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[-] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

And some of their more fanatic believers control the worlds largest economic military powerhouse. 🤷‍♂️

Must be doing something right.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Joke's on them - George R. R. Martin ain't coming back.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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?!"

[-] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

If Betelgeuse goes supernova tomorrow, I wouldn't believe my eyes either.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

... you would if you genuinely believed it was supposed to happen tomorrow...

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It could happen tomorrow. I would still initially react with "holy shit look at the sky".

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

You laugh... but isn't some of that happening right now?!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Some of that has been happening, to varying degrees, since about the dawn of humanity.

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