You May Experience A Burning Sensation

(Thanks to exchristian.net for republishing this on their site!)

 

As many of you will already be aware, this Saturday is an exciting day in the history of the world. According to the eBible Fellowship – and who can argue with them based on the robust and convincing evidence they provide? – on this Saturday, May 21st, true Christians will be removed from this world and taken to heaven, there to watch the 99.9% who weren’t chosen cope with a five-month-long global fire before the world is finally put out of its misery on October 21st.

Yes, the cream is being skimmed off the top of humanity; and as often happens, without any cream we may find that we experience some burning.

I love Rapture cults. This is going to be evident later in the year when my novel comes out, and frankly I would have appreciated it if the eBible Fellowship could have chosen a later date for this Rapture, as it would have provided a great gimmick for marketing my book. As it is, I’m just grateful I’m being published electronically and not in paper, since all the paper will have long since been burnt. I can only hope Kindles are flameproof.

On the plus side, it’s going to be very interesting to see how people react to the impending knowledge that there really is a God, he really does adhere to the beliefs of a minor evangelistic Christian group, and he really is extremely pissed off with the world. I mean, should we all convert, or what? Is there any point? The obviously-infallible eBible Fellowship is clear that after this Saturday, you’re either saved or you’re not, and those who aren’t are going to be denied any kind of afterlife. (Don’t bother with those good works, and praying is definitely going to be pointless). God no longer cares enough even to torture us for eternity; we’ll just die and that’s it, gone forever. Which, coincidentally, is what I believed was going to happen to me anyway. So all that’s really changed from my point of view is that a few people get to live for eternity. Good luck to them.

I am a little unclear, though, on God’s motivation is for the five-month gap between Rapture and destruction, if we have no hope of redeeming ourselves. My best guess is that he has some really big sausages he wants to barbecue.

I am of course assuming that everyone reading this is going to be left behind. If I’m wrong and one or two of you find yourself suddenly ascending into the air on Saturday, I wish you well, and I hope that you enjoy the next five months watching the rest of us running around screaming “It burns! It burns!”

Except that a true Christian, surely, would never enjoy the suffering of others, particularly when the others will almost certainly include loved ones and family members (not to mention pets, unless you’ve taken steps to protect them), so I presume that for you as well, most of the summer will be spent feeling fairly miserable. Still, at least you won’t be on fire.

 

Luckily, God owns the world's largest fork.

 

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8 comments

  1. Oh that pets one is fabulous. I had no idea. What total genius. And you are a genius at finding this kind of thing.

  2. Ika says:

    I’m going to see Cinderella on Saturday! I hope the fire takes a day or two to reach Bristol, because I was looking forward to that.

    • admin says:

      I’m not really sure where the fire’s supposed to start, now you mention it. Everywhere simultaneously? A particularly sacred place? A particularly evil place? I should think Bristol would be safe for a day or so.

  3. parallelgirl says:

    Actually laughing out loud! Brilliant :)

  4. Emmelline P Mallow says:

    Oh great. I’ve a massive headache of a meeting on Monday that I was going to spend the next 48 hours prepping for.

    Probably shouldn’t bother because even if I make it to eternity (doubtful but you never know what God is thinking), nobody else is going to want to sit around discussing the organic chemistry of pine trees, are they?

    • admin says:

      I would guess the first conversation would be OH MY GOD WE JUST GOT RAPTURED, EEEEEEE! but after that I’m sure all topics would be open. After all, you’ve got a long time to fill.

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