re: #180 Dr Lizardo

The very idea of the rapture isn’t found in historical Christianity; it’s a relatively recent doctrine of American Evangelical Protestantism and their sectarian premillennial dispensationalist eschatology. But they’re extraordinarily good at popularizing their ideas and spreading them throughout popular culture.

On the subject of The Omen versus The Exorcist, by any metric, The Exorcist is a far better film (I’d say it’s the gold standard of the supernatural horror genre). But whereas most people would tell you that the Antichrist is the son of Satan (thanks to The Omen) how many people can name the demon that possessed Regan MacNeil off the top of their heads?

And the answer to the latter question is not “the devil”.

I can! My wife’s sister in law called her Isuzu by that name.