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Disappointed Christians say God is delaying the Rapture until Epstein Files are released (www.dailystar.co.uk)
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[–] 43 points 1 year ago (9 children)

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results, then the people who anticipated this latest failed prediction are absolutely, frothing at the mouth, street corner screaming certifiable.

But then I think we all already knew that.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    In 2011 one of the skeptic magazines published a form saying something like, "I hereby bequeath all my worldly goods to the bearer of this note on [day after the world was supposed to end]." Obviously a joke, but I wonder how many doomsday-ers were confident enough to sign on the dotted line?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I doubt many because you never, ever, hear of any of these rapture folks giving away all their money and stuff. never. Oh it's going to happen...but just in case...

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Not quite the same, but when my wife was a kid, some of her hardcore fundie neighbors ran up MASSIVE loan and credit card debts on the lead-up to one of these rapture dates in the '90s. They thought that since they would soon be chilling with Jesus in Heaven they wouldn't have to face financial consequences. It financially ruined them and they lost everything.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Huh. Isn’t that the Sin of Greed then? Seems even if there had been a rapture they self-selected out.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I stopped trying to rationalize these people's 'reasoning' a long time ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I mean, I understand it. I think it’s stupid, but I understand it.

    They believe Good is something you are, not something you do. So anything they do is Good, because they’re Good. If a Bad Person does the same thing, say, running up debt; they did something Bad, because Bad People only do Bad things.

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