Hey! It’s Friday: Are you ready for the Rapture?

As you all are aware, 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.

Sorry Rapture fans, the index is unchanged from last week’s value of 153. Remember the record high is at 182 set the week of September 24, 2001 and the record low at 57 was set during the week of December 12, 1993.

I never know whether I’m supposed to root for the index to go up or down. If the rapture comes - what happens? All the people who are fundamentalist-reality-challenged buttheads will disappear and we’ll get their stuff. That’s surely not a bad thing.

The bad news is that a substantial number of fundamentalist-reality-challenged buttheads are running our nation. These people believe that the rapture is going to happen sooner rather than later, so why not rape the earth. It apparently governs policy towards Israel to some extent also. I don’t fully understand it all. 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.