Attention all Rapturists: The Rapture Index is down by 2 this week

:wtf:

Who is slipping here? How are we gonna get our rapture if we allow things to 'get better' This is utter bullshit. We need everyone here in the lounge doing their part to wreck havoc and get that number up over 175. Your rewards will be the car of your choice left behind by someone who was raptured away

http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

Here is the Rapture Index rating guide:

Rapture Index of 100 and Below: Slow prophetic activity
Rapture Index of 100 to 130: Moderate prophetic activity
Rapture Index of 130 to 160: Heavy prophetic activity
Rapture Index above 160: Fasten your seat belts

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I can be naughty, really! :evilgrin:

OK, is Ecumenism good or bad to them? And, what is "Supernatural"? We have room to grow here.

I think can get them to bump the "Mark of the Beast" if I share the story of the car I saw with a "W04" sticker and plates were "666-FYS".

Ecumenism is tolerance for other denominations of Christianity. That's bad.

Muhwahahahahah!

I'll go steal some pot. :hi:

*cough*Iran*cough*

...I would have thought Michigan losing to Appalachian State would have moved it up a few points.

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LOVED that tune!

_________

Toe to toe
Dancing very slow
Barely breathing
Almost comatose
Wall to wall
People hypnotised
And they're stepping lightly
Hang each night in Rapture

Back to back
Sacrailiac
Spineless movement
And a wild attack

Face to face
Sadly solitude
And it's finger popping
Twenty-four hour shopping in Rapture

Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high
DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind
Flash is fast, Flash is cool
Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do
And you don't stop, sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and lands on the ground
And out comes a man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night, eatin' cars
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subarus
And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
Then, when there's no more cars
You go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face, dance cheek to cheek
One to one, man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move too slow, 'cause the man from Mars
Is through with cars, he's eatin' bars
Yeah, wall to wall, door to door, hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture, be pure
Take a tour, through the sewer
Don't strain your brain, paint a train
You'll be singin' in the rain
I said don't stop, do punk rock

Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space
Where he won't have a hassle with the human race
And you hip-hop, and you don't stop
Just blast off, sure shot
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars
And now he only eats guitars, get up!

-Blondie

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:toast:

Why is it all right to lampoon Fundamentalist Christians while criticism of main-stream Christianity is intolerant. Why are you entitled to respect for your beliefs, but they are not for their slightly different beliefs? Isn't the real difference between moderates and Fundies merely that moderates don't take their religion quite so seriously and are secular in most things?

I would really like to know what the distinction is.

Plus the Rapture concept is not widely accepted within the Christian religion. Most faith believe it's nothing more than a hoax created from the Left Behind series

Again, I'm not trying to be sarcastic or whatever, I just want to understand this. (I have asked similar questions of conservatives and have received some pretty unsatisfying answers.)

1. Fundamentalist Christians are intolerant. No argument here. Also, Fundies believe in the Rapture (tm) of which there is no consensus among Christians generally.

2. Fundies are actively trying to impose that intolerance on everyone else. They are hardly alone in that, but still no argument here.

3. Moderate Christians generally are not intolerant.

4. Since Fundies are intolerant and believe in an unorthodox end time, moderate Christians may ridicule and cast judgment onto Fundies.

I assume you are using the condemnation of the corrupt Pharisees in the NT to justify this abrogation of the injunction against judgment.

As a factual matter, I have to take issue with the idea of moderate tolerance and the whole rapture thing. First, the Rapture has a longer pedigree than the Left Behind books. It goes back at least as far as the 19th century.

Second, does not all of Christianity believe in the injunction to:
"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Matthew 28:19, 20 kjv.

Sounds to me like a convert-the-world command. Or is this one of those things about Christianity that is somehow unchristian like misogyny, slavery and redemption through suffering?

Isn't the whole idea that one cannot question religious opinion, a unique deference, despite valid and compelling reasons to criticize it, a form of imposing your views on others? Doesn't the fact that the great majority of Americans who are moderate Christians provide the support for Fundy thinking? Do you think the fact that half of this country thinks that evolution and creationism are actually competing theories has anything to do with our religiosity? Would Bush have been "elected" if moderates did not think that the arguments of the religious right had at least some merit? Had the bishops not directed their flock to value embryos more than people, would Kerry be in the White House today? Does not the emphasis on faith over examination made the whole country less able to defend its rights from the abuses of authority? Does not the tax exempt status of religious temples, a privilege unique among businesses, not shift the nations tax burden onto every other business and consumer?

Of course none of this even touches on the objective fact that god almost certainly cannot exist and that the whole idea of divinity is certainly human-made.

Again, I don't intend any offense, though that may be inevitable at this point. I just don't think the line between one form of Christianity and another is really that compelling.



Of course none of this even begins to look

Got a lot of dumbasses out there.

I'm feeling a little pain just to the right of my navel.

:crazy:

has that been factored in?

Financial unrest?

Liberal media white washes it!

I'm just picturing the 700 Club headlines.