March 21, 2005
Midnight madness
The "Pandering to the Christian Right and Relief for Tom Delay Ethics Charges" Bill passed the house, as expected, just after midnight. A couple hours later, papers were being filed in a Tampa courthouse with the expectation that a federal judge will order Terri’s tube to be reinserted.
Meanwhile, we learn that at the hospice, a lot of noise has been made by just a handful of vociferous protesters whose strident demands to “save” Terri belie their purported belief in a glorious afterlife. Why are these people so afraid of death?
Posted by Norwood at March 21, 2005 05:22 AM"Why are these people so afraid of death?"
This fear also manifests itself in the whole "Rapture" subculture (also known as "premillenialist dispensation," or something like that). A key element of that belief system is that when Jesus comes back, he'll take all the "faithful" back to heaven with him - and they won't have to die to get there. It's basically a belief in everlasting life without having to experience death to get it.
I don't understand why they're so afraid to be with this god they claim to believe in, either. Fred Clark writes about this at Slacktivist from time to time.
Posted by: spencer at March 21, 2005 10:55 AM