I don't believe in it. Of course, I consider myself agnostic, so I'm not really religious, but even if I were I still don't think I'd believe this. It's highly commercialized. Having enough money to put up billboards all over the place about the end of the world is ridiculous. While I appreciate and respect (and am fascinated by, in many cases) peoples' religions, I don't understand a religion that forces its beliefs on others or a religion that somehow manages to control large amounts of money. If the idea of rapture was simply spread through meetings between the people that believed in this, and people's personal communications--talking to people they know, making a post on their blog, group discussions among the believers--that'd be fine. I think the thing that's bothering me most isn't the idea of rapture and believing in it or not. The ludicrous thing is how commercial this is, and how many people are waiting to go to heaven or be forced to endure horribleness until they're consumed in fire, or whatnot. (Okay, I don't know all the specifics and technical words and such, sorry.)
On one hand, it's awesome for the people who finally spent money on big trips these past couple months, or took May 21st's death sentence as their chance to finally do something they've been meaning to do all their life. In fact, I applaud these people. So many people wait to do big things until they're retired, or they wait too long and never get the chance to do something that means a lot to them. So, if rapture means that people are living by the motto "live like you're going to die tomorrow", I can't find fault in that.
On the other hand, the people who are telling others that they're going to burn in hell for all eternity for not being "normal", are despicable. I don't understand people who say you can't be anything but heterosexual, white, a man (or a female who defers to men, constantly, and has no self-value), a virgin until marriage, and extremely religious. They dive into the bible and come up with abstract quotes condemning people for different things but, of course, find no quotes that would create fault in themselves.
So, if rapture happens later today, my deepest apologies for not believing sooner. Either way, I can't stand those people that condemn others for things they find fault with and can "support" with quotes from the bible, and I also can't stand how commercialized religion seems to have become. In the mean time, have a nice rapture-free day!
-M.
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