I’ll bet you can find a lot of Cadillacs left behind too. Grab ‘em!
I heard about this ridiculous Rapture Index while watching the Daily Show. I had to make sure this thing wasn’t fake news. It’s not. What a great crackpot website. Huzzah. Dig around to find some rapturists and their lectures. What a way to spend time!
A taste:
I have been an avid student of Bible prophecy since 1989. And if my brand of prophetic interpretation must be categorized, then categorize me as a dispensational, premillennial, pretribulational literalist. I’ll wear that that title proudly. I believe it, research it, write about it, teach it, and preach it. However, despite spending hundreds of hours poring over ancient historical texts and the ancient Biblical prophecies themselves, you can be sure that I will not, nor do I ever intend to, force my opinions and conclusions upon anyone. Share yes, force no.
Gee, how nice. The guys seems like a dream date for you women out there.
And, or course for all you who see the ends time ahead, there is now a video game coming out this year called Left Behind: Eternal Forces based on the Left Behind novels. You can read about it here. Maybe you can order a copy. Makes a great gift for those upbeat rapturists cheering for the end of times! What fin, er fun.
#19 – #Has anyone read the rest of the [rapture, scientology, catholic, baptist, hindu, druid, judaism, sikh, buddhism, tao, shinto, mormon, pagan, rastafari, jehovah witness, jainism, zoroastrian, etc.] site?
Comment by William K. Wolfrum — 8/5/2006 @ 10:37 am
I hear you and yes. No. It’s true. It’s not true… Sometimes. maybe.
Every relative I have on my mother’s side is a Jehova’s Witness. So I’ll make no apology when I say that is a religion of idiots. Scientologists are likely to be about as dumb. I thought Zoroastrians died off over 2000 years ago, but maybe I’m wrong. But anyone looking objectively cannot make a blanket statement about every belief system. Most Catholics, Protastants, Islamists, Hindus, etc., are actually pretty reasonable people. They are much like most atheists in that regard.
Yes. The guy with a bent against Jews can say what i said about rapture fetishists about Jews, but he’s wrong. Opinions and views are not equal. We are not all equal. Quite frankly, some of us just aren’t smart enough to sit at the big table, and that is just the way it is, and if people are sad at the small table, I’m sorry, but you’ll sit there until you are smart enough to move up here with us, which you’ll probably never be, but that’s just too damn bad.
I have no more time for sparing feelings. Some belief systems are stupid beyond imagining and need to be shut out because all of our futures depend on it. It isn’t just evolution vs. creationism or stem cell research, which are pretty important. It’s life and death. As I type, missiles are being exchanged between Hezbola and Isreal, gunfire between the United States and extremists Muslims in Iraq. Fred White is marching around the funerals of American servicemen with gay bashing signs. And if I am to believe certain sources, there are God Squad believers in our own government who seem to want to hasten armegeddon to fulfil rapture fantasies. The imaginary gods of the world are making innocent people die.
These nuts need to be marginalized and through discourse, not violence, erradicated. They are threatening my children’s very future. I won’t say we need to discard the idea of being politically correct because I believe the terminology “politically correct” is just a BS term that the right uses against the left like a Klansmen uses a racial slur against blacks. But I do not want a big tent. We don’t need everyone to come together. We need serious minds to come together and if you aren’t in the tent, well, too bad. Pray on your own time, there are real issues that need addressed and these kooks have proven that they just don’t have the cranial muscle to help get the job done.
And by the way… If anyone out there who fits the rapture nut mold doesn’t like being called stupid, then I suggest they stop being stupid.
21. There’s the story, which may be true, may be urban legend of the atheist saying to the believer “You know how there are so many different beliefs and gods out there, but you just believe in the one? Well, I only believe in one less than you do.”
“I have no more time for sparing feelings. Some belief systems are stupid beyond imagining and need to be shut out because all of our futures depend on it.”
We only disagree on one word – where you say some, I say all. I would say the vast majority of all faithful are good people, and I wish them nothing but happiness. But I no longer really feel the need to respect any type of invented belief system, nor feel the need to apologize if that hurts the feelings of a “believer.”
–WKW
First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires. They will say, “Where is this ‘coming’ he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”