http://www.youvebeenleftbehind.com/index.html
My buddy Alisa sent this over Myspace. I'm so shocked to know there is a website that is ripping desperate people off. More shocking is that there are people who are financially supporting the idea. Basically this website allows subscribers to leave a letter behind begging their non-born again Christian friends and families to convert after the rapture has taken place. Here is my argument condemning these turd-heads.
The Book of Revelations was written roughly 1,900 years ago, keeping in mind that the current measurement of time keeping wasn't solidified for the entire western world until the 19th century (cite, The Discoverers). Even with our current measurement, we suck at doing it right. Taking the flawed measurement of time keeping, and the natural passing of time, The Book of Revelations could have been written between the time span of 2,300 years to 1,800 years ago. Ancient texts of this time period are rarely (if ever) literal. This was a time when few could read and stories were memorized in lyrics. Often the stories evolved like the telephone game, increasing the drama and entertainment.
Finally, after The Book of Revelations had only been available in Greek and Latin, King James had it translated into English. So, here we are in the 16th century, finally getting the story in a more commonly literate, upper-class culture... just behind the Arabs whom had already created the first Romeo and Juliet tale which Shakespeare ripped off, but that's another story... The contents of The Book of Revelations had been through story teller after story teller, version after version, and settled upon in an English version now shared by millions. A few of them are now operating a website.
Why do they believe it is literally a sudden abduction of Christian believers? Why do these born-again Christians understand that the seven-headed beast as an analogy in the book, but choose to believe the others are literal? It makes absolutely no sense to me, and I find them annoying for believing in what had been commonly accepted and WRITTEN as an analogy so long ago.
The world is full of idiots. I simply must wait for the Earth to kill them off with disease.
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I'll have to tell you about the "rapture story" haunted house that I went through in Northern FL. Sheeesh! The worst part was that I was an LDS missionary at the time and they tried to save me and everyone else in my group. One of the gals - not missionary - stood up and started speaking in tongues and flailing around the floor. Her parents kept yelling, "praise Jesus" over and over while the pastor proceeded to take her too the baptism tank to save her. THIS WAS A SPOOOOOOOK ALLLLLLEEEYYY! They did give me a spiritual birth certificate to sign and send in when I was ready to be reborn. LAME! Maybe this should be an X-Files episode.
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