"I lost my inheritance to the doomsday prophet" (Harold Camping makes money!)

CNN ^ | 1 Jun 2011 | Blake Ellis

[Cronos]

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.

[Cronos]

dupes...

[Cronos]

Benny Hinn and Jesse Duplantis were smarter con-men than Harold Camping. They figured out that you can get more money from the normal “I went to heaven and comforted Jaysus” than by the regular “Da welt is gonna end”.

[Jack Hydrazine]

A fool and his/her money are soon parted.

[Genoa]

Sorry, ladies, it was hers to do what she wanted to with it. Earn your own keep.

[WayneS]

Well, they don’t call him the “Doomsday Profit” for nothing, you know.

Others’ doom is his profit.

[Genoa]

They each got $25,000 and they're griping.

[Libloather]

She left nearly her entire estate - around $300,000 - to the group behind the failed prediction, leaving some family members out in the cold.

But if the rapture happens right now, she's good to go - eh?

[Titanites]

For some people, their world did end when the rapture didn’t occur as scheduled.

[KevinB]

I lost my inheritance

I hate to break this to you, Twinkles, but it was her money to do with as she pleased not your inheritance. She could have left it to her pet parakeet if she wanted.

[Meet the New Boss]

“I lost my inheritance to the doomsday prophet”

It wasn’t “her” inheritance in the first place if the aunt never left it to her.

If the aunt’s will was that her executors should pile up her money in a big bonfire and have a marshmallow roast, that’s the aunt’s right because it’s the aunt’s money.

I’ll bet the woman complaining is a Democrat, she feels entitled to take money of other people and line her pocket with it.

[Longbow1969]

I hate to break this to you, Twinkles, but it was her money to do with as she pleased not your inheritance. She could have left it to her pet parakeet if she wanted.

True, and making sure a parakeet lived in the luxury that $300,000 dollars can buy would have been a more worthy cause than sending even a dime to Family Radio.

[Quix]

ACTUALLY,

For all his flaws,

he’s never taken a penny of ministry money for himself. He’s a 100% volunteer.

And, he’s spent a sizeable chunk of his sold construction business in behalf of the ministry.

[Quix]

Did Camping end up paying such blokes a token amount?

Better than nothing. He could have done more.

[WayneS]

I did not know that.

What does he do with the millions of dollars he collects from old ladies suffering from senile dementia?

[Grunthor]

“I lost my inheritance to the doomsday prophet”

You lost your inheritance because you are a dumb**it.

[Grunthor]

Sry should have read more carefully. She lost her inheritance because her aunt was a dumb.....well, I won’t speak ill of the dead.

[circlecity]

"Benny Hinn and Jesse Duplantis were smarter con-men than Harold Camping."

Yep, they both figured out that you can shear a sheep many times but you can only skin it once.

[Cronos]

True. Hinn and Jesse shear their dumb sheep followers quite often — have you heard the story of Benny Hinn getting ticked off because HE got robbed in Nigeria? Talk of duping the duper!

[crosshairs]

Hinn and Jesse shear their dumb sheep followers quite often

Like Rome accumulating wealth from dumb sheep who think they can spring a loved one from purgatory by paying indulgences for special masses.