• Maestro@fedia.io
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    3 days ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.

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              rapture is a evangelical creation, im not surprised. many SHOWS have co-opted this when it includes christian themes.

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      alot of them are spending a ton on “longevity” regimes, which has not shown scientific,peer reviewed sources to work or have any appearance as groundbreaking. its mostly homeopathy, nauropathy and psuedoscience. one rich dude named bryan thompson took it to the extreme, he claims to be doing science but hes self-testing, he actually looks worst for his age. found out him indirectly through a guest youtuber on a right wing poc channel once, apparently the guy DUmped her when she got stage 3 Breast cancer(if you read between the lines it makes him look bad, and reminds him of his mortality), she did try to sue him once.

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      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).)