The Rapture Index

On the lower-left corner of this page, readers can find a link to the Rapture Index.

The Rapture Index proclaims to arrive at a predictive measure of the imminence of rapture—the instant when true Christians will be taken up by Jesus Christ into heaven and assorted non-believers like Catholics, secular humanists, Jews, Muslims, agnostics and so forth will be left behind to face the tribulations.

Or, even more precisely, a measure of prophetic activity that occasions the Rapture.

As the Rapture Index site states:

You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we're moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture.

What’s pathetic about all of this is that the millions of fundamentalist Christian millenialists who believe this nonsense comprise a central constituency of the Republican Party under Bush/Rove/Cheney.

But they are the perfect Republican constituency—unthinking, irrational, hostile-to-evidence-and-argument, bigoted, and utterly incapable of altering their dogma through reason.

Current Rapture Index – 159

Rapture Index of 100 and Below: Slow prophetic activity
Rapture Index of 100 to 130: Moderate prophetic activity
Rapture Index of 130 to 160: Heavy prophetic activity
Rapture Index above 160: Fasten your seat belts

Right now, we are at 159, we're right there before Rapture occurs, again.

But as the Rapture fails to occur again and again, as it surly will, we can be sure that the whackos will not change their worldview, and that they will remain Rapture-ready, looking to their Holy Man, George W. Bush, a nut in his own right, but one who occupies the White House as he delivers his own brand of tribulations to the world.

So, what do right-wing pundits think about this nonsense coming from today's Republican coalition? One can't even get most of these guys to acclaim evolution (that most evil of scientific facts) and to denounce the vacuity of "intelligent design," so we should we not expect them to acknowledge the whackos who give them votes.
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