Once Upon A Time In dark_christian

LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY nebris)

"They think they're already walking their 40 days in the desert.

I'm gonna tar with a broad brush here, but if you're a Rapture-ite, chances are good that you're a mostly working-class person with limited education. Everyone you know thinks like you do, you live in a very insular community because non-believers are "dangerous".

The world as you'd like to keep it is rapidly passing you by. Most of the fundamentalists I knew/am-related-to are living at least 40 years behind everyone else.

You send your kids to a "bible based" private college and it cost you a fortune, but now you find that nobody in the "secular" world will hire them because strangely enough, classes in "Righteousness" don't really translate to real world work situations. Where they can't preach the Word at that filthy homosexual across the cubicle from them. More marginalization occurs there and you can't get or buy the things other "unGodly" people have.

More and more you feel yourself and your way of life becoming marginalized and embattled. If all you watch is Fox News and the 700 Club, you'd know that EVERYBODY is gunning for you, your country, your children (born and unborn), your way of life and Goodness and Decency. Liberals, feminists, environmentalists, homosexuals, Hilary Clinton, Mexicans...they're all coming to take what you have and rub your nose in it afterwards.

Nobody is Behaving Correctly, in your opinion, and it's just getting worse.

The world is a sinful, awful place and what's more...it's dangerous. You're taught that with every thought you think and every book you read...even the music you may overhear...is enough to let the devil in to steal your soul. Evil walks among us, stalking YOU personally at every turn. If he succeeds, you'll be Left Behind...you'll lose your entire family, everyone you know and love, and be left on a planet that's gonna be riddled with Godly bullets. Famine, Pestilence... Jeezus on a pale horse splitting open the guts of the non-believers and laughing like a deranged Clint Eastwood/ Mad Max as he does so.

The simple answer is this - if you believe in the Rapture, you believe that God will come down and whisk you up into the great Cosmic Marriott in the sky where you can sit with everyone else who believes as you do in the vast lobby with the all you can eat buffet (like a sin-free Vegas!) and watch everyone who you feel has been part of making you feel inadequite, scared and miserable Get Their Due on big screen TV's while you and yours are finally safe.

That's why so many of these folks talk about being "finally Free". They're a tense, repressed, uptight, anxious group of people who are not having a whole lot of fun down here."

~archanglrobriel from this post in Dark_Christian