Saw this in another person’s blog (Jim Gilliam) the other day and I’ve been thinking about it alot. Very disturbing.
Rapture Me!: “
Bill Moyers is getting set for retirement, and he gave the speech of his life last week. Forgive me for quoting this huge passage:
One of the biggest changes in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. … How do we explain the possibility that a close election in November could turn on several million good and decent citizens who believe in the Rapture Index?
That’s what I said — the Rapture Index; Google it and you will understand why the best-selling books in America today are the 12 volumes of the “Left Behind” series that have earned multi-millions of dollars for their co-authors, who, earlier this year, completed a triumphant tour of the Bible Belt whose buckle holds in place George W. Bush’s armor of the Lord. These true believers subscribe to a fantastical theology concocted in the 19th century by a couple of immigrant preachers who took disparate passages from the Bible and wove them into a narrative millions of people believe to be literally true.
It’s no coincidence that Bush’s education initiative was called “No Child Left Behind.”