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It'll Be Awkward for the Rapture Folk - John Fugelsang (Original Post) Different Drummer May 2020 OP
Hopefully the Coronavirus will have taken care of Stephen Miller by then Blue Owl May 2020 #1
I really hope there's a g-d agingdem May 2020 #5
I am not a religious person whatsoever, Butterflylady May 2020 #18
yes it is but.. agingdem May 2020 #21
I believe everyone goes to heaven but they get a lesson demigoddess May 2020 #28
Well, since his wife has it, there is wnylib May 2020 #11
Love John DownriverDem May 2020 #17
Amen. (nm) mikewv May 2020 #2
I Think Many Evangelicals Would Freak If They Saw Jesus... TomCADem May 2020 #30
Truthfully Johnnie Mae May 2020 #34
As long as he wears a mask lame54 May 2020 #3
Not awkward at all. They'll simply handle him same as in the past and then declare themselves saved. Midnight Writer May 2020 #4
Don't go jogging in Georgia, Mr. Jesus. Alex4Martinez May 2020 #6
They will just crucify him again. Just more strange fruit. Augiedog May 2020 #7
The trumpists will lynch him, or shoot him on site. warmfeet May 2020 #8
Not to worry. Under those conditions Jesus will have no voice and.... KY_EnviroGuy May 2020 #9
COVID-19 is the rapture IronLionZion May 2020 #10
Wrong Killer Johnnie Mae May 2020 #35
I like telling evangelicals that this is the rapture. Some of them believe it IronLionZion May 2020 #37
The rapture was not part of Christian theology till the 19th century Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #12
I'm happy to hear that as I kind of like Jesus Susan Calvin May 2020 #14
Not a 'hell' per se. An eternal state of being without God. But, actually being aware of Him. eom sprinkleeninow May 2020 #25
I think the word hell comes from Norse mythology Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 #29
And it has frozen over? Susan Calvin May 2020 #32
Exactly correct. A new-fangled 'doctrine' contrived when you stated. sprinkleeninow May 2020 #24
I've heard this before, but Susan Calvin May 2020 #13
Many of his followers believe Jesus was a Christian. keithbvadu2 May 2020 #15
And that He was/is white/Caucasian/European looking. sprinkleeninow May 2020 #26
What ethnicity was Jesus? It depends on whose wall his portrait is hanging. keithbvadu2 May 2020 #33
Ethnicity? Johnnie Mae May 2020 #36
He was human. He had an ethnicity. keithbvadu2 May 2020 #38
Woody Guthrie struggle4progress May 2020 #16
The subtitles botched "Judas Iscariot" badly. n/t Harker May 2020 #22
I know who Jesus was, but one thing I'm not sure of... Lock him up. May 2020 #19
Well assuming he really existed in the first place DFW May 2020 #20
When Christ Jesus returns as He promised He would, and this which 'the dumphumping bible thumping sprinkleeninow May 2020 #23
or a long haired radical socialist jew! demigoddess May 2020 #27
how to shut down a rapturist at knee caps noneof_theabove May 2020 #31

agingdem

(7,859 posts)
5. I really hope there's a g-d
Sat May 9, 2020, 06:50 PM
May 2020

I'm jewish and as a jew we really don't believe in heaven or hell...we make our heaven or hell on earth...ashes to ashes dust to dust..however I want there to be an exception for Stephen Miller that reptilian self hating Jew...I want a special hell for that sonofabitch...

Butterflylady

(3,549 posts)
18. I am not a religious person whatsoever,
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:48 AM
May 2020

But I do believe we create heaven or hell here and now. And right now it's hell on earth.

agingdem

(7,859 posts)
21. yes it is but..
Sun May 10, 2020, 12:24 PM
May 2020

we have to establish a new normal or at least a new different...and we have to get rid of the orange cretin and his sycophants in the House and Senate...we can't live hunkered down..I don't want another 50's bomb shelter generation..if we have to wear masks and velcro hand sanitizers to our clothes so be it...but first and foremost I think we have to get Biden in and establish the scientific protocols that Obama had in place and reconnect to the rest of the world...and once we do that then we can move forward

demigoddess

(6,645 posts)
28. I believe everyone goes to heaven but they get a lesson
Sun May 10, 2020, 05:11 PM
May 2020

in where they were wrong when they get there. Told my sister in law that I hoped her father got a good chewing out when he arrived in heaven. She screamed with laughter. (Crazy Christian)

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
30. I Think Many Evangelicals Would Freak If They Saw Jesus...
Sun May 10, 2020, 05:22 PM
May 2020

...and he looked like a guy from the middle east, which he was.

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Johnnie Mae

(35 posts)
34. Truthfully
Mon May 11, 2020, 04:16 AM
May 2020

Hi it's me again, the evangelical. You have exactly described the Jesus of the Christian Bible. Except this, his hair is described as wooly, like my wooly hair. He was a very different man from the monsters of our federal govt. You are so right. He would not b accepted today. He would be lynched, shot or at least kept out of the "good" neighborhoods. Oh the irony of it all.

Midnight Writer

(21,803 posts)
4. Not awkward at all. They'll simply handle him same as in the past and then declare themselves saved.
Sat May 9, 2020, 06:39 PM
May 2020

I never understand how God sends his only Holy Son to live among us, we torture and kill the guy, and this is somehow a righteous act that saves our souls?

warmfeet

(3,321 posts)
8. The trumpists will lynch him, or shoot him on site.
Sat May 9, 2020, 07:47 PM
May 2020

They will lie about the circumstances of the shooting and be fully exonerated by the authorities.

Not awkward at all. Just another day.

Ho-hum.

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,494 posts)
9. Not to worry. Under those conditions Jesus will have no voice and....
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:00 PM
May 2020

anything he/she says will never be heard...........

IronLionZion

(45,534 posts)
37. I like telling evangelicals that this is the rapture. Some of them believe it
Mon May 11, 2020, 07:58 AM
May 2020
The rapture is an eschatological concept of certain Christians, particularly within branches of American evangelicalism, consisting of an end-time event when all Christian believers who are alive, along with resurrected believers, will rise "in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

sprinkleeninow

(20,263 posts)
24. Exactly correct. A new-fangled 'doctrine' contrived when you stated.
Sun May 10, 2020, 04:33 PM
May 2020

Original Christianity perverted and multitudes of sheeple eat it up.

God help us all and have mercy according to Your Great Mercies!

keithbvadu2

(36,923 posts)
15. Many of his followers believe Jesus was a Christian.
Sat May 9, 2020, 08:24 PM
May 2020

Many of his followers believe Jesus was a Christian.

He never was.

sprinkleeninow

(20,263 posts)
26. And that He was/is white/Caucasian/European looking.
Sun May 10, 2020, 04:42 PM
May 2020

The Western notion of Him in their 'pictures' throws them off the truth.

God forbid the Eastern Orthodox use ikonography depicting Him and all others. Windows into Heaven. Not fabricated misleading versions of Him and all sacred others.

keithbvadu2

(36,923 posts)
33. What ethnicity was Jesus? It depends on whose wall his portrait is hanging.
Sun May 10, 2020, 07:57 PM
May 2020

What ethnicity was Jesus?

It depends on whose wall his portrait is hanging.

Johnnie Mae

(35 posts)
36. Ethnicity?
Mon May 11, 2020, 04:38 AM
May 2020

Jesus of Nazarene, born n Galilee which is n Israel. In other words we are not told. At least that's what I believe. Anyway He is all of us. When it comes to the 'gift' He has given me I don't care where He's from. I mean I'd like to know, but in the scheme of things that pales in importance. Wherever He's from, I'm on my way to heaven & eternal life and away from these Pharisees forever.

Lock him up.

(6,941 posts)
19. I know who Jesus was, but one thing I'm not sure of...
Sun May 10, 2020, 11:30 AM
May 2020

… was Christ his family name?

Father: God Christ?
Mother: Mary ? Christ?

Wattabout Joseph's??

DFW

(54,445 posts)
20. Well assuming he really existed in the first place
Sun May 10, 2020, 11:32 AM
May 2020

That's what Jesus was the first time around, so this isn't really any kind of departure from the original.

(Talk about being stuck in a rut!)

sprinkleeninow

(20,263 posts)
23. When Christ Jesus returns as He promised He would, and this which 'the dumphumping bible thumping
Sun May 10, 2020, 04:26 PM
May 2020
believers' are waiting for, some of them, seeing Him as He is, will shout Him down--calling Him a fake, a scam and a hoax.

Then the veritable stones will cry out!!

noneof_theabove

(410 posts)
31. how to shut down a rapturist at knee caps
Sun May 10, 2020, 06:36 PM
May 2020

I happened on March 26, 1997 and only 39 were saved.

Those who don't pay attention to history are doomed to repeat it.
Congress needs to up Social Security & welfare payments because there is a large amount of people that are too poor to pay attention.
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