Comment on The Rapture could have happened, but nobody would know because everyone got left behind

KingArnulf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ohellidk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We do a little trolling…

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• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love it “oh I’m sorry you didn’t get picked, was it because you were thinking about what the gays really do in the bedroom?”

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• spittingimage@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  religious zealots will start to think they weren’t good enough

  Self-doubt requires a capacity for self-reflection, though. None of the zealots I know have it, even to a small degree.

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• Aeao@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just start casually mentioning how there’s a lot less black people around lately.

  “My lawn service hasn’t been answering lately and my wife can’t get her hair done. It’s strange…”

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• shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The problem is that a lot of those people base their entire moral framework around their religion, so if they think they were abandoned by their god, they might go apeshit and lose any actual morals they had left.

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  • Spacehooks@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wanna bet its actually “god left me behind because I still have work to do here” or some bs?

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  • KingArnulf@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe, but most of them crime and sin their way through every day because they think that if they confess their sins every week then God will forgive them and they’ll get their golden ticket to the pearly gates anyway. I doubt much would change.

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• markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Here’s the thing, 99% of Christians didn’t believe this. Any time you see a news article about a bunch of people thinking the world will end on a specific date, that is a very small minority of people because not only do all the big denominations (Catholic, Orthodox, Methodist, Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, etc.) teach against making predictions about the specific date and following people who make these predictions, the Bible itself quotes Jesus as teaching against this (and, interestingly, saying that even HE doesn’t know when the day is)- Matthew 24:36

  But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

  Of course this hasn’t stopped people from trying to figure it out, but traditionally religious authorities have spoken out against it. The largest instance of people believing in the Rapture happening on a specific date was a specific religious sect called the Millerites whose leader said the world would end on October 22, 1844. This group was still a small minority, but they were big enough that you have probably still heard of them today - they became the 7th Day Adventists.

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