Now, we’ve been hearing about this rapture nonsense for awhile, that on one day God (or Jesus, it’s really easy to get those two confused) will come down, trumpets blaring and all, and take all the true believers with him back up to heaven, and leaving all the rest standing and picking their noses and waiting for the end of the world.
Buddhists, Confucianists, Hindus, Moslems, Jews, Atheists, Pagans, Zoroastrians and probably Mormons, too, are going to be locked out.
No pets, either.
This is a seriously exclusive club.
Well, it was fairly easy for them to make that prediction because all times seem like the end times, there has never been a period of history so mundane that embarrassingly large numbers of people haven’t started conversations with day-um, things are really going crazy lately, and there is pretty much no view of the afterlife so nutty it won’t find adherents.
Now, there is a handy dandy little website called www.ebiblefellowship.com which gives us an actual date. May 21st, 2011. The math used to find it is bizarre. God warned Noah 7 days before the flood, which means it MUST be 7,000 years between then and the next great earth-ending event.
Also, the whole thing is based on the Lord creating the universe, whole, in 7 literal 24 hour days, in the year 11,013 B.C. From there, I guess they go through the begats and add up the life span of all these old geezers who lived to be 3 or 4 hundred years old.
So, it’s pretty nutty, but there are people who believe in it. People who vote, people who we meet in our everyday lives. I know one woman who was pointing to the heavy snowfall this winter as a sign of the end times.
Anyway, what I’d like to propose is a bet. To all of those who believe that life as we know it will end on May 21st, 2011: if you are right, you win. You go to heaven forever, I’ll fry in the flames of hell. If I am right, however, and May 21st, 2011, is more or less a day like every other day, then you have to shut up.
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