# Whatever Happened to the Rapture?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-rapture/332142>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 21, 2005, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-rapture/332142 "2005-11-21T21:29:51Z")\
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**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:** [November 25, 2005, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-rapture/332142/41 "2005-11-25T16:33:28Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Jack booted Unitarian thugs? Bit of a stretch.

There’s no philosophy so innocuous or benevolent that it can’t be utilized by evil people to persecute those they hate.

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-the-rapture/332142/42 "2005-11-25T20:23:13Z")

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> [@FriarTed](#):
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> There’s no philosophy so innocuous or benevolent that it can’t be utilized by evil people to persecute those they hate.

For example, the philosophy that spreading freedom and democracy to other nations is a Good Thing.

Any philosophy can be _co-opted_, but that’s not what **elucidator** was talking about.

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