@TwiHusband The interesting idea of the rapture is that they LEAVE a devastated world. Their book says otherwise. It does say they rise to meet their master, but then they come back here. I wish more of them believed it. Wrecking this world isn't in their best interest either, even if they are correct!
@jasod Ah, but that's the point of the Rapture. Jesus will clean up their mess like their mom picking up their skid-marked skivvies.They really DO see themselves as the CHILDREN of god. So they behave like spoiled self-entitled children.
@TwiHusband I grew up believing it. Here is a solid relay of the road I traveled as my faith in such things unraveled:
https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/06/opinion/parini-rapture-real/index.html
Mine was much more informed by Catholicism, which has never had a rapture, btw.
@jasod Southern Baptist here. I was done with Jesus in Junior High. I could never get past the fact the "god" murdered an entire planet, save one family, in a fit of pique. Or that he killed an entire generation of children in Egypt, instead of the one adult male asshole who was the problem.
@TwiHusband My g'pa was on the committee that helped spawn the original Baptist Faith & Message. I feel your roots. It took me much longer to get past being so afraid that I could actually think. The last of all of it fell away in my late 30s - early 40s.
@jasod Myn mother spurred me on. Serious mental illness there, with Jesus on top. I started locking my bedroom door at night when I was 14, so she couldn't try to "beat the devil out of me" whenever a fit took her. She believed that she could hold literal give and take conversations with her "god".
@jasod To be totally honest I see the phenomenon taking place around us as being on par with what happened at the year 1000. People were expecting Jesus to show up, famine stalked Europe. Because why bother to plant crops for harvest when your aren't going to be around to eat then? Religious idiots starved in their millions.
In the end, the only thing that CAN fix stupid is Natural Selection.
The question is, will they take US down with them this time around?
@TwiHusband they then spent eternity in a never ending church service while the rest of us created a utopia of service to one another right here on earth.