The Rapture, which was supposed to happen at 6 p.m. May 21, was a no-show and more evidence of the dumbing down of America.

In the aftermath, several humanist groups have demanded an investigation into Harold Camping — for fraud and deceit — claiming he and Family Radio duped “untold numbers people” with his Judgment Day forecast.

Camping, 89, stands accused of using the prediction to capitalize on his followers’ fears, persuading them to open their pocketbooks to spread his doomsday message to the rest of the world, spending more than $100 million on ads.

Conversely, Camping claims that the money is being used wisely to spread the Gospel. However, some of Campings’ followers have revealed that they spent their life savings, contributed significantly or quit their jobs for the May 21 doomsday campaign. Camping has refused to give them refunds.

Over the past few decades, Camping has made several erroneous predictions for when the world would come to an end. For May 21, he had predicted true believers would be raptured to heaven, while the rest of the world suffers the beginning of Judgment Day.

Undeterred, after May 21 came and went with no apocalypse, Camping offered several excuses.

Moreover, he revealed his new conviction that Judgment Day came on the world spiritually and not physically, as he had originally predicted, and that the rapture and apocalypse would happen on the same day – Oct. 21, 2011.

We predict the world will continue  and we hope few people will support Camping’s foolishness this time.