• Grool The Demon@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    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?

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      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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        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).)

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      20 days ago

      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.

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    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.

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      19 days ago

      Not hide. They want to return the developed world to literal medieval-style surfdom economics. It’s total egotistical delusion.