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

Hey Rapture fans, it’s Friday, and time for the weekly reading of the Rapture Index from our loony friends at www.raptureready.com. As you’re aware, those wacky folks publish a weekly “Rapture Index” indicating how likely it is that the Second Coming is, well - coming. OK, Rapture fans, the index is up one from last week’s value of 152 to 153. Apparently the Iranian "newkewler" activity caused the index to rise.

Remember, the record high is at 182 set the week of September 24, 2001 and the record low is at 57 and was set during the week of December 12, 1993.

As usual, I never know whether I’m supposed to root for the index to go up or down. If the rapture comes, all the people that I believe are right-wing-fundamentalist-reality-challenged biblebangers will disappear and we’ll get their stuff. That’s surely not a bad thing.

The bad news is that a substantial number of those right-wing-fundamentalist-reality-challenged biblebanging 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. You can read all about the index and the values that go into the final number here.