# Did you know it's the power of Christ that keeps every atom from literally exploding?

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**Created:** [August 3, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354 "2007-08-03T22:37:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/61 "2007-08-07T14:30:11Z")

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[QUOTE=FriarTed]  
the very process of the Rapture is  
supposed to perfect our bodies so anyone Raptured will no longer be fat/sick/disabled/old  
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So chubby chasers are out of luck? What kind of Heaven is that?

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**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-know-its-the-power-of-christ-that-keeps-every-atom-from-literally-exploding/414354/62 "2007-08-07T19:46:46Z")

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Is it just me, or is does it seem that Hal Lindsey makes a cameo appearance as the Apostle John at the beginning of the comic?  
I believe this may be the underlying psychological reason for his obsessive compulsive eschatology.

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