The Rapture: If LaHaye Reads The Scriptures Wrong, You're Screwed

My mom related a conversation she had had once with a cousin of hers, who had a church softball game the next day.
"What are you going to do if it's rained out?" my mom asked.
"I'm just believing that it's not going to be!" she answered determinedly.
"Oh, boy!" I responded, when told that story. "That's her contingency plan? She would so much fun at the end of the world!"
"I'm just believing it's not going to happen!" my mom mimicked.
So many Christians do this all the time, thinking that their faith is going to thwart an all-powerful God's plan. It's almost like witchcraft, trying to use God to influence things in your favor, without even asking her. And if they do this for the little things, why wouldn't they do this for the big things?
The thing is, with the End Times, some people believe that the Rapture will happen in the middle of the seven-year tribulation, and some people (like myself, IF there is an End Times, which is a whole other issue) believe that there is no Rapture, that scripture doesn't talk that clearly about a Rapture (after all, Jesus mentions dead bodies and vultures and stuff too).
So, if Tim LaHaye of the Left Behind series, or your other favorite prophecy person, is wrong, and you've made no contingency plans for a late Rapture or no Rapture, then you're screwed. You're also screwed, if one of their complicated "taking the bible literally" charts has a misprint. (Like the Mark Twain quote, that if you read self-help books you could die from a misprint.)
But, I guess you can simply "believe" that the End Times won't happen to you. I'm sure that will keep God's inevitable End Times plans, that he has literally had worked out since before the beginning of time...at bay. :)
And heck, if LaHaye, or whoever else you like, can't possibly be wrong, then why not just cut out the middleman? Just call LaHaye God and worship him. After all, you have to be perfect, in order to never be wrong, and most Christians believe that only God can be perfect.
But that's just my smarmy rant. Take it for what you will. :)