A few weeks ago a someone asked me if I believed in the Rapture. I didn’t know exactly what she meant so that is today’s word.

Rapture- A noun. Refering to a state of euphoria or overwhelming emotion. A mystical experience that imparts divine knowledge.

In the Christian faith, the meaning I suspect my interrogator was interested in, the rapture is when god brings the faithful up to heaven and then smites the non-believers who are left behind. It is an very popular word and concept with the hard core fundamentalists who believe god picks and chooses the good and the bad. Oddly, the word rapture does not appear in the Bible.

Rapture was also a number one hit by Blondie in 1980. The first #1 rap song.