Fundies, End Times and language of the NWO

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The ironic thing about the end time and the rapture is that it's a modern invention,it has never been part of mainstream Christianity but has always been restricted to the lunar religious right. A few nutty Catholics wrote about it but the idea has never been a part of Catholic dogma.


The best explanations I can think of for the survival of such loopy ideas are: The church lost its heretic burning privileges a few hundred years ago. Plus,since biblical times the world population has grown alarmingly.That means it's more likely there will be a scary number of people on the crackpot fringes of all mainstream ideas and beliefs EG:Evangelicals, Scientologists, Mormons,UFOLogists, psychics,alien abductees,9/11 conspiracy frootloops and holocaust deniers.We use those evolutionary dead ends for our amusement and to provided that lovely glow of smug superiority.


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The full Wiki article I've quoted below is worth a glance.

About 1,700 years later, the concept of the rapture, in connection with premillennialism, was expressed by the American Puritan father and son Increase and Cotton Mather. They held to the idea that believers would be caught up in the air, followed by judgments on the earth and then the millennium.[19][20] The term rapture was used by Philip Doddridge (1738) and John Gill (1748) in their New Testament commentaries, with the idea that believers would be caught up prior to judgment on the earth and Jesus' Second Coming. The Baptist Morgan Edwards articulated the concept of a pre-tribulation rapture in an essay published in 1788 in Philadelphia.[21]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture