I’m no expert in Christianity, but I come from a protestant country that is mostly secular and I cannot recall a single time anyone outside of cult people from jehovas witnesses or similar, talk about the rapture.

There might be versions of protestantism that believes in end of days prophecies, but that is not something I have ever heard any respected priest say in my country.

The way they preach is always more like a mix of philosophy and a pedagogy. They use Bible stories to relate to everyday problems we all might face and they put emphasis on how we need to be kind and forgiving to ourselves and others then the days are short and the nights are long. We have long, dark winters where I live.

I have always felt weird about the way especially American Christians talk about religion. To me its like listening to cult people or someone who is mentally ill.

The first time I ever heard of the rapture as a concept was in 2014 when Left Behind with Nicholas Cage came out. I only heard of that movie because I enjoyed watching movie reviews and some reviewer covered this film to clown on it. I was around 25 years old at the time and had never ever heard of such a crazy idea before. When I found out that a large number of Americans believe in that shit, I thought I was being left out of a joke I didn’t get.

Do yeah, maybe the rapture is a part of protestantism somewhere, but I have never heard of it. In my country we see most Bible stories as metaphors for universal wisdom that we can learn from, but no one really believes any of these things happened in real life. Most believed that Jesus existed, but many also think that his more fantastical stories were enhanced versions of the truth to make the point more clear and fun to hear/read about. Therefore, introducing ideas like the rapture would be off putting to most because it is scientifically ridiculous and we also consider doomsday prophecies to be extremism and cult mentality which we reject.