Oh, the Rapture!
The aforementioned Gary North:
...in order for most of today's Christians to escape physical death, two-thirds of the Jews in Israel must perish, soon. This is the grim prophetic trade-off that fundamentalists rarely discuss publicly, but which is the central motivation in the movement's political support for the State of Israel.
It should be clear why they believe that Israel must be defended at all costs by the West. If Israel were removed militarily from history prior to the Rapture, then the strongest case for Christians' imminent escape from death would have to be abandoned. This would mean the indefinite delay of the Rapture. The fundamentalist movement thrives on the doctrine of the imminent Rapture, not the indefinitely postponed Rapture.
Every time you hear the phrase, "Jesus is coming back soon," you should mentally add, "and two-thirds of the Jews of Israel will be dead in `soon plus 84 months.'" Fundamentalists really do believe that they probably will not die physically, but to secure this faith prophetically, they must accept the doctrine of an inevitable future holocaust.
The Foreign Policy of 20 Million Would-Be Immortals
posted by Useless Eaters at 7:15 PM
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Hey Eater,
Why do end of the world freaks always have to make it so messy?
If it's not Ragnarok, it's Armageddon. Howcum the heavenly powers that be can't simply say, "that's a wrap" and send everyone home?
I mean, when a company's about to go under, you don't find a wild man in a loin cloth roving the parking lot shouting, "And there shall be burning hail in the mailroom, a plague of locusts shall sweep away the cafeteria, and boils infect the secretarial pool!" before a final showdown between good and evil in the third floor conference room.
Instead, there are rumors and shuffling of desks and a final announcement send out over e-mail.
When your girlfriend is about to dump you, you might find your clothes on the front porch and your music collection shredded to ribbons, but no Angel of Death hovering over it looking at his watch.
Why can't the world end that way? Without Rapture and pissed off angels and all. Who's running this universe anyway, Cecille B. DeMille?
Btw, for real fun, try reading the "Left Behind" series. I read a good piece while shopping at Target some months back. It made me feel sorry for poor Hal Lindsey. I think of the money he could have made if he only had a better imagination.
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