It was brilliant the way the President responded to Michele Bachmann's "threat" that this President was going to bring about the "end of days."
Of course by now we know the story. Bachmann, in a radio interview, warned all of her "followers" that Obama's policies in Iran, his stance on marriage equality, and just his general being, were hastening the end of the world. Obama was forcing God's hand.
So last weekend during Nerd Prom, the President addressed her comment:
"Just this week, Michele Bachmann actually predicted that I would bring about the biblical end of days. Now that's a legacy. That's big. I mean Lincoln, Washington -- they didn't do that."
It really could be a legacy, couldn't it. And if you think about it, what might the rapture mean for the rest of us? Let's just pretend that there actually was going to be a rapture. Michele Bachmann would be gone. We'd no longer have to deal with her and her insanity. The "God Guns and Grits and Gravy" crew would be gone. Fox "news" would be gone, the clown car that is the Republican Presidential Candidates would be gone.
Do you see where I'm going with this?
With the anti-gay crowd gone, we can finally work on creating equality for everyone. We won't be barraged by crazies holding "God hates fags" signs. We won't be inundated by rabid, fomenting invectives hurled through megaphones at every gay or pro-gay event.
With the White Supremacists gone, we can deal with the system that treats young black men as if they were a threat, and which must be subdued at any cost. Without the "reverse-racism" crowd, we could have a real conversation about equality and undo the systems that were put in place by conservatives in the first place to keep them as second-class citizens.
With the anti-woman crowd gone, women will regain control of their bodies. They will be able to seek professional medical help for themselves without being attacked for it. They will be able to work with their doctor, not their legislature.
Without the science-denying crowd gone, we could finally start working on Climate Change to bring that under control.
With Fox "news" gone, the lying stops. There will be no more paranoid propaganda, where white, vapid, airheads mutter talking point after talking point, with the intention to scare stupid white people into remaining subservient to their corporate overlords.
Bottom line, Jesus' Rapture is win/win... They get to go to heaven where they will be stuck with each other for ever and ever, hallelujah, hallelujah... and we get to work on the real issues that face our planet and our species.
By the way: Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is over 100 thousand light years across. That means that Jesus, who only left two thousand years ago, still has to travel another 98 thousand light years before he even get's out of our galaxy... only to have to turn around and come right back... I think we have time.