Good Golly, if it’s Friday, it’s got to be Rapture time!

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.

Whoa, this is scary! The index last week was 149. this week it’s 153. 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.

The change was to an increas of one in the indices for Inflation and Ecumenism, and an increase of two in the index for “The False Prophet.”

So what’s it all mean? Well, the oil price increase is driving inflation, and the death of the pope is driving the other two. I wouldn’t do to have the world’s religions get closer together or to elect a false prophet as pope. Would it?

If the rapture comes, all the right-wing-fundamentalist-reality-challenged biblebanging bigots 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 bigoted 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.

Read all about the index and the values that go into the final value here.