I'm also sad you are still here
"I'm also sad you are still here," was the best response I saw in response to the week's failure to rapture. Indeed, I too would have been rapturous with joy if the assholes in the administration claiming holier-than-thou status and bejeweled with mega crosses had just been taken away. But personally I think I'd get more joy in people being taken away to the ICC for funding genocide and destroying boats and murdering people in the Caribbean with no due process.
Forbes Magazine ran the headline: The Rapture Didn’t Happen, And The Internet Is Disappointed.
The story continued:
On TikTok, Christian Evangelicals were under the impression that the Rapture was due on Tuesday, but the day has come and gone without divine judgment.
If you missed it, Christian Evangelicals on TikTok have spent the last few days getting ready for the end of days—the Rapture—which was meant to occur on September 23.On the day of the Rapture, the faithful are to ascend in the sky and meet with Jesus Christ in the air, leaving non-believers behind on Earth. At least, according to some interpretations of the Bible.
Unfortunately for RaptureTok, the day of Judgement did not arrive—it was just another Tuesday. For onlookers, the Rapture was more about the content. In the last week, TikTok has been filled with videos of believers making careful preparations in the event that they get swept up in the sky to meet their Lord and Savior. Believers made videos talking about their excitement and anticipation for the Rapture, documenting detailed back-up plans for their houses, cars and pets.
I have a relative that worked at Warner Robbins Air Force Base during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As a Strategic Air Command base it was listed as a first strike launch site that would not only send bombers but ended up as a primary target. She told me there were several alerts that activated during the crisis and she was required to seek shelter. Descending flights of stairs in high heels and a Jackie O ensemble proved memorable as did the comments from the officers offering to repopulate the world after the nuclear cloud cleared.
This week I gleefully watched the insanity unfold online as the rapture mania increased. I thought of her SAC base story and wondered if any of these loonies had considered doing anything truly enjoyable in the last hours of their lives. I imagined some of these people asking what would happen if they conceived while having sex with their spouse for the last time. Would the embryo go to heaven even though it hadn't prayed for salvation? I mean born in sin is part of their ideology so if an embryo is a baby and babies are born in sin then they're a hell bound embryo, right? Are you folks on the other side of the aisle beginning to see why we think you are not only crazy but just plain evil for thinking babies are born in sin.
Did any of the rapture crazed have their own version of The Last Supper? Did they put it on a credit card? Were they joyous knowing some reprobate sinner in their family would get stuck with the bill? Some people were giving their food away too? There had to be some preppers in the group. Guess they are starting over today. Or could it be they hedged their bets and kept their stash? Does that mean they didn't have enough faith? Is that why they were left behind?
Some gave away cars, bags of cash, the titles to their homes! OMG! That is the correct response, right: OMG!? Talk about a walk of shame for those begging to get their jobs back. What about those who were "unequally yoked" to a non-Christian. Now every marital fight can include, "Yeah, right. Like that time you said you'd be raptured! And I was the crazy one, huh?"
Wouldn't it be funny if one of those distant Amazonian tribes the anthropologists only visit once a year or fly drones over suddenly disappears? Could it be the untainted tribe was the only group of people who were truly worthy of rapture? What if they were the only ones to get it right? I mean, how do you really know your brand of religion is the real one. A lot of people out there are making those claims. And you are ARE still here!
When my husband was young his parents and sister walked across the street to visit with the grandparents. They didn't tell him; they just left him reading in his room. After a while, the quiet in the house became very noticeable. Rooms empty. Laundry unfinished. Cars still in the garage. Quiet. Very, very quiet. Having been brought up in a rapture household where they heard the sermons and saw the early movies (1970s era) designed to scare about the Anti-Christ, he resorted to asking if he'd missed the rapture. Before the Left Behind series there were songs like "I Wish We'd All Been Ready." Movies like "A Thief in the Night" were meant to scare you into salvation. And here was this adolescent boy scared he'd been left behind. What must have been happening in right wing extremist households this week?
All I know is that IF the rapture had happened, Trump would have definitely been left behind. I guess he'd make the perfect Anti-Christ.
