Rapture This

Written By Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn

Copyright © 2015 Marvin Thomas Cox
DBA: Marvin Thomas Cox-Flynn
All Rights Reserved

It is said that your very life, full and in Technicolor, flashes before your eyes
just before you die. What is on the other side, if there is an other side? No one living
really has a clue, though every religion will attempt to fill one's clueless-ness, each
with teachings of its own ...
For example: Of the eight or nine people listed within the Bible that allegedly
returned from the dead, not a single one remains to tell us what is on that other side,
or if that side even exists. Even stranger still is that not a one of them had a word of
encouragement to offer within the text of the very Bible that reports their return ...
Even Jesus has been conveniently swept away to prepare mansions that, if he
and his alleged father truly had foreknowledge of his mission to earth, should have
already been prepared long before his alleged voluntary & willful suicide upon the
cross. Now, if there was a logical reason to wait on construction until after the
theatrical festivities, just how long does it take the Creator of the entire Universe to
build mansions for the very few that are said to be saved? After all, if God made the
heavens and the earth and all that is in them in six days, surely He can build a few
mansions in a bit less than two thousand years. Patience is a virtue, but something is
wrong with this picture ...
And still, beyond sanity's sensibilities, the Christian world awaits a Christ's
return that shall never take place; living in hopes of a rapture that will raise them
from their graves, or translate them to be swept away to walk streets of gold in a
beautiful city of limitless housing where every person (every race, creed, color, or
language) has his own individual mansion and there is no wrong side of the tracks
where the poor, undesirable, folks of different skin tones, cultures, or languages, are
relegated to reside, because everyone (well, the folks selected to live there) will live
forever in peace and harmony in a Heaven1 that does not exist (nor ever existed
except in the pagan-fairy-tale-mythological-imaginations of men); to feast at a great
banquet, sipping endless supplies of finest wine, while listening to the cries of those
starving, uninvited, individuals begging at the city walls; to top the festivities as
guests and spectators who are blessed to watch from a safe distance as myriads of
helpless people, including loved ones, friends, and relatives (those folks not selected
to live in the city of perfect equality called Heaven — a veritable Socialist paradise),
are cast upon the fiery grill to roast in Eternal Suffering 2 of a sinner's barbecue Hell3
that, coincidentally, also does not exist; to then live forever with Jesus, who just so
happens to be God (a merciful, loving, God), who also just so happens to be a man,
and so it happens that Jesus (who is God), having always preexisted with the Father,
has, then, always preexisted as a man — has, thus, always been a man …
Wait a minute! Do not all monotheistic religions teach that men are not to
worship anyone but the one and only Creator of all that is and will ever be — that
men are not to worship men? Hmmmmm … So why would such a Creator command
men to not worship other men, and then appear and exist as a man, a created being
forbidden to be worshiped? Perhaps, man has been monking around in penning the
text of those very fairy tales that have held Christianity in suspense for over two
thousand years now. Perhaps, the pagan world of polytheism has found a clever way
to rule over those who believe themselves to be monotheists.
Are we believing what is actually a provable truth? Or are we believing what
makes us feel better about our own mortality; makes us feel better than others in
thinking we are deserving of Heaven, while others are not; deserving of life, while
others are not?
Are we thinking clearly? Are we thinking at all? Or, are we simply living out
the programmed lives of cattle fed the fairy tale lies of ancient pagan mythology
superimposed upon the Hebrew and Jewish monotheist religion?
I invite you to do some real, in depth, studying of what history has to reveal
about the true origins of Christianity … Dare to be a Freethinker 4: “A person who is
willing to accept and explore the possibility that everything they were ever taught to
believe as an established truth may not actually be true — and that honestly,
selflessly, and diligently in search of that which is true, rather than choosing to cling,
blindly, to accepted and commonly held truths.”
(Written July 27th, 2015)
1 Heaven — Origin Of The Concept Of Heaven: http://www.exminister.org/Jabbar-Heaven-concept-origin.html
Heaven: A fool's paradise: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/johann-hari/heaven-a-fools-paradise-1949399.html
Evolution of Heaven and Hell in the Bible from Zoroastrianism: http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/DebunkingChristians/Page28.htm
2 Eternal Suffering — The Origin & History Of The Doctrine Of Endless Punishment by Thomas B. Thayer: http://biblemaths.com/thayer.pdf
3 Hell — “... The simple idea of hell has often functioned as a necessary complement of heaven in an all-embracing moral or hedonistic wish-fulfillment.
Men may devoutly desire hell—for other people. And the assumption that the powers-that-be in the universe, in the role of cosmic police officers, will deal
severely with whatever man considers evil is no less a reading of wishes and ideals into existence than the assumption that they are supporting everything
he deems good. In fact it is the same assumption expressed differently. The concept of hell is compensatory in so far as it serves to provide a vicarious
victory over the evils that so frequently win the day in this-earthly life. And like the idea of heaven it is only too likely to cut the nerve of effective action
against the ills of this world. One of the most impassioned of the early Church Fathers, Tertullian, gives us a most instructive paean of transcendental
triumph: “How shall I admire, how laugh, how exult when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lower abyss of darkness, so many
magistrates liquifying in fiercer flames than they ever kindled against the Christians; so many sage philosophers blushing in red-hot fires with their deluded
pupils...” — Corliss Lamont: The Illusion Of Immortality (1935), page 208.
4 Freethinker — my own definition taken from my article, The Road To All Too Soon https://www.scribd.com/document/320191847/The-Road-to-All-
Too-Soon-by-Marvin-Thomas-Cox-Flynn