Rapsidian? Rapturite?

[DarkPhenyx]

Rapsaurian?

What is the proper term for someone who fervently believes in the Rapture and wants it to happen tomorrow?

[Bluebear]

1. Wacky.

[blm]

2. Fool.

We should all write letters to the editor, like this one:

>>>>>
A recent Time article focused on U.S. fundamentalists who were pleased about Sept.11, 2001, and saw it as a fulfillment of prophecy, a sign the Lord would soon come again. The turmoil in the Mideast is also welcome, in that Israel will be destroyed and the Jewish people will accept Jesus at long last.

I was left with some questions that should be troubling to any voter and answered by all political candidates.

Why should any voter entrust the future of his children and grandchildren, or the health of the Earth's resources, to any politician who is expectant of and looking forward to a scenario that raptures the believers and leaves those left behind to the horrors of an Armageddon? Who would give stewardship of their most precious world to those who believe prophecies that they themselves can fulfill with their political decisions and powers?

[bryant69]

3. Rapturite probably works the best

What if you are someone who believes in the rapture, but doesn't expect it to happen tomorrow?

Rapture is one of those terms that seems to change meaning depending on what denomination you are talking to. I used to think it was the same as the Second Coming, but apparently it's not.

At any rate, what is the theological difference between Christ returning in cloud of glory or carelessly stepping in front of a bus? Either way you have to have your soul in order. So I tend not to think about the Apolocolypse/Rapture/Second Coming all that much.

Bryant
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[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Raptee?

Or Scum on the Gene Pool, depending on how generous you're feeling.

[stopthegop]

5. or hateful...as in your case...

I doubt you'd speak that way about many other religious beliefs...that would be 'intolerant'

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. Hey, they're the ones hoping for the end of the world

they started the hate.

[stopthegop]

15. you missed the point...

and it's not hate...learn the belief and you'll see..

and 'hoping' is a distortion of the belief...'expecting...sometime..don't know when' is closer..

[Walt Starr]

6. Religiously insane

Seems pretty obvious to me.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Raptilian

Seems about right.

[girlphoenix]

9. Canuckistanian...

You beat me to it!

[girlphoenix]

8. Raptilian

eom

[kimchi]

10. Raptor,

Raptor: (n), perjorative.
1. One who salivates for Armageddon like a carniviorous, ancient, extinct dinsoaur.

[The White Rose]

11. How about Rapturd?

Just a thought...

[Taverner]

12. Nutjob

but the official term is Millenial Dispensationalist

[VelmaD]

16. Wow...I'm impressed...

that you knew that. I can remember big fights when I was little between the pre-millenialists and the post-millenialists.

[Taverner]

20. What about the preterists :)

[zonmoy]

13. rethuglican

they run the republican party dint they.

[TX-RAT]

17. Was rapture mentioned in the bible?

[stopthegop]

18. Yes....I'd have to look for it..but it's mentioned..

but..
any part of the Bible can be subject to differing interpretations...

[TX-RAT]

19. Thanks

Had always heard it wasn't.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Barely

You have Matthew 24:38-42:
"For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."
which implies the 'taking' happens to the bad guys; and 1 Thessalonians 4:17:
"Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
which implies the taking happens to the good ones. And that's about it, I think. The idea of 'The Rapture' originated in Britain (or possibly Ireland) around 1830.