[metmom]

I saw a podcast the other day which posited that Rapture preaching created a large opening for Marxism in America. Rapture believers thought that they need not worry about fighting to save America from the spread of Marxist ideology in U.S. institutions because they would be Raptured out.

I'm not saying this is accurate or not...just that it is food for thought.

It's not accurate at all. I know lots of people who think the rapture is close and not ONE of them thinks that way.

It's telling that people have to lie about those who believe in the rapture to try to discredit it.

[RoosterRedux]

Weakness of men and women of faith is what has caused the downfall of the United Methodist Church (and others like them). Don’t for a moment think that weak men and women wouldn’t jump at an excuse to turn away from fighting Marxism.

[RoosterRedux]

I know lots of people who think the rapture is close and not ONE of them thinks that way.

You don't know how other people think. In fact, human beings don't know how they think. Human beings are incredibly irrational in their thinking and have no idea what consciously and unconsciously drives their thinking.

[RoosterRedux]

BTW, if you think I have a low regard for human beings you would be correct. I have an extremely low regard for humans...and I put myself at the head of the list of those I have low regard for.

That's why I (and we) need a Savior.

God may have created us in his image, but we abandoned that highfalutin status when we fell from Grace

[Wallace T.]

If we go back to the 1990s and the peak if the Christian Right, many of its leaders were in the dispensationalist camp, e.g., Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Tim LaHaye. Others were not, e.g., D. James Kennedy, Don Wildmon. Dispensationalists were as active in the anti-abortion movement as were covenantal Protestants and Catholics.