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In the event of the Rapture America is doomed. How is a country that loses 60% of its population supposed to compete with the Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Shinto, etc... countries that were almost untouched? Does the Left Behind series even talk about this? I've never read the novels, but what little I know of it made the scope seem focused on the USA. Does the rest of the world just carry on as normal and it's just America that goes all Mad Max?

Honestly, one would expect New York City to be one of the less impacted locales on account of the cultural diversity and general high level of sin according to Evangelicals. Same with California. It's the Midwest that gets wiped out.

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Left Behind is a very poorly written series so it doesn't address any of this well but: most christians don't get raptured but also any child under 12? does regardless of religion. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25011483-the-anti-christ... (which uses the left behind books as a jumping off point) is worth reading as an explanation of the political world we live in.

The book sort of constantly forgets that every child under 12 in the world means that every one on the planet should be deeply traumatized.

I like Arthur C. Clarke’s take on a similar subject in Childhood’s End.

That's one hell of a lost generation. Interesting that being baptized is not a requirement since that's often mandatory to even be considered for entry into heaven. Getting infants baptized is a big deal in some denominations.

I think belief in the rapture is pretty rare among denominations that practice infant baptism.

"America" to these people, is the set of collected souls. They would deny what's left behind is America, its just the landmass north of Mexico.

Perhaps we should rename it as the Peninsular of North Mexico?

Depending of your flavor of how the rapture is supposed to work, there is supposed to be a 7 year period of tribulations between the rapture (when X population get pulled up to heaven), and the actual second coming of Jesus. That 7 year period is generally expected to be very challenging to Christians.

Within the Left Behind book series... by the end of the first book (of like 10+), they've already revealed who the Anti-Christ is going to be, and foreshadowed the broad outline of his plans (use the UN and the forces of neoliberalism to do his bidding), and he has already basically mind controlled all the world leaders in attendance, and by the end of the second book, the Anti-Christ has managed to trigger WW3.

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