Ultimately any Christian worth the name would have remembered Christ's admonition that no man may know the day or the hour, and told these idiots to go fuck themselves - actually I'm disappointed that senior Catholic Cardinals, Episcopalian moderators, etc. don't do more to call this bullshit out.
I'm told that people quit their jobs, sold their possessions and homes, in some cases, put their pets to sleep, and otherwise acted like brainwashed cultists (which, let us be honest, they are) in the face of their belief to be one of God's special children ready for an eternity of sitting on his lap.
The irony here is how attached they still were to their possessions, to go to the trouble of getting rid of them. SERIOUSLY, people - if you're going to be taken bodily into heaven and everyone else is going to get smashed up in an earthquake that's double-figures on the Richter scale, why go to all the trouble? Just fucking leave it there. What really gets me is not the insanity of their belief in "the Rapture": it's the mind-blowing inconsistency of their behaviour leading up to it.
The mature Christian who looks toward the Second Coming does so in anticipation of final, perfect communion with God. I suspect a lot of these people saw it, in contrast, as the way out of their earthly woes... which is why so many desperate people continue to get sucked into shit like this. Unfortunately some of them take others out with them - like the deluded (and, I suspect, chronically psychotically depressed) woman who slit her children's throats with a box-cutter before trying to do the same to herself. What passes for evangelical Christianity in the United States keeps missing the point, but arch-atheists like PZ Myers don't make the problem any better by getting just as much of a hate-boner on for evolutionist moderates as for fuckbags like these.
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Date: 2011-05-24 07:48 pm (UTC)I'm told that people quit their jobs, sold their possessions and homes, in some cases, put their pets to sleep, and otherwise acted like brainwashed cultists (which, let us be honest, they are) in the face of their belief to be one of God's special children ready for an eternity of sitting on his lap.
The irony here is how attached they still were to their possessions, to go to the trouble of getting rid of them. SERIOUSLY, people - if you're going to be taken bodily into heaven and everyone else is going to get smashed up in an earthquake that's double-figures on the Richter scale, why go to all the trouble? Just fucking leave it there. What really gets me is not the insanity of their belief in "the Rapture": it's the mind-blowing inconsistency of their behaviour leading up to it.
The mature Christian who looks toward the Second Coming does so in anticipation of final, perfect communion with God. I suspect a lot of these people saw it, in contrast, as the way out of their earthly woes... which is why so many desperate people continue to get sucked into shit like this. Unfortunately some of them take others out with them - like the deluded (and, I suspect, chronically psychotically depressed) woman who slit her children's throats with a box-cutter before trying to do the same to herself. What passes for evangelical Christianity in the United States keeps missing the point, but arch-atheists like PZ Myers don't make the problem any better by getting just as much of a hate-boner on for evolutionist moderates as for fuckbags like these.