Overheard a Rapture Ready conversation today.

[kimmerspixelated]

Browsing around in a thrift shop I frequent, I actually heard the owner ladies discussing...

"He's coming back. He's going to take the believers"..then something about 7 years....
then I heard.."then there will be heaven on earth."

I couldn't believe it. I remember overhearing this same owner lady remarking back in 2004 why she didn't understand why they were so rough on Bush.

Do they actually think a man reported to have been Jesus is just going to magically re-appear?

That belief is almost as bazarre as the rumor that the Religious Powers That Be are going to stage some kind of halographic "appearance" so that it looks like he has come back.

My God, what a weird world we live in!

[HipChick]

1. what was the age group of this women? n/t

[kimmerspixelated]

4. 40-60

[Manifestor_of_Light]

2. Sounds like the conversation I heard at a nice restaurant in east texas.

But Obama smokes? What about his health care? Is he gonna pay more?
Well, it won't matter anyway, we're all gonna be raptured soon, TV Preacher blah blah, prophecy blah blah, revelation blah blah...

[Echo In Light]

3. Despite the modern epoch, people, at a fundamental level, haven't really changed

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Sadly, they HAVE changed--and not for the better.

This rapture and Biblical literalism crap mostly all started in the 19th century, when literacy outpaced cognitive development & people got into reading the Bible without the wit to understand its allegorical nature.

[Old Codger]

5. well

If they do go , especially the radical fundies it would in fact be a lot closer to "heaven on earth".

[murielm99]

7. Why do you go to that thrift shop?

I would find another place to patronize.

[kimmerspixelated]

15. I frequent several thrift shops, but I may or may not decide to

continue with them. I don't think I'm helping to fund some radical takeover militia or anything, by visiting them occasionally.

[Nite Owl]

8. Was it a promise or a threat?

I mean if they go we could have it pretty good.

[Chemisse]

11. Yeah it would really be like heaven on earth! - nt

[johnnie]

9. I have to wait 7 years?

I went grocery shopping today and it was a madhouse.. I sure could use the elbow room. He Jesus..get your ass down here now!

[Strelnikov_]

10. "take the believers . . . then there will be heaven on earth."

Sounds about right to me.

[Generic Brad]

12. Rapture Jesus is not a nice Jesus

He whisks away the true believers to a safe place and then spends the next seven years kicking ass, taking names, and generally making life miserable for the unchosen.

Why anyone would want to be affiliated with a being who is going to oversee the painful, tortuous murder of most of the people in the world is beyond my comprehension.

[patrice]

14. They are children happy to see others punished.

[madrchsod]

13. good..... the planet needs a good sweeping.....