The Rapture is coming!

[hyphenate]

All these worldwide disasters have the radical religious right in orgasms lately.

I really find myself getting more and more impatient with these idiots. One of the few things my mind has not been able to grasp is the depth of their selfishness. How can any rational person believe that, out of about 5 billion people on earth, there is a god who is going to come and take away a few thousand of "his" most "devoted followers?"

Isn't it dangerous to the rest of us poor suckers to let these people dictate any kind of policy that affects all of us? They are high on letting people around the world come to grips with their mortality while they secretly--and not so secretly--revel in the "knowledge" that the "end times are coming."

Am I alone in being so disgusted with these people? They DO have the right to follow their own beliefs, but they have meddled in the politics of this country to the extent that all of us have been endangered as a result. That's not "live and let live" in the spirit of the first amendment--that's "live and let die," with the rest of us as collateral damage in the end.

[squawk7700]

1. If religion is the opiate of the masses, this rapture stuff is their crystal meth.

...

[havocmom]

9. That'd make a great bumper sticker or sig line!

:applause:

[TheDebbieDee]

16. I never heard the term "Rapture" until the early 90s........

I used to see it on bumperstickers all the time. "In case of Rapture, this car will be unmanned."

I wonder where the notion of the "Rapture" came from. And I wonder who started the theory of the "Rapture".

[DesertFlower]

17. i heard about it in the 80s. nt

[ldf]

24. probably Blondie's best song..

:-)

[Jamastiene]

25. If you don't believe in the Rapture, yer goin' ta Hell.

I know. I had it drilled into my head in that Christian School I went to all the way from kindergarten until 6th grade. Halfway through 6th grade, my momma Raptured me from that school, because I started acting as bad as I possibly could. Anything to get expelled or beaten some more or suspended. Anything.

Of course, with that school, it didn't take much to get punished at all. A picture of Deborah Harry earned me a beating. No, not THAT. It was merely sitting in my locker and the principal/preacher saw it. Next thing I knew, I was getting beaten.

I can't fucking wait until those fuckers get carried off. I'll be drinking the biggest box of wine I can find and partying my ass off. And this time, I am old enough to KNOW WHAT TO ACTUALLY DO with a picture of Deborah Harry. :evilgrin:

[Jamastiene]

26. Hehe, I replied in the wrong place.

It's them there demons talking to me. :rofl:

[hyphenate]

28. This link should help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

[hyphenate]

31. Very edgy

and could blow up in their faces at any time!

It's dangerous stuff--I'm glad I don't have to live with their brand of intolerance, though. Makes for a major high, trying to keep their noses in the air so often.

[PDJane]

2. No. You aren't.

I've been seriously annoyed with this lot since they started raising their ugly heads.

[hyphenate]

32. Me, too

I recall in the late 70s and the early 90s when friends and I used to say (now a very bad cliche) that the "Moral majority was neither." As I said, it's been nearly 30 years now, and back then it was witty. The disease of certain people being so hypocritical, though, still lives on in these people, and I don't care if some of them believe in their own press, but I don't make a habit of pretending I'm better than everyone else--just these few thousand!

[csziggy]

3. Religious fanatics are always predicting the end and screwing around with everyone's l

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/oracle/9941/

[lost-in-nj]

4. Rapture ready has the index at 170

http://www.raptureready.com/



Rapture Index 170
Net Change +1

Updated May 12, 2008


this is the gage


You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we're moving toward the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture.

Rapture Index of 100 and Below: Slow prophetic activity
Rapture Index of 100 to 130: Moderate prophetic activity
Rapture Index of 130 to 160: Heavy prophetic activity
Rapture Index above 160: Fasten your seat belts




bend over
and kiss your ass goodbye......

or pick out your new house and car

:shrug:



:hug:



lost

[Ishoutandscream2]

5. I prefer my Rapture ready index color coded

All them numbers confuse me.

[lost-in-nj]

8. FREEPER

well no

not really

I guess


simple is better


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



lost

[benddem]

18. are the women going out to have their hair done

yet? like the last time it was this high. I wonder if they know that the Pilgrims from the Mayflower thought that the end times were coming soon?

[mcctatas]

6. Florida is fucking everything up again....

01 False Christs
" A gentleman in Florida has made news by claiming to
be Christ."

:rofl:

http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

[FloridaJudy]

27. Uncle Ernie

Are you off your meds again?

[patrice]

7. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is interested in WH visitor logs

http://www.citizensforethics.org/search/node/visitors+logs

When Melanie Sloan announced this project a couple of years ago, she mentioned that CREW has questions about what nationa religious leaders were visiting the WH before the Invasion of Iraq.

......................................

End Timers don't get Christianity at all. Jesus never left. He's still here and we are still killing him. All of those who die at the hands of a church and/or state ARE Jesus.

[Liberal Gramma]

10. We're expendable

unless we're rapture-ready too. If these nutjobs are right, and I don't believe for a minute that they are, I'd rather stay here, thanks.

[China_cat]

11. They don't even read their own book.

If they did, they'd find the only ones to be taken up will be 144,000 MALE VIRGINS. That's all. Nobody else.

Since male virgins tend to be under 10, I doubt if there'll be any cars without drivers or planes without pilots or any of the other stuff they say will happen. We'll just be free of a few more kids, that's all.

[hyphenate]

15. ah, some more chauvinistic

shit from the old book!

always with the boys! geez--sound like a bunch of pedophiliacs! (j/k!)

Can't say I've read as much as I possibly should have of the bible. I spent my youth reading things that looked positively cheery in comparison.


From what I have gleaned, however, the bible doesn't even have anything that points to such a thing as the "rapture." Some idiot wrote some tracts back in the 19th century and "interpreted" some badly translated passages in the "good book" and now some mentally unstable idiots seized on it as their whole worship, and fuck everyone else.

I see it as a mental illness, and I find it repulsive.

[China_cat]

23. It's an interpretation of a passage from the old testament

(of all things) where the dimensions of heaven are described. (Don't quote me, but I believe it's in Daniel) Supposedly a cube that can only hold 144,000 of the 'righteous' who will be taken up bodily. Then the righteous are described and not one of them without a (working) penis and testicles.

[hyphenate]

30. Oooops!

I guess I won't be one of them, then--no penis or testicles here! :rofl:

[Muttocracy]

29. is that particular # coming from 12 x 12 x thousands? one of those biblical units? nt

[China_cat]

35. No, 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel

12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,
12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
12,000 from the tribe of Asher,
12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,
12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
12,000 from the tribe of Simeon,
12,000 from the tribe of Levi,
12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,
12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,
12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed

Oh...if you look at Revelation you'll find that I missed a step. Not only will the only ones being 'raptured' be male virgins but they'll also have to be Jewish.

[Muttocracy]

37. well, I'm out on multiple counts, so guess it's worth keeping my retirement account! nt

[spanone]

12. tonight? the banks aren't open

[hyphenate]

13. ...

:rofl:

[Ghost in the Machine]

14. No it's not.... didn't you get the memo?

"Hello My Children,

I am sad to inform you that the Rapture has been cancelled due to astronomical energy prices. I will inform you if and/or when we decide to revive this project."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3299964&mesg_id=3299964

:evilgrin:

[hyphenate]

22. Yeah

that's it. I find many of these people incredibly presumptuous. One of my best friends turned fundie, and now, two years later after I decided I couldn't take her attitude, I realize that she walked into that sordid belief system because she needed something she didn't have in her real life, and I think that is sad. None of us has a whole lot of security in our lives, but most of us try to find it in ways that don't hurt others. When someone tries to discover it in ways that harm others, regardless of how much they want to rationalize it, they are willfully ignorant and apathetic to the plight of others. They might try to say they are following the "teachings" of someone like Jesus, but they are really digging the hole deeper of their own intolerance and negativity.

[DesertFlower]

19. i was in the company of some "rapture" believers.

one said to me "what if the rapture happens now, you'll be here alone -- what will you do?" i said "inasmuch you'll be leaving your clothes and belongings, i will take your money -- you won't be needing it".

[jimshoes]

20. They figure if you can get a group of dopes

to believe that crazy shit, you can make them believe anything, and I mean anything. I call them the loonies.

[Ytzak]

21. It's Religion. It's not supposed to make sense.

If religion made sense, it would be something like this.

[DU GrovelBot]

33. ## DON'T DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##

==================
GROVELBOT.EXE v4.1
==================



This week is our second quarter 2008 fund drive. Democratic Underground is
a completely independent website. We depend on donations from our members
to cover our costs. Whatever you do, do not click the link below!

[Norrin Radd]

34. I wish they'd leave already.

[crimsonblue]

36. think of it this way..

If the rapture does come and takes them all away, the repuke party would be decimated... maybe God will even be so nice to do it soon and take Dickie and his little chimp up too!

[old mark]

38. "Rational person"-there is your answer.

These people are hysterical paranoids who value ignorance and intolerance and need to see themselves on a higher plane than the rest of humanity.
The religious right are mentally ill.
If you don't understand them, celebrate.

FWIW, there were a few bands of these shit heads in the late 19ht-early 20th century who sold or gave away all posessions, moved to special enclaves to azwait the coming of god.
He never showed up, didn't call, didn't write.
The smarter people left, the rest stayed for a long time, decided they were not "worthy", formed yet another religion.

I expect these folks will do similar if they don't posess nuclear weapons donated by Bush.

mark