Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.
Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.
Look him up. It’s a hoot.
Ellen G. White, of the Seventh Day Adventists, got hit in the face with a stone.
Mary Baker Eddy, of Church of Christ, Scientist, slipped on ice and hit her head.
I wonder if there are other hits to the head leading to the creation of new religions? 🤔
So basically all the result of traumatic brain injury. Hehe, never really heard all of those 'incidents' pulled together like that...
#magicalThinking spoils everything...
@mbpaz @isol @GayDeceiver Ahh, yes. Saul the Apostate tax collector.
The Roman Era L. Ron Hubbard.
@mbpaz @isol @GayDeceiver Reminds of the best ever radio phone-in call in British history-
Caller: I wasn’t a supporter of Brexit, but I changed my mind completely after something happened to me a few months ago.
Nigel Farage: That’s great to hear! What happened to you?
Caller: I got kicked in the head by a horse.
Farage:
Farage:
Farage: Goodbye!
People are suckers for stories in which someone overcomes something, and if that person is clever enough to invoke The Devine Whatever, they start flocking to that person.
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