Talk:Rapture Ready

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Could JimTS elaborate how it's "quite a bit biased"? I'll review it, but changing some of the article's statements would change its meaning. DavidA 19:47, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

This article seems quite a bit biased under the surface toward the POV expressed by Rapture Ready. JimTS 15:08, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] General Improvements

I've made some general improvements to the article ... there is one statement that concerns me, though. The article says that Rapture Ready has over 11K articles. When I look at http://www.raptureready.com/, I count something around 150 links on the main page. There are 50 or so articles submitted by readers ... http://www.raptureready.com/soap/soapbox.html ... and each link under "Featured End Time Writers" has a few articles ... say, an average of 40ish * 14 = 560. At any rate, that adds up to something less than 1000. Where does the number 11K come from? BigDT 01:47, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Doesn't look like an ad to me

The article is somewhat sparse and could stand for some revision, but I don't think that it currently resembles a commercial advertisement. The site has been mentioned multiple times in mainstream news sources, is fairly well-known in online circles, and has existed for several years (there's something that should be added to the article).

I think it is definitely deserving of a small article on Wikipedia. Nate 05:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Even with the small changes made over the last few days the article already looks somewhat less-biased and even less like an advertisement and more like what it is: a report on a late 20th century/early 21st century cultural phenomenon. - Joe The Editor

[edit] Rapture Index

(sarcasm warning)

Does anyone know how they actually came up with these numbers or is it a secret? I mean it does seem a bit odd they take something like the Antichrist and just give it a value of two. Also they say when the index hits 145 you should "fasten your seat belts", probably suggesting the rapture is imminent. How do they know 145 is a critical threshold instead of 4242 for example? By the way, shouldn't you rather loosen your seat belts? Anyhow, I'm sure they have arrived to their numbers through solid science and rigorous methodology. I'm just hoping to reach higher level of enlightenment. I mean its not like they just pulled this whole index out of a place into which the Sun doesn't shine just to fool gullible and unducated people, who don't understand numbers are not magic. --Lakefall 15:31, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

I just noticed they say: "You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we're moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture." So, how does "end time activity" speed the approach of the rapture exactly and why does the speed make any difference to us if we have no idea of the distance of the rapture? I have plenty of more questions, if you get tired of these. ;-) --Lakefall 15:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)