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In it till the Rapture!

People who think the world is going to end soon are poor candidates for government service, IMO. Sustainability is going to be of no interest whatsoever and they're probably happy to hasten Armageddon in the Middle East. Good thing Pompeo has been "outed" because even though there are voters who agree with him, a lot of people won't. One article said Pompeo is part of White House bible study run by a fervent anti-Catholic. Also, I seem to recall Israelis being none too happy to be associated with so-called Christians who seem to think they're doing Israel some kind of favor by announcing that Israel will be a key part of the Second Coming and "perfected" which as far as I tell means converted to Christianity so Jews can go to heaven after all.

It's not so much that evangelicals follow the bible; it's that they follow the most bat-**** crazy part of the bible. If Pompeo were a Catholic (which I probably assumed he was), I wouldn't be so concerned.

Best-case scenario, Pompeo is a hypocrite playing to his audience at that time.
 
Stacyhs said:
Scary. But not surprising.
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Well actually, I am surprised. I know Trump has a bunch of Evangelicals around him. Pompeo must have been recommended by Pence or something.

But Rapture believers? I would have thought that's an extreme element within the Evangelical crowd. Perhaps I should reconsider.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
Sure but even if all Rapture believers are Evangelical, not all Evangelicals are necessarily Rapture believers. If they are, it's news to me.
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??? That doesn't make much sense as a response.

Rapture believers aren't an extreme element within the Evangelicalism, they are a majority.
 
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fromdownunder said:
They possibly are Rapture believers, but smart enough not to publicise it.
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Uh, no. They are very loud about it. It's actually built in to the name Evangelical, which means to publicize and promote.

Is the situation much different in your country?
 
RecoveringYuppy said:
Just the first sentence is sufficient.
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That says nothing about proportion of Evangelicals who believe in the Rapture.
The rapture is an eschatological concept of certain Christians, particularly within branches of North American evangelicalism, consisting of an end time event when all Christian believers – living and dead – will rise into Heaven and join Christ.[1][2] Some adherents believe this event is predicted and described in Paul's First Epistle to the Thessalonians in the Bible,[3] where he uses the Greek harpazo (ἁρπάζω), meaning to snatch away or seize.
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Remember, this is what you claimed:
Rapture believers aren't an extreme element within the Evangelicalism, they are a majority.
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I rest my case, not all Evangelicals believe in the Rapture and you have not supported your claim "they are a majority."
 
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It's a very american thing at least. Until I started reading things on the internet from american websites I'd never heard of the rapture. If there are any dutch/european denominations that believe that, they are very quiet about it.
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
It's a very american thing at least. Until I started reading things on the internet from american websites I'd never heard of the rapture. If there are any dutch/european denominations that believe that, they are very quiet about it.
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It was amplified here by the popular book series by Tim Lahaye called Left Behind. They also turned one (some) of them into a movie. It was like a soap opera you wanted to keep watching to see what happened next.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind
 
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RecoveringYuppy said:
Uh, no. They are very loud about it. It's actually built in to the name Evangelical, which means to publicize and promote.

Is the situation much different in your country?
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I honestly don't know any rapture frootloops (i.e, promoting the rapture is their major hobby), and cannot recall the last time I read about one. I imagine we have some, but they hold no prominence of any sort that I am aware of.


Norm
 
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