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The Rapture
December 23, 2004 ( politics )
I had a fantastic idea for a novel, so lemme write it down here before I forget it. In the vein of "Left Behind", my novel begins with the end -- all the True Believers and Fanatics are taken straight up into Heaven, leaving us atheists and secular humanist types stuck down on Earth. Maybe the devil comes up and takes his due of the murderers, politicians, and other hard-core sinners, maybe not.
Within weeks, the left-overs on Earth begin to transform the Earth into its own Paradise. So it turns out that there was some truth to a lot of the different varying religions, and some lies. There always was just One True God, but maybe it's a Gnostic-type thing, where the "God" is really just some gone-made deity.
Anyway, with all the fanatics from all the religions gone, war dies down, new life is breathed into worldwide environmental protection (this is - seriously - all we got, we better fix it up nice!). Better yet, the population problem is helped out, and the problem of SUVs is solved (turns out, most SUV owners are borderline fanatics!). Since GW Bush is obviously raptured up, we have to immediately hold a new election, and it's a tight run-off between the Green Party candidate and the Democrat candidate.
And so on. I'm thinking a trilogy.
(apologies to my friends who manage to be religious and not hypocrites, which is I think, all my friends who are religious, even tho it seems to be such a small percentage of religious people in general)
Posted by griffjon at December 23, 2004 07:24 PM
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