(Another rapture thread, this one has a bunch of folks talking about how they have no motivation because of the rapture being "just around the corner"):
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Let me guess. You haven't saved a cent towards retirement. Not because you need it today for food, rent, health insurance, etc. but because "I'm not gonna live that long anyway."
Oh great! You do nothing with the one and only life you have. You don't plan, or put any money aside, for the future. Then, when you get old and poor and sick, with no rapture in sight, you're going to be carried by the nation's taxpayers all the way from retirement to the grave. I hate to sound like a Republican, but, gad!, you people are worthless leeches.
Well, we'll start with the fact that the Rapture was never mentioned by Jesus, so therefore, believing in it is a false teaching.
Second, the two verses from which this chapters comes, Matthew 24 and 25, are so heavily misused it's not funny. Yes, Jesus does keep reminding His apostles to keep watch for His coming, but then, He states that only God knows when that will occur. Therefore, He is calling Christians to always be prepared. Well, how do you ensure you are prepared? Simple, follow the faith.
"I hear you on this. I have to constantly fight the feelings of "what is the use". Its like we have diagnosis of a fatal incurable disease and we have only so long to live."
Your religion's prohibition on suicide is a real bitch, isn't it?
Ultimately ALL of christianity boils down to this...
Guess these people are gonna be S.O.L
Life is a short warm moment,
--Pink Floyd, Free Four
Only 'like'?!?
This disease is in the mind, in that it's a belief, but the OP is otherwise correct:Its like we believe we have a fatal incurable disease and we have only so long to live.
I find RR fascinating, in a somewhat morbid fashion. A bit like eavesdropping in Jim Jones' Guyana compound a few days before the communal Kool-Aid...
I hear you on this. I have to constantly fight the feelings of "what is the use". Its like we have diagnosis of a fatal incurable disease and we have only so long to live
Oh good gods...
Depression is not a fatil incurable disease if you choose to actually do something about it. I know of people who are being faced with the reality of death because of terminal illness and live a lot more in their final days than you are in your curable depression.
You have a fatal incurable disease... believing that you're going to die soon.
Seriously, get it looked at.
It saddens me to see people throw their once chance at life away like this...
Yup, they're quite the cheerful little cult over at RR. What I find bizarre is that they also boast a high number of survivalists/food hoarders. If you look, you'll find there's any number of them with two-year or more stocks of non-perishable foods carefully stashed away, and they all have guns.
"Its like we have diagnosis of a fatal incurable disease and we have only so long to live."
It's called "mortality." Anyway, I'm going to Dauphin Island, Alabama for about a week and a half. I'm going to enjoy life.
Whenever I read such morbidly depressing stuff as these Rapture Ready people write, I think, "There, but for the grace of intelligence, go I."
6-24-2009
No rapture yet.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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