I think anyone who anxiously awaits The Rapture should not serve in public office since they really don’t have any incentive in making a better future.Ā In fact, it could be in their religious interest to make the future worse.
/sorta snark
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kinda like Bush’s presidency
Bush came to my mind as well. AND…it is not snark. We need to weed these people out, round them up and send them to western Oregon.
Ha pandora!
So, with such blasphemy, you will be left behind and I will go first because the Holy Dribble says that “But many will be Last who are First; and First who are Last.”
OK, moving right along…
I’m not even sure why this thought crossed my mind, but it seems to me that awaiting the rapture and serving in public office are at cross purposes.
What’s the incentive for taking Global Warming or peace in the Middle East seriously? Talk about a self-fulfilling prophecy.
But if you’re in public office you can help it along…
Wouldn’t it also be incentive for the rapture-ready to not have nice stuff? After all, the rest of us will get their stuff when they disappear.
No joke, I think believing that the apocalypse is coming or should come really changes your incentives. In fact, wouldn’t you want to stir up trouble in the Middle East so that the battle of Armageddon could occur?
One thing I found strange though was that there were some people positing that Obama was the anti-Christ. Don’t they want that so the prophecy comes true? One thing that has always puzzled me though is that the people who believe in Heaven so strongly are the ones that seem the most scared of death (see Schiavo, Terri). People are weird that way. Maybe they’re afraid they’ll have to spend eternity with people like Fred Phelps or Pat Robertson.
If the people who believe in the rapture are the ones going and the people who don’t are staying… I’d prefer to stay. Plus, apparently we get to have their earthly possessions…
Obama was the anti-Christ
That’s not fair. I am the anti-christ.
Are these the same people who are causing the Gun and Ammo business to boom. Spreading the rumor that Obama is going to place a tax on each bullet and shell casing. this is very big in states like Texas go figure.
Placing a tax on each bullet and shell casing is patently unfair due to the many different sizes of ammunition and rate of fire of different types of guns. This would be like taxing the act of making love. Basically, someone like Donviti would be getting an unproportional tax benefit in terms of girth and stamina, while the rest of us carnally inferior citizens would be hit with the same amount of tax bill for only 5% of the enjoyment.
Oh please, let’s not go down the gun path.
I remember taking a religion course where we studied the effect of belief in reincarnation on political systems. We came to the same conclusion as your theory on the rapture people. Let’s face it, religion just screws up politics. Always has and always will. That’s the whole reason religion exists.
Rapture people are just looking forward to not having to show up for work.
lol, Geezer!
Here’s the real question: Why would we elect people who, when push comes to shove, would place the Bible over the Constitution?
Guns, God, Gays and Gestation!!!
G whiz!
The S&Pās bear market low this year after Obama became President was 666.
Just sayin’.
Rapture people think that their “selected” status entitles them to inflict their vindictive christianism on the rest of us.
What’s so wrong about a politician wanting to hear some Debbie Harry on the radio?
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Fab Five Freddie
‘Cuz the man from Mars is through with cars and through with bars and now he only eats guitars, GET UP!
We definitely need to figure out this whole special election v. Governor’s appointment issue before the rapture, otherwise when the House and Senate are empty, how will we fill all those seats?
Dance off?
Seems to me that you are proposing a religious test for public office. Don’t like the US Constitution much, do you?
Actually, it would be nice if there wasn’t a religious test, as there seems to be now.
The NEWEST Pretrib Calendar
Hal (serial polygamist) Lindsey and other pretrib-rapture-trafficking and Mayan-Calendar-hugging hucksters deserve the following message: “2012 may be YOUR latest date. It isn’t MAYAN!” Actually, if it weren’t for the 179-year-old, fringe-British-invented, American-merchandised pretribulation rapture bunco scheme, Hal might still be piloting a tugboat on the Mississippi, roly-poly Thomas Ice (Tim LaHaye’s No. 1 strong-arm enforcer) might still be in his tiny folding-chair church which shares its firewall with a Texas saloon, Jack Van Impe might still be a jazz band musician, Tim LaHaye might still be titillating California matrons with his “Christian” sex manual, Grant Jeffrey might still be taking care of figures up in Canada, Chuck Missler might still be in mysterious hush-hush stuff that rocket scientists don’t dare talk about, John Hagee might be making – and eating – world-record pizzas, and Jimmy (“Bye You” Rapture) Swaggart might still be flying on a Ferriday flatbed! To read more details about the eschatological British import that leading British scholarship never adopted – the import that’s created some American multi-millionaires – Google “Pretrib Rapture Diehards” (note LaHaye’s hypocrisy under “1992”), “Hal Lindsey’s Many Divorces,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers)” and “Thomas Ice (Hired Gun),” “LaHaye’s Temperament,” “Wily Jeffrey,” “Chuck Missler – Copyist,” “Open Letter to Todd Strandberg” and “The Rapture Index (Mad Theology),” “X-Raying Margaret,” “Humbug Huebner,” “Thieves’ Marketing,” “Appendix F: Thou Shalt Not Steal,” “The Unoriginal John Darby,” “Pretrib Hypocrisy,” “The Real Manuel Lacunza,” “Roots of (Warlike) Christian Zionism,” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Pretrib Rapture – Hidden Facts,” “Dolcino? Duh!” and “Scholars Weigh My Research.” Most of the above is written by journalist/historian Dave MacPherson who has focused on long-hidden pretrib rapture history for 35+ years. No one else has focused on it for 35 months or even 35 weeks. MacPherson has been a frequent radio talk show guest and he states that all of his royalties have always gone to a nonprofit group and not to any individual. His No. 1 book on all this is “The Rapture Plot” (see Armageddon Books online, etc.). The amazing thing is how long it has taken the mainstream media to finally notice and expose this unbelievably groundless yet extremely lucrative theological hoax!
(Above web piece is a scream! Candy)