• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    14 hours ago

    Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It’s a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.

    • other_cat@piefed.zip
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      3 hours ago

      These people think they’re in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.

    • chris@l.roofo.cc
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      5 hours ago

      Because they think they will go to heaven. If I read the Bible I’d say they wouldn’t.