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Thread #137844   Message #3157419
Posted By: Donuel
20-May-11 - 04:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Rapture: Saturday May 21st 2011
Subject: RE: BS: The Rapture: Saturday May 21st 2011
The AM radio right wing ultra christian conspiracy theory is full of talk that Obama is going to ban certain religions if this rapture thing turns into a number of Jonestown or Heaven Gate scenarios.

So stock up on your ammo since Obama is banning your gun and stock up on your religion since Obama is going to take that away as well.

THey are talking about how the athiests will use this rapture expectation as a point of derision and heresey against people of faith, God and church.

The preaching of the bible quote "no man knows the hour or the day" is followed by 'prophets may come at anytime and anywhere'. Since there is no mention of rapture events in the bible they are conflating apocolypse, the second coming and the invention of the rapture by a preacher in 1890.




The second coming crap on Saturday is funny as hell.
I can't imagine a good Jewish boy like Jesus working on Saturday, especially this coming Saturday.




Of course many people who are in financial trouble and are capable of using this advertised rapture as an excuse, will walk away from families and respondsibilites. Some will do so as a joke and do a road trip, but the point is many people will make themselves scarce for one reason or another this weekend.