Personally, I kind of daydream that the reason the USA is not mentioned in the end times is because this country returned to God and were mostly raptured. Those left behind are so few in number that the US is no longer a player in the world domination game.
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Imagine that, a continent that wasn't known to exist to most people at that time, and a country there whose very idea was almost unthinkable wasn't mentioned in the bible.
I would ask why you think that is, but you've shown me that you are incapable of thinking.
Disregarding the obvious point that The United States didn't exist in biblical times, as previously commented on, do you honestly believe that just because we're Americans that we're any better than the rest?
Liars. Rapists. Murderers. And worse, Non-believers.
Actually... the first three at least would get along really well with God.
Make up your mind already. Is the rapture going to happen sometime real soon, or will it be awhile? Or will it be an overnight conversion of the entire US?
You know, I'd like to see what these people would think if they ever read "Waiting for Godot." Do you think they'd spot the parallels?
Actually, 'The Rapture' itself isn't mentioned in the 'End Times'.
At least, not previous to the 1909 Scofield Reference Bible, and I thought the Rapture types were all 1611 KJV idolizers.
or perhaps the US hadn't been discovered by people from that part of the world, let alone conceptualised, when the myths were written and the writers weren't as all knowing as you idiots give them credit for.
Whoo, my first accepted quote! *Does some bizarre dance*
At any rate, my objections were all fairly obvious ones that have already been raised, so I have little else to add.
Alternative theory...
God decides to eliminate the USA because the country screws with everyone else's lives and makes a fair few people miserable.
Or
God is a giant native american... AND he is mighty pissed about "manifest destiny".
Maybe the rapture occurred around 70 AD, since the bible doesn't mention anything discovered/invented after that date. So, jesus has come and gone and come and gone again, and if god had a plan, it's all said and done and it doesn't concern us living here and now in the least. Ergo, the best advice is to just cut the crap and get on with life.
Personally, I kind of daydream that God will rapture Bush and his supporters and make it nunc pro tunc, dated ... oh, I don't know ... right before the 2000 Presidential election.
I also kind of daydream that you folks will actually read the Bible verses used to support the Rapture and will see that it was scheduled to happen in the 1st century.
ETA: Fundies actually reading their own holy book? I guess I win the "Outlandish Daydream" contest, huh?
Keep daydreaming, along with the other fundies, at least that way you harm no one... Then again, words of the ignorant can be dangerous as a gun.
Yeah, what everybody said.
@Osiris, if John the Baptist wrote anything, the Mandaeans would know about it.
I thought that only 144,000 people would be "raptured". Even if all of those who were taken up were American, the effect that this would have on population size of the US would be small-- the same as if Savannah, Georgia decided to secede from the Union*. I'm guessing that the change in demographic attributes would also be similar.
*Given what happened last time, I doubt this would occur again.
It couldn't be, perhaps, that the demented ramblings of your assorted prophets, for all their purported otherworldliness, had their seeds in elements of known reality at the time? Nobody in the holy land had a fucking clue that whole other continents existed when they wrote that shit, so America simply doesn't enter into it. Dreams and nightmares are generated from fragments of data and notions your brain already contains; you'll very rarely dream up anything strange and twisted that isn't still familiar in some way, or you can't represent using any concepts you know.
Or how about this: it didn't fucking exist yet. When John the Baptist wrote Revelations no one even knew that North America existed yet. This was before even the Vikings founded Vinland.
How very euro/afrocentric of you. My ancestors were already living in North America when Revelations was written.
Sweetie, your own PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE isn't mentioned in the End Times, either!
Oh, but that's right -- you fundies don't actually read the Bible.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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