Episode 71: The Rapture is not Coming!

Data Over Dogma

Data Over Dogma Media, LLC

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

It is a source of joy for some, schadenfreude for others, and for many it is the source of deep, soul-crushing anxiety. It's the Rapture! That theoretical moment when all of God's good kiddos on Earth get to fly up to heaven, while all the naughty boys and girls get stuck here on Earth. It's a theology believed by millions around the world, but there might be a problem: is it possible that the rapture isn't actually in the Bible? On this week's show we're discussing the origins of the rapture idea. Who came up with it, what is it's scriptural basis (if there is any), why it took hold, and why not everyone embraces it. Were you "caught up" in Rapture theology? Then, we're continuing our future-prophesying theme with the baffling 10th chapter of Daniel. Ol' Danny boy had a vision involving a bunch of princes, and whoo boy! If you don't have McClellan levels of education about it, you would be forgiven for not understanding a blessed word of it. Thankfully, we have a McClellen here, so maybe we have a fighting chance! For early access to an ad-free version of every episode of Data Over Dogma, exclusive content, and the opportunity to support our work, please consider becoming a monthly patron at: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma Follow us on the various social media places: https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod https://www.twitter.com/data_over_dogma Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The rapture is something that some dudes made up that was then leveraged as a means of trying to influence people to be good, to eat their vegetables, to not touch themselves.
0:14.8	That's just a tool, a piece of leverage
0:17.5	that people use to try to control behavior
0:21.1	and incentivize
0:23.6	incentivize certain behaviors and it has been phenomenally harmful to
0:28.3	entire generations and stop it. Hey everybody, I'm Dan McClellan.
0:35.0	And I'm Dan Beecher.
0:39.0	And you are listening to the Data Over dogma Podcast
0:42.0	where we increase public access to the academic study of the
0:44.9	Bible and religion and combat the spread of misinformation about the same.
0:50.5	How are things Dan?
0:51.5	Oh man I am I'm worried.
0:54.8	Worried I am okay. I am I am desperately concerned
0:58.8	That all of my loved ones are going to fly away and leave me behind.
1:05.8	And not an Alenny Kravitz kind of fly away,
1:08.3	but something.
1:10.9	Maybe in a little less melodic.
1:14.0	I don't know if it's a lenient cravitz sort of way.
1:16.8	I'm going to need you to teach me that.
1:18.8	But yes, today we're going to be talking about the rapture and the velocir
1:26.6	right is the full name that's the best one that's the
1:31.0	forever girl version okay and then and then we're going to be going over some stuff you had me you
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in -227 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Data Over Dogma Media, LLC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Data Over Dogma Media, LLC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.