• Wrench@lemmy.world
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    They like the idea of a catastrophic event out of their control, or caused by sinners. They don’t like to be the cause because of their own greed and indifference.

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      I mean there is plenty theocratic terrorists in the US, that support Israeli expansionism and want war with Iran because they hope it to cause the apocalypse.

      They are very much fine, with bringing on the end times, and how they didn’t get the memo, that according to their own scripture they’ll all rot in hell for it, is truly mind boggling.

      There were also some of the Trump worshippers acknowledging how unchristian he is, but that they should support him, because he could be the Antichrist, starting the apocalypse. So people claiming to be christian say it is a good thing to support the Antichrist…

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        They think they’ll be slurped up in the Rapture and everyone else will have to deal with the tribulation. Who the fuck knows, I mean, these are Republicans and Evangelicals and Baptists and their ideas are so contradicotry and vague that they really have no idea what the fuck they think. They’re all sinners, and are going to hell, and even though Jesus died to forgive their sins, they still can’t commit sins, but they acknowledged Jesus as savior, so they’re sure to be saved.

        My brother’s girlfriend found a really ridiculous pamphlet in the gutter in Albuquerque in 1998 or so about ‘what to do if you miss the rapture’. I guess like, in the bathroom? Maybe at work, sleeping? Surely you’re a great person and should have been part of it, but god missed you.

        First it had a bunch of hilarious info and diagrams of what the mark of the best would be - barcode on the forehead, rice-size microchip in your hand, and a credit card slot on the back of your hand, too. It said that the FIRST thing that would happen would be that minions of the Devil would be out to destroy all copies of the bible, so one must get as many bibles as possible and hide them from Satan. That part sounds like a pretty bad idea to me.

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      Plus while there are signs of the end-times, the actual end is supposed to be Magic Jesus riding back on a majestic sled, smiting evildoers, not just some sciencey crap about warm weather and melting ice and droughts.

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        It’s actually the antichrist that’s the real sign.

        And interestingly enough, there are (imo solid) arguments that Trump fits nearly all the descriptions of what the antichrist would look like.

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          He personifies all the 7 deadly sins and fits the persona of the Antichrist. My only note is he isn’t fully widely popular. I thought almost everyone was supposed to love and accept the Antichrist as their leader.