This Isn't Just a Crazy Christian Rapture Video

I’ve covered the Rapture a lot on Christian Nightmares over the years. I’ve poked fun at it and I even produced and released a cover song about it several years ago:

There was a time in my life when I was truly terrified of the Rapture. Here’s what I had to say about it during an interview back in 2011:

I was also petrified of The Rapture, this idea that, at any moment, the Trumpet of the Lord could sound and all of the believers would get wisped up into Heaven, but that I might get Left Behind. Not only was I really scared and depressed by the idea that most of the people I knew might suddenly vanish and I’d be left to fend for myself, but I also thought that if that happened, then I would know that it was all true after all, and that my only chance of joining my friends and family up in Heaven would be to reject the Mark of the Beast, and then probably be beheaded (we’ve all seen those movies in church, right?). I became obsessed with The Rapture, really paranoid about it. There were many times when I thought that it had happened. I’d be talking with my mom in the kitchen or something, then turn around and she’d be gone, and I’d think to my self, Oh my God, this is it—it’s happened! And I’d yell out, “Mom? MOM?!!!” Of course, she’d just gone downstairs to fold laundry or something . . . I can laugh about it now, but I didn’t then.

But I saw a video (below) recently that got me thinking about a whole other side of the Rapture that I don’t think I’ve ever written about. It’s about how closely the dark side of the American Dream and delusional evangelical Christianity can be intertwined. It’s about hoping against hope. It’s about believing that somewhere over the rainbow everything will be better. It’s about waiting to be rescued even though no one is ever going to come. It’s about how America got a president like Trump.

Some people will watch the following video and think it’s funny. I think it’s incredibly sad and so, so emblematic of our current times: