# Rapture Party ideas? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 24, 2011, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899 "2011-03-24T22:34:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Containing\_Iron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@Containing\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Containing_Iron)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/21 "2011-03-25T06:25:41Z")
> [@scamartistry](#): > > “local atheist group”? > What do you guys do all day sit around and not believe? they do something like this: > **[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Toy](http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=798#comic)** > > Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Toy (don’t forget to hover your mouse over the red button on the lower left side) ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/22 "2011-03-25T09:52:32Z")
Get an old car, and attach a radio control unit to it, Mythbuster’s style. Then add something like [this](http://www.bumperart.com/ProductDetails.aspx?SKU=2004011951&productID=1271) on the back, have fun with your new toy. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/23 "2011-03-25T10:30:38Z")
> [@scamartistry](#): > > “local atheist group”? > What do you guys do all day sit around and not believe? Nah, we go and tempt young Christians into Not Believing. We pass out AntiChick Tracts. And we commit as many Deadly Sins as possible, while still abiding by local (secular) laws. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/24 "2011-03-25T12:34:49Z")
Wow- what great ideas. I forwarded them on to the party planner. There have been 54 RSVP’s so far! ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/25 "2011-03-25T12:52:53Z")
> [@scamartistry](#): > > “local atheist group”? > What do you guys do all day sit around and not believe? LOL! They are a very active group with lots of sub-groups. Some like the book club. Some groups like to meet at restaurants. Some have movie nights, other groups (respectfully) tour various churches. A few weeks ago, I joined the tour of our local Hindu temple. ([http://www.emeenakshi.org/](http://www.emeenakshi.org/)) That temple was quite beautiful and can hold 10,000 people for a large festival. The have very large book and video stores (items ordered by the 7 or so languages found in India) and a vegetable market. We visited most of the various shrines- there were about 3-4 dozen different shrines, including a shrine to the 9 planet gods. At the shrine to Krishna, they were chanting the one thousand names of Krishna, which takes about 3 hours. We got blessed several times by the priests at the various shrines and the tour guide bought us a nice lunch in the vegetarian cafeteria. Visiting the large building with the most shrines was almost like being in India. With the sights (the colors, the clothing, elaborate decorations and the priests), sounds (the chanting) and smells (from all the incense), and a complete lack of caucasian faces (except for us), it would be very easy to imagine you were in India. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/26 "2011-03-25T14:08:50Z")
Lots of snogging, rejoicing, and Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. Alcohol optional. ---
**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:** [March 25, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/27 "2011-03-25T14:31:00Z")
Make everyone come dressed as something _other_ than god(s) they don’t believe in. I mean, how awesome would a moon landing costume be? 🙂 > [@Ca3799](#): > > That temple was quite beautiful and can hold 10,000 people for a large festival. The have very large book and video stores (items ordered by the 7 or so languages found in India) and a vegetable market. Nitpick: India has between 1,000 and 1,500 languages, depending on how you define a language (versus a dialect), including 100-something with more than 10,000 native speakers and 22 with more than a million native speakers. It also has 22 “officially recognized” languages (though one is Sanskrit, which isn’t anyone’s first language). ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/28 "2011-03-25T17:37:21Z")
Well, considering everyone else will be zapped up to the heavens except your lot, how about a bunch of maps - you can all decide which areas of town you want to take over, which homes, then go wider and decide which countries you wish to rule. You might get in the mood by playing the board game, “Risk”. Give yourself titles: Grand Leader Of Lithuania, “Big Dick” - Dictator of Denmark, The Real Queen Of West Hollywood, etc. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/29 "2011-03-25T18:31:01Z")
Could have a reading of [the Slacktivist’s blogging of the Left Behind books](http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/left_behind/page/33/). Fred Clark reads 'em so you don’t have to, and slices and dices the text and authors in a way that’ll make you laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/30 "2011-03-25T18:36:04Z")
Where’s the party? Can I come? ---
**Author:** ![TravisFromOR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cc9497/32.png) [@TravisFromOR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TravisFromOR)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/31 "2011-03-25T18:43:27Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Nah, we go and tempt young Christians into Not Believing. We pass out AntiChick Tracts. And we commit as many Deadly Sins as possible, while still abiding by local (secular) laws. Wait? Atheists don’t pass out real Chick Tracts? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/32 "2011-03-25T18:44:28Z")
Toss some “God Hates Fags/America/the World” signs around the clothes of the Raptured. Play “I just got raptured… who am I?” guessing games. Get some [Nerf swords](http://www.google.com/images?q=nerf%20swords&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi)and have [mouth-swordfights](http://bible.cc/revelation/19-15.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/33 "2011-03-25T18:51:18Z")
> [@TravisFromOR](#): > > Wait? Atheists don’t pass out real Chick Tracts? We do pass out real Chick Tracts. With extra pages added in, pointing out hypocrisy, meanness, and baldfaced lies. We especially like those tracts that feature Kent Hovind AKA [Dr. Dino](http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/hovind/), as we can point out the fact that the “doctor” got his degrees from diploma mills and has consistently lied in all areas of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/34 "2011-03-25T19:17:05Z")
Get little dolls, glue metal disks to their head, and pass out little fishing rods with magnets at the end. Then you can all play God and rapture the dolls. To be more challenging, you can tag some of the dolls as saved and some as sinners, and you lose holy points if you rapture sinners. (People doing so get to yell “damn it, I missed him” like the old joke goes.) Then you throw all the raptured dolls into the fiery furnace. Oops, God was joking. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/35 "2011-03-25T19:19:00Z")
Of course there has to be pit barbecue. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/36 "2011-03-25T19:23:37Z")
> [@Registered\_at\_Last](#): > > Lots of [blowup dolls & a tank of Helium](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LXuNpF6NVg)? > > On preview this might help with **Suburban Plankton** ’s idea too 😃 I pulled that exact same clip up when I read the OP and was letting it load (slow internet connection at work) while I read the replies. Glad I didn’t just jump down to the end to post it. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/37 "2011-03-25T19:41:15Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > Where’s the party? Can I come? Sure you can come, but it is in Houston! ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/38 "2011-03-25T21:38:36Z")
Ah well, that makes it tough. But it does sound like fun! ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/39 "2011-03-25T21:52:02Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > We visited most of the various shrines- there were about 3-4 dozen different shrines, including a shrine to the 9 planet gods. At the shrine to Krishna, they were chanting the one thousand names of Krishna, which takes about 3 hours. We got blessed several times by the priests at the various shrines and the tour guide bought us a nice lunch in the vegetarian cafeteria. > > a. what, they still worship Pluto? Someone didn’t get the memo. ---
**Author:** ![scamartistry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@scamartistry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scamartistry)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899/40 "2011-03-26T03:31:26Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > Nah, we go and tempt young Christians into Not Believing. We pass out AntiChick Tracts. And we commit as many Deadly Sins as possible, while still abiding by local (secular) laws. Sounds like a hoot. Remind me not to go please [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rapture-party-ideas/575899.md?page=3)