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We do a little trolling…
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.
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…”
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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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.
“You’re not going to heaven Why the fuck would you think I’d ever kick it with you? None of you are going to heaven There’s a trillion aliens cooler than you”
“From God’s Perspective” - Bo Burnham
All good people were raptured but their bodies are kept operating so us left on earth will never know.
Tell this to your local asshole evangelists. Let them deduct themselves that they are abandoned by god because they are shite.
The Rapture turns you into a philosophical zombie is a new take I haven’t heard before
We would know. My dogs are still here.
Exactly. It’s not “all dogs go to heaven”, it’s “only dogs go to heaven.”
If it happened, but nothing happened, did it really happen?
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I bet all babies and toddlers would disappear.
But yeah, beyond that, I doubt there’s an adult out there who doesn’t break several of the 7 deadly sins many times a week: in present day society Greed and Envy are probably broken pretty much all the time, Wrath is probably a very common one for “conservatives” to break, and then there’s Lust which is naturally common, Glutony which is certainly widespread given the overweight “epidemics” in most countries and Sloth is likely very common in car-centric societies - I mean, somebody taking their car to go 500m to a store to buy a pack of beers and some chips is probably guilty of both Glutony and Sloth.
That said, all the babies and toddlers and only them suddenly disappearing all at once would give it away.
Some sects of Christianity believe that children inherit the sins of their parents, so even in the womb they don’t qualify!
There are a few new missing persons reports on (what were) the last twelve remaining good people on the planet. The rest of us are down here jacking off in the bathroom with the fan on because parenthood has made it increasingly difficult (and way too risky) to do it in front of a computer.
Uhhh, this would actually explain a lot right now…
But I think magic jesus definitely would’ve raptured up all the innocent kids and such.
So it’d be like what we’re seeing now with trump in charge, just with all the decent people gone.
But then again I don’t actually know how it would work, due to the simple fact that fairy tales aren’t real.
Or Jesus could return, see what is happening, and think “fuck it, let’s kill them all.”
Pretty sure heat death of the Sun will get us before Rapture happens. Then again they might think that’s Rapture event if humans still exist by that time.
They would not recognize Jesus anyway, expecting a white man wearing a toga and a cross, and carrying an American flag and an AR15.
I posted the same thing on mastodon yesterday.
The Leftovers is just a “rapture” isn’t it
