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[license_points]

I've been on a dystopian literature kick lately ("If This Goes On-" by Heinlein, Farenheight 451, Atlas Shrugged, The Stand, The Handmaid's Tale [if we suddenly go to Theocracy, I'm moving to Canada no matter how awesome Theocracy is in CIV4]), and what could be more dystopian than vast segments of society vanishing without a trace, leaving the

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[sparklewolfie]

That is some character dedication if she took notes on when they slept/etc. but makes the story more believable :)

[mortisnightmare]

Yeah, I wrote a paper on it for the New Testament course I took. General conclusion, aside from not being a very good book, the person who wrote it didn't actually read Revelations but read the cliff notes version of it done by someone who didn't read very carefully either. It also make me want to light the book on fire, which is not an emotion I feel towards books. Books are generally pretty good. It only gets more preachy as it goes along and no one ever thinks "Maybe it wasn't the rapture, maybe something else happened. New weapons, aliens, something..." Nope, they just accept this, despite the fact that since they obviously weren't raptured (I decided to make it a verb), they weren't particularly religious or were outright atheists before the fact.

[license_points]

Apparently the whole idea stems from some book written in early 1900-1910.

It's a way of interpreting things that I think is too much of a reach. I mean, when you skip from the middle of one book to the middle of another to make your point as though they are connected, I think that's cheating.

but then, I have some doubts about the legitimacy of some of the miracles the Israelites got during their sojourn in the wilderness. I mean, they don't seem to have much effect on their behavior. If I had seen manna fall from heaven, I'd be pretty convinced; very unlikely to adopt gods from neighboring tribes. And yet they make the same mistake over and over and over.