Many, yes. I'm 100% sure my family voted for the douchebag as a total accelerationist move so they can finally break into their 5 gallon buckets of dehydrated eggs and mashed potato flakes before they get Raptured.
The end times are when Jesus comes back, when the sinners are cast into the lake of fire, and when the quick and the dead are judged and finally get to go to heaven. It's also inevitable, and will happen whenever God wants without any human input. I'm pretty sure that suggesting that anything humans do can either hasten or prevent the antichrist is heresy. It will come when it will come.
Oh no, for American Evangelicals, hasten is 100% a game plan. My mom was talking up a conspiracy theory genetic breeding program in the 90s to get someone to perfect an all red hefier so if could be the sacrifice for when the new Temple in Jerusalem is opened to then tick all the boxes from Revelation.
Never you fucking mind that Fresh JC gets to pick the date and time. Oh no. They just paved the way for whenever JC feels like. So just like, take your time, but hurry up. Because of the crushing credit card debt and bad financial decisions and bad health because JC might come back any day, so why bother to save for next week, right?
The American Apocalyptic mentality is formed around fixing their own shitpile lives because they never felt they had the agency to do it themselves.
Well sure, heretical sects have blossomed in the US and they just kind of make up whatever bullshit they want.
That still leaves Thiel as the odd one out, though. I don't think there are any Christian sects that want to actually prevent or delay Judgement. He's doing his own unique heresy that's totally out-of-step with basically the rest of Christianity.
He's not out of step with the ones most prone to being grifted ;)
Which are the ones that vote in primaries and call their Congresspeople 9 times a day. They'll flame him for being gay, but they accepted Trump who profits selling them bibles with his name on them, which is pure, uncut Colombian heresy.
That's the most ironic part. They all think that they'll be so smart that they see it and can spot the Antichrist. But the AC will gain power by being a charlatan that hoodwinks normal Christians like them. They're actually playing into their own enemy by being stupid.
Yeah, we get it: Things that don't make you even richer = antichrist. Problem is we don't give a shit about made up demons but real world problems of which you are one.
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queermunist@lemmy.ml · 26 pts · 315d
But... Don't Christians want Armageddon?
hansolo@lemmy.today · 12 pts · 315d
Many, yes. I'm 100% sure my family voted for the douchebag as a total accelerationist move so they can finally break into their 5 gallon buckets of dehydrated eggs and mashed potato flakes before they get Raptured.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 315d
No, like, literally all of them.
The end times are when Jesus comes back, when the sinners are cast into the lake of fire, and when the quick and the dead are judged and finally get to go to heaven. It's also inevitable, and will happen whenever God wants without any human input. I'm pretty sure that suggesting that anything humans do can either hasten or prevent the antichrist is heresy. It will come when it will come.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 315d
Oh no, for American Evangelicals, hasten is 100% a game plan. My mom was talking up a conspiracy theory genetic breeding program in the 90s to get someone to perfect an all red hefier so if could be the sacrifice for when the new Temple in Jerusalem is opened to then tick all the boxes from Revelation.
Never you fucking mind that Fresh JC gets to pick the date and time. Oh no. They just paved the way for whenever JC feels like. So just like, take your time, but hurry up. Because of the crushing credit card debt and bad financial decisions and bad health because JC might come back any day, so why bother to save for next week, right?
The American Apocalyptic mentality is formed around fixing their own shitpile lives because they never felt they had the agency to do it themselves.
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 315d
25 years ago, my aunt said we don't have to recycle or care for the planet "because Jesus is coming back soon."
It was at that point I realized that people who don't believe the world will still exist in 10 years probably shouldn't be allowed to vote.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 315d
Cubs fans have more visible results of "maybe next year" than your auntie.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 315d
Well sure, heretical sects have blossomed in the US and they just kind of make up whatever bullshit they want.
That still leaves Thiel as the odd one out, though. I don't think there are any Christian sects that want to actually prevent or delay Judgement. He's doing his own unique heresy that's totally out-of-step with basically the rest of Christianity.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 315d
He's not out of step with the ones most prone to being grifted ;)
Which are the ones that vote in primaries and call their Congresspeople 9 times a day. They'll flame him for being gay, but they accepted Trump who profits selling them bibles with his name on them, which is pure, uncut Colombian heresy.
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 315d
But you said it yourself, the Evangelicals want the antichrist to come.
So. Who is he appealing to?
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 315d
That's the most ironic part. They all think that they'll be so smart that they see it and can spot the Antichrist. But the AC will gain power by being a charlatan that hoodwinks normal Christians like them. They're actually playing into their own enemy by being stupid.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 17 pts · 315d
I believe him. He has a direct line to the Antichrist.
BCOVertigo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 315d
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 315d
This fucking idiot thinks he's somehow smart enough to rule humanity.
zarathustra0@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 315d
something, something, concentration of wealth
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 315d
Shouldn't that make the bloody death cult really happy?
johsny@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 315d
Peter thiel of palantir can hasten to suck my balls.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
Seeing how he’s gay af, careful what u wish for
jlow@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 315d
Yeah, we get it: Things that don't make you even richer = antichrist. Problem is we don't give a shit about made up demons but real world problems of which you are one.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 314d
When I first read this, I thought, “whatever a piece of shit like Thiel thinks is the antichrist is something that needs hastening.”
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de · 5 pts · 315d
There is an Youtube snippet from a few months ago with Thiel being interviewed and asked if he builds the tech for the Antichrist.
kingofras@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
Holy f. This guy has gone around the bend. Gives and extra layer to “the dotcom bubble”.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 315d
Why is that god always wants what benefits you the most? Quirky how that works.
silicon@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 314d
Ah yes we should definitely listen to this guy who's in the Epstein files! /S
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 315d
All the more reason.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 315d
As usual ai gets it wrong. It is Thiel himself who is the antichrist.
ICastFist@programming.dev · 1 pts · 315d
Is this something akin to the Onion?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d
https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
zarathustra0@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 315d
So he's saying he doesn't want Jesus to come back?