A serious question about the "5-21" crowd...

[brooklynite]

The going in assumption is that we're all going to laugh on May 22, and they're all going to either feel like idiots and slink away and rationalize why their calculations were off. There'd is however, a third possibility: that they believe that 1) the rapture DID happen (it's a big planet); they weren't invited along for the ride; and consequently 3) they're doomed to Hell and waiting for the end to come in October. I wonder what sort of reaction there's going to be if any of the "faithful" fall into this category.

[RagAss]

1. I plan to go out of my way to claim that I knew some who were raptured...

And ask the nutbags why they were left behind to eat shit in hell with Liberals like me.

[RKP5637]

2. Yeah, ask them why they missed the elevator to heaven! n/t

[snagglepuss]

3. The reality is that no mass of people is going to disappear on the 21st

so the disappointed ones won't have anyone with whom to compare themselves.

[sarcasmo]

4. On May 22nd they will pick a new date for their rapture and continue with the lunacy that is the

rapture.

[NYC Liberal]

5. I've been saying that they will claim it did happen and we

will hear all kinds of tales of people ascending into the sky. It'll all be bullshit of course, but that won't stop them.

As you said, though, the bright spot is that anyone left behind won't be a "true" Christian. So have some fun telling any fundie you meet that they are going to hell because they weren't raptured.

[DeeJay]

6. They're like Charlie Brown and the football

Lucy is God and keeps pulling it away at the last minute

[RKP5637]

8. +1, n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. Can we pick who we want gone?

Yum. . .

[Bake]

9. You'd think there'd be a lot less Repubs around the Day After ...

At least if you believe their "claims" of piety ...

Almost makes you hope they're right!

:P

Bake

[Motown_Johnny]

10. Or that their belief saved the world from ending

that seems to be the usual excuse

[SheilaT]

11. The coming date is no different

from any other prediction of the End of the World. Can't begin to recall how many such dates there have been in my lifetime so far.