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I am familiar with a lot of the current thinking/beliefs regarding fundamentalist Christian prophecies, because my ILs are in that group of folks and strongly believe that the Rapture is imminent. I don't think fundamentalist Christians would see the Rapture as a bad thing...more of a good thing for them.
There is a book I read recently called Have a Nice Doomsday which is a secular examination of why Christians believe the Rapture is coming soon. It was fairly well-written and helped explain to me the whole mechanism of how they think things will happen.
As for myself, I don't think the end of the world (as in, a big KA-BOOM!) is coming soon. I do think that the end of the world as we know it is coming soon. There are things happening with our environment and economy that are, in some cases, completely irreversible. The way in which things will play out is a mystery to me, but I think that in our children's lifetimes, things will be very, very different, and they will need a very different outlook, set of expectations, and skill sets in order to be successful.
Tara
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