Pet Care for “Left Behind” Animals After the Rapture

You can’t make this stuff up. Fundamentalist Dispensationalists are teaming up with athiests to take care of their pets after the Rapture leaves the pets (and the atheists) behind (h/t Bloomberg Businessweek): Many people in the U.S.—perhaps 20 million to 40 million—believe there will be a Second Coming in their lifetimes, followed by the Rapture.*… Continue reading Pet Care for “Left Behind” Animals After the Rapture

Fr. De Celles on the Rapture

As promised, here’s Fr. De Celles’ homily from last Sunday on the topic of the Rapture and the End Times – it’s nice to see a Catholic perspective on these things, although I acknowledge that a limited diversity of belief is permitted on a number of the subjects he addresses here. The first reading was… Continue reading Fr. De Celles on the Rapture

Dispensationalism and the Jews

Dispensationalism has a number of troubles. For starters, it’s an infant on the world stage – the first dispensationalist was John Nelson Darby (1800-1882), and prior to him, there’s no notion of a “secret rapture” that would take the elect and leave the world without a Church. It also has been the source of a… Continue reading Dispensationalism and the Jews