Discuss the Rapture

[HamiltonHabs32]

Honestly I had never heard of this event (not from a religious area) until I saw the Ed Helms Rapture story on the Daily Show, Do you guys think this is why some religious people are are very ignorant towards Athiests/Humanists? because they believe they are going to be swooshed up to heaven during their life time?

If you didn't catch the Daily Show clip, check it out here Its friggen hilarious.

[NoodleBoy]

1. the "rapture" as they call it pretty much confirms that many

fundamentalist/born-again christians are members of a death cult.

"Everything will all be better................ AFTER WE ALL DIE."

[phantom power]

9. That's a good way to put it.

They all seem to be rooting for death and disaster, and the worst of them are enthusiastically helping it along, a la James Watt.

[Taxloss]

11. In my darker moments, I hope the loonier end goes for it.

What with the fervour being expressed right now, they must be getting impatient. The thought of hurrying it along my "re-interpreting" scripture to encompass cultish suicide ... well, it's been seen on a small scale already.

[fshrink]

2. There's no telling

what a believer can believe. The minute you stop relying on critical thinking, assuming that it's available to you, to make sense of the world, there is just no limit to what you can believe. No limit whatsoever.

[Deep13]

3. During the end times...

... which Fundies believe is described in Revelations (although I still think it is just a bad mushroom trip) the faithful will be assumed into heaven and disappear from the Earth. That is the rapture. The Fundies assume they will be assumed, which is assuming a lot. The rest of us or many of us or something will be claimed by the beast of Revelations who represents evil and will be pretty much screwed.

Yes, Fundies are in a death cult. They only care about the afterlife and live for the prospect of going to heaven. Frankly, if the Fundies are all there, heaven sounds like it would suck.

Come the rapture can I have your stuff?

Come the rapture this car will be unmanned and then carreen into a school bus killing all involved.

[onager]

4. As usual, not even the Fundie wackos can agree on the Rupture...

There are many different flavors of Rapture belief, all of them nutty.

Fundies argue this the same way they fight over all the other points of their bizarre theologies.

"The Rapture" can mean many different things. (For the record, it's also the title of a fine movie, written and directed by an atheist, starring a pre-X Files David Duchovny. Unfortunately, it was made on such a low budget, they could only afford ONE Horseman of the Apocalypse...)

Ahem. I digress. Anyway,you can roughly split the believers into pre-millenialists and post-millenialists.

Pre-millenialists believe Jebus will return bodily to Jerusalem and rule the earth for a thousand years. Post-millenialists believe he will return at the end of the present age to take over the earth.

Most of the scary theocratic Fundies, like the "Left Behind" crew, are Pre-Millenialists.

But then there are also Figurative/Idealists, Literal/Preterists, Historicists, Mid-Tribulation, Pre-Wrath, etc. etc.

Read all about 'em here:

http://www.geocities.com/ke_solutions/Tidbits/rapture_beliefs.htm

[Deep13]

5. "Read all about 'em here: ..."

No thanks. It is hard enough keeping track of my own delusions.
:crazy:

[Stuckinthebush]

6. I saw a "Left Behind Series for Kids" in the library the other day

I held it up to show my wife from across the room. She wrinkled her nose and I said, "This is sick!"

I got a few looks from around the children's section.

But it is sick.

[arwalden]

7. The "Six Feet Under" Episode With The Helium Filled Life-Size Dolls...

... At the beginning we see someone with a truckload of helium-filled lifesize (sex) dolls that manage to escape from the truck and start to float upward. A woman who mistakes the floating dolls as actual humans assumes that the rapture has started. She stops her car in the middle of traffic and gets out to start walking towards the light (the sun). Unfortunately for her... as she walks into the intersection she gets hit by an oncoming vehicle.

[progressoid]

8. Ha ha ha - I'm going to have to rent the 6' DVDs sometime just for that!

[onager]

10. One of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV

I was falling off the couch laughing at that one!