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[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

The rapture has been coming any day now for two thousand years. It’s funny too because the Bible states itself that nobody knows when the second coming will happen and yet these idiots still try to predict it

Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

[-] local_taxi_fix@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

After talking about end times and signs of end times the bible literally says

Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. (Matthew 24:34).

Christians need to read their own book.

[-] 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Some evangelical sects believe that one of the apostles was transported to heaven without dying, so they believe that that generation has technically not passed away.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Get around biblical contradictions with this one weird trick!

[-] ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[-] Minarble@aussie.zone 20 points 10 months ago

It’s already happened and nobody noticed.

A couple of hippies disappeared no one else was worthy.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Hey, at least there’s beer and weed here in hell-on-earth. It’s supposed to only be 7 years though, I guess the clock broke.

[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Every few years it's "the end of the world" 😂

[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

I rarely chime in on these sorts of things, but maybe the bible was talking about AGI. ahahaha. We have no idea if it is really coming and at what hour. Might already be here. The Bible never said the Son of Man would be a human and AGI is our offspring.

[-] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

AGI can't be worse at running things than a bunch of temperamental apes so let's go for it

[-] Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Right. I have been saying this all over the place when I see humans doing awful things. I am not worried about AGI or ASI as much as I am worried about humans destroying the planet one way or another. Just ask the rest of the animal kingdom who they rather have in change.

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[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 53 points 10 months ago

Of course they do. It's what they live for. All their focus is on the afterlife. Their actual life is just an annoyance that comes first.

[-] FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

Too bad their doctrine is to take everyone else with them, instead of being as courteous as the cults that self annihilate and leave the non-followers alone.

Seriously, their own book says man was charged with taking care of the world. By their own doctrine, God is the one that will end it, not man. But they're all either power hungry greed lords trying to take Gods destiny into their own hands or idiots who don't know what's in the book they thump so hard.

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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 34 points 10 months ago

Not new. US Evangelism is explicitly a doomsday cult, and Israel is key to their eschatology.

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

They are all kooky, dangerous people.

[-] anomoly_@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago

I've always liked how Sam Harris addressed this:

It is, therefore, not an exaggeration to say that if the city of New York were suddenly replaced by a ball of fire, some significant percentage of the American population would see a silver-lining in the subsequent mushroom cloud, as it would suggest to them that the best thing that is ever going to happen was about to happen: the return of Christ. It should be blindingly obvious that beliefs of this sort will do little to help us create a durable future for ourselves - socially, economically, environmentally, or geopolitically. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the US government actually believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this, purely on the basis of religion dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.

Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation

[-] S_204@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Sam Harris has been an interesting voice this past few weeks.

Seems to be one of the few willing to talk about Islamic jihadism and its incompatibility with liberal western democratic ideals.

[-] thisisawayoflife@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

It's not a secret conservatives are terrible people, whether they are Christian, Jewish or Muslim.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

No organised religion is. They ALL want to control their "flock" even more than they want them to follow laws.

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[-] frezik@midwest.social 30 points 10 months ago

When it doesn't happen, I'm sure they'll all realize their folly and drop religion. This is definitely how it will go down.

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[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 29 points 10 months ago

religion is actively dangerous to the entire world and shouldn't be tolerated or excused

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Evangelicals are living in their own hell on earth and want you to join them

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago

They did that in the 90's too. I remember the left behind series getting really popular because of it.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I heard a podcast making fun of those stupid movies. Were they actually popular? I'm too young to know.

[-] comador@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

I graduated in the early 90s and can say from my memory that while most people didn't pay attention to them, there was a massive amount of "End of the World" cults like Heavens Gate all the way to even mainstream Christianity saying the end was neigh. There was as much "eye rolling" then as there is today on the subject.

[-] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Pentecostals in the Deep South forced millions of kids to watch that garbage.

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[-] ultranaut@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Yes, the books at least were hugely popular and basically inescapable if you were around Christians in the US during the 1990's.

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 24 points 10 months ago

21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ 23 And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 7

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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

Christian love in action.

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I know this would happen when "abortion is murder" backfired. They will do anything to seem like good people except for doing good deeds...

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

This guy has made a lot of money for himself saying these things. Doesn't make sense to stop now.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Let them go there and participate on their favourite side. I don't care which, as long as they are gone.

[-] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't understand why people get mad at Palestinians. Especially on a left site like Lemmy. Oh religion is bad. But Palestines aren't a religious ethnogroup. They came about naturally. But the Jews need a safe place to live. Well, Palestinians need a safe place from the "Israelis". Why does that part never matter?

[-] Drusas@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

If only we could all be so lucky that it is the end of the world for evangelicals.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 10 months ago

How long before we get another group of these nuts going all Waco on us again?

[-] pandacoder@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

If "Jesus" returned he would smite them all for the last 2000 years of bloodshed.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

They'd call him Jew-boy and say he wasn't a true Christian.

[-] ofk12@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I'm well tempted to go over to America and pretend to be the second coming to brain wash all them nutters. Get them believing proper left wing ideals. I'd just do it for a laugh.

It would be easy.

[-] Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Do you want to be crucified? Cause that's how you get crucified.

[-] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

“If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today He’d be gunned down cold by the CIA”

Armageddon Days are Here(Again) - The The

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[-] zepheriths@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Naw bro, I have seen the text, it says 200 million soldiers. Gaza is barely 1% of that

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

AFAIK for their end of the world Israel needs to be destroyed or something? Not gonna happen with the limp dicks in power in the Arab world, that's for sure.

[-] Fisk400@feddit.nu 6 points 10 months ago

First Israel needs to properly form and when it's formed god will destroy it and kill all the Jews inside its borders. That will kick off the end of the world and all the evangelists will go directly heaven while the rest of the world suffers as the seas boil or something.

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