What would you do?

[Gamblor]

You sit down on a big fat 747 from Newark to Seattle.

The intercom clicks on, as the static fills the air:

"Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your Captain, Akbar bin-Hassan al-Islami, welcoming you aboard Flight Number..."

Picturing the scene in the cabin just about split my gut open.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Since the pilot usually doesn't greet the passengers until after takeoff, what could I do?

That being said, I'd probably get a real laugh from watching other people's reactions.

besides, knowing the pilot was a Muslim would be comforting. In the event that the Christian fundies are right and the rapture happens while we're in the air, at least we'll still have a pilot to land the thing. [img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

[Gamblor]

[banditbdl]

The rapture is the believe that when the apocalypse begins all true believers in Christ will be instantaneously transported to Heaven. There has recently been a successful series of Christian books about those who get Left Behind. I never had any desire to read them, but I do know they made a feature film based on the books starring the long-lost Kirk Cameron.

[Gamblor]

I can't wait 'til God is forced to choose between destroying all the Jews in Israel or fulfilling a promise to people who believe his son is a drunk carpent...

Oops. Flame away, folks - another Christ-denying Jew here.

My tolerance knows no bounds.

Sheesh. Crack a Moses joke if it'll make you feel better.

[nicky g]

Can we tell Moses jokes?

[Gamblor]

I can't wait 'til God is forced to choose between destroying all the Jews in Israel or fulfilling a promise to people who believe his son is a carpen...

Oops. Flame away, folks - another Christ-denying Jew here.

My tolerance knows no bounds.

Sheesh. Crack a Moshe Rabeinu joke if it'll make you feel better.

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

Actually, most of the very strict Christian fundies who buy into the Rapture thing are very pro-Israel.