Do you believe that 2007 will have the second coming of Jesus Christ?

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Believing in the second coming, the rapture, or whatever one wishs to call it is a mental disorder.  Why? Because there is no such thing.  To believe in something that does not exist is a mental disorder.  It is to say that Jesus rose from the dead when in fact, dead people don't rise from the dead.  This is not to say that Jesus did not exist, because he did, and he was a wonderful man.  However, the "story" that he rose from the dead is only a story because, as I already stated, dead people don't rise.  He will also not return because dead people don't return.  Think about it for a minute,  can you really start to imagine all of this supernatural stuff starting to happen.  Do you also believe in ghosts?  If you do, would you go around telling people?  What is the difference between saying that you believe in ghosts and/or telling people that a dead man is going to return, spread fire all over and take those who, for some reason, can proove that they are faithful and go to Heaven.

A friend of mine says that he hopes that the rapture is for real.  He says that if all of the right wing Christian conservative Republicans get taken to Heaven (if if fact, that is where those people end up going), than the rest of us can finally get something done.

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Being wrong is NOT a mental disorder,  believing in something that does not exist is an issue.  If you knew somebody who said that he saw the tooth ferry and insisted that it was true, would you or would you not say that he is dillusional?  The only reason a story such as the second coming is taken seriously is because millions of people believe in it giving it legitimacy in the minds of many.  Few if any believe in the tooth ferry, therefor we consider that person disturbed.  In reality, there is no difference between the two.

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As if any of that actually happened.  Accession into heaven while angles danced around him and dudes in white, and on and on.  Makes for a good movie,  but face it, that's a story.   Jesus died a violent death due to his liberal views toward humanity which were wonderful views even if they were filled with the supernatural.  His followers told the story over and over.  It got bigger and bigger.  After time went by, there was all of this wild stuff about rising from the dead, etc, etc.

English "Canel"  now we are even in the spelling wars.

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Joey!!!!!! Great example.