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I am sick of hearing about the rapture. I am not sick of hearing from those that believed in today's supposed rapture (I actually haven't specifically even heard from anyone that believed it would be today). But rather I am sick of hearing about the rapture in general. Specifically, I am sick of hearing about people making fun of the rapture prediction.
The commentary regarding this non-event is stunning. It is not funny, there is nothing humorous here. It is sick, shockingly sick, what so many believers did approaching this day. Many "true believers", in a show of faith, intentionally planned for financial ruin believing that they would not be on Earth around after today. It is sick that belief cause that sort of non-sense. I don't care what people believe. But I am always saddened when belief in anything causes harmful effects.
You would think someone of my world view would welcome such ridicule. But the commentary is largely universal. Which is to say that people with other unscientifically based religious beliefs (sorry, that was redundant) are making fun of other people's unscientifically based beliefs. This even extends to Christians that believe in the rapture and judgment day but ridicule those that believed in today's predicted date because they thought they could possibly know a deity's will. Ridicule not for what they believed but rather for why they believed it. All sorts of nonsense has been caused because of these types of conflicting beliefs. Fortunately, the only nonsense happening here is the ridicule itself.
I got no beef with anyone that prescribes to a different take than my own. But I do have a big beef with those that snidely ridicule other people's beliefs when their own beliefs are just as far fetched. Obviously, some see a difference: that the "others" beliefs are crazy and their own beliefs are correct or at least logical or plausible. I find it appalling despite having an understanding that it is just the way we are built as a species.
The commentary regarding this non-event is stunning. It is not funny, there is nothing humorous here. It is sick, shockingly sick, what so many believers did approaching this day. Many "true believers", in a show of faith, intentionally planned for financial ruin believing that they would not be on Earth around after today. It is sick that belief cause that sort of non-sense. I don't care what people believe. But I am always saddened when belief in anything causes harmful effects.
You would think someone of my world view would welcome such ridicule. But the commentary is largely universal. Which is to say that people with other unscientifically based religious beliefs (sorry, that was redundant) are making fun of other people's unscientifically based beliefs. This even extends to Christians that believe in the rapture and judgment day but ridicule those that believed in today's predicted date because they thought they could possibly know a deity's will. Ridicule not for what they believed but rather for why they believed it. All sorts of nonsense has been caused because of these types of conflicting beliefs. Fortunately, the only nonsense happening here is the ridicule itself.
I got no beef with anyone that prescribes to a different take than my own. But I do have a big beef with those that snidely ridicule other people's beliefs when their own beliefs are just as far fetched. Obviously, some see a difference: that the "others" beliefs are crazy and their own beliefs are correct or at least logical or plausible. I find it appalling despite having an understanding that it is just the way we are built as a species.