Here's where I'm coming from on this: I was a Hal Lindsey-tard for a long time, watching for the sky to start falling any day, mentally prepping myself for some inconceivable nightmare world to unfold, and convinced that the Rapture would wisk us Christers away to safety because somehow we deserved better.

But it turns out that the story of some slick, charismatic Anti-Christ presiding over a worldwide nazi dictatorship via barcodes and computer chips is not the Gospel, and questioning its validity is not blasphemy.