GayDeceiver1d ago

Honestly… I thought that the Christian Rapture was a religious concept going back to the very beginning of the religion.

Nope. John Nelson Darby created it in the 1800s, after he had a fall and a knocked his nogging real hard.

Look him up. It’s a hoot.

Show threadParade du Grotesque 💀22h ago

@GayDeceiver

Usual Christian fundamentalist BS. Based on... 3 verses in the book of apocalypse if I remember correctly?

Edit: it's called "Revelations" in English. I knew that. Bad Parade! Bad!

Show threadAlexanderVI

@ParadeGrotesque @GayDeceiver

The opening of Revelation says that it is about stuff that is going to happen "soon."

"Soon" is an extremely elastic concept in Christian eschatology.

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Show threadДими́трий18h ago

@AlexanderVI @ParadeGrotesque @GayDeceiver

I forget who on mastodon made this image. It was not me and I would love to credit them if found.

Show threadChris Mackay 🇨🇦17h ago
@saltywizard @GayDeceiver @AlexanderVI @ParadeGrotesque https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/eschatron-9000-immanentize-the-eschaton
Eschatron 9000 / Immanentize the Eschaton | Know Your Meme

"Eschatron 9000" is a photoshopped cheesecake photograph, featuring model Crystal Thierry posing in a bikini next to a fictional machine labeled Eschatron

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Show threadДими́трий17h ago

@tantramar @GayDeceiver @AlexanderVI @ParadeGrotesque

yes...thank you...buuuut, someone on masto turned this august meme into the low-res version I posted. they did that to this image, along with many others, so that they could print them out on some archaic sticker printer, which I thought was brilliant.

Show threadCourt Cantrell does not comply16h ago

@AlexanderVI @ParadeGrotesque @GayDeceiver That it is!

It's worth noting, though, that when Yeshua of Nazareth told his followers that he would return "soon," they all expected it to be within their lifetimes.

I have no sources on hand for this but can track some down if need be. I'm currently going off of what I recall from various sermons & lessons via the church of my childhood, youth, and 1/2-adulthood. (I've been out for 16 years.)

Show threadPetra16h ago

@courtcan @AlexanderVI @ParadeGrotesque @GayDeceiver

There is a verse in 3 of the 4 gospels that falls within a chapter talking about apocalypse based shenanigans that says variations on a theme of:

"Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened"

Matthew 24 v34
Mark 13 v30
Luke 21 v32

Show threadAlexanderVI10h ago

@PetraPhoenix @courtcan @ParadeGrotesque @GayDeceiver

You gotta give it to the Synoptics, at least they all say the same wrong thing.