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onager

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13. Anybody else read the book?

Fri May 8, 2015, 10:57 AM

May 2015

"Rapture Ready! Adventures in the Parallel World of Christian Pop Culture" by Daniel Radosh (2010).

Not so much about that goofy website, though IIRC it's mentioned. It's a sort of bus tour of the $7 billion Xian pop culture world.

Xian rock music! Pro Wrestlers! Holyland Amusement Park in Florida, with daily appearances by Jesus! Pastel Bibles for good Xian wimmen! Etc. Etc.

Radosh is a Jewish humanist, and says he approached this book as sort of an anthropological investigation.

He concludes the book by talking about how darn NICE most of the Fundies were that he met. If he'd read some of the more rabid comments about Jews on the Rapture Ready website, he might have changed his tune on that.

http://www.amazon.com/Rapture-Ready-Adventures-Parallel-Christian/dp/159376281X

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Yuch... [View all] F4lconF16 Apr 2015 OP

You may have missed my piece on the Rapture Loonies. Here it is: mr blur Apr 2015 #1

I did miss it. F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #2

Awesome Brainstormy Apr 2015 #5

Oh, my... beam me up scottie Apr 2015 #3

let me guess... the "rr" stands for "rapture ready" (and not, say, "rational recovery") Warren DeMontague Apr 2015 #4

You come in here with that shit, Curmudgeoness Apr 2015 #6

Well excuse me. F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #7

I'm sorry, that was meant as a joke. Curmudgeoness Apr 2015 #8

Not at all. F4lconF16 Apr 2015 #9

It's worth taking a look over there amuse bouche May 2015 #10

Why did you replace the "a" in Falcon edhopper May 2015 #11

Yikes.... nil desperandum May 2015 #12

Anybody else read the book? onager May 2015 #13