We still have huge organizations with billions of members in the world that believe their saviour is going to come back soon, destroy the world, dragons, demonic horsemen, fire, brimstone, people magically disappearing and rising up to heaven and everyone else getting thrown into a lake of fire.
Billions of people don’t actually believe that. Not even close. They might say they believe in a religion, they might even think they believe in it, but if the sky lit on fire and they started floating into the sky the vast majority of them wouldn’t think “yay I win the Rapture!” they’d think “oh God oh fuck what is happening?!”
I wouldn’t laugh at those old scientists
We still have huge organizations with billions of members in the world that believe their saviour is going to come back soon, destroy the world, dragons, demonic horsemen, fire, brimstone, people magically disappearing and rising up to heaven and everyone else getting thrown into a lake of fire.
Joke’s on them - George R. R. Martin ain’t coming back.
And some of their more fanatic believers control the worlds largest economic military powerhouse. 🤷♂️
Must be doing something right.
You laugh… but isn’t some of that happening right now?!
Some of that has been happening, to varying degrees, since about the dawn of humanity.
Billions of people don’t actually believe that. Not even close. They might say they believe in a religion, they might even think they believe in it, but if the sky lit on fire and they started floating into the sky the vast majority of them wouldn’t think “yay I win the Rapture!” they’d think “oh God oh fuck what is happening?!”
If Betelgeuse goes supernova tomorrow, I wouldn’t believe my eyes either.
… you would if you genuinely believed it was supposed to happen tomorrow…
It could happen tomorrow. I would still initially react with “holy shit look at the sky”.
That’s not how belief works. “It could happen tomorrow” isn’t a belief, it’s just a vague, noncomittal thought.
“The rapture will happen in our lifetimes” is a belief, and the vast majority of people - religious or not - simply don’t believe that.