Signs of the Second Coming

[Moliere]

I can't fathom believing in a literal second coming, but it's clearly an important tenet to many, and for the record, I'm super okay with people believing what they will.

You have to believe in a first coming first.

[smokymountainrain]

You have to believe in a first coming first.

[clackamascoug]

You have to believe in a first coming first.

[BlueK]

Rapture anxiety? Hadn't heard of that before, but I found this article interesting in learning how central this Evangelical doctrine is in the everyday religious thoughts of many within that strain of Christianity.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/us/rapture-anxiety-evangelical-exvangelical-christianity-cec/index.html

[Pelado]

Rapture anxiety? Hadn't heard of that before, but I found this article interesting in learning how central this Evangelical doctrine is in the everyday religious thoughts of many within that strain of Christianity.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/us/ra...cec/index.html

I like the name they use:

Ajoy is one of a growing network of “exvangelicals” who have removed themselves from what they now view as the damaging beliefs of some evangelical, Pentecostal and Baptist churches.

[Non Sequitur]

Rapture anxiety? Hadn't heard of that before, but I found this article interesting in learning how central this Evangelical doctrine is in the everyday religious thoughts of many within that strain of Christianity.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/us/ra...cec/index.html

When I was a kid it was fashionable to teach us that we were living in the last minute of the last hour of the last dispensation of the fullness of times. I was a bit precocious so I went ahead and did the math based on a 6,000 year dispensation and realized that there were only about 4 years left. By the time I left on my mission the 4 years were long past, and I had pretty much come to the conclusion that the second coming wasn't really a thing. Fortunately, I was saved a subsequent 40 years of rapture anxiety.

[Pelado]

I remember taking some kind of survey in high school. One of the questions was something like "Do you expect the world to be better in 20__ than it is now?" I don't remember the exact year included in the inquiry, but it was probably at least 2050. I answered "yes" at least in part because I was expecting the second coming to happen by then.

[wuapinmon]

My go-to response to people who ask me about my atheism is pretty much this: I believe in Jesus' teachings. If there's an afterlife, I should be good. If there's not, I'm still good. If they mention my going to hell, I simply respond, "I hope you don't go there" and leave them guessing.

[YOhio]

My go-to response to people who ask me about my atheism is pretty much this: I believe in Jesus' teachings. If there's an afterlife, I should be good. If there's not, I'm still good. If they mention my going to hell, I simply respond, "I hope you don't go there" and leave them guessing.

What are they guessing at?

[falafel]

What are they guessing at?

What the fuck he’s talking about.

[Northwestcoug]

What the fuck he’s talking about.

Is this your first f-bomb on CS? Gotta be one of the first.

(Yeah I know, I'm weird.)

[Bo Diddley]

Is this your first f-bomb on CS? Gotta be one of the first.

(Yeah I know, I'm weird.)

I've heard dropping an f-bomb on CS is a sure sign they're on the road to apostacy.

[Northwestcoug]

I've heard dropping an f-bomb on CS is a sure sign they're on the road to apostacy.

Not 100%. I still haven't uttered it here

[BigPiney]

Not 100%. I still haven't uttered it here

good for you. I know i have a few times, mostly talking about the utes.

[Donuthole]

Not 100%. I still haven't uttered it here

It's not that all apostates utter the f bomb on CS, rather, all who utter the f-bomb on CS end up apostate. YO, falafel, and myself might be the final test subjects in that respect.