The Rapture Revisited

For those of you who have time on your hands, a Bay Area journalist is posting weekly chapters of his novel at http://www.micklasalle.com/. Here's the premise:

Imagine if everything the Religious Right believes about the End Times is true, except the Rapture doesn't take them and the antichrist turns out to be their favorite politician . . . That's the story of The Event, which will be serialized on this space, one Episode per week, over the next few months.

Folks like Jimmy Carter, the Dalai Lama and Spike Lee get taken up, but all our favorite religious fascists are "left behind" to do even more damage to humanity and the planet.