Imagine being unsaved and 8 months pregnant. All of a sudden the baby is gone [raptured away]. Talk about a trip!!!!!
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Hey, that would be a great way to explain your abortion to your fundie parents.
"Why aren't you pregnant anymore?"
"My baby was raptured away. You're still here because GOD HATES YOU, and you are officially Left Behind".
An unborn fetus can't accept Jesus as his/her personal savior, therefore, s/he is unsaved, thus, not rapture material.
If this were to happen, think of all the debris that would be left in the woman - sack, placenta, fluids, umbilical cord, etc.. It sounds like God would be performing a very unsafe abortion. Better leave medical procedures to the professionals, God.
If the child was taken in the Rapture, that means that it was not yet human, as humans are inherently sinners until baptism (according to my understanding), so does that mean it isn't really murder to get an abortion as late as eight months?
The baptists love this 'all the children get raptured thing'. It makes their religion seem just a little less horrible.
Sadly it doesn't seem to have any grounding in the faith, I mean everyone's a sinner and such. Its just a nice thought for them...
As is the whole end of the world scenario, James Bond and I both agree that killing everybody is a bad thing, but the fundies fell all warm and fuzzy about it.
LMTO! "Talk about a trip! Is this an example of Poe's Law in action, or is that the first word that came to mind? Freudian slip, perhaps? Anyway, I get your point; abortions are OK if God does it.
You know, BlessHisName, the doctrine of Rapture alone is on shaky Biblical ground as it is, let alone any sort of rapturing of those under "the age of accountability." The Left Behind books are FICTION!
Now, in my limited knowledge of Christian dogma, isn't it true that people are supposedly born unclean? That's why we baptize babies in that tradition, right? So, tell me, how could a bloody fetus be raptured to Heaven without being baptized which would first require expulsion from the woomb?
No, babies are sinful bastards who sin in the womb on top of their inherited sin.
It is much more likely that a saved Christian female will get a forceful abortion come Raptureztag.
:D lol abortion.
Well, I see where s/he's coming from. A lot of fundies think that fetuses that miscarry, are stillborn, etc., go to heaven. Comes from a story about King David's son who dies a few days after birth; apparently God tells David he'll see his son again in heaven. Fundies have expanded that to mean anyone from conception till 3-5 years after birth (or longer, in the case of disabilities that keep the person mentally a child) is "safe" and doesn't need to be "saved." So if the rapture happened, all of those "safe" people- children, fetuses, and the mentally disabled- would be raptured, too. It makes them feel better about the whole "god's sending everyone to hell" bit.
A hell of a lot of baby daddies / potential Maury Povich guests are suddenly getting this religion.
@David D.G.
Would that be hailed as the Immaculate Abortion?
What about a guy, goes out Saturday night sowing his wild oats, then goes to church Sunday morning and prays for crop failure? Let's say "God grants his wish" --- Immaculate Misconception?
BaBOOMTishhh I'm here all week, folks.
@#1306148
So if the rapture happened, all of those "safe" people- children, fetuses, and the mentally disabled - would be raptured, too.
I submit only the mentally disabled, it's their fantasy.
@ulian
I was just thinking that, who gets to keep the umbilical cord?
The toreador! He also gets the ears.
There’s nothing to rapture inside the womb.
Thespirit enters the body at first breath. That’s when life begins, biblically.
And even if that weren’t true, there’s no ‘age of accountability’ in the bible. We’re sinners until we accept Jeebus.
This is why Paul, who thought judgment was coming in his lifetime, said you shouldn’t get married, the kids might not be able to get saved before Judgment day.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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