You know that feeling you have toward the May 21st people?

[_MrStakhanovite]

It is brilliant. It illustrates the absurdity of the whole rapture/second coming belief that is so often taken for granted.

Yeah! Because the majority of Christians in the world believe in the rapture!

Oh wait...

They don't.

[_Buffalo]

It is brilliant. It illustrates the absurdity of the whole rapture/second coming belief that is so often taken for granted.

Yeah! Because the majority of Christians in the world believe in the rapture!

Oh wait...

They don't.

Most Christians believe in some sort of end times/second coming doctrine. It's all equally absurd. It was supposed to happen in the first century, by the way. God must be operating on Mormon Standard Time.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Most Christians believe in some sort of end times/second coming doctrine. It's all equally absurd. It was supposed to happen in the first century, by the way. God must be operating on Mormon Standard Time.

Yeah, you’re right, what does accuracy have to do with anything? Details don’t matter when you are trying to make fun of someone's faith.

[_Buffalo]

Most Christians believe in some sort of end times/second coming doctrine. It's all equally absurd. It was supposed to happen in the first century, by the way. God must be operating on Mormon Standard Time.

Yeah, you’re right, what does accuracy have to do with anything? Details don’t matter when you are trying to make fun of someone's faith.

Mark 14:62

61 Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

62 “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

[_Ceeboo]

Hey Buffalo,

It is brilliant.

I realize that you think it is brilliant (I got that the first time)

I don't think it is brilliant at all. (again, "brilliant" would not even appear on the list of words that I might choose)

It illustrates the absurdity of the whole rapture/second coming belief that is so often taken for granted.

To me, it illustrates something very different.

Peace,
Ceeboo

[_Some Schmo]

The "you don't know/understand everything I believe therefore your arguments are invalid" defense never fails to crack me up.

It's like saying, "You don't know what Yoda said at the 46 minute mark of Episode 5, therefore, you can't possibly understand why I believe Star Wars really happened."

Oooooooooohhhhh kay.

[_Tchild]

That's you. That's how we Atheists feel about you. You're irrational, wrong, and brainwashed.

You don't speak for all atheists and you sure as hell don't speak for me. Don't put words in my mouth.

Then you do believe in a second coming, the burning of the wicked (you, most likely) and the resurrection of the just?

-wink-

[_Buffalo]

To me, it illustrates something very different.

Peace,
Ceeboo

What's that, Mr. Ceeboo?

[_68Cadillac]

Most Christians believe in some sort of end times/second coming doctrine. It's all equally absurd.

This is exactly what I'm trying to say with that comic (which someone else made and I just linked to). I don't care that the 38,000+ christian denominations can't agree about what to call the mythical event End-Of-The-World-When-Jebus-Comes-Back. It's absurd no matter how you slice it. And it's sliced 38,000+ ways currently.

Did I hurt someone's feelings in pointing this out? So be it.

[_MrStakhanovite]

Mark 14:62

61 Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?”

62 “I am,” said Jesus. “And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”

And?

If a person is a preterist, historicist, or an idealist when it comes to eschatology, the ways of exegeting that passage are legion. The Son of Man is a loaded phrase with a lot of baggage, it could very well mean that the humble poor will be the ones sitting at the right hand of God (as per Matthew 5).

Giving one verse, devoid of context, and in English doesn’t establish much.