Reply #73: It is a death cult, sort of [View All]

[neebob]

except they don't believe they're going to die. Last night I spent some time reading rapture ready.com. These people actually believe that Jesus is going to come down from the heavens and grab thousands or maybe even millions of people, alive and dead, at the same time - or maybe the dead go first - and take them to heaven. Pilotless planes and driverless cars will crash, and all these empty clothes will be left lying around.

Why they think they'll be naked, I'm not sure. But it's really not that different from the Heaven's Gate people who committed suicide when the Hale-Bopp comet came, except that there are a lot more of them and they won't commit suicide. They're just waiting to be taken away like one big Calgon commercial, and the worse things get, the more vocal they will become.

They're done with this world. And because they believe they'll be removed from it, they have no stake except to try and convince others to join them now or be left behind and face the choice of martyrdom vs. eternal damnation for accepting the mark of the beast.