Happy Rapture Day Everybody!
By The Eva Monkey on Saturday, May 21st, 2011
So apparently today is the rapture. And if you are not familiar there has been talk about the end of the world, also known as the second coming of Christ, and the Last Judgment. There’s this guy named Harold Camping, who is a self-published Christian author and radio personality who has spent way too much of his life trying to decode the bible in order to discover when the end of the world will be. He already predicted it would happen on September 6th, 1994, which clearly didn’t occur, which begs the question why anyone would still take him seriously. He revised his prediction to today, May 21st, 2011, which is why you may have seen posters and billboards saying that the world is going to end today, and that “the bible guarantees it”. I really can’t get enough out of how silly people can be. In related news, it is sad to hear that Randy “Macho Man” Savage died yesterday, but we all know, he’s up there foiling Jesus’ plans right now.
But in all seriousness, I think it’s all rather silly, and if you are a believer, then the bible should be considered sacred, and it states very specifically that only the father will known when that day comes. I wonder what it says about us as a people that we’re preoccupied with the end of the world. We see apocalyptic, and post-apocalyptic scenarios in popular culture all of the time, and Evangelion is no exception. Evangelion is a post-post-apocalyptic story that shows the last days of man, leading up to what is very much a depiction of the rapture and the end of the world. Albeit, in Evangelion, it’s all a reinterpretation of Judeo-Christian mythology and symbolism within a science fiction narrative, but you can’t deny what it is representative of.
So I think in honor of Harold Camping, I’m going to kick back and watch The End of Evangelion. It’s been too long.