Cthulhu, the Devourer of Souls, not keeping your soul from reaching heaven? Not likely.

Let's worry about those obstacles when we get there, eh?

Not if Cthulhu gets us first!

Bah, that's sooo February.

Well, you could build yourself a little playhouse below that thing.

... "if such a thing will ever happen", you failed to mention.

Thanks for hint, will google that guy and his work.

Well, the audiences I was referring to expect to have raptured before all the fun begins.

Here's one: http://pewresearch.org/databank/dailynumber/?NumberID=774

As was mine. Actually it's 79% of U.S. Christians who believe in the Second Coming, but 'only' 20% who believe it to happen during their lifetime.

50% of the U.S. population expect the Second Coming of their messiah to happen during their lifetime, with a gratuitous topping of Rapture, Armageddon, Apocalypse and whatnot. In that light, I always found the fascination, that post-apocalyptic scenarios seem to hold for U.S. audiences a tad bit scary. No doubt many…

One of the greediest, no doubt.

Not everyone is driven exclusively by greed, maybe you are projecting.

Yeah, and let us consume resources from all over the planet, makes totally sense.

Because MIT graduates are pure evil, correct?

Yeah, let them die of thirst.

Almost no discriminatory undertone in your comment, whatsoever.

Never heard about that phenomenon, so I read it with interest. Guess some people are just not interested in what there is.

I think it looks awesome in its brutish, gothamy way.

I had this discussion many times, you sure can downplay the supernatural claims that clearly are part of buddhism, but at one point it will no longer count as a religion or spirituality, but merely a philosophy or lifestyle - and as such outside the scope of this discussion.