Jac3510 wrote: If you think the rapture is antisemitic, then you are calling everyone who holds to the rapture a racist. Just because you don't want to take your own assertions to their necessary and logical conclusion doesn't mean that you get to pretend like those conclusions don't exist and that they don't follow.
Further, if you believe that the rapture is antisemitic, then yes, you were a racist when you held to the rapture. To say you weren't would be like saying, "Hey, I used to think that slavery was okay too before I saw how weak its justification really is. But that doesn't mean I was a racist!" Yes. Yes it does. Of course, I don't think you were a racist antisemite because I don't think that the rapture is a racist, antisemitic idea. YOU are the one throwing that absurd accusation around. And then you want to come back and talk about us as "the 'rapture' police" and smearing the idea as our "sacred theology"? And you mock by casting it in terms of being "beamed away from all this"? You really that mockery is an appropriate response?
Jac... Please calm down. Take a big breath and read what I wrote. Now you are over reacting. Again.. I never said that the rapture is antisemitic. I said that the "belief" of it has antisemitic overtones, but believing in it does not make one antisemitic. It's the same thing when you attack someone's theology, such as the Catholic faith, and now all the sudden you are prejudiced against Catholics. Sorry, that simply does not work.
Much like.
1. Theological arguments can be antisemitic.
2. Someone makes a claim that the "rapture" is rooted in antisemitic beliefs.
3. Therefore that person must be antisemitic.
As you can see... It just doesn't work...
Jac3510 wrote: it's not. It's disgusting.
Uncle Klown has asked us to play nice. I can't play nice with hateful, venomous people. So I won't say any more in this thread. The only reason I said anything in the first place was to point out how incredibly disgusting that kind of language is. You should be ashamed.
Foe'd.
Sorry, Rick. I'm done now.
I'm glad I said it because it is the truth. In fact I'm going to say it more. And you should be ashamed of your silly rapture theory too. This doctrine is very hurtful to the Jewish people. Floating away on some cloud from your leather coach while the Jews face another holocaust? If that is what you believe then I have pity for you. Seriously.