Mencken, thou shouldst be living at this hour

[Chuck Munson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Economist - August 22, 2002
> 
> 
> Lexington
> Behold the Rapture
> Millenarianism is becoming a force on the right in American politics
> 
> THERE used to be bumper stickers in north Florida warning, "In case of 
> Rapture, this car will be driverless." The Rapture is an apocalyptic 
> event: at some point, Christ will swoop to earth and beam all true 
> believers up to heaven. People will vanish, as the first book of 
> Corinthians has it, in the twinkling of an eye, leaving everything else 
> behind-the clothes they are wearing, their wedding rings, false 
> teeth-and, of course, unbelievers. So if a car is being driven by a 
> born-again Christian, it will careen off the road and crash into 
> something. You have been warned.

I pray for the rapture every day, figuring that the world would be a much 
better place if the people who believed in such nonsense suddenly disappeared.

Chuck0

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