The Rapture - what time... DOES THE BACKPEDDLING START??? 6:01 PM ?

[FormerDittoHead]

I'm thinking "The Rapture" is ancient Greek for "the day which the idiots will be most easily identifiable".

[treestar]

1. It should have started in Australia by now

Any news? Any DU Aussies posting? Are they raptured already?

[pipi_k]

5. Speaking of Australia...

I have a friend who lives in TN. She has four young sons. This AM she posted on her FaceBook page thanking all her friends in Australia who posted to let people know that they're alive and that nothing bad had happened. Her poor kids were terrified up until then.

If I could grab that Camping guy and his "believers" by their throats and throttle them, I would. It's one thing to believe in bullshit, but exposing kids to it and scaring the shit out of them...that's just child abuse, IMO.

[treestar]

11. I remembering fearing it as a child

the priest at church, the Sunday that part of the Gospel is read, scared little 6 year old me.

then my family laughed at me. Like at 6 I was supposed to get that it wasn't quite literal, or something.

It really is child abuse. It affects the more sensitive and smart, too.

[MuseRider]

17. As sad as that is

we can always hope that the little kids who have been terrified by crap like this will learn to question the next time and will learn that blindly following what someone else says is always bad.

Poor kids. That is about the only positive I can see about this stuff.

[liberal N proud]

7. Maybe it has...

Landslide buries 30 children at orphanage

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Police say about 30 children were buried by a landslide that hit a Malaysian orphanage and two bodies have been recovered so far.

A district police officer said firefighters and villagers pulled out six children who were critically injured and they were rushed to a hospital. The officer declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.

The officer said heavy rainfall had likely caused the landslide that hit the orphanage in central Selangor state Saturday afternoon.

He said rain was still falling and hampering rescue work, which would last until nightfall.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43119471/ns/world_news-asia_pacific/


At least there was a natural disaster that the fundies could point to.

[Capitalocracy]

10. God, in his infinite wisdom and mercy,

has seen it fit to bury 30 children in mud.

Sweet Lord Jesus, my God I just don't get religion.

[pipi_k]

13. OK, but you know what the rationale would be for that?

"God in his infinite wisdom and MERCY chose to bury those children so they would die a quick death and not have to undergo the tortures of the next few months until the End Of The World happens on October 21"


I would bet anything that is what they would say.

sickening.

[Uben]

2. God disguised the rapture....

The mighty omnipotent one will not let the heatherns see the rapture. Instead, it will appear as things are normal while the souls of the saved are lifted into heaven on a golden stairway to heaven. Yes, Led Zepplin will be played in the background while the rapture occurs. So, just because you don't happen to notice a difference, if you're still here tomorrow, you were not on the "A" list.

[Capitalocracy]

4. So we're not supposed to notice the earthquakes and the lakes of fire

and the apocalypse and the death and the world ending in, what did they say, like a month or a few months or something?

[Uben]

8. Whadda ya think?

I've donned my robe and makeshift angelic wings. I wait with open arms to be lifted. Can't you hear that beautiful music?
I believe they're playing "We'll All Gather At The River". WHy do you think HE flooded the Mississippi? So more people could gather....DUH!

Shit! It's raining again.....I'm going back in the house. This rapture business is complicated.

[Capitalocracy]

9. The Rapture is serious business.

Just stand outside in the rain looking up with your mouth open. God's up there somewhere. Keep looking.

[pipi_k]

16. Wait a minute...

I just thought of something.

Are there "rules" for being Raptured?


Like...do potential Rapturees have to be outside? Can they be Raptured while they're inside?


What if they happen to be sitting on the toilet when the Rapture happens? Do they get to finish, or are they pulled up into the sky still pinching off loaves on the way up?

I guess I should have picked up a Rapture Manual from the guy handing them out in front of Walgreens yesterday.

[DefenseLawyer]

3. I seem to recall

that the same guy already predicted the Rapture in 1994. He gave himself some wiggle room though, and started focusing on 2011. I would guess he followed the same pattern this time. Gotta read the fine print whenever you are buying a Rapture.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Hopefully not until after I score a 2011 Mercedes.

[ananda]

12. I thought the rapture was supposed to be December 21st.

That's what I read somewhere. Looks like they got the date wrong.
Lol.

[SDuderstadt]

14. I think you mean...

"backpedaling".

[madrchsod]

15. i was looking forward to picking up some really good bargains...

my neighbor has a cherry late model mercedes benz sl convertible. the other neighbor has a new audi tt...