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angrychair

(11,161 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2025, 01:51 PM Monday

Free Shopping Day Tomorrow

Apparently American Evangelicals are being raptured tomorrow so there will be a lot of free homes and cars tomorrow.

Of course, the word "rapture" does not appear in biblical text and is a made up word but sure, it could happen.

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Free Shopping Day Tomorrow (Original Post) angrychair Monday OP

You know, I hope they do all Bettie Monday #1

I just commented on a related thread that we would be better off if ALL religious extremists... 3catwoman3 Monday #2

Isn't tomorrow Tuesday? mwmisses4289 Monday #3

Yea and no angrychair Monday #5

Darn it. I lost my Rapture Punch Card Jerry2144 Monday #4

Picked a helluva day to quit practicing probate law. flvegan Monday #6

Bettie

(18,897 posts)

1. You know, I hope they do all

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:02 PM

Monday

get raptured, because things would suddenly be a lot better very quickly, but they have to take their stupid orange man with them.

3catwoman3

(27,769 posts)

2. I just commented on a related thread that we would be better off if ALL religious extremists...

Reply to Bettie (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:09 PM

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...disappeared. Tomorrow or Wednesday would be fine. Today would be even better. Buh-byeeeeeeeeeee!

mwmisses4289

(2,309 posts)

3. Isn't tomorrow Tuesday?

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:11 PM

Monday

I thought the rapture was supposed to happen Wednesday?

Wikipedia article on the rapture, started in America in about the 1830s.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture

angrychair

(11,161 posts)

5. Yea and no

Reply to mwmisses4289 (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:03 PM

Monday

A guy with the last name Darby came up with the concept in 1830 but no one in Church of England was buying it so he came to America and by the 1860s it was picking up buy in from American Evangelicals and the concept of rapture made it into the Scofield Bible in or around 1870.

So that's how it all came to be.

There is no "rapture" or anything even "rapture"-like in the Bible.
Also should noted that the word "apocalypse" does not mean destruction or death. The literal translation of "apocalypse" is "to unveil" or "the unveiling" nothing more.

Jerry2144

(2,993 posts)

4. Darn it. I lost my Rapture Punch Card

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:31 PM

Monday

Survive 6 Raptures and the Seventh is free. And I had 5 punched. I was just about to earn a free Rapture

flvegan

(65,295 posts)

6. Picked a helluva day to quit practicing probate law.

Reply to angrychair (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:07 PM

Monday

(not actually a lawyer, just sounded funny)

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