ngl the weird obsession with coming rapture and judgement isn't my idea of a solid worldview but I feel the need to understand it if only to understand the sheer number of its proponents.
Some 2000 year old zombie isn't coming back to save you, there will be no rapture, it's just us. Kicking the can down the road on the hopes that The Great Man will save us instead of doing the work ourselves.
Well; I think the uncomfortable answer is that this is a worldview that appeals most to people who, for whatever reason, both have no agency over their own material lives (or do not believe that they do) & no reason whatsoever to believe that they can actually trust other humans.
Obviously this isn't true of absolutely everyone who believes these things, there are always the cynical, or the incurious; but I don't think they form the base upon which this structure rests.
When it's drilled into your head by everyone and everything around you and you are taught that even questioning God's truth a little will damn you to an eternity of torment, you kind of develop a complex about questioning authority
It's basically the exact same brainwashing that cults do, just with a better PR team
I believed this because I was raised in some super serious Baptist church. My parents were missionaries By the time I was 14 or 15 I was going to the camps on holidays and helping look after and teach the younger kids about Jesus. This really fucked me up, especially as a bi dude. (Church was very homophobic). So in my later teen years I went full on cringe le redditlord enlightened atheist. Understandable looking back, but still fuck me.
I've mellowed out now in adulthood, still atheist though.
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ngl the weird obsession with coming rapture and judgement isn't my idea of a solid worldview but I feel the need to understand it if only to understand the sheer number of its proponents.
Some 2000 year old zombie isn't coming back to save you, there will be no rapture, it's just us. Kicking the can down the road on the hopes that The Great Man will save us instead of doing the work ourselves.
How tf do you believe in this
Well; I think the uncomfortable answer is that this is a worldview that appeals most to people who, for whatever reason, both have no agency over their own material lives (or do not believe that they do) & no reason whatsoever to believe that they can actually trust other humans.
Obviously this isn't true of absolutely everyone who believes these things, there are always the cynical, or the incurious; but I don't think they form the base upon which this structure rests.
When it's drilled into your head by everyone and everything around you and you are taught that even questioning God's truth a little will damn you to an eternity of torment, you kind of develop a complex about questioning authority
It's basically the exact same brainwashing that cults do, just with a better PR team
Hell it even feels biblical because the believers keep prophesying it. That belief dooms us to doing nothing but wait.
I believed this because I was raised in some super serious Baptist church. My parents were missionaries By the time I was 14 or 15 I was going to the camps on holidays and helping look after and teach the younger kids about Jesus. This really fucked me up, especially as a bi dude. (Church was very homophobic). So in my later teen years I went full on cringe le redditlord enlightened atheist. Understandable looking back, but still fuck me.
I've mellowed out now in adulthood, still atheist though.
My parents weren't missionaries and I'm not bi, but I feel like I can really relate to a lot in your story.