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[–] 16 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why is it that for the last two thousand years every single radical religious group has believed that the apocalypse is imminent? It's as if they were actually bad people and only the fear of imminent punishment keeps them civilized.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago

    Idk. My parents sent me to Sunday school. It was very sedate and unobjectionable content. No fear. No hellfire. Mostly, try to be good and when you fail at it ask for forgiveness.

    Rural, pre-internet times, I had friends going to Wednesday night AWANAS at the Baptist church instead. I went along one night. Preacher showed up for a short sermon essentially promising all of us kids hellfire and damnation, forgiveness not possible.

    Depending on what you were hit with as a kid, the latter could have you internalizing that thought process.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 days ago

    I think expecting the imminent apocalypse isn't strictly religion related. Environmentalists expect an apocalypse. Nuclear disarmament people expect apocalypse. LLM haters expect apocalypse. LLM lovers predict apocalypse...

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