Graham: We’re In the Last Days

I realize that God works to his own schedule, but haven’t we been in the “last days” for the last 2000+ years? God needs to defaecate or abdicate.

Oh, I’m sure he’s making real profits. His prophet acumen is a bit lacking, though.

Hey Jan Crouch, the 1980’s called, they want you to return the big hair.

The vast majority of them don’t believe that this is the End Times, at least as far as I can tell. (Or maybe they do but just act like it won’t happen, since fundies never walk their talk.)

If it was, why even get up in the morning? Why take out a 30 year mortgage. Wy contribute to pension and 40(K) plants. Why even have kids for Cthulhu’s sake. Why care about anything in the world except for piloting your soul into heaven.

I did know very superficially a dedicated Doomsday Prepper. He spent decades Doomsday Prepping. And the world did end for him. He died recently of…old age. OTOH, those years of dried food were rather irrelevant.

I confidently predict that the last days will come in several billion years when the Earth gets tidally locked to the Moon so that one side of our planet is in constant daylight and the other in endless night.

By then our Sun will be a Red Giant star and our Milky Way galaxy in process of merging with the Andromeda galaxy and I’ll be very much long dead and uncaring as this eventuality.

As for the end of time itself well, spacetime – the mix of time and space we manage todivide into hours, years and days – will go on for trillions of years after our planet is devoured by our dying daytime star. The Heat Death of the cosmos is so distant I’m really not fussed.

Well, not unless I somehow get caught up in a singularity’s orbit and spat back out in a trillion aeons hence anyhow.

Of course if I’m wrong I won’t know it unlike y’know these guys like who are (Blasphemously really! ) predicting Teh ned Ist Nighhh!!!!

I realize that God works to his own schedule, but haven’t we been in the “last days” for the last 2000+ years?

Not quite. The death of JC is usually reckoned as about 33 “AD”. We’ve got 20 years to go for it to be 2000+.

Ah, the ‘Anti-Christ’, the guy whom Franklin’s religion says will be beloved by almost everyone(‘True’ Christians are the exception) and establish world peace and financial stabilty.

So when are those signs – the universal adoration, world peace and financial security going to happen?

And here is a repost of a comment I left on another thread.

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The part that makes me laugh is that millions of Americans probably agree with everything he says.

We have always been at war with Eastasia and we have never been this close to the end times.

These are the end times*. Civilization will collapse, billions – perhaps all – of the people will die, and we will see the four horsemen again ride the landscape. But Jesus won’t take these people up to the Great Church Picnic in the Sky. There is no antichrist. To the degree that the cause is moral, it’s because of anti-science bullying authoritarians like these partnered with sociopathic oligarchs that our species will fail.

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When these people are rummaging through waste looking for something edible, they will loathe me if they see me, and blame me for their lot because surely Gawd is punishing us for being nice to the Ghey, or something. But I will know that it is indignorant loons like these and their hatred for knowledge and self-examination that allowed the greedy to destroy it all. Sorry all; talk of the end times have made me gloomy since I learned it was real. But it won’t happen like these coprophagic golems think.

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* Global warming, with its attendant drought storms, and floods; failed harvests and disrupted transportation leading to uncertainty and hunger; mass migration from one unsafe not-haven to another; marine biological collapse; spreading pests and disease; seed corn and domestic animals eaten; multiple global wars; failed fail-safes dependent on electricity; rising sea levels; death of forests; and the loss of all records on computers. All, all understandable, and all of it preventable at one time, only recently past.

End times will come about because Obama this or Obama that… curiously US-centric viewpoint these people have.

And how can you take a TV host seriously when they look so utterly bizarre? Mutton dressed as lamb just doesn’t cover it.

cactuswren – When I was a kid in the 1950s, US Christian fundies dressed plain and simple – think of “Little House on the Prairie”. I can’t verify this, but I heard that the big hair and associated accessories became acceptable among them when the hippie chicks of the sixties started wearing simple frontier fashions. Better to be seen as gaudy than to be mistaken for a drug using atheist hussy, I guess.