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I hope the rapture comes and takes all the good people to heaven so us evil doers can live out or lives not knowing the grace of God!
If that happens imma stay up late and eat cookies
The political craziness is a direct symptom of knowing country/planet is unsustainable. Full desperation to believe anyone that tells you pillaging the world for oligarchy is bestest future somehow.
No we're definitely all gonna die real soon
If we're walking into oblivion it's because the christofascists are leading us there. It will be their self fulfilling prophecy.
There is nothing in the IPCC reports that even come close to civilization-ending predictions from climate change.
Climate change alone might not be enough to do it, but do you honestly think we'll get through all the strife it will cause without significant nuclear weapons use?
Climate will drive crop failures, which will cause widespread food insecurity in nations with nukes. Do you really think that we're going to watch nations with nukes endure mass starvation when they could attack another nation and take it's resources?
First IPCC is a political process with high input from climate terrorists.
You are right that the requirement for ending civilization requires over 95% population decline. Civilization existed in bronze age. Global warming is unlikely to be a near extinction event, as technology to survive, especially for a small population, should keep up.
What should be clear though is mass loss of prosperity and life is a cycle to lose more prosperity.
There’s a conspiracy talk in local mid-eastern/muslim bubbles that Evangelicals seizing every opportunity to team up with Zionists to bring the Rapture as soon as possible.
The talk’s been around since Ottoman times so it’s easy to dismiss, but given between apathy to Israel state’s genocide and Trump’s fast start to his secondary term gives me chills no lie.
Just sayin. These fools are walking right into it.
Btw, what made you think we weren't living in the end times?
Edit: Ok i might have to do some explaining.
The way i understand it, we're living in exactly the time period (1800 - 2050?) where people basically figure out all about technology. That puts us in the very special position that we can choose what the future looks like. Such a situation has never been there before. In some sense, god lives on the inside; it's us who will permanently transform the world into its final state. That is the "second coming" and "end times".
Don't confuse coincidence for causation. For hundreds of years, people have been harping about the " end times." No 'splaining needed friend.
More likely hundreds of thousands of years, as long as humans have existed and been able to communicate that to each other.
Self fulfilling prophecy. It's a doomsday cult and they're trying to bring the end times instead of waiting
When they said we're living in the end times it wasn't a prediction it was a threat
If you have the time, I highly recommend the book “American Apocalypse” by Matthew Avery Sutton. Really digs into the history of this whole thing and helps you realize just HOW MUCH of this shit is truly self fulfilling prophecy. I’m currently working up the courage to gift it to my highly evangelical family and forcing them to read it.
If they were right it's because of their ideology. They are the ones denying climate change and the ones supporting Trump. They aren't prophets, they are the problem.
I highly recommend the song Apocalypticism by Moon Walker
Apocalypticism - a doctrine concerning an imminent end of the world and an ensuing general resurrection and final judgment
If you predict it's the end times every day for a thousand years, eventually you'll get it right.
Personally, if I die only to find out that the Tyrant is real, I'll gladly walk into hell before I kneel my way into heaven. Fuck their narcissistic, cruel, inhuman monster of a god.
I would expect in that case "hell" is just a lie anyway, like an abuser telling you you can't live without them. It's classic controlling behaviour.
Realising that helped me walk away from the whole thing: Why are we told hell exists if it isn't real? Control.
Yes it's a death cult and we're locked in the basement.
Self fulfilling prophecy
“The imaginary is what tends to become real.”
Exactly what I came here to say.
I love the word christofascist. I‘ll try to use it more from now on.