The [R]apture

I woke up this morning disappointed to find I had not been taken up in the Rapture during the night. I did remember snippets of a pretty rapturous dream, but I believe the Rapture, the real one, is supposed to be more conclusive.

Tell you the truth, though: I think one of my new grey socks may have been raptured on the 21st. I could only find one of them while getting dressed.

The question is: Is it possible my grey sock had been living a more virtuous Christian life than me? And why would just one of the socks be part of the Elect, the other one left behind?

(NB: The wing-nutty doctrine of the Rapture is based on a misinterpretation of a passage in one of Paul's letters. By no means all Christians believe in it. The strongest refutation of the Rapture I've yet read can be found in N.T. Wright's brilliant book
Suprised by Hope, especially pages 124-36.)