Someone suggested that radical groups of christians, jews, muslims might be trying to hurry the apocalypse along and someone else questioned that assertion. Is there anyone here looking forward to the end or who knows someone who is?

I don't think you are going to bait any Christians using the term 'looking forward', but I did ask those that believe in the rapture a similar question.

My understanding is that the rapture is what Christians are waiting and hoping for. Thus while death is typically looked upon as a negative event death (because one will miss their loved one until they die and meet again in Heaven) for a Christian the rapture (and the massive deaths) isn't the same type of death since it is the event that will unite ALL OF THEM with God and JC.

Of course I don't believe in the myth of the rapture BUT if I did it would only be logical to look forward to this SO CALL end since it would really be the begining (the start of a new 'life' with God and JC).

I don't know the people in this video personally, but I think I'm glad for that. Please be warned if you care to watch it, it's about ten minutes long and quite the download. But the blurb on YouTube is this:

Max Blumenthal's latest takes us on a shocking and at times bizarre tour of right-wing Pastor John Hagee's annual Washington-Israel Summit, blowing the cover off the Christian Zionist movement in the process. Starring Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay, Pastor John Hagee, Ambassador Dore Gold and a host of rapture-ready evangelicals praying for Armaggedon.

It is a bit bizarre to see people answer "yes" to this question, but even here it's not necessarily the apocalypse they're looking forward to, but the 'second coming' or the 'rapture.' There's some reference to the Left Behind series, and if you want some examples of people that's a good place to start, too. The only apocalypse I looked forward to was the latest Resident Evil movie.

I think i will just sleep through it.

Of course if you reject the Christians myths (I sure do) then of course it is bizarre but for those that beleive in the rapture it is only logical to answer 'yes'.

As you point out the apocalypse is just a necessary step in the process. The 'end game' is meeting God and JC in Heaven.

If people have to wait until the apocalypse to meet God & Jesus, where do they go or wait at after they die?

Is there a huge waiting room in front of the pearly gates?

I think deep down Christians really don't want the apocalypse to happen. If all hell breaks out and the war to end all wars happens and Christ doesn't show, then their religion will be shown to all as bullshit and they know it.

Consider the experience of the Millerites (now the 7th Day Adventists, AFAIR). If it doesn't happen when expected, the explanation is simple: the expectations were incorrect.

One doesn't have to wait until the apocalypse but the door is very small and only a few get in at a time.

With the apocalypse, the gates are thown wide open and millions can get in at once (as long as one has meet all the requirements that is)!

An apocalypse would liven up the day.

Sorry for the political statement but the 'expectations were incorrect' was just too hard for me to pass up!

jazzguitarman:

One doesn't have to wait until the apocalypse but the door is very small and only a few get in at a time.

With the apocalypse, the gates are thown wide open and millions can get in at once (as long as one has meet all the requirements that is)!

So, those of us that are unworthy, can just hide in the crowd & rush in with everyone else (just like at a rock concert)

I'm going to rush in when during the 'raise your lighers' movement hoping all that light blinds God to all the mistakes I have made in this life!

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Someone suggested that radical groups of christians, jews, muslims might be trying to hurry the apocalypse along and someone else questioned that assertion. Is there anyone here looking forward to the end or who knows someone who is?

LOL, you need better bait. Bologna ain't gon'na cut it.

There is certainly a longing for the Rapture. Billy Graham once predicted that Christ would return before he died, in this generation. Ol' Billy's hanging on, but I reckon he's probably setting his predictions aside at the moment. John Hagee has often proclaimed this generation to be the one to see Christ's return; it's a central theme in his sermons, many of which I have heard (he's a good preacher, as preachers go, nice and loud and bombastic with poetic rhetorical skills, and he's as fat as an autumn sow, which I find to be a trait essential to any good Baptist preacher--though I don't know that he completely subscribes to that sect).

The truth of the matter is that Christians have a corner of their thinking brains that festers with doubt, and until Jesus comes again, they always will. They need it to happen so they can point at the rest of us and say I TOLD YOU SO!!!