From: Tony Williams 

Robert Comer wrote:
>>Seemed like an obvious connection to me. People enjoy reading about what a
>>hard time the sinners have while the faithful sit smugly on their clouds
>>saying, "Told you so".
>
> The connection is not so obvious from this side, and that's not why they
> read it. (any that I know about anyway.)

I'm afraid I don't buy that.

>
>>Claiming not to want it to really happen just rings false to me.
>
> You're wrong.  You ever read the book of Revelations?  Nobody could
"want"
> that.  As a Christian, you don't need Revelations to be saved, so that
> theory is just not right.

That might be your faith, but have you ever listened to a
fire-and-brimstone preacher gleefully threatening all the non-believers
with eternal torment? It's the old carrot and stick, coupled with a way to
divide the world into "us" and "them". Bad things
happening to the sinners/infidels is all part of the deal and proves that
"we" were right all along.

>
>>I could have phrased that better, perhaps; see above for another attempt.
>>I don't claim to know whether Armageddon is fantasy, but the books surely
>>are.
>
>
> If the are based on the study of Revelations, they are not fantasy.

They're based on the notion of the Rapture as a kind of prequel to
Revelations. I understand that the Rapture is a fairly recent notion and
isn't widely accepted.

Regardless, I meant "fantasy" in the same sense that any story
set in the future is fantasy.

--
Tony

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