Ready for the Rapture to Come

I have a very, very low opinion of everything Evangelical and Fundamentalist. Frankly, I think that the fundamentalists of various religions are directly responsible for about 99% of the planet's misery and pain.

Quick: in 5 seconds think of an oppression or injustice against groups of persons that is based on religous dogma.

All of these Evangelical nutjobs are feverishly anticipating the Rapture, the calling to heaven of the righteous, when they will all be lifted from their pitiful earthly existences and brought home to their Lord.

I wonder if there is any way that the rest of us could all band together and encourage God to move this up on her "to do" list.

Wouldn't that be a wonderful thing to wake up to one morning. Bright sunshine, singing birds and the realization that suddenly, overnight, all of the fundamentalist Christians, Muslims and Jews were gone.

They won't be voting in any more elections. Wars raging across the planet would suddenly be over. (Mostly) rational leaders would be in charge of most countries. Which brings up an interesting question, who would be leading the U.S.? In the line of succession, after the Rapture and we are suddenly without Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, DeLay, Frist, etc who would hold the reins of power? Nancy Pelosi? Sounds great to me!

Here's the latest ridiculous jihad: trying to impeach judges that they don't agree with. They feel so put upon when judicial decisions are based upon the whimsy of the U.S. Constitution and don't take into account the strict interpretation of bilbical scripture.

Here's a link to a Post article about the ultra-scary convention that the movers and shakers in the Evangelical alternative universe held just this past weekend.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38308-2005Apr8.html

One of the speakers at this esteemed gathering, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira, in his attack against Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy (whom this weekend-long convention targetted for impeachment at every turn) hinted by quoting Stalin that perhaps the only solution would be if Kennedy were no more... he actually advocated, even incited, the murder of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, while speaking at a convention attended by a plethora of Republican Congressmen.

Does this feel like Nazi Germany to anyone else? Is inciting violence (especially murder, assassination) against anyone, particularly a U.S. Supreme Court Justice a crime. Isn't this the definition of treason? Why aren't we prosecuting him and everyone like him?

Because the nut-jobs are in charge, that's why!