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The Rapture Meme

A meme is a unit of cultural information that exist in the mind and is successfully copied to other minds. Our memes combine to create our realities. We are made of genes and memes. To use a computer analogy, genes are like hardware and memes are like software. A meme that was created in the 1800s CE and changed the realities of millions of Christians is the "Rapture Meme."


An allusion to the Rapture first appeared in a book written in 1788 by a Catholic priest named Emmanuel Lacunza and published in Spain in 1812.  John Darby, a Brethren preacher, taught the Rapture doctrine in 1827.  The evangelist, William Blackstone popularized Rapture doctrine in his best seller, "Jesus is Coming."  The Rapture doctrine entered mainstream Christianity with its inclusion in the Scofield Reference Bible.  There is no real history of the Rapture meme until the 1800's.[i] 

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