An article taken from literalgirl

[conuly]

I really, really, really need to get out of this country. Maybe I can build a dome underwater or something. Anyone wanna come with?

Comments

[elfster.livejournal.com]

My American hosts from a few years back were Left Behind readers who took the rapture quite seriously. One day one of them said, "Won't it be funny when we're taken away and leave nothing but piles of clothes."

Nice people and all but o.O

[elfster.livejournal.com]

Oh and the whole environmental attitude is really screwed up. With America being such a large and influential country its attitude on environmental issues is a global concern. I can't believe there are people out there who believe it doesn't matter because they'll all be taken away before anything bad happens.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Won't it be funny when that doesn't happen and they'll be going "oh shit, we fucked up bad." Except not that funny. Hopefully I'll be dead by then. :P

Even when I was a Christian I was irritated with the idea of the Rapture. "Don't any of you know that it was made up in the colonial period to attract people to their church!?"

Grr. Not a Christian any more, but I still stand firm on that issue.

[elfster.livejournal.com]

What if everybody else vanished and they didn't, mwa-ha-ha!

Belief in the rapture isn't as common here but I do remember encountering a few who were into it back when I went to youth group and thinking, "where the hell did that come from?"