Friday: A new feature - The Rapture Index!

Are you ready for the Rapture?

Our loony right-wing-fundamentalist friends at www.raptureready.com publish a weekly “Rapture Index” indicating how likely it is that the Second Coming is, well - coming.

Well the good news is that the index is at 153, up 1 from last week, with the record high at 182 set the week of September 24, 2001 and the record low at 57 set during the week of December 12, 1993. Then again, perhaps that’s not good news, the fundies may want the Rapture to occur sooner rather than later. If there are any students of “fundie philosophy” reading this, enlighten me and the other reader please. At any rate, read all about the index and the values that go into the final number here

What’s the bad news? Well, if that 12th century Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides is right, the bible is propaganda for ignorant farmers. Should that be the case: Sorry, fundies, no rapture. Bummer, huh?