"Left Behind" Author: "The Rapture Could Be Today"

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

The rapture happened in 2012 just like the Mayans predicted.

Only Harambe was taken.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wouldn't it be funny if this thing had actually happened and nobody noticed because everybody's still here?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I felt a pain in my arm .... I think I almost made it :(

[–] Cranakis@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was the pain in the same arm you were masturbating with?

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

Maybe that's why I wasn't taken up?

[–] Sentrovasi@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It's already happened, and that's why everything seems to have gotten worse in the past few years.

[–] the_q@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I wish it would happen. All the Christians suddenly gone? Sign me up.

[+] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah, he's been religious since he was a kid. He even went to college at a Bible institute.

[+] MossyFeathers@pawb.social -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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[–] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People have been drawing correlations to end-times prophecy since it was written. The vagueness is its strength - humans have always been and will continue to be hateful and violent to each other. That's not a sign of its accuracy, it's just how humans are.

And that's not even touching on the nutjobs actively encouraging things like violence in the middle east in an extremely misguided attempt to match the prophecy. Again, nothing to do with biblical veracity - just humans being human.

[–] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Could be thinking of him. Rumors that atheists started trying to disprove something and turning into Christians are good for the church. It's a lie that has been repeatedly told about all kinds of people. It used to be a favorite tactic of certain denominations. Probably still is, but information is way easier to disprove now.

[–] modeler@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe L Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology?

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think I’ll be the only one here to say that I’m fine with him thinking this.

Because its his freedom to. However misguided and wrong it is. And suggesting he not think it, or is somehow less than for thinking it-is doing exactly to them what so many oft accuse them of doing to us.

[–] BA834024112@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because youre ignoring the fact that people in power make decisions based on fiction that affect all of us. That's the danger

[+] Pratai@lemmy.ca -7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And what power does this author hold exactly. I’d love to hear this.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Well, his series emboldened a new generation of end-times nutters like himself that, at best, ignore critical threats to humanity because it's "ending soon anyhow", and at worst actively campaign for disastrous and harmful policies in order to hasten the end of the world and their own entry into "paradise".

[+] Pratai@lemmy.ca -7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There’s little to no proof that even happens outside of baseless assumptions. At worst, he influences people to not think critically about the world around them.

News flash- there will ALWAYS be people that refuse to think critically about the world around them.

The problem here is that everyone in these atheist communities/subreddits get so used to being so smug about their own belief, they become unaware that over time- they become exactly what they hate in others:

Which is elitist arrogant blowhards that think their ideology is the ONLY correct one.

[–] spaceghoti@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The prevalence of Christian Nationalism and the religious comments of conservative politicians for why they oppose progressive legislation would suggest that boosting opinions like this is feeding a problem that's actively blowing up in our faces right now.

Sure, atheists aren't immune to group think and echo chambers, but arguing against the comment you replied to suggests you're not paying attention to what's happening around us.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No, it suggests that I don’t allow assumptions to dictate my thoughts on a subject. And nothing it the comment I responded to is empirically truthful in any way.

[–] spaceghoti@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bury your head in the sand if you choose. It won't save you when they come for all of us.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

ROFL!

[–] spaceghoti@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/19/mike-johnson-legal-filings-00127832

So while Johnson’s legal career reflects decades of arguing for free speech and free expression of religion, it has consistently been for the same religion — and not evidently in furtherance of an even-handed legal principle that would protect all religions equally (in addition to the right to reject religion altogether). Johnson’s theory, summed up, appears to be what might be dubbed, “the First Amendment for me but not for thee.” As he has described it in his own words, “the founders wanted to protect the church from the encroaching state, not the other way around.”

But only when that church is Christian.

I repeat: you are not paying attention.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca -2 points 2 years ago

lol…. K.

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