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Saved Premillenialist Christians Shouldn't Drive
I'm sure everyone here has been driving and seen the bumper sticker that reads "In case of Rapture, car will be unmanned." While this never fails to inspire some very action-movie style daydreams and exciting video game premises, it also brings up a far more practical issue: should saved Christians be allowed to drive?
One would think that, if we don't grant driver's licences to narcoleptics, epileptics, or other people who may, at random, lose all control of their careening vehicle, we sure as hell won't grant a license to someone who may just up and disappear without warning. But, this never seems to come up.
That fundamentalist, evangelical, end-times-anticipating Christians seek to create or alter legislation to support their beliefs is not exactly news. And, of course, it's well within their rights to petition and badger and seek to achieve their goals of teaching religious pseudoscience in schools, or keeping gay people from marrying, and so on-- but it seems to me that if they are really going to be forthright in their goals of altering the laws of the United States to fit their theology, they can't just pick and choose the laws they want. To really be taken seriously, they need to go all the way, to do the right thing and press for legislation stipulating that anyone who has accepted Jesus Christ into their hearts cannot safely pilot a motorized vehicle or similar heavy machinery.
I'm willing also to consider legislation that would provide for them the right to pilot small, possibly electric city-cars that are speed-limited to 25 MPH, contain adequate warning lights and signage, and, upon detection of loss of driver (via a simple switch in the seat that disengages when the driver is raptured away) sounds a warning klaxon as it slowly comes to a safe, controlled stop under automatic control.
So, saved Premillenialist Christians, here's my challenge to you: go all the way. Fight for what you want in our schools, our hospitals, our public places, but stick to your beliefs on our highways as well. I mean, that's what being a fundamentalist is all about, right?
*** Note: I changed "Fundamentalist" to "Premillenialist" basd on the writings of Nathaniel, the commenter. Thanks for the terminology tip!
Posted by Jason Torchinsky on 10/26/2005 | Permalink
Comments
Amen.
And hee!
Posted by: randee | Oct 26, 2005 5:19:10 PM
Yes, but these same drivers have God as their co-pilots, right? So someone could take the wheel.
Posted by: dan | Oct 26, 2005 6:50:05 PM
Since god is their co-pilots, can they take the car pool lane?
Posted by: Claudia | Oct 26, 2005 9:26:34 PM
No, N*****s shouldn't drive.
Posted by: Linda | Oct 27, 2005 12:39:19 PM
Man, comments like that make me almost regret doing a link-swap with Stormfront.org.
Posted by: Jason | Oct 27, 2005 1:57:50 PM
Wow, I hope this turns into a nation-wide campaign.
Posted by: Nathaniel | Oct 27, 2005 2:15:39 PM
Well, the thing is all the GOOD people will be gone, so why would they care what happens to us? Its not like they're killing anyone who is SAVED after all!
Posted by: rose | Oct 27, 2005 6:53:12 PM
I hope this is a joke, but if ii isn't you might want to consider that it would bind the unsaved to chauffer jobs so the Christian majority could get from place to place.
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Posted by: Daniel Levesque | Oct 29, 2005 3:45:19 PM
Since you are posting this article, you also are saying that you believe in the Living God and that it is true that we Christians will dissappear. You should be VERY worried. This is not a joke! All "good" people will not be gone. Only those who have accepted Jesus as their Savior and Lord will be taken. "We are saved by GRACE, not by works, so that no one can boast"
We are also NOT picking and choosing the laws we want to follow. We are following the written and Living Word of God, Who Was, and IS, and IS TO COME.
I don't understand why people don't live their lives by HIS laws, which are to not kill, not steal, not covet, obey your parents, to love your neighbor as yourself. What are wrong with these? If I were all of you who have posted, I would think long and hard where you will spend the rest of eternity, because we are not promised tomorrow. And all of you are stating that we will be dissappearing.
Posted by: Sandy | Oct 31, 2005 10:06:24 AM
Sandy,
You lost me in the middle there. Maybe you could elaborate on Jesus and stuff a little longer so I will understand. I think the reason we all don't get it is because we haven't fully heard the argument yet. Maybe after that, we can all be on the same page and move forward from there.
Posted by: Steve Lambert | Nov 1, 2005 1:45:25 AM
The argument would be that they are saying that Christians should not be able to drive because we would be endangering the lives of those who aren't Christians (those who will be left behind)(those who aren't saved and don't believe the way we do), when in fact their lives are ALREADY IN DANGER because of not being saved. As I had stated before we are NOT promised tomorrow. Don't we as mothers and fathers warn our children of dangers because we love them. God is warning us of what is to come. The road has always been a dangerous place. How many people do you know or hear of who have been injured or even killed from drunk drivers, people who lose control or aren't paying attention, or even road rage. The point being we are not endangering them because we are Christians, they are endangering themselves and those who they love because they aren't Christians.
God does not want puppets. He wants our genuine love, just as you have a genuine love for your family. God has an unconditional love for us, that's why He sent His Son to die, so that we might live with Him in eternity (Heaven) and the only way to God is through the Father. He gives us a choice as to whether we will follow His ways or the world's ways. People have been extremely deceived by satan to follow the world's ways and call it something or justifying it as something else so it doesn't sound as bad when it's stated in the Bible that it is WRONG.
The ONLY way to be saved is:
A - Admit you are a sinner. For ALL have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
B - Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
C - Confess you sins (all that you have done wrong) to the Lord and invite Him into your heart. For if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe that God rose Him from the dead, you will be saved.
There is not one righteous, no not one!
Posted by: Sandy | Nov 2, 2005 9:38:54 AM
I think that closes the circle perfectly.
Posted by: Charles Star | Nov 2, 2005 9:41:35 AM
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