Sarah Palin and the Rapture: With Her Finger On The Nuclear Button

[Better Believe It]

Weekend Edition
September 20 / 21, 2008
The Politics of Tribulation
Sarah Palin and the Rapture
By RAYMOND J. LAWRENCE

Is this country ready for a president who is excited about and eagerly looking forward to the Rapture?

The Rapture, as it is called, is the imaginary day when Jesus will come down from the sky and lift up into heaven all those who are saved, leaving behind all unbelievers to destruction and death?

Anyone who believes in the Rapture scenario will likely interpret a catastrophic nuclear exchange as the opening scene of the Rapture. Thus an American president who believes in the Rapture would arguably have at least some ambivalence toward a nuclear holocaust. A believer in the Rapture with his or her fingers on the nuclear trigger might even be tempted to bring on the Rapture. The Rapture, for those who believe in it, is hardly a negative event. Rather it is culmination of everything they hope for, deliverance into the heavenly arms of Jesus.

The Rapture doctrine has no support in the historic Christianity of any of the main traditions - Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant. The doctrine of the Rapture is cobbled together from several obscure, unrelated comments drawn from the epistles of Paul the Apostle. No credible biblical scholar in two thousand years of Christian history has taken seriously the Rapture doctrine, millennialism, or anything similar to it.

Please read the entire article at:

http://www.counterpunch.org/lawrence09202008.html

[Whoa_Nelly]

1. The Rapture (never a part of the Bible) is all about ultimate/personal selfishness

hardly X-tian

It's more Jim Jones-like

[Eric J in MN]

2. The thought of Sarah Palin in control of nuclear weapons...

...is why I gave another $300 to Obama-Biden after I had thought I was done donating for the year.


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http://progressivealaska.blogspot.com/2008/09/saradise-lost-chapter-sixten-palins.html

Once again, we found ourselves being able to talk privately. I reminded her of the earlier conversation, asking her if her views had changed. She was no longer "necessarily" a young earth creationist, she told me. But she strongly reiterated her belief that "The Lord is coming soon." I was trying to get her to tell me what she felt the signs were, when she had to move on.

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3. That's the scariest thing and I wish the Obama-Biden campaign would utilize it

[FLyellowdog]

4. Spread that thought to those who support her.

A awful lot of the people I talk with that support McCain/Palin don't know about her religious zealot mentality. They love to speak about Rev. Wright, but don't seem to understand where Sarah Palin's beliefs come from. It's time they knew. EDUCATE THEM.