world didn't end on May 21, many people who had given up their earthly possessions were left with nothing.

But one believer never lived to see the day. She left nearly her entire estate -- around $300,000 -- to the group behind the failed prediction, leaving some family members out in the cold.

Eileen Heuwetter was shocked to find out that her aunt left the majority of her estate to Family Radio, the group responsible for the doomsday warnings that the world would end on May 21. She and her sister were each left $25,000 from their aunt's estate. The rest is going to Family Radio.

The network of Christian radio stations based in Oakland, Ca., is almost entirely funded by donations. According to IRS filings, the group brought in $18 million in contributions in 2009 alone.

Heuwetter, the executor of the will, knew how much her aunt loved the radio station and admired its leader, Harold Camping, who is viewed as a prophet by many of his followers.

While other family members insisted it was crazy to let her aunt give all that money to a radio station, Heuwetter didn't initially contest the conditions of the will. She knew little about the Christian radio station, but knew her aunt, Doris Schmitt, found comfort in it.

Schmitt had lived a tough life, struggling with alcoholism and losing her two children to drug addictions before dying alone at 78 on May 2, 2010 in her small home in Queens, New York.

"This was not a woman who had anything. She literally had Family Radio on day and night -- she went to bed with it and woke up to it," said Heuwetter. "That was all she had."

[Abin Sur]

As the lawyers point out, there's no case. Unless you're proven to be insane, you can leave your estate to any cause you like...even one as strange as Family Radio.

[Nervous Tick]

I’m sure Camping returned all those donations after his predictions proved false... right?

;-)

[Lilyjuslan]

I hope her relatives don’t think they’re entitled to anything. They’re damn lucky the aunt left them each $25K.

[WayneS]

It appears some people should have taken the time to learn the differences in meaning between the homonyms 'prophet' and 'profit'.

[massgopguy]

Now friends, put your hand on the radio. Now put your other hand on the radio. And now, put your other hand on the radio.

[Onelifetogive]

I hope her relatives don’t think they’re entitled to anything. They’re damn lucky the aunt left them each $25K.

Completely agree!!

[DJ MacWoW]

That’s true but it’s difficult to accept that she left her money to a fraud.

[Portcall24]

Now put your hand on your checkbook. Now put your other hand on an envelope. Now put your other hand on a stamp.

[STD]

This wonderful Christ honoring woman no doubt understood what nobody here seems to understand ‘you can’t love God and mammon’ Good for her! God Bless Her!

[Pilgrim's Progress]

I think Camping qualifies for this condemnation . . .

“But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves” (Matthew 23:13-15)

[STD]

Family Radio does much more than merely predict the end of days. They support charities, which feed and cloth hundreds of thousands

[STD]

Probably totally unworthy of their saintly matriarch. They are lucky to have memories of such a godly woman. Bless her heart, let the angels sing her into the glorious Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

Agape,

[DJ MacWoW]

Camping is a fraud. Giving him her money was not honoring Christ. Leaving it to a childrens charity or similar would have honored Christ. God does not smile on those who push a false doctrine and lead His sheep astray.

[STD]

So, how much do you donate to charity each Sunday? I’m reminded of the idiotic commercial about ‘structured settlements’ She’s obviously read the fineprint and has worked out the details with the ultimate counselor. Praise the Lord Jesus

[STD]

So, how much do you donate to charity each Sunday? I’m reminded of the idiotic commercial about ‘structured settlements’ She’s obviously read the fineprint and has worked out the details with the ultimate counselor. Praise the Lord Jesus

[Jack Hammer]

Then put your schvonz on the chopping block...

[DJ MacWoW]

So, how much do you donate to charity each Sunday?

That's none of your business, this isn't about me and my charitable works and I don't help charities only on Sunday.

This is a typical tactic of a poster that cannot defend or refute a post. They attack the poster instead.

Camping claims to know when the end is. He's been wrong twice. Jesus said only the Father knows the day and the hour. Camping is a false prophet. And this woman was duped.

[raccoonradio]

Ah, I remember — a “liner” (as we call in in radio) from the Howie Carr show.

[CynicalBear]

If she was giving thinking she was giving to and being obedient to God she was rewarded. It’s the same as giving to a beggar on the street. If you give with the right heart you will be blessed. What the receiver does with that gift is between that person and God. God knows the heart of both the giver and the receiver.