A loooot of Evangelicals think the Rapture is close. I know, someone is gonna say "but they always think that." As someone who used to live in that world trust me, they really think it now. And they think Assad's kid is the antichrist.
A loooot of Evangelicals think the Rapture is close. I know, someone is gonna say "but they always think that." As someone who used to live in that world trust me, they really think it now. And they think Assad's kid is the antichrist.I did recall when the war in Syria started all of these people started bringing up quotes about Damascus in flames and such.
Just tell them Shinji and Asuka will not let that happen :teeheeA loooot of Evangelicals think the Rapture is close. I know, someone is gonna say "but they always think that." As someone who used to live in that world trust me, they really think it now. And they think Assad's kid is the antichrist.
I've heard lots of the same shit from Evangelicals. Acquaintance is insisting her husband is adamant the rapture is coming because of 2020. :heh They are serious and are using masks as evidence that end times are on our door step. All that needs to happen is for the temple to be destroyed for Jesus to call their shells (bodies) to heaven.
Partly because the US has a strong geopolitical connection with Israel
Partly because of all the holy sites in Israel and the connection with the faith
Partly because supporting Israel is sort of the Catholic guilt thing for Europeans to make up for turning the other cheek during WW2 or blatantly supporting the Nazi's
A loooot of Evangelicals think the Rapture is close. I know, someone is gonna say "but they always think that." As someone who used to live in that world trust me, they really think it now. And they think Assad's kid is the antichrist.
I've heard lots of the same shit from Evangelicals. Acquaintance is insisting her husband is adamant the rapture is coming because of 2020. :heh They are serious and are using masks as evidence that end times are on our door step. All that needs to happen is for the temple to be destroyed for Jesus to call their shells (bodies) to heaven.
A loooot of Evangelicals think the Rapture is close. I know, someone is gonna say "but they always think that." As someone who used to live in that world trust me, they really think it now. And they think Assad's kid is the antichrist.
I've heard lots of the same shit from Evangelicals. Acquaintance is insisting her husband is adamant the rapture is coming because of 2020. :heh They are serious and are using masks as evidence that end times are on our door step. All that needs to happen is for the temple to be destroyed for Jesus to call their shells (bodies) to heaven.
They need to build it first. :larry
filler :stahp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PremillennialismThanks! Makes more sense now as Catholic don't teach this stuff from my knowledge. I'm not theological expert although practicing. I find it pretty weird as well. Is this why many evangelicals have this to hell with the world mindset--like regarding the environment and stuff?
Is this why many evangelicals have this to hell with the world mindset--like regarding the environment and stuff?in antebellum america, there’s a constellation of ‘ideologies’, for lack of a better term, that get glued together to form a common discursive space around american identity: radical whig republicanism + evangelical reformed protestantism + common sense realist epistemology. after the civil war, this gets fractured. the evangelical groups have to either double down on their emphasis of literalist renderings of the principle of sola scriptura, or deflate their epistemological projects. the former, very broadly, develop into the premillenialist tradition*, which is initially apolitical (and you can still see premillenialism have an apolitical effect in its adherents today). the encounter with, especially, darwinism in the 1910s and 1920s politically charges it. it lies largely dormant in popular discourse, but grows in regional importance, until the 1970s and 1980s when the gop, as a principal part of a broader coalition realignment strategy, start to court religious groups into movement conservatism. it’s that moral majority era that produces things like, e.g., prosperity gospel and Left Behind.
Is this why many evangelicals have this to hell with the world mindset--like regarding the environment and stuff?in antebellum america, there’s a constellation of ‘ideologies’, for lack of a better term, that get glued together to form a common discursive space around american identity: radical whig republicanism + evangelical reformed protestantism + common sense realist epistemology. after the civil war, this gets fractured. the evangelical groups have to either double down on their emphasis of literalist renderings of the principle of sola scriptura, or deflate their epistemological projects.[...]
*the latter, for whoever’s interested, develop into the postmillenialist tradition, which plays a really important role in the progressive coalition and temperance movement from ~1890-1930
I think he's talking about the literal truth of the bible and especially the claims about Israel as a divinely promised land. Also all the stuff in Revelation.
I mean I have an idea but it's wrongit’s actually probably right. instead of “epistemological”, i should’ve said “hermeneutic” or “exegetical”. the point at issue is just, for the christian, how do we extract truth claims from this set of scriptures? ante-bellum american evangelical protestantism is attracted to the idea that the entire meaning of any given passage of scripture is just on the surface level of the text. there was a more or less broad consensus on this, in no small part because it jived well with what people took to be the epistemic truths that grounded the natural sciences. after the civil war, it’s a different story, the changing, accelerating trend in the natural sciences towards unintuitive claims, some which flew right in the face of literalist readings of the bible, forced those evangelicals into a gambit: give up on the authority of the sciences, or revise your relationship to scripture