The Rapture
Alternatively, when you talk about the space aliens coming in a huge mothership to beam up the believers, everyone knows you are effing out of your mind.
...just saying.
posted by SB Gypsy | 2:09 PM
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Yeah - and what scares me the most is those people who believe seem to want to make it happen very, very soon. And they don't care if the rest of us die along with them either. It's what makes Bush a very dangerous man, as opposed to simply the village idiot.
Pat Robertson's gonna send a hurricane after me... ACK!!
The idea of Jesus raising the dead could seem squirelly too but that does'nt make it false. I'm not defending the religious right, but if you read the book of Revelation in the Bible, there's all kinds of things in there that may seem hard to believe, but the bible says it's going to happen. We'll all find out soon enough :-) Cheers~D
Welcome, Dbull. And you are welcome to believe any old thing you choose, squirelly or not. Goodness, I myself spent 20 some odd years living in a yoga ashram!
My problem with this is when politicians use this belief to guide our foreign policy down the long slope to the forever war. We have already spent many billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives in this ever more blighting spiral down into poverty and evil.
Take a good look at North Korea. That's where we are headed, and it won't take very much longer to get there, if the people running things are left to pander to the myths and crazed dreams of the american religious right.
Even the pope doesn't read the bible literally, fer crumb's sake!
it has always saddened me to see an entire chunk of the world population (not only christians, mind you) acting and believing that their life after death is more important than their lives before death.
because if you believe that what happens after you die is more important, you can so easily lose sight of the consequences of your actions in this lifetime.
i mean, come on, i look forward to seeing what comes next, too - but i'll be damned (ha ha) if i'm going to waste my time in this incarnation neglecting my obligations as a human being - you know, the whole kindness and compassion thing.
as far as i'm concerned, if you choose to be kind and compassionate only to those who share your views, because it's sinful to support others, you're betraying your legacy as a thinking, feeling human being.
oh what the hell am i talking about. preaching to the choir again. sorry.
Hey Andi,
No, really - Jesus said alot of stuff about how to live your life, and not any of it was about waiting around to be lifted up into heaven just because you "believe".
He also said some things about belief without good works not getting you into heaven either, if I remember right (my foray into reading the bible from cover to cover ended with a whole list of begats and who the heck cares how many goats so&so owned 5000 years ago...).
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