You make an interesting point. Rapture theology does indeed appear to play to a sort of longing to escape the travails of this life while lording it over those who are left behind to suffer. There’s a longing for the end of life’s sufferings in all of that. There’s something unhealthy about a continual fascination (to the exclusion of much else) with the end of the world, and a flight into a fanciful and completely novel reading of ancient texts. It’s a sort of flirtation with death, really. It’s interesting that Shi’ite Islam has an analogous end times narrative, motivated I think by the same longing for the end.
Oh that's just nonesense....scripture tells us that even creation longs to be released from the consequences of the fall...and that's not about any sort of "flirtation with death". Christians are certainly looking forward to His coming...(Aren't you)...and seeing our Lord face to face. But regardless of ones views on this I think Christians who love the Lord also see the urgency of taking the gospel message to the lost before it's too late...and as things line up for the rapture all the more. It isn't about "us" it's about all we want to see go with us when that time comes.
And they will gloat and taunt you if you point out their fallacies. Welcome to FR’s RF!