# For Believers: article on Rapture. **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 24, 2014, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090 "2014-02-24T12:26:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/101 "2014-02-28T04:28:09Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > You must be just another atheist, blindly unaware of the Zionist conspiracy. So in order to believe in a god you have to believe in the ZC first? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/102 "2014-02-28T12:16:22Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > So in order to believe in a god you have to believe in the ZC first? Who’s whooshing who? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Marmite\_Lover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Marmite\_Lover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marmite_Lover)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/103 "2014-02-28T12:32:00Z")
Do religious nutcase Americans believe in the rapture? Yes they certainly do Do they need the Jews in Israel to help them bring it about? Yes they certainly do Are Israel and the American nut cases going to trigger a nuclear world war Armageddon scenario so they can bring about the rapture? Yes it seems they are ---
**Author:** ![Marmite\_Lover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Marmite\_Lover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marmite_Lover)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/104 "2014-02-28T12:42:36Z")
**Rabbis Threaten Kerry with ‘Divine Wrath’** Here are excerpts from the rabbis letter as reported by INN: > **[Rabbis Threaten Kerry with 'Divine Wrath'](http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/177114)** > > Committee to Save the Land and People of Israel write open letter to Kerry, compare him to Haman and warn his plans amount to war on God. > [@](#): > > ``` > Your incessant efforts to expropriate integral parts of our Holy Land and hand them over to Abbas’s terrorist gang, amount to a declaration of war against the Creator and Ruler of the universe. For G-d awarded the entire Land of Israel to our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in order that they bequeath it, as an everlasting inheritance, to their descendants, the Jewish people, until the end of all time. > If you continue on this destructive path, you will ensure your everlasting disgrace in Jewish history for bringing calamity upon the Jewish people – like Nebuchadnezer and Titus who destroyed, respectively, the first and second great Temples and the entire Holy City of Jerusalem, and who, by Heavenly punishment, brought eventual disaster upon themselves, too. > By the power of our Holy Torah, we admonish you to cease immediately all efforts to achieve these disastrous agreements – in order to avoid severe Heavenly punishment for everyone involved. > > ``` signed by Rabbi Gedalya Axelrod, emeritus head of the Haifa Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, Chairman of the Temple Institute, Rabbi Ben Tziyon Grossman of Migdal Haemek, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Dean of the Institute for the Complete Code of Maimonides, and Rabbi Yigal Pizam, Dean of Yeshivat Kiryat Shmuel ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/105 "2014-02-28T13:09:56Z")
> [@Marmite\_Lover](#): > > **Rabbis Threaten Kerry with ‘Divine Wrath’** > Here are excerpts from the rabbis letter as reported by INN: > [http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177114#.UxCDaNdFpGt](http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177114#.UxCDaNdFpGt) > > signed by Rabbi Gedalya Axelrod, emeritus head of the Haifa Rabbinical Court, Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, Chairman of the Temple Institute, Rabbi Ben Tziyon Grossman of Migdal Haemek, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Dean of the Institute for the Complete Code of Maimonides, and Rabbi Yigal Pizam, Dean of Yeshivat Kiryat Shmuel The INN is a [non-liscensed division of _Arutz Sheva_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_National_News), a neo-Zionist right wing media network that supports the Israeli settlement movement. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/106 "2014-02-28T13:33:52Z")
> [@Marmite\_Lover](#): > > Are Israel and the American nut cases going to trigger a nuclear world war Armageddon scenario so they can bring about the rapture? > > Yes it seems they are By what credible means? Standing on the corner and shouting spittle laced invectives at passers-by? ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/107 "2014-02-28T14:06:09Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I’ve been a Rapturist & a Bircher. I am a Christian conservative, a Zionist, somewhere between a historic Pre-Miller & a Preterist Post-Miller, & a student of Conspiracy theories & hoaxes. I’m a Thought Criminal & Hater by a lot of SMDB standards… But does anybody call you Maurice? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/108 "2014-02-28T14:08:52Z")
Should have known **Marmite Lover** would be along to blame Obama for the rapture. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/109 "2014-02-28T14:18:40Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > I’ve been a Rapturist & a Bircher. I am a Christian conservative, a Zionist, somewhere between a historic Pre-Miller & a Preterist Post-Miller, & a student of Conspiracy theories & hoaxes. I’m a Thought Criminal & Hater by a lot of SMDB standards… [http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=85983](http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?iid=85983) I’ve been a woman named Frieda. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/110 "2014-02-28T14:23:02Z")
I’ve been undressed by kings and I’ve seen some things that a woman ain’t s’posed to see. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2014, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090/111 "2014-02-28T18:12:13Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > But does anybody call you Maurice? Only when I speak of the Pompatus of Lu-hove… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/for-believers-article-on-rapture/682090.md?page=5)