Rhetoric Race and Religion
If you’ve been waiting for someone to link the disappearance of the Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 to The Rapture, thanks to the Reverend Billy Graham’s daughter, your wait is over. According to Anne Graham Lotz, the disappearance of the Boeing 777 over the Indian Ocean could be a sign that The Rapture might be around the corner.
Ms. Graham Lotz’s Malaysian Airlines theorizing, coupled with her brother Franklin’s recent declaration of support for the way Russia’s Valadimir Putin is dealing with gays in his country, makes one think that March Madness extends far beyond the nation’s premier basketball tournament.
Graham Lotz, a Christian evangelist, begins her piece, titled “Malaysian Airliner Disappearance Offers Snapshot of Post-Rapture World Shock,” by citing 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17: “For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.”
She then poses a series of questions that many have been asking:
“How could a modern airliner drop out of sight so quickly and completely? What happened to the plane itself? Was it hijacked? Was it blown out of the sky? Did something happen to the pilots so that without guidance the plane plunged intact into the depths of the sea?”
“Bottom line,” she writes, “Where are all the people?“
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