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People so often have thought the rapture was coming and ... it doesn't. How often can people be fooled? Why are they so gullible ... oh yeah, religion.
To be entirely fair, we are like 2 cubic meters of carbon dioxide away from total ecological collapse. Made-made climate change is now beyond any threshold where we previously had reasonable expectations of being able to prevent it. The oceans will rise, climate catastrophes will increase, and the world will become more hostile.
It kind of feels like were frogs in a boiling pot, and we're living though the apocalypse now. But the wifi still works, so scroll on and don't think about it too much.
Yeah I mean things are definitely going to shit but these people whole heartedly believe that they’re going to float into the sky naked and have to make sure there’s a Democrat assigned to take care of their pets after they’re gone
Yep, and their belief is a danger to literally everyone who does or will ever live on Earth.
Something we could have led the world in averting like we did with ozone-depleting chemicals, if it wasn't for all the christians who believed there is no such thing as a future, that everything is just some kind of prophecy unfolding and nothing is even "real" and just a big test of some kind of from God.
The Christian mandate for pillaging the earth of all its resources because Genesis can be translated that we have dominance over all other life as well as the death-cult attitudes of the modern followers have directly led to some of our worst outcomes and if anyone survives the next millennium, the religious people of today will be seen as the world's most horrendous mass-murderers.
So that makes you think you'll go to heaven in a couple of days?
Not at all. And in fact, I wish more people weren't expecting a cool prize at the end of all the death and destruction.
it makes them feel special/superior.
people are addicted to those feelings
Also generations.
Old folk like me have lived through several end of the world predictions ..... I really don't care any more.
But new young generations haven't so they are more likely to believe them ... like I did the first few times it happened.
(and if you're wondering when I first believed those predictions, they were mostly before my tenth birthday when several predictions said either Jesus was coming back or nuclear war was about to happen ... all things I believed because adults said so)
..... a funny thought experiment is to think that the world did end 20, 30 or 40 years ago and this is all the afterlife .... we just don't know it.
You sure about that? We've had innocent people disappeared off the streets in droves, sent to the land of "The Savior" (El Salvador).
Are we sure that the Rapture isn't happening right now, and none of us are in it?
Guess it would make sense for the christian god to continue on his bullshit and send even more people to eternal torment.