So what happens to the fundies when the Rapture doesn't happen?

[Melodybe]

Sure Bush could blow us all to smitherines, but getting killed in a nuclear holocaust is not the same as Jesus coming to Earth.

So how long will it take for them to realize that the magical rapture they were all expecting is not going to happen? And what will they do?

[phantom power]

1. Don't hold your breath

History shows us what they do: whenever their latest Rapture Date comes and goes, they set their sights on a new date.

[ClintonTyree]

16. Just like Homer Simpson..........

there were some glitches in the calculations. It's supposed to be NEXT Friday!





Ummmmm.....Rapture!

[Scurrilous]

17. Great episode...

...:thumbsup:

[carnie_sf]

2. My guess is

the same thing they were doing right before the realization, hating, stealing, lying, and being hypocritical.

[wildeyed]

3. The real question,

what happens to US if the rapture doesn't happen. I was kind of counting on all of them getting raptured away, leaving the rest of us in peace for once.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. The whole gnashing of teeth and weeping thing.

Would be my guess.

[BillZBubb]

5. To be a wingnut or a fundamentalist, you must have amnesia.

It's a convenient amnesia that lets you forgot claims you've made in the past. That way you can just make new claims and continue on your merry, ignorant way.

Ergo, they will never realize the Rapture is not going to happen.

[smoogatz]

6. They've been waiting 2000 years.

What's another millenium or so?

[H5N1]

8. Exactly, they just keep waiting

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Jonestown.

[jobycom]

9. Have more kids, teach kids their silly nonsense, die. Repeat as necessary.

[woodsprite]

10. That means we're stuck down here with them. n/t

[Kraklen]

11. It didn't happen 2000 years ago...

when Jesus said it was supposed too, they're not going to get upset when it doesn't happen tomorrow.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Please don't even think that

If they ever figure out that almost all religions are simply systems used by the existing power structure to keep the masses enfeebled with mythology, there would be a revolution the likes of which the world has never seen.

[OneBlueSky]

13. I don't know if is an urban myth or not, but I read a story . . .

about a year ago -- here on DU, in fact -- about a truck full of human sized/shaped balloons that was traveling down the highway when some of them let loose and started drifting upward . . . a rapture-ready Christian lady in a car following behind saw these "people" rising, was convinced the rapture was upon us, and leapt from her speeding car, killing herself . . .

[charlie]

14. It was satire

http://www.elroysemporium.com/news/rapturetalk.html

[donco6]

15. Forever.

They believe it would be denying their faith to believe anything other than Jesus is coming back.

[EVDebs]

18. They read End Time Delusions by Steve Wohlberg and then

understand that they've been used to promote the 'futurist' end times theology.

See

www.aloha.net/~mikesch/antichrist.htm

Then they start joining up with the people who work on the social gospel like in the olden days of yore when the union movement really got going.

[Lautremont]

19. This:

[Lydia Leftcoast]

20. This actually happened in the 1840s

There was a group called the Millerites, and they were so sure that Jesus was coming back on October 22, 1844 that they sold all their property and positions, put on white robes, and went to the top of hill to wait.

So on the morning of October 23, 1844, there were thousands of homeless people in white robes. This was referred to as The Great Disappointment.

Some of the followers decided that the calculations were just slightly off and kept calculating and re-calculating. Eventually, this led to the founding of the Jehovha's Witnesses. Others drifted off into other denominations, as upstate New York was a hotbed of new religions in those days, giving rise to Seventh-Day Adventism, Mormonism, Spiritualism, and the precursors of racist movements like the Aryan Nations.

[eShirl]

21. isn't that where the Oneida Colony also sprang up?

19th century American religious history is just fascinating

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. Oh yeah, them too

And it was the heyday of the Shakers, although they were founded in England.

[catmandu57]

22. Maybe it's already happened

a thousand years ago when we didn't have instant worldwide communication, who kows? I don't. Personally I'm offended that someone elses vision of the world gasping it's last affects me.
I have far more confidence in the sun going supernova and consuming the earth, than I do in someones twisted mythology.

[meow2u3]

23. Simple: they'll just come up with another rapture date

eom

[hedda_foil]

25. Their leaders have that covered.

Virtually every high profile fundy leader is a Dominionist. They're preaching pre-millenialism but they're really post-millealists. So at some point of time, the likelihood is that they're planning to tell their followers that Jesus expects them to live by Old Testament rule for a thousand years to usher in the rapture. No doubt, the poor dumb followers will be blamed for not being pure enough or believing strongly enough. So it will be their fault that they and their progeny have to go through a thousand years of "cleansing" to bring on the rapture.

Fun, fun, fun!

Oh ... and I don't think there's a way in hell that any of the freaky fundy leaders believe a damn word they're saying. Their all Republican operatives.

[VOX]

26. Superstition has its roots in obsessive-compulsive thinking...

Something like, "Hmm, if I do *this*, then *that* might happen (or not happen); so, if I just think about *this*, then *that* might happen (or not happen)."

Chances are that those, um, enraptured (sorry) by the Rapture will not give up their line of thinking. Maybe in 150-200 years, it might die down. :shrug:

[Buns_of_Fire]

27. They get to keep their cars?

:shrug: