I have no control over the End TimesYou're hoping for that little slice of heaven. eh?Christians have little control over the major events and cultural changes that are propelling us toward the End TimesI thought I would address the greater danger I see with “endtimes” predictions. That being, there may be a certain “rush to the exits”, so to speak whereby practitioners will create the conditions within which the endtimes become a self fulfilling prophesy.Do you believe the chinese who say they dont know nothin’ bout nuthin’ when it comes to the wuflu?View attachment 503327
Why people believe that religious faith will save them from disease
From the Black Death to COVID-19, there have always been those who think good Christian practice will save them from death.theconversation.com
From the Black Death and AIDS to COVID-19, whenever societies have suffered outbreaks of disease, there have always been those who are quick to seek both religious explanations and solutions. A recent poll of religious Americans found that around two-thirds believe that COVID-19 has been sent by God, as a warning to mankind.
Those gods. They're such kidders.
If it did come from a china bio warfare research lab then humans are fulfilling Bible prophesy about the End Times
God didnt have to do a thing
Therein lays the danger. The self-fulfilling prophecy does not allow for options. From the fundamentalist Christian perspective, humans are inherently greedy, evil, base, etc. That is a self-fulfilling component of the ideology, although, given that fact that we continue to survive, (in spite of the religions proscriptions), it is not empirically true. So the question becomes: because it is not true -- what purpose does a religious endtimes serve? Is it superfluous and damaging? Yes, of course it is. Assuming such beliefs are furthered due to the influence of religion, is such thinking worth the price is extracts on humankind
Too bad christians are helpless and ineffective. You're going to flail your Pom Poms for the endtimes and be slaughtered for the ascendancy of different gods?
Its an unstoppable force being propelled by godless libs rather than Christians
That's the problem with the Endtimers. They want to see people die in horrible ways to satiate some really twisted view of their gods returning to punish humanity, punishment for fruit theft for example. . I’d prefer that people operate under the precepts of reason and rationality as opposed to religious fanatics who have a death wish geared toward heralding in the endtimes.
Unfortunately, sociopaths posing as religious Endtimers have a long history of making predictions about the Endtimes in one firm or another. They prey upon the fears and ignorance of those they can manipulate with disasterous consequences for the fearful and the gullible.