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Our long term plan is for Jesus to come back and fix everything.

I wish I was joking...

AFAIK there's no fixing in the plan. They just expect Jesus to take them away and finish breaking everything down so everybody else suffers.

I don't normally interact with people that believe that. But from a distance it looks like the second half is about as important as the first.

I do think there are plenty of religious people out there who minimize the ill effects of climate change, believing (hope against hope?) that God would never let mankind destroy itself. Good luck with that.

That's the short term plan, baby! The long term plan is to be the elect who get raptured first.

And war in the middle east is going to make it happen faster!

Way too many Americans either don't know or disbelieve that a substantial chunk of the body politic, and now our elected and military leaders, actually literally believe this type of stuff.

IMO any eschatological beliefs whatsoever should be 100% universally disqualifying for any political or military position, no matter what book title or special ancient zombie character they're filed under.

“Leaders” who believe this kind of stuff don’t end up running developed states. It’s the leaders who know how to make use of morons who believe this kinda stuff who do.

Hush now, you'll hasten the Antichrist.

Eh, no. Trump of course has zero actual ideology, but there's pretty solid reason to believe e.g. Hegseth and Mike Johnson actually believe this type of stuff.

Isnt he already running the country now?

No, that's a healer.

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