am4g - meet ‘gunner. He is the FR resident expert on the “rapture” and other apocalyptic visions like you are posting ...
Some friendly advice for you, am4g. The names people choose are very often the exact opposite of what is true, sort of like Obamacare being called “The Affordable Care Act” and Eric Holder heading up the “Justice Department”. It’s a well-known tactic of leftists to pose as something that they’re not. And Free Republic is swarming with paid and voluntary trolls who are pretending to be something that they’re not. Very often you can tell them because their behavior is totally the opposite of the moniker they’ve chosen.
There are those here at Free Republic who resist anybody who has something to say other than what the compromised leftist media offers up. They will accuse you of “blog pimping” if you cite somebody besides the compromised leftist media sources and generally try to make a stink that keeps people from sticking around to discuss the meat of important issues on those threads. If they attack your thread, feel honored.
They are the reason for a lot of really good people leaving this site and Freepathons taking so long to complete, but there are still thoughtful people here. More people will see and consider what you’ve posted than will venture a response in infested threads so don’t be discouraged.
It is always best, if possible, to post the entire content from a blog post here - as you did - because Freepers are not known for always clicking on links to outside sites. You might have to click something when you post a thread, to indicate that what you’ve posted is NOT an excerpt so the “This is an excerpt...” statement doesn’t automatically post and send people to a blog - though I was glad I went to this blog because I saw a thought-provoking and well-reasoned post as a result, which introduced me to the thought processes and motivations behind the posts there.
The content you post here will bring more clicks on FR than you will get on any blog from posting at FR but there are those who will act as if your offering your content for free here is actually somehow a disservice to FR. Most people appreciate well-reasoned content and try to ignore the stink created by these others. The saying is “Don’t feed the trolls”, so a lot of people who would like to defend you won’t, just so the trolls will (hopefully) go away. If a poster doesn’t understand that, they could get discouraged. Especially if you stay around to engage in the discussion, you will find the good people of FR and not just the trolls.