2022.10.06
(I know I posted "Momhead" before but I didn't put good keywords to find it like "ways my 4 year old daughter has insulted me" or "things my daughter said")
Slate on Why Growing Parts of the Christian Right Are Convinced It's the Apocalypse.
Revelation talk scared me shitless as a kid.
Later I learned a lot of people who are into it are "pretrib", or "premillennial dispensationalist", who figure they get out-of-jail-free card, that suffering will happen, but all us good folk will be whisked away, only them bad sinners will get the worst of it, so BRING IT ON, THY WILL BE M-F'IN *DONE*!
What a garbage theology. What an un-Christian stance. What a way to ensure that you're not actually going to be all that concerned about being a good caretaker of the planet.
Nobody wants to die. People don't mind being dead. Being dead is great! But getting dead...nobody wants to get dead.