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[+] 74 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)
  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    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…”

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

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "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

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    This is probably in my top 3 favorite Bo songs , especially the latter bit:

    You argue and you bicker and you fight
    Atheists and Catholics, Jews and Hindus argue day and night
    Over what they think is true
    But no one entertains the thought that maybe God does not believe in you

    You pray so badly for heaven
    Knowing any day might be the day that you die
    But maybe life on earth could be heaven
    Doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?

    My love's the type of thing that you have to earn
    And when you earn it you won't need it

    I'm not gonna give you love just 'cause I know that you want me to
    If you want love then the love's gotta come from you

    Full Song

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

    Um, I was told all the Christians would be gone. I'm rooting for the rapture as hard as they are these days.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    We would know. My dogs are still here.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Even biblically speaking rapture isn't real, at least rapture american protestants or specifically evangelicals think.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Reminds me of this lyric

    The day the rapture came, a forgettable event The clouds, they opened up and not a single person went To the chromatic whistle of a carousel calliope Stomp the citizens of our clown idiot dingbat society

    https://genius.com/Propagandhi-victory-lap-lyrics

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well, Charlie Kirk got ruptured early.

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

    Isn't there supposed to be like total destruction, war, famine and so on? Anyway, the world certainly has some of that, but the chaos hasn't reached every place. It's always tied to a particular place and time. It's not happening everywhere.

    Anyway, that's just my vague Hollywood style interpretation of what it might be. I don't even know what Christians say about the Rupture.

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

    total destruction

    Climate change

    war

    point literally everywhere

    famine

    Gaza

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The Leftovers is just a "rapture" isn't it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I literally said this yesterday. Please stop eavesdropping

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They would not recognize Jesus anyway, expecting a white man wearing a toga and a cross, and carrying an American flag and an AR15.

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    Maybe a pature happened, but it was Rush Limbaugh getting raptured down to an even lower depth of hell.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I posted the same thing on mastodon yesterday.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    If the rapture was exactly as described by Revelations: You would definitely still fucking know, regardless of whether or not you got sent to Heaven. There's a lot more to it than just people flying into the sky.

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