This has actually frightened me for years. There are fucking weirdo’s out there that believe so much in the Bible that I think they are actively trying to make the end times prophecy happen rather than just, you know… Evolve?
It’s the whole reason the racist Right “supports” Israel. It’s not that they believe Jews should be treated equally, but that they need them to bring about their armageddon.
It’s reciprocal from the Jewish religious nutters.
My personal pet theory is that these weirdo’s are just afraid of dying. Christianity is fundamentally a death cult. Die now and get rewarded in heaven. But these extreme evangelicals found a loophole: the rapture. During the end times god saves all the true believers. Boom, a one way ticket to heaven without having to die. So these lunatics are actively trying to make the end times happen so they don’t miss out and they don’t have to die.
If I was on the writing team of the next SMT game and made villains like that, I’d be called “an atheistic edgelord”, who wrote a cartoonishly evil cult to satisfy my thirst for hatred of religion.
(Not that I’m not an atheistic edgelord with a hatred of organized religion, just that atheism got a bad reputation, due to many taking the “cartoonishly evil” cult’s side in the culture wars, because they didn’t blew up cars (at that time - see the cybertruck bomber).)
I honestly find it baffling. If you believe in heaven, why would you fear death? Not saying you’re wrong, I just cannot comprehend that mindset.
I mean fearing death is human instinct and not really something based in logic.
It makes sense if they think they’re going to hell, but that would require having a level of self-awareness I don’t believe anyone trying to actively cause the end of times can possess.
That makes even less sense. If you don’t think you qualify to get into heaven, why would you desire to speed up the rapture? You’d just get left behind anyway.
Oh, I assumed that the rapture would work in a different way than regular death for some reason so maybe true believers could still go to heaven even if they’re sinners. If it’s all the same then yeah, I have no idea what their logic is either.
rapture is a evangelical creation, im not surprised. many SHOWS have co-opted this when it includes christian themes.
Just for comedic value I’d like for God to actually exist. I imagine He wouldn’t appreciate their attempts at manipulation.
Sometimes this kind of people sounds like they believe in the Bible and prophecies as impersonal laws of nature, and not in an intelligent creator of any sort.
It’s not the only thing they have in common.
They are also gonna be the cause of it.
they want to hide in thier little bunkers fortresses. basically some doomsday movies, and shows. the short lived show, 4400 is basically the result of this(they hide in thier gated, pristine cities while everything outside is a madmax environement.
The only thing I can respond with is:
wut
It’s some new mental illness? Is it just sociopathy?
Is it fried ketamine brain?
All these weirdo billionaires building bunkers
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Okay, but consider that the ultra-rich technofascists are a group that has had a disproportionate impact on the continued pillaging of the climate. They aren’t just opportunists wanting to make the most of the fragments of society that will remain after climate disaster, but people who have been working to bring that scenario into fruition because it’s profitable in the short term whilst positioning them to take even more power.
I cannot emphasise enough that they want this, and that this ideology goes further back than the current wave of them. The reality of climate change is unfathomably dire, but I hope you understand why it’s necessary to resist these people as part of whatever climate resilience we can build. I’ll probably be dead before shit really hits the fan, climate-wise, so my goal is to do whatever I can to support the people who come after me. If those techno-assholes are allowed to inherit the fragments of society, the entire planet is even more fucked
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