I am out of the loop. How did today become rapture day? I am having family members being silly about this. How did this even start?

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[–] 81 points 1 year ago (1 child)

A South African pastor had a dream and God told him the rapture was today. He posted and it went viral.

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

    Some one read a book somewhere, did some shitty maths without converting ye oldy calendars with modern calendars and decided today was the day it all ends.

    But it won't, every rapture day has been a lie.

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

    Apparently some ultra religious tik tok accounts are saying that they know when it’s going down regardless of the bible stating that no man will know the day or the hour.

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

    Well you see the Reasonablists book the park for today because the Ice Cream social was yesterday. So Zorp the Surveyor will come at dawn to eat our faces.

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  • People big dumb.

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

    It's not. They did the same thing about 5 months ago. I have a religious friend and that was all the talk. Then when it didn't happen, they claimed it wasn't the right time.

    Essentially, they have zero clue when it will be (because it doesn't exist) and they continue to make up excuses for why it hasn't happened. Religious people do some mental gymnastics that is hard for the non-religious person to understand.

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

    Fun fact: The bible says that only God knows when the world will end, so everyone that says they know when it ends is technically comitting sacrilege.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    They've been making apocalyptic predictions at least since John the Baptist. Eventually they'll get it right, they just might need a few hundred more guesses.

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

    It's not. It happened in 1988.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I thought it happened some December day in 2012?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Earth's timeline went terminal on July 5th, 1998.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    July 5th 1998

    This is the first I've ever heard about that. Let me think where was I on that date? I was an army soldier living in South Korea and we may have had a monsoon that summer where significant mudslides came down from the ouijongbu mountains then we spent a few days shoveling mud and there were rumors of previously-buried corpses that had slid down from the mountains but I never saw any. But that may have happened in April or May or june or August, I really don't remember.

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

    It did you just didn't get taken.

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    Theres been at least 5 rapture days since ive been alive. Cult members REALLY like the idea that they're super special moral beings with Gods favor. For some reason people get off on the idea everyone they don't like or isn't part of their tribe gets locked out of 'paradise' or better yet actively burns in hell forever. This vengenance fantasy extends to the idea of rapture where God personally singles them out as a favored one for heavenly ascension or whatever. I guess theres something appealing about this concept that really resonates with the kind of people who drink the coolaid, they just can't let go and take the L. So we see the same story every 10 years or so a cult leader predicts the end of the world all their followers give up life savings destroy their life then when the day passes they quietly sweep it under the rug pretend it never happened to save themselves embarrassment.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    There have been so many predictions on endtimes which is kinda funny since the whole specific biblical thing about that not happening. Still preachers will preach it like they are not contradicting their whole religion. I mean like propserity doctrine so...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Just self important virtue signaling from people who believe they're better than you.

    If you want to fuck with some folks leave a few full sets of clothing on the ground in places like whoever wore them disappeared.

    Also fun can be finding someone who believes today is the day and then laugh at them tomorrow about how it actually did happen but they didn't (no one did) make the cut.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Got me, I only heard about it yesterday

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Stupid cultists. This exact thing has happened for thousands of years. Some years back one of these rapture cults popped up and I mentioned to my coworker that the world was ending. His response: when's it happening this time? Comedy gold.

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  • Tiktok brain rot mixed with Christianity brain rot

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

    you'll find out at 2:00PM PST ;)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    My wife told me about this last night, just another doomsday cult pulling a date out of their ass... Not sure which one.

    Google says:

    Oh, fucking TikTok... naturally.

    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/23/why-are-tiktok-conservatives-predicting-the-rapture-this-week

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Because religious people are stupid and easily manipulated. Hence why they are religious to begin with.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Because these people think they know better than God Himself, thinking they can infer the date of the rapture from religious texts.

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  • Thanksgiving family dinner sure is going to be interesting.

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