LAWD GIVE ME STRENGTH
I can only think that if you take all of the intolerable religious nuts from Europe, toss them out into a huge continent to kill Indians and mate with their cousins, and give them maybe a hundred and fifty years to turn a prairie into a shopping mall, you will come up with a culture that can marry cybertech and ancient ergot visions into something as totally insane as the Rapture Index.
http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

Fortunately some can mock.
http://www.insolitology.com/guides/rapture.htm

The secret word is Smite