I have been doing a little more research on the response of Religious Right groups to the recent catastrophe. Thankfully, in Australia we haven’t seen much evidence yet of support for the “Rapture craze” that has swept America (the “Left Behind” books etc.) so there is little discussion yet about whether the tsunami might have “end times” implications. The Rapture Index, a wacky “temperature” measurement predicting the nearness of “end times”, has gone up a bit, but hasn’t been updated since Dec 27. I do hope the author hasn’t been vanished ;-)

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