So I guess you might as well just take the day off.

60 Minutes has the scoop:

"It could happen at any moment. It could happen, as we like to say, during this interview. Like that. Bang," says Thomas Ice, who might be called a professor emeritus of the Rapture. He runs the Pre-Tribulation Research Center out of his garage in a Dallas suburb. It's a one-man think-tank funded by LaHaye and dedicated to preparation for the last days on earth.

"There is a lot of debate over where ... artificial body parts, and contact lenses, and clothes would be "Left Behind" or not. But the body would definitely be taken," adds Ice.

That's what happens to believers. But the rest of humanity is condemned to suffering.

"That's what the Bible teaches. There are gonna be many Southern Baptists, for example, or many Presbyterians, or many Catholics, or people who are a part of Christendom," says Ice. "But if they haven't personally trusted Jesus Christ as their savior, even if they ... a lifelong member of a church, you know, then they will be damned."

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WHERE'S GRANDPA? A SHORT PIECE OF SPECULATIVE FICTION

"Um. Where's Grandpa?"
"He was there a second ago. That's weird." Your sister walks over to the recliner.
"What's this?"
She's holding up a small silver disk. A short wire seems to be attached.
"Let me see."
The disk is imperfectly circular and warm to the touch. The word "Medtronic" is inscribed on one side.
"I think it's his pacemaker," your sister says, and giggles nervously.
Silence.

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But no, really, it's scary, isn't it? That these people are allowed to vote?

Yikes.