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Are this a joke? I have never seen anything like it in my entire life? I am shocked.
2007-06-17 19:26:00 · 14 answers · asked by Mr Reason 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Afraid it's not a joke.
The depths of human gullibility and willful stupidity are astounding.
2007-06-17 20:25:08 · answer #1 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I look at it this way--and it really helps to put things into perspective. When the movie "The Matrix" came out, it developed a cult following. I mean a CULT following. Websites sprung up declaring the movie as prophetic, and several people started seeing that movie as a plausible explaination of reality. You read this right. A friggin' Keanu Reeves movie. Movie. 24 frames per second. Filmed in studios and with added computer-enhanced effects. We won't even get into the "What the
These are the kind of people we share air with, folks. How is this any different?
2007-06-18 07:22:15 · answer #2 · answered by writersblock73 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is the power of faith. People who believe that stuff are actually well-meaning. They really want everyone to be "saved". But under the rules they've adopted, it requires one believing just as they do. So when they see people resisting their message, it drives them crazy. They see drowning people pushing life preservers away. This poor woman, true to her belief system, wants to "help", to the point of self-sacrifice. And if no "rapture" happens (yet), there's no reason for her to change her mind...
2007-06-18 02:40:54 · answer #3 · answered by skepsis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd be laughing my butt off right now, if I hadn't lost a friend to....(are you ready?)....that LaHey "Left Behind" series. She used to be a normal person, but then she read those books and got "born again", and now her life is all about preparing for the rapture.
I'm thinkin she must have been absent on the day they took all the kids to the library to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction. =)
2007-06-18 02:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by ♥Mira♥ 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, its not a joke. I've met to and talked with fundies who really honestly believe that and the entire focus of their life is being raptured or going to met the lord.
2007-06-18 02:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Sorry I'm laughing right now. Not sure if maybe crying wouldn't be more appropriate. How do people buy into this. Kind of sad to think she spends her life waiting for the "Rapture".
2007-06-18 02:33:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I am continually shocked with the R&S section.
These people have kids!
Kinda makes a person pro-abortion...possibly mandatory abortion.
2007-06-18 02:31:16 · answer #7 · answered by The Walkin Dude 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Shocked? Why? You already believe that they believe in something that doesn't exist...why wouldn't they take their beliefs to the n-th degree?
2007-06-18 02:30:09 · answer #8 · answered by Always Curious 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yup, it looks crazy enough to be real. You have to remember religious people are all suffering from a socially accepted psychosis.
2007-06-18 02:29:37 · answer #9 · answered by Kaze 3 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is a joke. No one could be serious about this and not be a joke.
2007-06-18 03:09:33 · answer #10 · answered by Fred 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋