Rapture Weekend - Listen Live at Five Eastern

This dood will be watching

Update: Salon advises that the "U.S. Geological Survey's up-to-the-minute tracker of worldwide earthquakes over magnitude 5.0." is available online. Earthquakes on the Atlantic sea board will portend the End at 5:00 P.M. Eastern."

You can listen live to the Apocalypse at We Can web-radio. But you do have to download some software.

Another alternative: Take a walk down the street and watch the 'saved' disappear, rapture and ascend to heaven.

Maybe the site will give live updates.

Rapture begins at 5:00 P.M. Eastern.

Cool.

Hey Fundies, The World Is Not Undergoing Rapture May 21

Update: Gays brought this on.

Pam Spaulding has been having some fun with the end-of-the-world-is-coming [Saturday] crowd.

Here's an update from Pam; though left unmentioned is whether that weird storm extending West from the Atlantic Ocean is the beginning of that horror-of-horrors process.

Note the Rapture Index is at near-record high of 182, indicating imminent End Times. But like many religious people, these guys who do the Rapture Index possess what Bertrand Russell used to term their "corners of madness" of significant girth.

So, let us join Pam, Lauri Lebo and many others in saying: Dear Lord, we mock thee.

From Lauri Lebo at Religion Dispatches:

I've been fielding a lot of questions from friends about the upcoming Rapture, which Christian doomsday prognosticator Harold Camping and his sad motley group of followers say will take place May 21. This is the day that true believers will be taken up to heaven, while everybody else -- Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics and anyone who supports gay marriage or accepts evolution -- will be stuck here on Earth for another six months while war and pestilence rains down on us. Then, on Oct. 21, the world will end.

... Well, because God created time zones -- just as he apparently created US international borders -- the Rapture will begin at 6 p.m. in each time zone. Also, you'll know when the Rapture will begin because it will be preceded by an earthquake.

... ‘starting in the Pacific Rim at around the 6 p.m. local time hour, in each time zone, there will be a great earthquake, such as has never been in the history of the Earth,’ he says. The true Christian believers -- he hopes he's one of them -- will be ‘raptured’: They'll fly upward to heaven. And for the rest?

‘It's just the horror of horror stories,’ he says, ‘and on top of all that, there's no more salvation at that point. And then the Bible says it will be 153 days later that the entire universe and planet Earth will be destroyed forever.’

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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