Left Behind Is A Lie (Rapture, One.)

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.

He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed. ~Matthew 16:1-4

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Eli Sunday: Daniel, I'm asking if you'd like to have business with the Church of the Third Revelation in developing this lease on young Bandy's thousand acre tract. I'm offering you to drill on one of the great undeveloped fields of Little Boston!  

Daniel Plainview: I'd be happy to work with you.

Eli Sunday: You would? Yes, yes, of course. That’s wonderful.

Daniel Plainview: But there is one condition for this work.

Eli Sunday: All right.

Daniel Plainview: I'd like you to tell me that you are a false prophet. I'd like you to tell me that you are, and have been, a false prophet, and that God is a superstition.

~From the film There Will Be Blood.

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When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything. ~Umberto Eco

So, the Rapture was supposed to have been yesterday.

It wasn't, we're all still here.

Sorry, but you'd think these fucking people would have figured it out by now. The Rapture isn't in the Bible, it's a doctrine that was made up by a guy named John Nelson Darby in the 19th Century and popularized by another guy named Cyrus Ingersoll Scofield (also a former Confederate soldier, so there's that) after Darby's death.

I was here for Y2K, Harold Camping, 2012, and a number of other apocalyptic predictions that never went mainstream. They're all crap.

Let me give you a hint about what's really going on with this, yo.

I think if it had been, if all these motherfuckers would have just gone "Poof!" they'd have been mad about that, too.

Because as much as they like the idea of sitting up there in (allegedly) Heaven, watching the rest of us suffer...These Fucking People are damn well desperate to live in some kind of magical world of angels and demons, ghosts and goblins, haints and spooks and a monster under every bed, vampires stalking the night and witches and wizards and werewolves (Never mind that most of these people would never make it in a world like that...they'd be upset about missing out on it.

They wouldn't survive if all that was real, but they think they'd get it on "Easy" difficulty level or some shit. All this, just to confirm their fearful superstitious controlling worldview and ravening desire to go about armed to the teeth for no reason. 

Hell, they'd probably demand God send them back.

Mostly because, in Heaven as presented in all the holy books...there's no one to fight against.

And given how these idiots conduct themselves I could see that wish being granted, too.

Yes, I could see God getting sick of this shit in a hurry.

Because most of these fucking people's crap has nothing whatever to do with God. It's all about them. It's not religion, it's narcissism with a heavy dose of religiosity and sensuality, but that second part is vaguely hidden and only for certain people at the end of the day. They really do get kinda mad if somebody from one of their (for lack of a better term) lower classes gets lucky.

Meanwhile the upper classes be it in "Conservatism" itself or in a given church get to do whatever they want, as does anybody sufficiently associated with them...I'm talking drinking, drugs, sex lives that'd shame a troop of Bonobos, etc...just so they're facedown crying about and begging Republican Jesus for forgiveness for it all at the altar call the next Sunday.

Don't believe me?

Evidently Erika Kirk is starting a "Conservative Christian" dating site and says she'll be on it.

Wait what the fuck??

I mean, I've known a grieving widow or two in my time.

Yes, some widows move on quick, most in my experience don't.

One of my aunts had a hell of a time dealing with it for a couple years after my uncle died, to the point of taking his ashes with her when she traveled. Me and my girlfriend and my Mom occasionally joked (when she wasn't around) about taking my uncle for a swim because we all thought it was creepy.

We didn't tell my aunt that, though.

I get that people deal with death in different ways but setting yourself up as the Queen Alpha Bitch of your own dating site does strike me as kind of inappropriate...if somebody is actually grieving.

No, I don't give a damn if that sounds judgmental. Something strikes me as genuinely wrong about all this.

I've at least been honest in saying I didn't like Charlie Kirk, I didn't hate him, but I do think it was wrong that he got shot. I seem to recall something about killing/murder being a Sin.

And what gets me about this, the more I look at it, nobody in the Republican elite is actually acting like they cared all that much about Charlie Kirk. Turning his memorial into a Trump rally doesn't seem to have gone over well and since they can't find anything to weaponize his assassination against the "Left" they're already trying again with some shooting in Dallas.

But that one actually targeted ICE prisoners, rather than agents.

Likely that shooter will turn out to have been either right-wing or some kind of incoherent internet nihilist nut-job also.

And they'll be mad about that, too.

Because the one thing they think they want more than some kind of magical Dungeons & Dragons type world where they can have magical powers is a Civil War where they can kill their mostly-made-up "Enemies" and get away with it.

Except wars, Civil and otherwise, tend not to work like that. The enemy gets to do their fair share of killing, too. The enemy gets a vote in what happens, and pretty often it's the dumber faction that lacks a grounding in reality and refuses to understand their opposition that loses the war.

And do you think people who lost their shit when professional sports got paused for months or they couldn't go to the store without a mask on are gonna have the discipline it takes to fight or even to just live in a wartime environment??

I don't.

Among other things, these fucking people seek after signs and wonders because they are weak and faithless people.

They've simply convinced themselves that everybody else is weaker.

They really do seem to think they're going to come up against "Hippies" that'll bring a bong to a gunfight. Trouble is, most of the alleged hippies that I'm aware of these days, the hippies and most of the people with the crystals and the horoscopes and the tarot cards and shit...are either MAGA's or very MAGA-adjacent and they have been since 2020 and COVID-19 in particular.

None of this is going to work out how they think it will.

Wars, civil and otherwise, are bloody and nasty and by definition unholy events.

This Christian Jihadism will end badly for the Christians, not least because Christ Himself would stand against such a thing.

Christianity was supposedly founded in peace, by a God-man, but it's actually been a vehicle for some pretty nasty shit, historically, and it seems like God didn't do very much about that. 

Secular ideals like democracy and freedom generally have to be propagated and then defended by people.

There's a reason most organized religion doesn't just leave people the fuck alone, it doesn't have much to do with itself if people aren't obligated to do something or other.

And that's basically the flaw in the whole world-view. They simply don't understand and cannot process being told "No."

The thing is, I really do think These Fucking People are dumb enough to simply destroy themselves. The problem now is they wanna take everybody else down with them.

They want to destroy the village to save it, because they think doing so will preserve their Power. 

But as for the rest of us? You either believe in freedom or you don't.

You're either willing to fight for it or you're not.

Nobody has to play their bullshit.

Left Behind is a Lie.

But then, that's why there ain't no Rapture. God or Jesus or the Universe or whatever looked at John Nelson Darby's crap doctrine and just said "LOL, No."

So can you.

Remember that.

We don't have to do this shit to ourselves or put up with it.

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I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck. ~Andrew Ryan, Bioshock

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