Rapture Rapture Everywhere 🔴And Not An Empty Pile Of Clothes To Be Found

Only Sky ✏ If reality could rein in some of these zealots, the Rapture would never have become a belief in the first place.

Captain Cassidy

Last week, a bunch of right-wing Christians were hoping they’d finally get to see the Rapture they think their god promised his followers.

It didn’t happen. But don’t worry! They are guaranteed not to learn a thing from this latest in a long, long, long, longlonglong line of disappointments. For those who really want to see it happen, Rapture beliefs just hit the sweet spot of conspiracy theories, dysfunctional authoritarian behavior, and unwarranted self-importance.

How you know someone’s done time in fundagelicalism

Not long ago and out of the blue, I asked my husband if he knew when Israel became a state. He had no idea. “When, then?” he asked.

“In 1948,” I replied without any hesitation.

I’m not an expert in geopolitics or anything like that. If you asked me when any other country’s statehood began, I would likely not know. I just used to be Pentecostal back in the 1980s and 1990s. And the one year that every single Pentecostal knew back then was that one.

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