What makes the fundies think they will be taken in the Rapture?

[LostInAnomie]

According to Revelations the 144,000 that are taken will be from the tribes of Israel.

7:4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

And not only that, but those who are taken will be virgin males.

14:3 ...and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
14:4 These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins...

If they believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible what makes them think they will be taken?

[shesemsmom]

1. I don't know

but after what they have done by putting the anti Christ back in the white House I wont miss them... any of them

[jdots]

2. could it be ?????

because they are turd maggots that couldn't pass the test to get into the "Knights of the Itchy Jock Strap "

[NYC]

3. I hadn't realized there was a limited number.

I get the impression they think all of them are going.

Interestingly, 144 = one "gross".

So a gross of fundies are going. (Okay, a gross dozen.)

[LostInAnomie]

5. But the Bible say it will be 12K from each of the tribes of Israel.

That doesn't include the fundies.

[NYC]

13. So they're not even part of the 144,000.

They don't have a snowball's chance in hell of going to heaven in the Rapture? That's funny. Thanks.

[noamnety]

4. all this

just to escape from women? Are we really that bad? O8)

[JoMama49]

6. For one thing, they don't read the Bible like that .....

they believe all the crap their families and preachers have told them since they were kids. If they say those "born again" will be saved eternal damnation, then that's what they believe will happen. There are some sick puppies out there.

[MisterP]

7. it's related to Calvin's "elect" (which of course they all must be a part

of), and the New Morality: good and evil is irrelevant; it is the saved and unsaved. That is what makes fundamentalism so dangerous: it replaces morality with club membership; all is forgiven, no matter what you do.

[greblc]

8. Well the fundie men plan to hold their ...

loved ones in ther arms while Jesus pulls them up to heaven by their Mullets.

[yella_dawg]

9. Actually, it's just wishful thinking...

on my part.

[illflem]

10. Wasn't Revelations written by a deranged old man

banished to living in a cave on a deserted island?

[DieboldMustDie]

11. "...the ravings of a maniac,

no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams."

Thomas Jefferson on the Book of Revelation: Jan. 17, 1825

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

[depakid]

12. Poor math and reading skills

not to mention an inflated sense of self importance.

[sakabatou]

14. Well...

that rules out pretty much every christian in the world.

[saltpoint]

15. I agree -- the textis plain -- the fundies will miss out on the Rapture.

A major bummer for the dumb and dumber.

[radfringe]

16. it's hubris

they assume because of their religion they have a "free pass", that they are the only ones "worthy"

this sounds alot like "PRIDE" -- which, I believe, is a sin -- so it looks to me that they have disqualified themselves

[TyeDye75]

17. If only the rapture had happened in Ohio

on November 1st. Take away 144,000 freep RW nutjobs and Kerry would have carried the state comfartably.

(of course my statement works on the assumption that the votes were actually counted not just a pre set computer tally.)