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** Every child in the world disappears in the rapture, but some adults do too. All of these adults are "real true Christians." Somehow, this exceedingly obvious pattern is not noted.
** Every child in the world disappears in the rapture, but some adults do too. All of these adults are "real true Christians." Somehow, this exceedingly obvious pattern is not noted.
** Carpathia's [[Techno Babble]] explanation for said disappearances is apparently accepted readily. Apparently all the scientists who would rebuke it for its inaccuracies forgot everything they knew.
** Carpathia's [[Techno Babble]] explanation for said disappearances is apparently accepted readily. Apparently all the scientists who would rebuke it for its inaccuracies forgot everything they knew.
** All the true scientists capable of rebuking it were also real true Christians and were raptured, of course.
*** All the true scientists capable of rebuking it were also real true Christians and were raptured, of course.
** Most of Carpathia's machinations require this to work. Asking countries to destroy most of their nuclear weapons and give the remainder to him? And they fall for it?
** Most of Carpathia's machinations require this to work. Asking countries to destroy most of their nuclear weapons and give the remainder to him? And they fall for it?
*** ... he's the Antichrist. He has mind control superpowers. Acting incredibly stupid around the guy with Satan's own version of the Jedi Mind Trick is to be expected. Its the ''rest'' of the book that's full of inexplicable dumb.
*** ... he's the Antichrist. He has mind control superpowers. Acting incredibly stupid around the guy with Satan's own version of the Jedi Mind Trick is to be expected. Its the ''rest'' of the book that's full of inexplicable dumb.