Why does christianity's rapture resemble the Native American Ghost Dance?

Question

In 1888 Wovoka, a Paiute Indian, created a religous movement called the Ghost Dance. Ghost Dancers held the belief that the world was soon going to end and that the Native Americans, including those that had already passed, would inherit the earth. The movement took its name from a ritual in which the people would engage in a frenzied dance and would glimpse their future Native American paradise.

Answer 1

Because those native Americans took on Christianity, but put their own cultural beliefs with it. They wore special shirts that were supposed to protect them, but during a ghost dance ceremony the American army started to shoot the NA because the government out lawed many traditional NA ceremonies, the army thought they were going to attack so they shot the dancers. I can't remember the name of the NA who was over seeing the dance, but he told the dancers not to run because the shirts would protect them and they were slaughtered.
I believe it was called Wounded Knee

Answer 2

Ghost Dance Ceremony

Answer 3

Everybody wants to inherit the earth. But the rapture is not a religious movement, nor is it a ritual in which people dance. The rapture is that moment in the future when God's chosen people (true Christians) will be changed into spirit beings at the return of Jesus Christ. The Ghost Dance sounds like something else.

Answer 4

Thank you brings light. I doubt if this guy is really Lakota anyway. By the way he talks he is just another "white" person playing at being "indian" I doubt very much that he is living the culture, if he was he would know that he shouldn't be talking about such sacred things in a public forum like this....

Answer 5

It doesn't.

The Nation Israel inherits the EARTH and is the ONLY people promised earthly blessings, real estate, or promises.

We who are the church which is called His BODY, are promised us spiritual blessings , not on the earth, but in heaven...see Ephesians 1:3 "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:"

Big difference. Different programs, different audiences, different instructions, different apostle, different destination.