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      I was raptured! Or at least I think I was. I was laying in bed when all of sudden everything started shaking and there was a bright light outside. Everything in my bedroom started being lifted up. Then two shadowy figures were in my bedroom. They were short and large heads. They spoke like Biblical angels, completely in tongues.

      The next thing I remember, I woke up two towns over with no memory. I also have a pounding headache.

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    You know what? Sure. As long as they have a reason to release the files I’m down to support it.

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    Imagine you wake up in the morning and realize all the annoying Christian fundies have been raptured away and the world is all unicorn farts and rainbow cotton candy for a while…

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      My aunt is basically a crazy evangelical, and yes, she thinks we are living in the end times, and wants to usher in the end times faster so she can get to heaven. Its batshit insane.

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    You guys, we have the best opportunity. Next time they hold a Rapture, we all just go completely cold turkey silent for like, three days. Let them all think they’ve been left behind. Then we all come back to social media and the rest of the real world on the third day like, “whoa, that was so cool, what was your favourite part of it?”

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      checks list Cool, the one I added (and documented) is still listed.

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        In 2011 one of the skeptic magazines published a form saying something like, “I hereby bequeath all my worldly goods to the bearer of this note on [day after the world was supposed to end].” Obviously a joke, but I wonder how many doomsday-ers were confident enough to sign on the dotted line?

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          I doubt many because you never, ever, hear of any of these rapture folks giving away all their money and stuff. never. Oh it’s going to happen…but just in case…

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            Not quite the same, but when my wife was a kid, some of her hardcore fundie neighbors ran up MASSIVE loan and credit card debts on the lead-up to one of these rapture dates in the '90s. They thought that since they would soon be chilling with Jesus in Heaven they wouldn’t have to face financial consequences. It financially ruined them and they lost everything.

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              Huh. Isn’t that the Sin of Greed then? Seems even if there had been a rapture they self-selected out.

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                  I mean, I understand it. I think it’s stupid, but I understand it.

                  They believe Good is something you are, not something you do. So anything they do is Good, because they’re Good. If a Bad Person does the same thing, say, running up debt; they did something Bad, because Bad People only do Bad things.

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    The funny thing is the rapture actually happened. They didn’t get plucked. Maybe they should figure out why and be better people.

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      To add to this, the only person who did was that stoner that Michael in “The Good Place” has framed on his wall, because he knew too much/was the only human who (for a brief moment) knew roughly how the universe worked.

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    Metaphorically speaking, a rapture in the 1% will be possible if the unredacted list is shared. This will make a rapture in the government also possible… I never thought I’d ever agree with doomsday but here we are…

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      See you misunderstood the rapture, it is but children that think the lord is god.

      Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken and the other left. Matthew 24:40

      Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. Matthew 24:41

      Matthew 24:42

      What lord do you know that has stripped the fields of their laborers? No regard of their ability or need to work, ungraciously taken.

      God is greater than understanding.

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      The article mentions the preacher who started this rapture excitement is from South Africa

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      I mean that really all depends on the religion that they are. The rapture is used in different context for different religions and it’s not always called the same thing. However the word rapture is typically prevalent among sects such as Southern Baptist and any of the other evangelical faith. But it’s not typically found among many of the base Lutheran religions and the exact words as well as Catholicism.

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        In the UK, some Christians have used the term “Rapture” to just refer to the second coming. I’ve heard people use the term and not even know Rapture Theology (where Christians just disappear) to be a thing.

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    It’s 2025 and the Daily Star is now considered one of the more relevant and trustworthy news sources. And not because they’ve improved themselves.

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      In our era, a new way of winning the race to be the British Newspaper with the most Journalistic Integrity appeared: just stand still as a tabloid with little or no Journalistic Integrity whilst everybody else just runs by you in the opposite direction of “better” on their way to Pure Propagand Outlet.