Anybody here "raptured" yet?

[anneboleyn]

22. It just makes me cringe to think of all the evangelicals who believe the "Rapture" garbage. It's

never been a part of Catholicism or mainline Protestantism -- it was a fad in 19th century American evangelical circles, and for some of them it still is relevant even though obviously every predicted date has come and gone.

We had a few nutjob relatives who firmly believed that the rapture would happen and Jesus would sail away into outer space with them as "these are surely the end times" (said in different decades of course). They all firmly believed it until (and including) the day they died. Every generation seems to produce new believers who seem to think yet they'll be the special ones.