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arrow-up1447arrow-down1external-linkAn ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’www.theguardian.comLady Butterfly she/her@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square131fedilink
minus-squarewewbull@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39arrow-down1·16 hours agoWhy are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It’s a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.
minus-squarezarkanian@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 minutes agoBecause they think that they’re going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 hours agoBecause it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.
minus-squareandros_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoThere’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.
minus-squareother_cat@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoThese people think they’re in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.
minus-squarechris@l.roofo.cclinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoBecause they think they will go to heaven. If I read the Bible I’d say they wouldn’t.
Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It’s a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.
Because they think that they’re going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.
Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.
There’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.
These people think they’re in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.
Because they think they will go to heaven. If I read the Bible I’d say they wouldn’t.