Dear Secret Rapture Crazy Alien Spaceman Jesus Guy

Thank you for commenting on my blog and sharing your opinions.  However, I really cannot endorse or agree with much of anything you say.

May I offer some observations?  Of course, since this is my blog.

1.) I am sorry to hear that you have never even set foot in a Catholic church.  You know you are always welcome to come to Mass or any other service.  The Catholic Church is for everyone - that is why she is called Catholic.  Only please remember that it is not appropriate to receive Holy Communion until you are in fact in full communion with the Church and spiritually prepared.

2.) I commiserate with you about your distress at the widespread commonness of gross immorality.  From the Bible we know that there will be a great tribulation and apostasy before the Second Coming of Jesus, as you correctly observe.  It is also a good observation that the signs of the End Times that Jesus named started right away (just like He said they would).  It would be entirely legitimate to say that we have been living in the End Times since our Lord was last here on earth.

3.) Perhaps you actually like being regarded as crazy or mad, but I suppose it does make it more difficult to get your message out.  If you are open to suggestions, part of the problem must be your blatant disregard for sound reason.  Most people can actually deal with a fair amount of illogic and unsound reason in their religion - in fact it can be uncomfortable to deal with a religion such as Catholicism that forces you to confront the inconsistencies and faults in your life and to grow into an integral person rather continuing to wallow in the easy have-it-both-ways hypocrisy we are all all too comfortable with.  Nevertheless, people have a limit, and you seem to reach and exceed it almost immediately.  For instance, in the beginning of your "inaugural address," you propose that the fact that people don't like you proves that you are a prophet, since (as Jesus observed) all true prophets are rejected by the people.  This is an incredibly elementary logical gaffe, and the rest of the work (which I looked over out of courtesy) is in the main worse, not better.  In fact, I rather think you would have difficulty "wiping out" anybody in a debate (except relatively speaking, if your debate was in front of an audience composed of highly illogical and bigoted people, or you could somehow manage to find someone less capable than yourself of composing a reasonable argument).  In fact, by writing this much already I have already given your writing much more attention than it deserves, except that I sometimes like to post about bizarre things.

4.) Perhaps another reason that people doubt your sanity is that you seem to insist on comparing yourself to Jesus, in fact insisting that you are God.  I rather expect that they are giving you the benefit of the doubt, preferring to suppose (in the absence of hard evidence) that you are merely a harmless kook who doesn't quite realize what he is saying rather than an unfathomably arrogant blasphemer.  For the reasons addressed above it is difficult for people to take you seriously enough to consider you a legitimate antichrist.

5.) The whole "pre-" vs. "post-" thing is not something that Catholics really bother with.  In terms of these Protestant categories, I think the Catholic Church would register as "pre-tribulation amillenialist."  I urge you to recall that in Biblical usage numbers are typically symbolic, even when talking about actual amounts of things, a feature of language we don't use all that often in modern languages (for instance "seven" can mean "a large indeterminate number" as in "the just man falls seven times a day," or completeness, and "a thousand" "a very large indeterminate number."  Therefore I urge you not to take the "thousand years" in Revelation in an artificially literal way not intended by the sacred author.  It may surprise you to learn that the Church considers that this "thousand"-year reign is being accomplished right now and for the last 2,000 years through the Catholic Church itself, because the Church is not merely a sort of Jesus Fan Club but the visible sacrament (so to speak) of God's reign on earth.

6.) One of my biggest heroes is a man who dedicated himself to the extermination of a poisonous and diabolical sect devoted to the ultimate extinction of humanity through childlessness.

7.) I know that probably feels special to feel like the originator of a religious system, but this is nothing compared to the joy to be found in the actual Church God gave to us, the Catholic Church, which I urge you to find out more about.

In Christ,
Thomas

Comments

[Secret Rapture]

I really appreciate your detailed and thoughtful response to my writing. In fact, your response is the best I have had to date.
I was raised in a Fundie background, but have long since concluded that the Catholic approach is more appropriate, primarily because of the celibacy of its leaders. Celibacy is in line with my concern about overpopulation (as when I commented about Pope Benedict). You picked up on that with your comment on childlessness. I believe that with population approaching 7 billion, one way or another (such as the Four Horsemen?) we are faced with finding a solution if this planet is to survive. In your point 2, you agree on the Tribulation and immorality we are facing.
I am not concerned with getting anyone to agree with me, although I, of course, do offer arguments. Instead, my claim is that we have had repeated specific events (I label Multiple Rapture) going back to the Seventies with the most recent at 9/11. I and numerous other what I call angels have been responsible for these events. Most especially, the next time I blow the horn planetwide, billions are going to be laying on the ground.
Of course, this whole concept strikes you as completely mad, if not, as you say, blasphemy - me being God. I make no bones about it - I am mad. I am in good company, since Jesus was also mad. And like Jesus, I am not interested in originating a religion (your point 7). Instead, I merely alert you to get your affairs in order, because, within months if not years, I'm going to lay out mounds of corpses, however inconceivable and mad the concept is to you. Further, I intend to actually give my Inaugural Address after I accomplish that. The proof is in the pudding. Stay tuned.

[Secret Rapture]

I want to put up my original post again so newcomers to this thread can find me:

My inaugural address at the Great White Throne Judgment of the Dead, after I have raptured out billions!
I'm at: angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman