Bait For The Jesus Fish Redux

So Plastic has this nice story about these anti-Semitic Christian Rapture novels and how amazingly popular they are. Now if only all those damn fundies would get beamed up into outer space or whatever then there’d be less crap books in the world.

I always liked the old BBC Quatermass TV serial, where people gather together in huge crowds and this alien beam sucks them away into the sky. Turns out aliens seeded earth long ago and have returned to “harvest” their crop. All the true believers basically get liquidised and freeze-dried before being squirted off to become the heavenly equivalent of Galactic Ramen. Bring it on!

He that soweth the good seed is the son of man: the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. the son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Matthew, 13: 37-43 King James Version)

QUATERMASS:”My evaluation, Chuck – here it is. Forget about trying to get through to it.. The ripe crop can’t appeal to the reaper. I think this is the gathering time. The human race is being harvested.”

Earlier here.