{"id":8874,"date":"2023-11-09T19:42:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T02:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2023-11-09T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T02:43:49","slug":"rewind-r-u-rapture-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8874","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: R U Rapture Ready?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent turmoil in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians have the got the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" conservative evangelical christians thumping their bibles salivating for the end times and the rapture when all good christians will be slurped up to heaven (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/world\/american-evangelicals-israel-gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\"> conservative evangelical christians thumping their bibles salivating for the end times and the rapture when all good christians will be slurped up to heaven<\/a> (which is presumably somewhere in Earth&#8217;s atmosphere although no satellite photos have shown its precise whereabouts). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>Of course, anytime anything goes wrong in the Middle East (which is pretty much every day) the christians scream about the end times and how Jesus is coming again. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Back in July and August of 2006, the Lebanon War between Hezbollah and Israel (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2006_Lebanon_War\" target=\"_blank\">Back in July and August of 2006, the Lebanon War between Hezbollah and Israel<\/a> had evangelicals sounding the alarm. But alas, the end of the world didn&#8217;t happen and nobody was raptured. The fact that at that time, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"legitimate news organizations like CNN would actually mention the rapture (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/pzn\/date\/2006-07-31\/segment\/01\" target=\"_blank\">legitimate news organizations like CNN would actually mention the rapture<\/a> should make logical, intelligent and reasonable citizens very weary of any news organization that would promote such ridiculous bunk as the rapture. It&#8217;s kind of like entertainment shows that still feature astrologers and horoscopes. But then again, America elected Trump in 2016. Stupid is as stupid does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> This photo-toon is from our <strong>August 11, 2006<\/strong> issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cnnapocalypseraptureready.jpg\" alt=\"The escalation of hostilities in the Middle East has launched an obsession of talk about the Apocalypse, the end of the world and the Rapture on supposedly responsible news networks like CNN.\" class=\"wp-image-8873\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cnnapocalypseraptureready.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cnnapocalypseraptureready-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>The escalation of hostilities in the Middle East has launched an obsession of talk about the Apocalypse, the end of the world and the Rapture on supposedly responsible news networks like CNN.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8874\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: R U Rapture Ready?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,3,35],"tags":[377,1542,252,765,70,936,1031,902,901,2481,93,935,98,296,189,188,982,1638,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8874"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8874\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}