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Originally Posted by synic213
I equate this to a Christian asking a non-believer "What will you do when the son of God returns and carries all the believers back to heaven with him, leaving the rest of you to pick up the scraps and eventually die a misserable, eternal death? Will this event change your thoughts about evolution and/or ET?"
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I'd start fighting the war against a force so evil, they would condemn to eternal pain, torment and damnation a being who didn't unconditionally worship them. Sure, the Bible says the other side loses -- but it also says there is a fight, and I'd go down fighting in such a just cause. Plus, if it turns out the Bible is the Word of God, it means that the prediction of future victory might just be propoganda -- a faint hope, against a power capable of making a world, but a hope.
Now, there could be mitigating circumstances, so the particular situation would be something I'd examine -- possibly that God dude isn't as evil as the situation seems. But, I don't bow down before bullies, just because they have a big stick.
The above is said in jest (with thanks to RAH's Job: a comedy of justice, which is the second funniest story I've ever read about Armageddon (the funniest being 'Good Omens', by Pratchett and Gaiman)) -- there are many human interpritations of the Diety described in the Bible, the one that condemns the non-believers and the unshriven to eternal damnation at the moment of a literal rapture is a Diety I'd fight against, not for. A less jest-filled answer would be that, if there is a world-wide event (like a 'rapture') which convinces most people that someone is Jesus returned, that is the best sign you'll ever get that the 'messiah' is in fact the Opposition, or the anti-christ, who must be opposed at all costs. People are supposed to be decieved en-mass that the anti-christ is indeed the messiah returned.
Bah, I shouldn't talk about religion in public forums.