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The Lord Told Me It's Going To Be A Good Year For Me (But A Really Shitty One For The World)

lolol The lord is such a little trickster.

Breaking! Evangelical Christians actually announce date of Rapture
by change the Be
Mon Jan 03, 2011 at 09:00:02 AM PST

Having grown up in an evangelical church, I've known for some time about the Rapture. You know, when Jesus will call forth all true Christians from the earth, and leave the rest of us suckers here to duke it out in the End Times. I believe we will be stuck here doing that for 1000 or 10,000 years, something like that.

I pop over to Yahoo this AM, and see this:

If there had been time, Marie Exley would have liked to start a family. Instead, the 32-year-old Army veteran has less than six months left, which she'll spend spreading a stark warning: Judgment Day is almost here.

Exley is part of a movement of Christians loosely organized by radio broadcasts and websites, independent of churches and convinced by their reading of the Bible that the end of the world will begin May 21, 2011.

Does GOD exist? You betcha! and God's about to take back the good ones, and leave the rest of us here. News THIS big warrants the first-ever use on my part of the dreadful 'breaking'. While you people argue in diaries about the existence of God, I know, finally, that I'll be going to a better place via the rapture, and best of all, there will be very few republicans when I get there!

update: the people have spoken. title amended. cheers-ctb

* change the Be's diary :: ::

http://news.yahoo.com/...

Another excerpt:

To get the word out, they're using billboards and bus stop benches, traveling caravans of RVs and volunteers passing out pamphlets on street corners. Cities from Bridgeport, Conn., to Little Rock, Ark., now have billboards with the ominous message, and mission groups are traveling through Latin America and Africa to spread the news outside the U.S.

"A lot of people might think, 'The end's coming, let's go party,'" said Exley, a veteran of two deployments in Iraq. "But we're commanded by God to warn people. I wish I could just be like everybody else, but it's so much better to know that when the end comes, you'll be safe."

In August, Exley left her home in Colorado Springs, Colo., to work with Oakland, Calif.-based Family Radio Worldwide, the independent Christian ministry whose leader, Harold Camping, has calculated the May 21 date based on his reading of the Bible.

I don't see why one cannot both PARTY and spread the message of Judgement Day simultaneously. In fact, that is what I'm moved to do. It could be very effective, and also done using a RV.

On the plus side: this woman has not yet started a family! That's one less "quiver-full" (I'm sure some of my well-read kossacks remember THOSE guys...)

Camping, 89, believes the Bible essentially functions as a cosmic calendar explaining exactly when various prophecies will be fulfilled.

The retired civil engineer said all his calculations come from close readings of the Bible, but that external events like the foundation of the state of Israel in 1948 are signs confirming the date.

"Beyond the shadow of a doubt, May 21 will be the date of the Rapture and the day of judgment," he said.

The doctrine known as the Rapture teaches that believers will be taken up to heaven, while everyone else will remain on earth for a period of torment, concluding with the end of time. Camping believes that will happen in October.

The Daily Show takes up the subject of the Rapture in a classic clip.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-22-2005/heaven-can-t-wait

Meanwhile, fundamentalist Christians say that we're crazy for trying to legalize a friggin' plant. Well, not all of them even. Pat freaking Robertson even wants to call off the dogs.

A good diary I saw come up from yesterday.

And kossack "ParkRanger" states it quite well:

How does criminalizing marijuana use make you more free, regardless of whether you use marijuana or not not? (This is really an easy one. You can easily convince someone to waste time on pointless wedge issues if they can't distinguish between the abstract concept of personal freedom and their personal tastes. In other words, stupid people can't distinguish between immorality and what they don't like.)

update:
If you don't get raptured, grab your magnifying lens and come party with us!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/3/933133/-Breaking!-Evangelical-Christians-actually-announce-date-of-Rapture