The whole Rapture thing (pre-Trib or mid-Trib) is non-BIblical. The word "rapture" occurs a grand total of zero times in any well-known version of the Bible. It appears in only two places in two different obscure translations (the Darby Bible Translation and the Weymouth New Testament), and neither passage has anything to do with End-Times Prophecy. The concept was invented around 1830 by John Nelson Darby, the man who invented Dispensaitonalism which is the real name of the division of pseudo-Protestantism that passes for "generic" "just plain" "non-denominational" "born-again" fundamentalist evangelical "Christianity," but isn't actually any of those things in quotes.

The :"Rapture" flatly contradicts a verse in Revelation 13 in which it's stated that it's given unto the Beast to make war with the saints (saved Christians) and overcome them. How can he do that if they've been Raptured away? To explain that little conundrum, the Rapture-believers came up with an impressive bit of sophistry with absolutely zero Biblical justification: "Tribulation Saints" (the title one of the Left Behind septology [I think the second book in the series]). These are people who weren't already saved Christians at the time of "the Rapture," but become saved afterwards, during the Tribulation, and it's they who the Beast makes war against and (temporarily) overcomes. The whole Left Behind series is based on this sophistry. The heroes (with names like "Rayford Steele" and "Bruce Barnes" and "Buck Williams" ― oooh, manly!) are all "Tribulation Saints."

Mugato: fragMasterFlash: I doubt even the MST3K treatment could make that turducken of suck worth watching.

I don't know, I've been a MiSTie since I was a kid and the only movies they really can't do anything with are boring ones and this at least doesn't seem like it's boring.

But WTF is Nick Cage doing in this? I mean I know he'll do anything because he has tax problems but this can't pay very much.

Mugato: hammettman: If you see just one thriller this year in which a climactic car chase is followed by the director-star breaking character to deliver a five-minute sermon straight into the camera - followed by three more minutes of Mike Huckabee leading viewers in prayer to accept Jesus into their hearts

HARD PASS.  LOL.  WTF.

In that order.

Forget what I said about MST3K being able to do any movie unless it's boring. This sounds too farked up.

Was there ever a movie so bad that the production company thought of releasing it direct-to-home-video, but realized it was too bad even for that so, to recoup some of their investment, they released it direct-to-MST3K?

kling_klang_bed: Gotta love how the evangelical nutjobs are so gung ho about something that's contradicted in the Bible (The Rapture), and the idea didn't come about until the 1830's.

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Wish I'd seen your comment before I posted mine.

FatherChaos: followed by three more minutes of Mike Huckabee leading viewers in prayer to accept Jesus into their hearts

Mike Hickabilly is a giant pile of dogshiat for the fact he supported this pile of shiat when she violated the Constitutional rights of Americans in her state:

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"Constitution? We don' need no steenkin;' Constitution!"