RaptureReady.com

The "I'm not sh*tting you" post of the day.

A Website devoted to "calculating" how long the world has until "endtimes" arrive has garnered a lot of media coverage since the war in Lebanon began a few weeks ago, RAW STORY has found.

"Israel and Hezbollah began trading blows last month, the community at RaptureReady.com, a fundamentalist Christian site dedicated to the proposition that the end times are near, was atwitter, taking the conflict as another sign of an impending judgment day," Tom Zeller Jr. reports in Monday's edition of The New York Times.

Have fun surfing the Rapture Index, described as a "Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity." It was created by Todd Strandberg, who, according to RAW, is "a night supervisor at the spare-parts store at Offutt Air Force base, Nebraska."

I love the disclaimer that Raw Story found in a cache of the Index:

"The Rapture Index by no means is meant to predict the rapture, however, the index is meant to measure the type of activity that could act as a precursor to the rapture,"

Paul said in his email: "They don't believe in evolution, but they believe in this crap? Stop the world. I wanna get off. (take that second sentence however you wish)."