Rapture: Rednecks Ghost Dance ?

The Native American Ghost Dance

Believers in the Ghost Dance spirituality were and are convinced that performing the Ghost Dance would eventually reunite them with their ancestors coming by railway from the spirit world. In effect, the ancesor spirits including the Spirit of Jesus are called upon to heal the sick and to help protect Mother Earth.

Meanwhile, the world would return to a primordial state of natural beauty, opening up to swallow up all other people (those who do not have a strong spirituality based upon the earth, while the performers of the Ghost Dance theoretically will floated in safety above with their ancestors, family, and peoples of the world who follow the extensive spirituality (1)

Terribly Unhappy people ?

A Lakota Sioux described the Ghost Dance: 'They danced without rest, on and on...Occasionally someone thoroughly exhausted and dizzy fell unconscious into the center and lay there.. there was no sorrow but only joy, where relatives thronged out with happy laughter...The people went on and on and could not stop, day or night, hoping...to get a vision of their own dead...And so I suppose the authorities did think they were crazy - but they were not. They were only terribly unhappy (2)

Feeling dominated ?

The belief in the coming of a messiah, or deliverer, who shall restore his people to a condition of primitive simplicity and happiness, is probably as universal as the human race, and takes on special emphasis among peoples that have been long subjected to.. domination (3)

Daily Kos :: Bill Moyers sums it up