Sing It, Blondie
I admit that this freaks me out. I am by no means a fundamentalist Christian, but my Catholic upbringing has resulted in enough faith/fear that I've been singing "It's the End of the World as We Know It" since I saw the first tsunami pictures, but I don't necessarily feel fine.
I came across the Rapture site in Arianna Huffington's article on Salon today, wherein she takes the current administration to task for being Tony Manero-like in its "fuck the future" attitudes toward budget deficit, the environment, world peace, et al.
All of this stokes that niggling fear that GWB really does think it's his job to personally bring about the Rapture.
Great. Thanks.
posted by Gina @ 8:38 AM
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People have been prophesying the end of the world since Christ's time, and probably before.
Off the top of my head I can think of: Hal Lindsey, Edgar Cayce, several authors of really bad books I edited at Dorrance, and any number of freakish cults. Not to mention, if I remember correctly, Randy Hogue, whenI was in 7th grade. (http://www.premier.net/~minister/min9.htm)
This is the most complete listing I could find on the Internet, and while the Atkins ads are wildly annoying, it's a pretty interesting website. I'd take it all with a grain of salt, no matter what you read where, anyway.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/end_wrld.htm
Hey... I was singing the same song when I heard about the enormity of the disaster. How peculiar.
I admit that I think we pretty much DESERVE to be all wiped out. Sometimes I've found bowls of leftovers in my fridge that were so moldy and gross that I tossed the whole thing in the trash rather than try to clean up the mess. I'm thinking that's what I would do if I were in charge of Earth.
I checked that link, Val, and I know this is childish, but I can't get past this: TEOTWAWKI. All I can think of is that this is the perfect word a Zen religion the Ewoks might follow.
And the people who run that site must be pretty sure the rapture won't be for a while, or they wouldn't be counting their carbs.
I wonder if that means all the Ewoks would be taken?
Let me tell you a cautionary tale about not taking this seriously, or perhaps it is about taking it too seriously:
When I was little - about 7 or 8 at most, if/when I woke up in the middle of the night, I would lie terrified in my bed. I was frozen, couldn't move, couldn't get up. If I got out of bed or called one of my parents, THEY MIGHT NOT BE THERE...and that would mean that the Rapture had happened and I was left behind, and what would I do?
Growing up, I always had a talisman-like adult - I knew if they were gone, the Rapture had happened. It was my father for a very long time, and then when he died, it was my aunt (the possibility that my mother would be left with all the rest of us sinners was too strong to risk her as the talisman - forgive me, Mom).
Even now, while most of me pooh-poohs the idea, what with the Left Behind books and crazy religious tracts and all, I still get scared sometimes, because what happens after the Rapture, the 7 years of the Great Tribulation, is truly horrific. And indeed many world events point to the endtimes.
Maybe the moral of this story is: Parents, don't let your 7-year-olds read Revelations, or for that matter, your 17-year-olds.
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