Rapture imagery has been secularly reworked as alien evacuation

Evidence

UFO conspiracists have also co-opted the Rapture. Those who are worthy will be lifted off the earth, not by Christ but by alien spaceships. According to Timothy Green Beckley, the Tribulation and the Rapture are nothing less than predictions of the calamities that will soon befall the earth and of the arrival of aliens to effect what he and others refer to as “the Evacuation.” — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy, 1045

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: how salvific escape imagery migrates between religious and secular-science fiction registers.
• XREF: connects to: Dispensational premillennialism built a detailed end-times timeline around the Rapture — Michael Barkun, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic…, 248; Modern technology links mind-control fear to the Antichrist’s Mark of the Beast; The numinous can be decoupled from religion and experienced as alien tranquillity — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life: Writings on…, 359 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The numinous can be decoupled from religion and experienced as alien tranquillity #corroborates (0.82) — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 359
• Death awareness temporarily increases belief in even alien gods #exemplifies (0.78)