How dangerous are Rapture Mongers?

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I guess it depends upon how much they let such a belief influence their actions. As best I can tell, most who believe in the Rapture are no more or less likely than anyone else to save for retirement, their kid's education, etc. (factoring in socio-economic status, since I believe these sorts have both less education than the population as a whole and are probably more likely employed in fields that don't guarantee stable employment, e.g. construction, retail, etc.) This group should of course be left in peace to the extent they leave you that way. As silly as I might personally find the "Beam me up to Jesus, Scotty" (leaving behind fillings, eyeglasses, hearing aids, heart valves, fake eyelashes, clothing and so on) brand of Christianity, doubtless I believe a few things they'd find equally silly.

Tolerance does NOT mean acceptance, despite how confused the terms seem to be becoming these days.

The David Koresh types are a horse of a different color. I'm honestly not sure what the best approach might be. If the association by members is voluntary and not coerced, I guess I'd say leave them in peace as well...the problem being that such groups seem to warp both their leaders and members over time, and issues of physical and sexual abuse inevitably crop up. And when the authorities try to address the latter stuff, screeching about having their religious rights infringed is also inevitably cited, giving the group a nifty -- and false -- smoke screen defense. Certainly the way the Clinton administration went about the Koresh matter was a clusterf**k of the first order, though I'm not sure exactly what they SHOULD have done, in all honesty.

And, finally, there's Blondie...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g[/youtube]

Rapturists of that sort I'd actively encourage.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThCh-_mgag&feature=&p=8ED784FAA6B40C37&index=0&playnext=1[/youtube]

I grew up around a less extreme version of "rapturists, and at worst, they will just annoy you.

How dangerous are Rapture Mongers? They are great entertainment - the Left Behind / Ascended Into The Sky people. There's a short sequence in the 2008 movie, The Pilgrim's Progress, which is about the Left Behind idea - at the Interpreter's House.

maybe instead of trying to build money pit "high speed" rail, they could use that money(since they're obviously not hoing to give it back)for roads and bridges. That what my new governor(he was elected largely on this issue) wanted to do but the feds decided to throw a hissy fit and gave the money to Illinois insted.

I certainly do fear holy rollers like Sarah Palin and that heartless pin head, Sharon Angle, who may someday come to high office on a frenzied popular wave. And there, are free to steer government toward their cataclysmic ends in order to fulfill their "biblical prophecy." And in getting there, citizens who don't fit with their image of the "to be raptured" (gays, Muslims, liberals, etc.), might just find themselves on the "outs" in the meantime.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

Those who conspire to engineer red heifers would be sent to Guantanomo if they were Muslims.