| Dean, Jodi on Mon, 30 May 2011 18:25:04 +0200 (CEST) |
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| Re: <nettime> Rapture billboard |
The book, When Prophesy Fails, by Leon Festinger (sp?) is an influential account of a UFO contactee cult expecting something like a 'rapture'. For some sociologists, it is a definitive study in dealing with cognitive dissonance in the face of failed predictions. Evangelical Christians tend to believe in the 'second coming of Christ.' Pre-millenial dispensationalism is a specific doctrine that emphasizes the rapture of the church and the rule of the anti-Christ. The popular Left Behind book series (the authors I think are LaHaye and Jenkins) was a novelization of the rapture and end times. The books were made into a couple of movies and were published in adult and 'youth' versions. Jodi ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Patrice Riemens [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 3:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: <nettime> Rapture billboard > does anyone have more info on this Rapture dynamic that happened in > USA. is it true that a surprisingly large number of people in the > USA belief in "rapture" <snip> The 'rapture' monicker (in) itself is fairly old hat in the US, I remember it was a recurrent theme during Reagan's presidency, and that it generally is a specific, if somewhat weird, underground part of the neo-con credo. The disquieting aspect of its current version is that it resonate with a particular strand of doomsdayism that appears to form a significant proportion of today's Zeitgeist in connexion with the current financial, economic and political crisis, at least in 'the West'. Rapture also partakes in a very elitist, exclusionary, and in the (very near) end, exterminatory world-view which bodes ill in political terms should it become too influential. A kind of reverse 'Anonymous', but with the same - yet very different - "Expect Us" message. Cheers from a cloudy morning in Toulouse, patrizio & Diiiinooos! # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]