The world ends this weekend

[Mike P]

Interesting anectdote I was told a week or so ago by a guy who's an ordained minister (not a born-again, but a fairly liberal Protestant denomination). Apparently, back in the 1850s, there was one of these doomsday cults in the midwest--Iowa, or Kansas, one of those farm-belt states. They had worked this out to the exact minute, apparently, and they had catapaults built so at the precise moment of the rapture, they could launch themselves into the air, where the angels would catch them.

Apparently, the angels played the rapture the same way that Manny Ramirez used to play a lot of fly balls, because a few of them had a less than rapturous entry into the hereafter, and the rest probably wished they had been killed.

[FishermanTim]

Originally Posted by Mike P

Interesting anectdote I was told a week or so ago by a guy who's an ordained minister (not a born-again, but a fairly liberal Protestant denomination). Apparently, back in the 1850s, there was one of these doomsday cults in the midwest--Iowa, or Kansas, one of those farm-belt states. They had worked this out to the exact minute, apparently, and they had catapaults built so at the precise moment of the rapture, they could launch themselves into the air, where the angels would catch them.

Apparently, the angels played the rapture the same way that Manny Ramirez used to play a lot of fly balls, because a few of them had a less than rapturous entry into the hereafter, and the rest probably wished they had been killed.

Now that's funny

Remember (from "Oh God! with John Denver and George Burns)
"God is playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh!"

[nightfighter]

So I paid to overnight my mortgage payment this week for nothing????