The posts on this thread are all very thoughtful and I just want to say I appreciate you all! I just told a brother in Christ this morning, "If we never meet this side of heaven, I will meet you on that beautiful shore." I say the same to you all.
I, too, find myself sort of getting ready to go. There's no bags to pack! But I did go thru my keepsakes last fall - I mentioned this once before in another thread - but I found a bunch of love-letters between me and my dh from over 30 years of knowing each other. I burned them. They were not appropriate for anyone to read. Heads up, brothers and sisters, do you have anything to get rid of that might spoil your testimony to those left behind? Any books to burn? Tapes? Photos?
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So, she is essentially telling people to lie to anybody "left behind."
Won't eveyone know anyway?
I meanan they already know that you are a liar because there is no evidence in torah of a rapture.
@aaa Destroying evidence indeed.
Wake up Maggie, I think I've got something to say to you!
Why does it always come back to burning books for these people?
Why the hell should she care what people on earth think about her if she's in heaven? Idiots, I swear.
Any books to burn? Tapes? Photos?
Sounds like porn to me.
In this day and age you are lucky enough to have a collection of love letters from your husband and you burn them because of your stupid religious fears? Freaking idiot!
Yeah, burn everything, then go sit naked on a hilltop waiting for Jeebus.
Freaking idiot.
One day, either you or your husband will be left alone and missing those letters, realizing the full impact of what you have done.
Any books to burn? Tapes? Photos?
That way of thinking always reminds me of a scene in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade".
[to Indiana, while watching a Nazi parade and book burning]
Professor Henry Jones: My son, we're pilgrims in an unholy land.
They call us arrogant for being atheists, and yet say with utmost confidence that they are Heaven-bound, not even considering the possiblity of their own damnation?
And it is very refreshing to see them burning materials of their own creation for once...
Ok, so you are so Holy enough that you will be raptured but sinful enough to worry about leaving behind inappropriate things.
I really don't think you have to worry about being raptured. I think you should worry about being killed in a car wreck and your wife then finding that video of you and Ted Haggard in a bathroom stall.
...I found a bunch of love-letters between me and my dh from over 30 years of knowing each other. I burned them. They were not appropriate for anyone to read.
What on Earth could be incriminating or immoral about love letters written by a husband and wife to each other? Do they contain evidence of crimes being committed?
I'm absolutely sure your husband appreciates the way you're systematically destroying any evidence of your 30 year marriage. If I was your spouse I'd be putting down a deposit on an apartment of my own. I'd also be securing legal counsel to guide me through my eventual divorce from you.
C***.
I wish I could be a fly on the wall when your husband comes home in a nostalgic mood and wants to go over those old letters.
If he's as fundie as you, you're probably in for one heck of a beating.
"There's no bags to pack! But I did go thru my keepsakes last fall - I mentioned this once before in another thread - but I found a bunch of love-letters between me and my dh from over 30 years of knowing each other. I burned them."
Oh my god. Yeah, that religion bullshit is doing wonders for you.
Like those evil folks left behind are going to care about racy love letters. The same folks God has deemed so evil that he is reserving Armageddon for them? Those who will take the "Mark of the Beast" and persecute the minority that does not?
The minority won't care about them either because they will be in hiding, don't you think? Plus with the whole moon turning to blood and plagues and what not, nobody is going to care about your love letters.
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Worst wife ever!
That's just sad. Destroying the memories of happy times in your past should be criminal. I hope you live a long, long life, and regret this as you try to think back to those things he said that you can no longer quite remember. How can those things mean so little to you?
GREAT!! Can I have your car, house, books (unburnt, that is) and other stuff??
And since you can´t bring ANYTHING with you where you´re going, I´ll have it for FREE!!
FUNDIE STUFF SALE!! 100% OFF!!!
Fundies: Always lookin' fer an excuse to burn themselfs sum books.
Flame on! Light up the night... Remember to destroy all evidence of your filthy, defiled humanity. Thanks.
Oh, I see why she burned them!
They weren't love letters from her Dear Husband, they were love letters from her Designated Hitter .
She was having an affair with the Boston Red Sox!!
How sad that Maggie thinks burning books is the answer to everything.
Considering how fundies want to control what everyone thinks, does & says, it wouldn't surprise me if they carried out book-burnings themselves - or demanded that the government implement them. Then, when the necessary permits are refused, they would whine 'persecution' when, as usual, THEY are the worst persecutors.
Good point. When the "rapture" comes we can do whatever the fuck we want, now can't we? I mean, at that point what is Jeebus gonna do about it? It would be his own fault. Imagine it! A world without Christians! Sweet, eh?
Confused?
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