I suppose not everyone has been informed about "the rapture", so I was able to suspend my disbelief in the connecting of the dots for people.
Fair enough, but to me, it seemed stunning that nearly NO ONE seemed to connect the dots easily. Even the immediate family of fundies who were told about the end of days by their loved ones. Not to mention what about the people raised in Christian backgrounds who just didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus?
It's as if those who weren't born again were a bit clueless.
Then again, not all the religious people were taken so it would be easy to be deceived into thinking it was some other event.
Indeed... but if it were at least MENTIONED, but dismissed, it would have been a bit easier than just not being thought of to begin with. It might have been interesting had they had a slew of conspiracy theories all being reported, from aliens to governments to, of course, the rapture.
Surely the fundie televangelists left behind would be refuting it as the rapture due tot he simple fact that they were not chosen- and thus continuing to mislead their flocks.
Now THAT might have been an interesting dimension to add to the movie! Seeing the likes of Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart all denouncing the possibility because THEY were not taken!
Problem is, the writers apparently had a certain agenda to fill and focusing on false preachers wouldn't have been conducive.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
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