A Brief Cultural Warfare Update Addendum

[solarbird]

Worshipping death: elfs finds fundamentalists at Rapture Ready celebrate war in the mideast.

"Lets keep the excitement going!!!!!"

"I am excited beyond words that the struggle of this life may be over soon and I can finally be FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!"

I swear that every single position these people have, every line they come up with, is pure, 100%, projection. Culture of death, you say? Well, what the hell do you call this?

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[mathmuffin.livejournal.com]

I looked over the Rapture Ready website. They sound more world-weary than estatic, not so much saying, "All this destruction is going to be great!" as saying, "God is going to drop the final curtain soon and we will all be able to go home to heaven." If it is a culture of death, it is death by lethargy.

They quote Matthew 24:6-8 a lot:
"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs."

That phrase, "but that is not yet the end," they interpret as that those events will be a sign that the end of the world is about occur. The idea of the rapture, which lets the best Christians escape the troubles, is from the Revelation of John, the last book in the New Testament.

However, they ignore the verse after it, Matthew 24:9,
Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
So they are not going to escape the troubles.

Besides, it is more likely that Jesus was talking about the early Christian church and the tribulations that the first Christains would face, rather than about the end of the world. Furthermore, later in Matthew 24, versus 26 to 44, Jesus said that there will be no signs of the last days. The end will come as a surprise. So looking for signs is foolish.

Erin Schram