The Rapture Index – THE END IS NEAR

Blindness has become so acute that Rapture Ready gets spiked hits of 50 000 per day. The presidential season is once again awash in global anxiety. Some Web sites and conservative Christians have tried to argue that Obama could be the foretold Antichrist - Original article from the Salt Lake Tribune

It is truly amazing how the world is changing and infected at such a ridiculous tempo. All very entertaining and I ponder the thoughts of the bemused.

For eons, Christians have believed the world is hurling toward oblivion. But with the current economic downturn, the war in Iraq and the likely election of Barack Obama, many think it has picked up speed.

Todd Strandberg , founder and editor of raptureready.com, the largest Christian prophecy site on the Internet, spends his days linking current events with biblical passages. He created a Rapture Index, modeled after the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which consists of 45 categories of prophetic indicators from the occult to inflation and the crime rate. Each is assigned a value of one to five depending on the level of activity in that category. The numbers are adjusted weekly, and the higher the number, the faster the world is moving toward its end

Bemused moments :

One leader around 200 A.D. predicted Jesus was coming the next year so his followers halted all planting, Landes says. About 16 centuries later, a similar prediction meant the Millerites didn't harvest their crops. Both groups starved, says Landes, editor of The Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements. "It was by and large self-destructive."

I find all this a bit too much – seems that the time is seasoned for investment in a dogma related money making scheme …ca-ching !