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In reply to the discussion: The "You Can't Make This Shit Up" award goes to [View all]classof56
(5,376 posts)I can tell you it's not defined in the bible, but rather comprises a bunch of obscure, unrelated scriptures cobbled together and foisted upon "christians" by some pentacostal preacher in the early 19th century to give them something to look forward to besides their grim existences on this earth. Or that's how I now know it to be. Authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins jumped on the rapture bandwagon a few years back to produce the "Left Behind" series of books about events that take place post-rapture, after "christians" are snatched up and those convulted scriptures about the end of time can be fulfilled. Terrible theology and even worse writing, those LB books--but the rapture/end times fans have made them incredibly successful and are now the basis for what the end-timers are certain will come to pass in the near future. It's also the basis of their politics. Pretty sick folks, IMO, and I'm glad to no longer align myself with them. Actually, I wouldn't mind if they were all "snatched up". Maybe we'd have a shot at cleaning up their messes and leaving a better world for our kids/grandkids. As it is, they keep spreading their ugly doctrines and destroying the world we live in.
Sorry--probably more than you wanted to know, but sometimes I just get on a roll about this "stuff".
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