Can peoples actions cause the Rapture??

[boston bean]

And if they can, do they get raptured even if the actions they support or act upon are sins?

[tocqueville]

1. Ignoring or ridiculing that shit is the best way of getting rid of it

the rapture belief equals the belief among certain Muslims that Mohammed will be reborn trough a man, why it is wise to tie down your pants so the newborn doesn't hurt itself in the fall.

I bet that 99% of Europeans don't even know about that particular belief.

[boston bean]

4. huh, I never knew that. The reason I ask this question though, is

because so many believe in the rapture or armageddon and they are willing to do anything to make it happen. Even if it goes against every commandment in the bible.

[zanne]

2. There's no such thing. nt

[bowens43]

3. the rapture is ridiculous piece of fundi mythology

[tanyev]

5. A) No such thing, but B) they have the capacity to destroy the planet

trying to make it happen.

[boston bean]

6. I guess that what you say is the point I am trying to make with this

poll.

The irony and hypocrisy of it all is frightening.

[DanCa]

7. ignorering the effects of global warring , waging non stop war,

causing poverty, and refusing to heal sick can bring about the end of the world. I really don't know that much about the rapture though. My mother told me it was more importatnt to concentrate on how Jesus lived.

[blogslut]

8. Here's exactly how the rapture will happen

"Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly
DJ spinning I said "My My"
Flash is fast Flash is cool
Francois c'est pas flashe non due
And you don't stop sure shot
Go out to the parking lot
And you get in your car and drive real far
And you drive all night and then you see a light
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground
And out comes the man from Mars
And you try to run but he's got a gun
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head
And then you're in the man from Mars
You go out at night eating cars
You eat Cadillacs Lincolns too
Mercurys and Subaru
And you don't stop
You keep on eating cars
Then when there's no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars where the people meet
Face to face
Dance cheek to cheek
One to one
Man to man
Dance toe to toe
Don't move too slow 'cause the man from Mars is through with cars
He's eating bars
Yeah wall to wall
Door to door
Hall to hall
He's gonna eat 'em all
Rapture
Be pure
Take a tour through the sewer
Don't strain your brain
Paint a train
You'll be singing in the rain
Said don't stop to the punk rock
Well now you see what you wanna be
Just have your party on TV
Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars where the TV's on
And now he's gone back up to space where he won't have a hassle with
the human race
And you hip hop
And you don't stop
Just blast off sure shot
Because the man from Mars stopped eating cars
And eating bars
And now he only eats guitars
Get up!"
O8)

[boston bean]

9. I haven't heard that song in ages. Thanks for giving me a good laugh!

:rofl:

[annabanana]

10. NOTHING can cause "the rapture"!

People sliding up out of their clothes into the sky?
Even the hardest right fundies still obey the laws of physics, whether they recognize them or not.

[boston bean]

11. But let's just say people can make the rapture happen just for the

sake of argument.

Working day and night to cause it. And you break every commandment there is. Will you be raptured.

Just for arguments sake, I don't believe you would be raptured if you have sinned.

Not that I believe in it, but many do. How do they justify their actions or support?

[annabanana]

15. Oh, I see what you're saying....

If they are actively pursuing the kind of death & destruction that will promote the onset of the Rapture (however they define it).. Are they, by those actions, no longer eligible..

I suspect that if you tried to engage any of the 'rapture-ready" with this kind of logic they'd just stare at you will uncomprehending stupefaction..

Way way too complicated for them...
("Jesus will sort it out")

[Minnesota Libra]

12. You forgot to include "No such thing as the rapture" in your poll. nt

[boston bean]

13. The poll really isn't about whether I or you or anyone else actually

believes in the Rapture.

It's about the hypocrisy of people who do believe. And a serious question I have.

[enki23]

14. if we clap *really* hard, will tinkerbell truly wake up?

[Ghost in the Machine]

16. damn! I thought it said RUpture..

:rofl:

[porphyrian]

17. Riding a bicycle into something can cause the rupture...

...but that other garbage is made-up fundamentalist bullshit.