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pretty print" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "a496e044-f14a-4a2c-977f-a83c68bc97db", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 2: Create a Reddit Developer Application\n", + "\n", + "-\tA user account is required to use Reddit API. If you don’t have it follow this link. https://www.reddit.com\n", + "-\tVisit https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/\n", + "-\tScroll down to the 'Developed Applications' section and click on \"Create App\" or \"Create Another App\".\n", + "-\tFill in the form:\n", + "-\tname: Your application's name.\n", + "-\tApp type: Choose 'script'.\n", + "-\tdescription: Can be left blank.\n", + "-\tredirect uri: http://localhost:8080 (required for script type but won't be used here).\n", + "-\tClick \"Create app\"\n", + "-\tNow, your app has a secret key (e.g., vg8NL-iEOB9uJVS4rexYW2XITqvh1g).\n" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "e3b332cd-7a47-407b-a1ff-0809ba63fd63", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 3: Authenticate with Reddit API\n", + "\n", + "**What this does**\n", + "\n", + "- Authenticates your script with Reddit\n", + "\n", + "- Allows access to public subreddit data\n", + "\n", + "**Why user_agent is required**\n", + "\n", + "- Identifies your application\n", + "\n", + "- Helps Reddit monitor API usage" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "f086bbb8-607f-4d33-90c5-bf40ef534301", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [ + "# Reddit scraping app information\n", + "reddit = praw.Reddit(client_id='Your Client_ID', \n", + " client_secret='Your Secret', \n", + " user_agent='Your User_Agent' \n", + " )" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "570dd78e-c52c-47dd-97f2-bb8b48e72198", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 4: Access a Subreddit\n", + "\n", + "**Explanation**\n", + "\n", + "- Connects to the AskReddit subreddit\n", + "\n", + "- Subreddit name can be changed to any public subreddit" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 14, + "id": "5a6c41f9-4c01-43d0-82f3-72a5474883e9", + "metadata": { + "scrolled": true + }, + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "{'_additional_fetch_params': {},\n", + " '_comments_by_id': {},\n", + " '_fetched': 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Mayan apocalypse, non-specific Judgment Days, and Y2K need not apply. 1758730542.0\n", + "Jokes on them, I'm in heaven with all my friends and we're making fun of everybody still down there from above. \n", + "\n", + "The WiFi is pretty good surprisingly. 1758732407.0\n", + "This was definitely one of those idiots on TikTok things. 1758732421.0\n", + "“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” Matthew 24:36\n", + "\n", + "Real Christians know their lore and don’t fall for rapture scams. 1758731225.0\n", + "Not one Christian I know believed they were going to be raptured yesterday so there's nothing to handle. 1758730526.0\n", + "I think this is more of an idiot thing rather than a Christian thing 1758731515.0\n", + "This was not a wide spread believed event in the Christian community. I only heard about it from a bunch of people making up the story that this was a widely believed event. So no, none I know of went all in in the first place. 1758730759.0\n", + "I'm a Christian. I'm active in my church. Most of my friends are Christians.\n", + "\n", + "I don't know a single person in real life who thought the rapture was actually happening. I personally don't even think the rapture is a real Christian concept. \n", + "\n", + "I did read comments online from people who believed in it. But in my actual life, I haven't seen any Christians even giving it a moment of thought.\n", + "\n", + "I suspect it was more of an online sort of mass hysteria for people with anxiety. 1758731728.0\n", + "Just a reminder:\n", + "\n", + "There is no such thing as the rapture. It isn't happening, not now, and not ever. There is no evidence to support the notion that Jesus Christ is returning to sweep his followers up into the clouds. The concept of the rapture has been read into the Bible very, very recently, primarily credited to John Nelson Darby, a 19th century Bible translator and teacher.\n", + "\n", + "He primarily took 1 Thessalonians 4:17, talking about the people of Christ being snatched up into the air. Paul is referencing a Greco-Roman convention called apantesis where a Roman leader would return to a city and his people would come out of the city and meet him. However, at that point, the entry would go back into the city. Darby inherently misunderstood the imagery from Paul who took the same idea and just rotated it vertically. Using Paul's imagery, people might rise up to meet Christ, but they would come back down to earth and Christ would be ruling from earth itself.\n", + "\n", + "The Evangelical Christian doctrine of the Rapture has been a popular mechanism to instill fear and anxiety in their adherents. Countless people have believed in the possibility of being \"left behind\" and the fiction and focus on the subject, especially after the books / movies and other media in the 90s, have caused substantial harm especially to children and teens who were subjected to it in church.\n", + "\n", + "The Rapture is not in the Bible. It is not happening. The very text of the Bible says that no one (not even Christ) knows when he will return, so anyone who picks a date would be literally excluding that date from contention because that would mean that one person did know the date.\n", + "\n", + "For more details on this, Dr. Dan McClellan is a phenomenal resource (most of what I've written here is based on his work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4BhxYz1l4 1758733331.0\n", + "Non-Christian here, I’m more disappointed than the evangelicals are. I was hoping they would clear our and we could finally some peace. 1758776890.0\n", + "I don't know a single Christian who believes in rapture scams. 1758730652.0\n", + "You guys do know that this is a very small subsect of people, right?\n", + "\n", + "I live in the Bible belt, I don't know a single person who believed in this. In fact, I doubt most of the Christians down here are even on the sections of the internet where those people were and even know that this was a thing. 1758732521.0\n", + "I think people are greatly overestimating the number of Christians who believe in rapture. It is a very small group, amplified by millions of people shouting \"LOOK AT THE STUPID CHRISTIANS!\" 1758732273.0\n", + "I doubt very seriously people really believed this event would take place. People can act like they believe, but actual belief in something so ridiculous seems unlikely. I’m sure everyone talking about the Rapture went to work this morning, and carried on with their lives. 1758730811.0\n", + "I haven't actually heard anyone believing it'd happen, it got *way* overblown here on Reddit 1758730974.0\n", + "Our neighbours kept their kids home yesterday and when my kids came home they were over knocking on the door looking to play.\n", + "\n", + "They're the type to get caught up in every conspiracy, so the wife and I had a good chuckle. 1758731450.0\n", + "Honestly I think this whole thing is way overblown.\n", + "\n", + "As a Christian I heard about this like 2 days before.\n", + "\n", + "It’s all just a grift. 1758731502.0\n", + "This is like the 20th rapture Ive been thru 🥱 1758740984.0\n", + "Did I miss ANOTHER fucking rapture? Getting real tired of your shit Jesus. 1758739242.0\n", + "Laughing at Tiktokers for thinking they know anything 1758731111.0\n", + "Anyone who believed the rapture was happening isn't a real Christian because there is nowhere outrighting stating a magical rapture where people dissapear. \n", + "\n", + "Instead, the Bible outlines that the world will first be consumed by conquest, war, famine, disease, plagues, great disasters, the falling of the wormwood star, and the rise of the false prophet that would unite the world under their banner. Then after the world is thrown into chaos then Crist will return to lead his followers to overthrow the antichrist and usher in the kingdom of God on earth for the believers and the repentant to enjoy. 1758733345.0\n", + "My wife got raptured. I came home and heard her saying “oh God, I’m coming. God I’m coming!” Her clothes were on the floor and I haven’t seen her since. 1758770524.0\n", + "I know a guy who took random clothes out and put them all over the place near a few hateful churches. 1758745854.0\n", + "I know a lot of Catholics, a good number of Protestants, and a decent amount of Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Catholics and Orthodox don't theologically believe in dispensational premillennialism (aka \"the rapture\"), and none of my Protestant friends have ever brought it up, so I doubt they believe in it either, or at least didn't believe in this one. 1758731673.0\n", + "The actual rapture happened when Harembe died. We're all what's left. 1758732307.0\n", + "The only people who thought there was a rapture yesterday was the chronically online. 1758731401.0\n", + "I work at a power plant in Texas, most of my coworkers go to church on Sundays, have not heard a word about the Rapture. 1758732091.0\n", + "Rapture is an invention of american evangelicans. Christianity does not believe in it 1758744675.0\n", + "I believe there's a God. I love my children. I try to be a good person.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Ask for organized religion? Hard pass. I've seen it become an excuse for a lot of bad things. A lot of anger and hatred. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Hopefully that's enough to get us where we're going. And if i'm wrong, at least, I didn't waste my only life worrying about the wrong stuff. 1758757385.0\n", + "I'm kinda bummed it didn't happen. There's a guy who lives on the next block who has a SWEET Audi A6 I would have loved to have gotten my heathen hands on if he had gotten hoovered up to heaven. 1758741404.0\n", + "Man, I remember being 5-10 years old and staying up until the sun came up waiting for the Rapture, terrified. My mom was obsessed with the book of Revelation and told us about the Rapture, the trials and tribulations, the AntiChrist, the mark of the beast, all of it. She also told me that it would happen \"when no one expects it\", so I made sure to stay up expecting that shit.\n", + "\n", + "Not necessarily my mom's fault, but this kind of terror shit is child abuse. 1758754203.0\n", + "I'm an exvangelical and back in May 2011 there was supposed to be a rapture that got a lot of internet attention before it was supposed to happen. Even in my circles it was very much mocked but I had one old high school friend who was actually posting about it as if it was real and when it didn't happen he deleted his social media. When we reconnected like 2 years later he was an atheist. 1758772835.0\n", + "I am a catholic and I knew it wasn’t going to happen, the bible says nobody knows when it happens. 1758983595.0\n", + "You should act like you and others got raptured. Ignore them and have like one friend reach out and be like “I haven’t heard from them in days. I saw a pure white light in their house the other night, haven’t heard from them since” 1758730311.0\n", + "I know plenty of Christians. None I know went all-in. I suspect the rapture enthusiasts are a rather small percentage of practicing Christians. 1758731107.0\n", + "I don’t know. I’m a Christian and I don’t know anyone stupid enough to participate. 1758731757.0\n", + "Worst mass deportation ever!! 1758740998.0\n", + "Doesn't one of the books state that you won't know when the rapture is coming, yet they keep predicting it anyway? 1758743336.0\n", + "As someone who could be called Christian; IF there was going to be a rapture then it would be AFTER the time of tribulations rather than before. It's a test. Can you still be good and hold on to your faith, morals, and ethics even when faced with said tribulations? That's what it's about. Not God yeeting away all his followers before the bad times and letting the earth and the unbelievers rot. It would be a betrayal of creation. That being said the rapture and times of tribulations stuff isn't really literal, it's allegory. Just archetypal stories retold in order to impart knowledge rather than prophecy. Evangelicals and their ilk are pretty batshit crazy. 1758744500.0\n", + "Idk, but im pretty bummed theyre still here. 1758759066.0\n", + "I told someone, “Got cut from Team Rapture, eh?”\n", + "\n", + "They didn’t take that very well. 1758773117.0\n", + "Im a Christian and was laughing on these fake Christians with there fake visions. Do not mistake these false prophets for Christians. They are not. 1758784272.0\n", + "I had 2 family members calling me often because they believed it (and I was going to hell).\n", + "\n", + "They have been posting like nothing even happened. Pretending they weren’t convinced life was ending. It’s almost weirder than if they acknowledged it 1758798555.0\n", + "What if it actually did happen, but they only took like 20 people? 1758802379.0\n", + "I can laugh and intellectually handle this now, but as a very young child I was exposed to Rapture “mania” in the 70s in a pretty mainstream Baptist church, and it traumatized me for years. I was 8 and shown a Rapture movie. It was like being shown a horror movie, and your family you love and trust telling you not only was it real, but it’s probably happening to YOU tomorrow. It seriously messed me up for a long long time.\n", + "\n", + "The adults that peddle this BS deserve to be called out and criticized ( too mild a word) but I feel so badly for their kids. I can imagine, having gone through it, how terrified these innocent children were over the last few days. I honestly believe “Rapture Abuse” should be prosecuted and “Rapture Trauma “ should be a recognized diagnosis. 1758824693.0\n", + "I'm Catholic, we don't believe in that shit 😅\n", + "\n", + "I'm currently watching Rapture Tok with a cup of hot tea and some cookies for a good time 🥂 1758915750.0\n", + "No christians went all in. A few TikTokers acted like they went all in for clout. Nothing is real. 1758731057.0\n", + "[I’m really excited to hear back from the queer person whose homophobic aunt gave them their $40k life savings in cash because they weren’t going to need it after Tuesday.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITA_WIBTA_PUBLIC/s/2vMjiqtYBG) 1758738607.0\n", + "The Christian’s know that rapture isn’t scheduled. 1758731417.0\n", + "I've lived through a few. It's always the same. They're real quiet for a couple days while someone figures out the mental gymnastics to explain why it didn't happen, then in some time, they're right back to the bullshit. 1758732157.0\n", + "I'm sure they are busy moving the goalposts. 1758732387.0\n", + "And now their prolly “ohhh Jesus was just testing our faith.. ohh” 1758734306.0\n", + "I want to know how all those people that gave/sold everything they own and quit their jobs spectacularly are doing in this economy. 1758734320.0\n", + "I think Jesus came down, but he was arrested by ICE and taken to El Salvador 1758734419.0\n", + "Matthew 34:36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father\"\n", + "\n", + "Anyone claiming they know when is wrong according to their own teachings. Anyone trying to hasten the end is doing the work of Satan. 1758735051.0\n", + "I was really hoping it would go down and get rid of all of the idiots so us in the \"Left Behind\" group could go back to believing in science, the rule of law, and common sense. Too bad... They're still here. I hate evangelicals. 1758735056.0\n", + "Maybe the rapture actually did happen but it was only like 5 or 6 people in the entire world and nobody noticed? 1758736810.0\n", + "I’m dying to know what the vibes in the households of the people who sold all their shit were like 1758739104.0\n", + "They'd all be dumbfounded because they didn't believe in this shit in the first place.\n", + "\n", + "Seems like the Rapture is mostly a US Evangelical thing, European Catholics (grew up as one) probably believe in heaven and hell or at least an afterlife of sorts but not the Rapture. Not even Lutherans, the second biggest denomination here, take this quackery seriously. 1758739510.0\n", + "They should take a page from Buddhism. \"Ah, yes, I *chose* not to be raptured and instead stayed behind to save other people.\" 1758741080.0\n", + "My question is, why do a majority of Christian’s, believe THEY will be raptured? Isn’t the rapture only supposed to pull 400,000 people, and leave everyone else? 1758743925.0\n", + "Someone I sort of know, who is very religious and believed the Rapture was happening yesterday, is now blaming witches for putting a spell on her to make her believe it was happening. 1758744969.0\n", + "Three guys I know are still stuck to their ceilings. 1758745644.0\n", + "I do remember back in 1999 a coworker was convinced. Sold everything and move himself and family, including 2 small kids, to Jerusalem cause he was *sure* the world was going to end. Dude was nuttier than a bag of hammers. Never did see him again, not that I wanted to. 1758745913.0\n", + "The only Christians to meet the requirements are probably a handful of genuinely pious poor people in third world countries. American \"Christians\" don't stand a chance. 1758746445.0\n", + "The surest sign there’s been a rapture is that everyone is still here. 1758747231.0\n", + "The next time they do this shit, the rest of us need to close our curtains, stay home and not answer the phone. Let them sweat a little. 1758749127.0\n", + "All I can think about is Parks and Rec. 🤷‍♂️😂 1758751960.0\n", + "Their real rapture will be when the epstein files are fully released 🤣 1758754549.0\n", + "I’d love “hey you don’t need this stuff sell it to\n", + "Me for a dollar. Yeah, your house, car, dollar. Hell I’ll\n", + "Be generous a dollar _each_”. Prove your faith. 1758756957.0\n", + "Still insufferable assholes thumping a book they don't actually read or follow. In other words, it's a day ending in Y. 1758762693.0\n", + "They'll just make some bullshit excuse that they got the time and date wrong and it'll be the next one that's the real one... Rinse and repeat. Religion doesn't need to make sense to regular people, only to the believers. 1758762736.0\n", + "I work with a devout Christian guy. I said to him yesterday that I was sad to see him still there as it was Rapture Day. We both had a big laugh about it. \n", + "\n", + "None of the Christians I know are dumb enough to have believed that. 1758764490.0\n", + "idk but rosh hashana was lit 1758765765.0\n", + "No one actually believes this but 6 mentally maligned individuals who racked up millions of views making fun of them now it’s a cultural phenomenon, or something. 1758766727.0\n", + "Just like NFTs gone and forgotten about 1758796418.0\n", + "They're probably busy being just as fucking stupid as they were before? Why care? It's like caring about the thoughts of an earthworm 1758801761.0\n", + "If a rapture really did happen, the white Christian nationalists would not be chosen but rather the average liberal who has values more in line with what Jesus taught. 1758743948.0\n", + "My mom was pretty convinced. It’s been crickets 1758731604.0\n", + "I was the only one who even mentioned it. 1758730864.0\n", + "I must be like 3rd string or aome shit. 1758732097.0\n", + "I grew up evangelical and a ton of my friends and family are still conservative evangelicals - I couldn't find one who thought the Rapture was actually happening yesterday. \n", + "\n", + "I think this is a case of a very small group of people (relatively speaking) having access to social media and appearing much larger than they actually are because they got attention. \n", + "\n", + "Anyway, here's a link to 88 reasons the rapture is coming in 1988. Don't worry, once it didn't happen they wrote a sequel for 1989. [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13043072-88-reasons-why-the-rapture-is-in-1988](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13043072-88-reasons-why-the-rapture-is-in-1988) 1758733345.0\n", + "They don't care when they're wrong. 1758733840.0\n", + "Just remember, the rapture is actually an idea from the early-mid 1800’s.\n", + "\n", + "You can’t expect uniformity in religion normally, much less so from shit concocted almost ~2000 years after the religion was founded. 1758734494.0\n", + "Dont say *left* beihind, they're already triggered enough 1758738835.0\n", + "I don’t know anyone who thought that was true. 1758738861.0\n", + "I saw something today that says they think God is waiting for the Epstein files to be released. 1758741323.0\n", + "I don't see this said enough. The Rapture isn't in the Bible. It was \"invented\" in the 1800s. 1758742491.0\n", + "A Rapture would be the best thing for the world. These “chosen ones” are a lot of what is wrong with the world. 1758743439.0\n", + "Depends on the Christians you actually mean.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "If we're talking about real Christians, they're fine because we all know that no one except God knows the time and day it will happen.\n", + "\n", + "If we're talking about Christian Nationalists, I hope they're taking it the worst way possible. 1758744463.0\n", + "there's no fucking rapture only delulu evangelists 1758744937.0\n", + "Did anyone other than brain-rotted Tik Tokkers even know about this? 1758745124.0\n", + "I can't shake the thought that if the Rapture was real and you made a Tik Tok video saying \"Rapture is happening, but I'll make a follow up video if it doesn't\", wouldn't God know that in your soul you don't really believe it's going to happen and therefore wouldn't Rapture you??\n", + "\n", + "Basically, in making contigencies for the Rapture you're demonstrating that you don't trust God. God knows this and isn't going to let you into Heaven. The mere fact that you haven't given away all your Earthly possessions shows that you aren't fully on board with God's plan, so why would you expect him to welcome you into Heaven??\n", + "\n", + "It's almost like it's all made up... 1758748352.0\n", + "How are they handling it? Just like every other aspect of their delusions. Constant goal post movement. \n", + "\n", + "I’ve not seen many responses but I guarantee anybody who believed it Tuesday will NOT have a moment of self reflection. 1758750864.0\n", + "An old, but classic psychological field study on this type of thing that was partially used to establish and support the theory of cognitive dissonance was Leon Festinger’s 1956 book When Prophecy Fails. It’s pretty interesting. The researchers made connections with people in a doomsday cult, and profiled the cult members both before and after their doomsday date passed. It was interesting to read about the various characteristics of people who join these types of cults and the variety of reactions of them after the prophecy failed. 1758751016.0\n", + "Virtually nobody actually believed this. it was a tiny handful of people, many of whom I suspect were faking for views, that got posted on social media. It's plain in black white in the Bible that nobody can know ahead of time when it will hppen. 1758761022.0\n", + "The doofus wants his dog and truck back. A deal's a deal pal. 1758762270.0\n", + "The rapture isn’t even biblical. 1758763987.0\n", + "Dang. I was hoping for some peace and quiet but instead I gotta deal with this shit still. 1758765414.0\n", + "they’re busy moving the goal posts 1758766694.0\n", + "If they are true Christians then they know it was fake, no one knows the time and day 1758767781.0\n", + "The funny thing is, if the rapture is true the very low key and kind Christian’s are the ones getting taken away so we probably wouldn’t even notice they were gone unless we knew and loved them personally enough to notice. We’ve lived through like 10 raptures, but for all we know ppl were taken every time and god keeps trying bc so few ppl meet his quota 😅 then it just leaves us with more and more batshit evangelicals with less and less decent believers to combat their narrative from the inside… 1758767833.0\n", + "I’ve been telling people the rapture happened „sorry only POCs were raptured to get them somewhere safe“ 1758769500.0\n", + "I don't know about them but I was really counting on getting a new car, maybe move into one of those empty McMansions 1758770275.0\n", + "I was walking into work and some polite gents were handing out pocket bibles. I wanted very much to chuck it into the street. I simply declined taking one. \n", + "\n", + "I also, very much wanted to ask “weren’t you supposed to be raptured yesterday?” 1758771229.0\n", + "Follow-up question: What's rapture tik tok looking like the last 12 hours? More crying? Moving goalposts? Silent? 1758771948.0\n", + "I don’t even like calling them Christians. Rapture isn’t biblical and it’s antithetical to all the teachings of the Bible. 1758773366.0\n", + "What happened with the tik tok lady who sold her house 1758774456.0\n", + "Christianity is the only group that seems to never lose credibility with its followers after making countless incorrect predictions. It's the end of the world every year according to them. 1758777320.0\n", + "God keeps on having do-overs in hope He'll find a true Christian. In the last 30 attempts He's netted two yellow labs and a female mallard. I can understand the labs, but what's the deal with that mallard? 1758782532.0\n", + "the good news is that girl who had to poop but didnt want to be on the toilet when rapture came can finally relieve her bowels! 1758784067.0\n", + "I've been gaslighting them all day and it's been a blast 1758787648.0\n", + "As an atheist all I can say is beam them up, Jesus. 1758797906.0\n", + "No true Christian. 1758799298.0\n", + "Most Christians are not of the \"rapture\" variety. 1758802338.0\n", + "The rapture makes as much sense as getting 70 virgins when you die. It's hilarious that people actually fall for this fantasy. 1758804298.0\n", + "Since the “rapture” is completely unbiblical it’s not something I worry about. 1758804653.0\n", + "You realize this wasn't a mainstream thing. 99.999999999999999999999% of Christians didn't take this seriously and that's if they even heard about it at all. 1758810687.0\n", + "True Christians are fine and dont feel left behind.  We know that no one except for God himself knows the day and time so the rest is all noise 1758817526.0\n", + "Most of them are probably busy trying to explain how this was just a test run and the real rapture is coming any minute now. 😅 1758927384.0\n", + "I feel like any Christian extreme enough to have those beliefs wouldn't socialise with anybody outside of their church, least of all a Redditor. 1758975068.0\n", + "Y’all see the footage of the Ugandan Christians gathering in the forest and up a hill singing and waiting for the rapture? Then the inevitable coming down and going home? 1759053368.0\n", + "Calendar re-set for October (missed September clearly). \n", + "Good Luck with that.\n", + "Wonder what the next iteration will be? 1759101643.0\n", + "You'd have better luck finding an abortionist in the Vatican than finding an evangelical Christian on Reddit. 1758730928.0\n", + "The rapture has been extended to today. 1758732757.0\n", + "They really should have committed like the heavens gate folks. Bet they all went to work that day as well. They don’t believe it, it’s just schtick. 1758738900.0\n", + "MAGA Christians wake up disappointed they have to live in the world they created. 1758742569.0\n", + "Honestly, i'm not sure I've ever met an actual Christian. Also, nothing about \"the Rapture\" is biblical. 1758745442.0\n", + "I’m devastated that these twats are still around to wreck it for the rest of us. 1758745766.0\n", + "I've heard quite a few say that yesterday was a \"test\" to see who the true faithful were. I've never seen people move goal posts so fast in my life. 1758747896.0\n", + "If heaven exist, I dont want to enter it if it's full of americal evangelicalists. It would be hell for me. 1758751918.0\n", + "I think Jesus did come down from the heavens to do the rapture, but then ICE immediately picked him up. 1758753609.0\n", + "They're probably trying to buy their car back.  1758731494.0\n", + "I don't know anyone who went all in on it. Given the number of raptures I've lived through I can't fathom how anyone can still go all in on these predictions. 1758731812.0\n", + "I know Baptists, pentecostals, etc. Literally the only people talking about this that I have run into are redditors. I ASKED people from those backgrounds if they'd heard the rapture was yesterday, and they'd heard nothing. 1758731838.0\n", + "What if the raptures are actually happening, but nobody is ever worthy enough? 1758731880.0\n", + "Well technically they have to the end of the day today. Yesterday was just the dead getting it. 1758731905.0\n", + "I work with a pretty hardcore Christian (the kind that has actually read his Bible and practices what Jesus preached). He hadn't even heard about it and thought it was absolute nonsense when I told him. 1758732021.0\n", + "So do we have a list now of all the people who were “raptured” yesterday? Would love to see it 1758732196.0\n", + "I actually don’t know any real life people who thought they’d be raptured. It certainly was not mentioned in church this past weekend. (Then again my church doesn’t go for pop culture weirdness like the rapture, and for that matter hardly ever mentions the end times or anything like that.) \n", + "\n", + "But hey, maybe some of the disappointed people will choose to watch The Leftovers to deal with their confusion and I’m always glad when people watch The Leftovers. 1758732374.0\n", + "Just as an aside for anyone who doesn't know: The concept of the rapture didn't exist until the early 1800s. 1758733615.0\n", + "I’m a Christian. I believe in the Rapture. I don’t believe anyone knows when it will be (Matt. 24:36). I am continuing to live life as normal. 1758733837.0\n", + "I wish i had known sooner and I was somewhat known to have enough followers to make it fun...basically the idea was to admit I was wrong about the rapture...that what I witnessed was beyond anything I had ever seen...if I had the money, even make some videos of like parents floating away...get loads of people in on it and pretend they all witnessed people disappear right in front of them and have discussions on how they wish they had believed and felt really bad about it...then all the Christians who did believe it was going to happen see those videos and see lots of them, they'd sit their wondering why they didn't go...then later do interviews with said people and be like, clearly you were not a good enough Christian as you didn't go 1758733868.0\n", + "Just as mentally deficient as they were before. 1758733930.0\n", + "Evilgelicals give the rest of us Christians a bad name. 1758734119.0\n", + "If you can believe in a god existing, you can believe anything. 1758734121.0\n", + "Seems to me all these “evangelicals” would have been out last week evangelizing. \n", + "\n", + "In the end they preferred to keep it to themselves 1758734239.0\n", + "I have been telling people the rapture did happen, but we are all heathens alike, deal with it! 1758734244.0\n", + "This happens all the time. Cult shit. 1758734249.0\n", + "Even God doesn’t want those losers, lol. 1758734300.0\n", + "The Rapture is always a fun time to see what morons actually full send on it. There's been plenty of times in my lifetime it really came to head. 2000-2001 we had a big push for it and people were selling off all their stuff. \n", + "\n", + "Like I've always semi curious to know what it takes mentally to have this blinding faith that you think a magical bearded man is going to pluck you from this dirt ball to the sky and just not even have a rational brain cell fire to go.....hey maybe this isn't real. \n", + "\n", + "That's like running into a brick wall in a train station so I can go hang out with some magic folk. That's the same level of ridiculousness the rapture applies to. 1758734478.0\n", + "If they weren’t willing to give away all their possessions and money then they didn’t really believe. 1758734586.0\n", + "I honestly feel like the bible is a book of lore. There is no rapture. What he’s talking about, in bible speak, is you fuggin DIED homie! 1758734834.0\n", + "Did anyone get any stuff from a Christian relative - and do they want it back now???? 1758735194.0\n", + "This is literally something I've only heard about on Reddit. 1758735253.0\n", + "Some one needs to tell them they wasn't good enough Christians. 1758735515.0\n", + "I'm as disappointed as they are. 1758735644.0\n", + "I have a hard time believing anybody was really taking it seriously. I'm pretty sure it was all just memes. 1758735691.0\n", + "The majority of the Christians I know aren't evangelical/stupid enough to believe this nonsense. 1758735741.0\n", + "This is like kids eating Tide Pods but for Reddit atheists instead of middle aged Facebook moms...\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "I'm sure there was some small subset of Christians that believe that the rapture was coming today, but not nearly enough for you average reddit poster to know any of them. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Hell, I live in a pretty rural area of the southern US, and I don't know how many people I know even believe in the rapture as a concept, much less have a date in mind.  1758735773.0\n", + "All I know is that I like my airline pilots to be atheists so when the rapture comes, someone is still flying the plane. 1758735906.0\n", + "Is this a regional thing? I live in a very red/Christian area and never heard even a little peep until I saw reddit making fun of it. 1758736089.0\n", + "I don’t know a single Christian who thought the rapture was going to happen.\n", + "\n", + "This was definitely an example of the internet not being real life. 1758736147.0\n", + "I haven't read my Bible in a long time but if I remember correctly there's no mention of any \"Rapture\" I do seem to recall something about the \"elect\" who would ascend to divinity ahead of everyone else in church as a child though. But my impression then was globally it would amount to a handful of people. \n", + "\n", + "So, my thinking is if those people vanished this week and you were expecting to be raptured, maybe it's time to reassess your life. Maybe literally do some introspective soul searching to determine if you're really worthy or just assume you are. If I'm not mistaken, the first tenant of being truly Christian is to not hate anyone. To not judge others. Good luck with that. 1758736230.0\n", + "I’m Christian and the only way I know of this is from Reddit making of Christians for believing it. Lol 1758736248.0\n", + "People need to get off the internet🙄 didnt hear one peep about this outside of reddit. 1758736337.0\n", + "I only heard about it from Reddit, so I'm doing good. 1758736782.0\n", + "Hopefully the rapture took them all, so we can start making the world a better place. 1758736832.0\n", + "I think the rapture is an American thing we don’t have it here in the UK. 1758737065.0\n", + "I’m 43 now and all the people who were upset about the first 20 raptures we were supposed to have that never came are either dead now or too old to care anymore. Seriously, if you’re an elder millennial, your grandparents and parents have been pretty vocally preparing for the rapture since you were born and we are desensitized to it now. 1758737071.0\n", + "Stop making a big deal of what a tiny minority of people believe in.\n", + "\n", + "Overwhelming majority of Christians didn’t believe that the end of the world would happen yesterday. 1758737209.0\n", + "I don't know any Christians. 1758737280.0\n", + "The rapture happened. It’s just that nobody made the cut. 1758737506.0\n", + "I don't know anyone that stupid 1758738406.0\n", + "Very few actual Christians fall for these hoaxes. 1758738436.0\n", + "I actually go to a women's Bible study on Tuesday mornings and my table was all giggles about the whole rapture thing because we all knew it was absolute bollocks. My mom called me this morning and was like \"so I guess the rapture didn't happen yesterday\" and we had a good laugh. \n", + "\n", + "I don't think most Christians believed an ounce of it. It seems like every once in a while some group of people gets all riled up saying they believe the rapture will happen on X day. I don't know where they get their ideas from but they're not the majority, for sure. 1758738438.0\n", + "I was raptured then sent back, mistaken identity. 1758738788.0\n", + "Ah dammit. Did I miss it? Every. Single. Time. 1758739119.0\n", + "I'm now living in one of their mansions. 1758739236.0\n", + "Any good post-rapture TikToks to share? 1758739244.0\n", + "Nobody in real life with any sanity believed this. Besides the Bible is clear that nobody knows when so the “ believers” need to chill 1758739334.0\n", + "The whole idea of the rapture only came about around the time of the American Civil War. It didnt even catch on until the early 20th century when the Scofield Bible was circulating in the US. 1758739518.0\n", + "The Bible says we will not know when the rapture happens. Part of the problem is people who believe for the most part don’t even know what the Bible says. I believe but I wanted to make sure I read the dang book before I just believed in something. 1758740011.0\n", + "My pap said fuck the rapture I'm going out beforehand so I don't find out who isn't going, myself included. \n", + "\n", + "He went a few days before the rapture was due at nearly 100 years old. RIP old man 1758740063.0\n", + "They're saying that it was either a test run or that there was human error and they misunderstood what God's message really was. 1758740199.0\n", + "I was raptured once. It didn't take, I think I got it from sitting on a public toilet. 1758740525.0\n", + "I’m kinda sad….. I was looking forward to all those people being called home….. have you spent anytime looking at these ass hats…. Imagine a world without these crazies who do so much stupid shot in the name of an old white guy with a beard who lives in a cloud bank. 1758740558.0\n", + "I'm still trying to find anyone who truly believed it to begin with, honestly. I'm skeptical that people saying they believed it on TikTok actually did and I don't kno anyone IRL who did. And I'm Christian, my daughter goes to a private Christian school, so I don't think this is just a matter of not knowing any Christians. 1758740616.0\n", + "I’ve seen several say that the joke is on the rest of us because it was a test from God 🤔 Sure, Jan. 1758740665.0\n", + "They keep asking for their house title back.\n", + "\n", + "(annoying, not gonna happen) 1758740955.0\n", + "I'm posting from Heaven rn. 1758741034.0\n", + "Christian here, first time I’m hearing about this. Can’t believe anybody fell for it when the Bible clearly says no one knows when the rapture will happen 1758741156.0\n", + "What part of not knowing when He will return was unclear in the Bible? 1758741815.0\n", + "It's important to note about Rapture that only a few Christian denominations even believe in the concept. Catholics and many Protestant churches do not believe the Rapture is part of the end times. 1758742622.0\n", + "Fine because it’s all just part of a grift 1758742671.0\n", + "I sometimes feel a rapture-like event happened during COVID, which is why the world has been upside down ever since. 1758742722.0\n", + "It did happen. \n", + "\n", + "And only the truly good ones ascended. \n", + "\n", + "Which is why nothing has changed. \n", + "\n", + "God will probably try again soon. 1758743145.0\n", + "Literally don’t know a real person who said a word about this. Glad I don’t have any dummies like this in my life. 1758743435.0\n", + "Pretty funny if the Rapture did actually happen - but it was just some dude named Steve in Ohio that got raptured and now his family all just think he ran off… 1758743792.0\n", + "I think they’re just rescheduling the end of the world for a new date. 1758745456.0\n", + "Out of the entire length of human history and the existence of this planet. These fools are so self centered to think the most holy most existential moment is going to happen to them at the convenience of their toilet seats.\n", + "\n", + "I am glad that I have absolutely no interaction in my life with people this insane. 1758745814.0\n", + "What I like to point out is that there are more disappearances daily worldwide than the total number of souls that will be raptured. So even if it does happen it wouldn't be statistically significant from any other day. 1758745872.0\n", + "I don't know any regular real life Christians who were even aware of anything about this...why is the internet acting like everyone thought it was happening? It was just one random African guy. \n", + "\n", + "All I've seen were a ton of Christians online saying that no one knows when it's supposed happen and that this guy was just a liar like the literal *thousands if not millions* of people over human history who have said \"yeah, the world is ending in a few months.\n", + "\n", + "We've had this discussion a billion times and over and over. I know a lot of you have a this pathetic fixation and a hate boner for Christianity because you're too spineless to criticize other religions because they're not white enough, but man...this was not a Christian thing. It never is. It's always some fringe cult leader moron that no one takes seriously. Why do you think the Pope never comes out and says anything or talks with them? Everyone knows it's bullshit including 99.999% of Christians...even the ones who never read the bible and barely know anything about their own religion. It's basic Sunday School Veggie Tales stuff. False Prophets.\n", + "\n", + "The reason this happens literally every months for the last thousands of years is because when people get older, we tend to find comfort in the idea of the world ending soon because it means we wont miss anything when we die. things can stop being when we stop being. It's not just religious people. It's all of you anti-religion people too. Whether it's a politician who is going to end everything, some other country is going to end everything, a natural disaster, aliens, an epidemic. Everyone at some point has a fantasy about some kind of end all be all event that changes everything. And sometimes they get a massive amount of attention. And you know why people, including logical ones engage with it or entertain the idea? Because a part of them wants the excitement and for something significant to happen even when it's bad. We hype up events and say \"this is going to change everything!\" and then things just go back to normal with only gradual and slow non-dramatic changes that most people don't feel unless directly affected. A lot of people in some way shape or form want it or at least think about it at least a few times. 1758747370.0\n", + "denmark here, reddit is the only place I've heard of any rapture forecast 1758747524.0\n", + "Why sell things when you can't take the money with you?  1758748581.0\n", + "So sad the rapture didn't happen. I mean, just *think* of all the parking spaces that would free up. 1758748696.0\n", + "They'll just say that it's a test of their faith and move on. 1758748723.0\n", + "Only on Reddit was this news 1758749031.0\n", + "I still don't know when this started or when it was supposed to happen... The one friend I have who I know is Christian didn't mention it at all\n", + "\n", + "I guess it's a weird US thing? 1758749296.0\n", + "One thing's for sure! They are *not* appreciating me telling them yesterday was the anniversary the release of Blondie's [Rapture](https://youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?si=kIqsajUt4GhA1sER).\n", + "\n", + "It wasn't, but I'm trying to give them an *exit strategy*.\n", + "\n", + "I'd also like to apologize to Christianity. When I was *fucking terrified* of the first rapture in the 80s, I said \"I predict the rapture will happen in the next million years\". According to the Goat Herders' Guide to the Galaxy, that means that it cannot happen since no one knows the time.\n", + "\n", + "Sorry. 1758749861.0\n", + "This was like the least believed rapture in my life. Only the extra special dumbies 1758750103.0\n", + "Its funny how all Raptures are set in the USA 1758750740.0\n", + "I know a lot of Christians. I don't know any who went \"all in\" on this. In fact, most laughed and had no idea this was even a thing.\n", + "\n", + "I think a lot of this is hyped up nonsense where a handful of people say something dumb and then people on the \"other team\" pick it up and run with it to say *\"hurr hurr look how dumb they all are!\"* 1758751903.0\n", + "I've been swamped at work recently and I missed it. Why didn't I get into heaven this time? 1758752224.0\n", + "Sounds like they didnt pray hard enough 1758752442.0\n", + "Gilted by God? 1758752540.0\n", + "Call them The Unwanted 1758752639.0\n", + "It must suck to be a Christian (mainly American Christians) and realise that once again you got left behind in the Rapture. \n", + "\n", + "I guess it just shows that American Christians aren’t actually very Christian and are going to hell. 1758752788.0\n", + "I say we declare it a successful rapture! Yes! It really happened! Absolutely EVERY human being who had God's favor was called home today. All none of them. You weren't raptured? Oh well. You missed it. You have failed the great test. Now you are stuck here with all the rest of us heathens. On the up-side we have cookies! 1758752817.0\n", + "Didn't you hear? God is delaying the Rapture until the Epstein Files are released.\n", + "\n", + "(Not kidding, that's what some are actually saying: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/comments/1npa4yi/christians_say_god_is_delaying_rapture_until/ 1758753329.0\n", + "I swear us Christians don't even read the scripture. “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24‬:‭36‬ 1758754022.0\n", + "Anyone still here today will spend eternity in damnation with us homos and commies. \n", + "Welcome! \n", + "Jello shot? 1758754389.0\n", + "I don't know anyone this dumb thankfully. 1758754744.0\n", + "Rapture complete. \n", + "\n", + "The only one worth taken was a 13 year old Icelandic atheist girl. 1758754791.0\n", + "I wanted to leave empty clothes piles randomly in stores. Just to watch the fallout as people lose their minds. 1758754948.0\n", + "Raptures are overrated. Personally, I'm waiting for the Apocalypse and Armageddon. 🤣 1758755222.0\n", + "Shit! I missed it. 1758755505.0\n", + "Huh? Did I miss anything?  1758755834.0\n", + "I dont know any Christians that were awaiting the rapture because I dont associate with deranged lunatics and cult members. 1758756751.0\n", + "You mean it did not happen? There were a few people I was really hoping would get raptured so I would not have to deal with them anymore. 1758756823.0\n", + "I actually don't know any other than one person in the christian sub (I was peeking in) that was arguing with me \"you never know\" and after it didn't happen they stopped responding to me 1758757016.0\n", + "God, I'm glad I don't associate with that brand of religious. 1758757236.0\n", + "Lets say the rapture was coming... to be so pretentious to believe you'd be chosen so you give away everything.\n", + "\n", + "If it were to happen, the ones being picked would be that old kind lady thats unsure if shes has been good enough. (She has)\n", + "\n", + "Or that homeless guy giving away his last 5 bucks so someone else could have a meal.\n", + "\n", + "Or that couple that saves animals and people that needs help.\n", + "\n", + "Not a single fucking priest or pastor would be flying up. They got it all wrong but think they got it all right.\n", + "\n", + "Not a single person that gave money to a church would be picked.\n", + "\n", + "Thats just how i view it. Cant buy yourself into heaven, its based on deeds and heart. 1758757478.0\n", + "They doing what they do. If their god did it, he did it for a reason. If he didn't, he didn't for a reason. They think this makes sense. It's why we need more of the separation of church and state not less. \n", + "\n", + "The rapture is as stupid as Catholics classifying beavers as fish back in the day or reluctantly accepting electricity. They just do shit for ridiculous reasons. It's as silly as saying Mormons gave up polygamy because of prophecy. Or snake handlers & speaking in tongues as devotion. The list goes on and on of the remaining \"modern\" mythologies that are not nearly as entertaining as their polytheistic predecessors. \n", + "\n", + "\"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.\"\n", + "\n", + "George Carlin 1758757525.0\n", + "I don't think it was actually a thing. \n", + "\n", + "I am involved in 3 churches doing work. No one thought Jesus was returning. \n", + "\n", + "I think people on Tik Tok saw this as a chance to get views, pretended to be excited about Jesus returning, and got clicks. And next week, they'll do something else. 1758757622.0\n", + "I’m devastated. Over the past 30 days I liquidated all my personal assets/ possessions. I sat all alone in my empty house all day yesterday, I fell asleep during the night. I awoke this morning in my cold empty house, no food, barely any money. I’ve going through the 7 stages of grief, I’m angry at God. Guess I’ll have to yank up on my old bootstraps and get a job. 1758758369.0\n", + "The Rapture did happen. No one made the cut 1758758475.0\n", + "The number of people that actually believed in the rapture couldn't have been more than a couple hundred schizophrenics and I don't think they had much going on before that anyway 1758759394.0\n", + "The rapture was real, but no one qualified 1758760529.0\n", + "If you want to freak them out, tell them the rapture actually happened, but they didn’t make the cut. 1758760682.0\n", + "Please God! Take them! No, please leave me, we will be fine. 1758761419.0\n", + "Only good Christians get Raptured. Soooooo…. 1758761426.0\n", + "You know how many raptures I’ve lived through? 🤣 1758761749.0\n", + "Rapture is a human construct meaning it will never happen. Nothing more than hopes and prayers. 1758762288.0\n", + "as a non believer who lives in a heavily christian area, I am havinga good hearty laugh . f them all 1758762461.0\n", + "Were they hoping to die??? 1758762502.0\n", + "Maybe all the good Christian’s are gone. We’re all the folks left behind. 1758764065.0\n", + "I'm afraid I don't know anyone quite that stupid 1758764644.0\n", + "I never heard anything about it except people gloating after the fact and most of the people I know are Christian (I'm an atheist). 1758764763.0\n", + "I live in a US state bordering an ocean so nothing. 1758765556.0\n", + "Wait we didn’t rapture? 1758765636.0\n", + "Not sure but if anyone would still like to make a donation (like a car, house, money) to us godless heathens, please drop me a DM and I will see to it that these assets are distributed fairly.\n", + "\n", + "I hear heaven has a VIP fast track ticket pass for those who are feeling \\*extra\\* generous. 1758765903.0\n", + "If you know 'Christians' who thought anyone could predict the rapture, they're not Christians. 1758765905.0\n", + "The misunderstanding of scripture, eschatology and the rapture is what is causing all the predictions rubbish.  Evangelicals got it wrong.  The rapture is an event for THE LAST DAY after the GREAT TRIBULATION is fulfilled.  Many believe they will be spared from the darkest period in human history when antichrist Donald Trump persecutes and kills Christians around the world after declaring himself to be god in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.  Christians will be shocked when there is NO RAPTURE and they're being offered the mark of the beast or death for refusing it.  Christianity in the final days will be a call to forfeit one's life and become a martyr for their faith in Christ.  \"Remember they hated me first\".   It will be the most terrifying period in history and Christians must trust God to carry them \"through\" this tribulation while giving them the strength to suffer and die  1758766196.0\n", + "They have Reddit in heaven. It’s amazing up here, suckers !!!! 1758768174.0\n", + "The Bible says no man will know the hour, so I never really listen to these dates 1758768495.0\n", + "r/raptureatemyface 1758768771.0\n", + "I ask again. AGAIN?!?? They fell for this AGAIN??? 1758768940.0\n", + "Well... I had zero expectations... and still I was disappointed. 1758769630.0\n", + "All this rapture stuff is absolutely wild to me. I grew up Eastern Orthodox and we have absolutely no concept of this in that church. I remember hearing about it for the first time when I was in high school and I was like...there's no way people actually believe this. 1758770742.0\n", + "noone cared. Only weird social media people like me on reddit thought they cared and made up a thing and then made fun of the made up people for the made up thing. 1758770768.0\n", + "I thought we were in hell or purgatory already tbh 😭 humans are a plague 1758770904.0\n", + "Yea cause it’s not like it’s some made up bullshit - just that all the believers were unworthy, suck at life & being raptured- losers 1758772789.0\n", + "Thankfully, the Christians I know don't have religious psychosis. 1758774165.0\n", + "Same as Jehovah’s Witness’s have after years of false predictions, guess I’ll just keep attending meetings and wait for the next false hope. 1758774371.0\n", + "Most Christians know better than to try and predict the rapture. Jesus said that even *he* didn't know when he'd be returning. It's literally right there in the Bible. 1758775607.0\n", + "I asked if it they were wrong or if it really happened and they just weren’t good enough Christians to get chosen 1758775759.0\n", + "My parents are Southern Baptist and my dad’s birthday was “rapture day”. They didn’t mention it once of believe. Because revelations foretells that won’t know the day of rapture. 1758775814.0\n", + "is this the same rapture like in Bioshock? 1758775936.0\n", + "I remember being a fundamentalist Christian growing up very well. The rapture happened quite often back then. As a kid, it was actually incredibly traumatizing having every adult in my life tell me the world is going to end about every 6 months. Always terrified. The amount of nights, as a child, I stayed up crying and praying begging god to spare me, years of having multiple people surround me, \"lay hands on me,\" and start yelling at me to release the demons.. literally thinking I had demons inside me.. I was like 7 years old. I didn't even like girls yet but there were actual demons in me? fuck that shit. I'm 30 and still dealing with the fallout. The fear, paranoia, the ego of believing the whole universe was created for me. That I had special \"gifts\" god gave me. It's so unhealthy \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "If somehow, some way, a Christian who's in that world reads this, you are not raising your kids to be good people. You're indoctrinating them, you're traumatizing them, you're torturing them into behaving. You're not being a good parent. You're not taking them to church, youre taking them directly to hell, and locking the gate so they'll burn for the rest of their mortal lives.. 1758776551.0\n", + "Are we in the Good Place now? 1758776952.0\n", + "I don’t personally know any Christians that believed the Rapture was going to happen. I believe the book says ‘like a thief in the night’ and ‘no man shall know the time or day’ or something like that. 1758777217.0\n", + "Sorry was there a rapture scare I wasn’t aware of? 1758778249.0\n", + "Any actual Christian knows better. The ones you saw on social media were the fake ones. 1758778343.0\n", + "They were disappointed that I, an atheist, was chosen for the rapture and they weren’t. I decided to come back though… forgot my phone charger. 1758778620.0\n", + "This rapture was preached by a south african priest, most people who belived this or heard of it, is from north america. \n", + "\n", + "Very few people actually belive the rapture is coming because most christians know that noone can know the date or time. and the worst thing ive seen someone do is selling their car. 1758779407.0\n", + "Guess they weren’t the chosen people. 🤷‍♂️ 1758780222.0\n", + "None of the christians I know were even aware of such a thing. Big on reddit tho 1758780539.0\n", + "I'm a Christian and many of my friends are Christians. I had never even heard of this idiotic prediction until the day it was supposed to happen. When it started to gain media attention, everybody I knew was making fun of it, because it was just another prediction of something that we knew wasn't going to happen.\n", + "\n", + "Some people outside the church also fail to understand that the entire idea of a \"rapture\" is a belief held by a minority of Christians. The idea wasn't even invented until the early 1800s. It's a position held by a small minority of the world's Christians. There are plenty of articles about the subject online, including one at Wikipedia from which you can learn how relatively few Christians take this seriously. To be frank, it's mostly just nutcases, but nutcases get a lot of media attention. 1758780582.0\n", + "If history has taught me anything if they sold everything they own they'll start a new church that guesses a new date every couple of years 1758782943.0\n", + "Cognitive dissonance, as has been the case when Jesus already lied and failed to come back 2000 years ago. 1758783531.0\n", + "Who the fuck knows Christians who went all in on this particular rapture? What shithole are those people living in? 1758784803.0\n", + "Currently live-streaming a sermon titled ‘God’s WiFi must be down 1758790168.0\n", + "I hang out with non-red christians. I think none of them ever heard of this. 1758791247.0\n", + "I was promised all these assholes were gonna leave. We could have gotten so much done.... 1758794165.0\n", + "I can’t believe people fall for this crap. Don’t they know what happened to the [Heaven’s Gate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)) cult and what Jesus said about false prophets? 1758794918.0\n", + "The thing I'm wondering is: who made money off of this? 1758797360.0\n", + "I can't find them. 1758798164.0\n", + "“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”\n", + "\n", + "If you are a Christian that spent time going to church you’d already know this by now. 1758798924.0\n", + "We all know it’s appointed unto man to die. In fact there’s only two persons in the book who were raptured (caught up into the sky) Elijah and Enoch. Guess what??? They get to come back as messengers someday. but guess what else? They too will die. Even Jesus died but then showed there’s more to it than death. \n", + "\n", + "So how these churchiest cringes today somehow believe that they get a free twinkle of the eye on that one (compared to the rest) shows the depravity of their self entitlement. Personally, I can’t stand it. Personally it’s an abhorrence to the whole real message of the Maker - to Love and support each other.\n", + "\n", + "It’s gotten soooo bad with the lack of separation between state and church that it’s time to tax them for their meddling with political intentions. 1758799172.0\n", + "When you're old, every day i seems like a \"rapture\" whether or not you're a Christian. Someone you know leaves and you get left behind. 1758802149.0\n", + "GACO god always chickens out 1758802214.0\n", + "The Rapture isn’t in the Bible. It was created by fundamentalists in the 1830s. 1758803075.0\n", + "Hail Zorp! 1758804157.0\n", + " My toxic coworker took the day off, so we had a potluck and made sure we took lots of photos to share. 1758805117.0\n", + "The new excuse is their god has postponed it until the Epstein files are released.\n", + "\n", + "Matthew 24:36, states, \"But about that day or hour no one knows,\" They just don't get it. 1758805594.0\n", + "I've lived through so many of these the rapture or the end of the world....if they believed the Bible, which I am an atheist but they aren't and they seem to ignore that one little verse that says no one knows the time you know when the big guy burst through the worm hole and carries all the oxygen breathers through the galaxy looking for the right worm hole and would that make a good novel or what...worm hole or burst. 1758806015.0\n", + "I've got no idea didn't even hear about this til yesterday guess it was a con job. 1758809725.0\n", + "Lived through 19 raptures according to Wikipedia. 1758810261.0\n", + "According to my local minister, the reason we didn't experience the Rapture was that we didn't demonstrate our readiness to be swept off to heaven. We all needed to give at LEAST an additional $250 per person ($125 per adherent) as a sign to God we are dedicated and ready to give up our worldly possessions and join him in heaven. \n", + "\n", + "(If you've read this far, I hope you're laughing - this is intended as satire.) 1758811901.0\n", + "rené rapp just started her tour the day of, so my RAPpture did in fact happen & it is glorious 🥰 1758813038.0\n", + "Do people really think these people were serious and weren't just engagement baiting people?\n", + "\n", + "I get it, it's tempting to scoff at the religious nuts, but maybe you're the one being played here. 1758814364.0\n", + "I don't even know any Christians who have been taken in by the fake rapture nonsense. 1758814435.0\n", + "Well I was really looking forward to getting all my Christian friends stuff. Some of them nice houses! Oh well, as a Jew I have no hope of being raptured so you know gotta live out the tribulation in style! 1758816867.0\n", + "Maybe it did happen and this is heaven as of today?  1758817831.0\n", + "If you feel the rapture is coming tomorrow, feel free to do the good Christian thing and send me all your money! :) 1758817857.0\n", + "I feel like this is a uniquely American thing as I've not come across this at all (Europe).\n", + "\n", + "However, this has happened a number of times and this time seems to be the first time I've heard a lot of people selling stuff etc. Is this because of tiktok? 1758823744.0\n", + "The Rapture happened! It totally happened.\n", + "\n", + "Everybody still here is damned.\n", + "\n", + "Wearing a crucifix? Tough luck, God doesn't want you. You're going to burn extra hard because of your hypocrisy, he saw through you.\n", + "\n", + "bwahahahahaha 1758830816.0\n", + "The very fact that someone gave a date to the rapture guaranteed it wasn’t happening. lol\n", + "Scripture is very clear no one knows the time but God. 1758860036.0\n", + "Total apostate here having a blast laughing at all of them, \"Still here? God didn't want you, eh? Oh well, can't say I'm surprised\"🤷🏽‍♀️😂🤣😂 1758895390.0\n", + "Damn.. all those annoying people are still here... 1758906558.0\n", + "the rapture happened and we all got left behind 1759072930.0\n", + "Literally nothing happened\n", + "On the day of the rapture. And all I could think of that day is how my mom named our animal crossing island rapture ☂️☂️☂️☂️ 1759318069.0\n", + "They're moving the goalposts to spiritualize it and say it spiritually happened OR that they had it confused and it's happening later but short term later. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "It's never happening and they're insistent so much it's disturbing 1759599742.0\n", + "Guys guys guys slow down remember the 21 day delay we all know to be true that hadn't been mentioned until now 1760054000.0\n", + "My Christian brother refuses to believe it. He says that they just got the date wrong and that it will happen September 23rd of another year. When I told him that he had a job under Biden, he got angry and stormed off. Lol! 1760288161.0\n", + "Reminder to all that hardly anybody outside North America believes in the rapture at all. American evangelicals have evolved their own religion that is unrecognisable to the vast majority of the world's Christians. 1760339463.0\n", + "Joyful. \n", + "\n", + "These motherfuckers actually think they're GOOD ENOUGH to be raptured to heaven.\n", + "\n", + "The audacity 💀 1760395525.0\n", + "Evangelical Christian here. I don’t know any that took it seriously. We just remind each other that the Bible says “nobody knows the day or the hour, not even the son” and debate whether the rapture will actually be a thing. 1758732695.0\n", + "Damn, I’m still here! Oops, I forgot to drink my Kool-Aid. 🤣 1758730830.0\n", + "People who get excited for the rapture need to learn that they're exactly the type of people who should expect to go straight to hell. 1758731242.0\n", + "Probably the same way they did the last time the rapture was predicted and didn't materialize. Begging the people to whom they gave away their wealth to pretty please give it back. Rinse and repeat; now do you understand why these people routinely vote against their own interests? 1758731674.0\n", + "None I know are that stupid. 1758731108.0\n", + "The internet is not the real world. Christians did not believe this was going to happen. I don't think anyone at my church even heard about this. 1758731564.0\n", + "Not only were they left behind but so were all their devious friends. What sort of skeletons are they keeping in their closets? 1758732062.0\n", + "The same as 2012 and the other times they’ll fall back on what other believers told them. “nobody will know the day or hour” talk about how god works in mysterious ways. And then wait until the next event that convinces them. 1758732204.0\n", + "As a Christian I'm more of disappointed and concerned because so many people believed liars when even an atheist someone who has no faith whatsoever could open the book and read clear as day that it says \" no one knows the day or the hour of the return of Christ.\" And completely understand that all the people who believe in a rapture was today or going to be yesterday were lied to and didn't have the common sense or know how to actually read scripture 1758732296.0\n", + "Couldn't tell ya, haven't spoken to them in years. 1758732333.0\n", + "What? Did people in America think it is rapture time? Why? 1758732337.0\n", + "They're saying the rapture won't happen til the Epstein files are released. 1758732517.0\n", + "I'm part of a sizeable Christian church and community and no one I've talked to this week thought that was real. The Christians you're talking about are the .001%. Remember that anytime you see something weird. We all get the same platform but some of us are crazy. 1758732768.0\n", + "I stopped believing in fairytales when I was about 10 years old. I suggest you do the same. The world would become a better place. 1758747587.0\n", + "They've been trying to predict the date of the rapture since the 1800s when it was invented. 1758763769.0\n", + "I mean, pretty good…\n", + "\n", + "Have you seen the new ballroom we’re building? 1758770935.0\n", + "I don't know about you guys, but I got raptured. They have the internet in heaven!\n", + "\n", + "And guess what!? No evangelicals are here. It's funny as fuck!\n", + "\n", + "/satire (if you hadn't figured it out). 1758791372.0\n", + "[This user was raptured] 1758792837.0\n", + "So, none of you a\\*\\*holes are gone? 1758731414.0\n", + "Does it ever occur to them that maybe the rapture did happen? Then none of them were worthy. 1758731550.0\n", + "I was looking forward to society flourishing but I guess not 1758731694.0\n", + "I can’t believe they keep falling for this. I’m old and I can recall several of these predictions - one was going to be on my birthday - and every time they just go Whoops! Recalculating!\n", + "\n", + "Somewhere in their bible it says no one shall know the hour or day… and to beware of false prophets. But they continue to be suckers in so many ways. 1758732012.0\n", + "I hope they feel like idiots. 1758732336.0\n", + "1844 called. 1758731046.0\n", + "Edgy atheist redditors are way more invested in this than Christians actually were.\n", + "\n", + "Only a tiny percentage of people actually believed it. 1758731711.0\n", + "The concept of Rapture has never been popular in Christianity and has always been more popular among atheists who think Christians believe it. 1758749820.0\n", + "Wouldn't know. I don't make friends with gay-haters. 1758730348.0\n", + "Still as stupid as shit. 1758731704.0\n", + "None that I know even knew that it was even a suggestion. Then again none of the Christian’s I know are morons either. 1758731190.0\n", + "How do these people function in the real world? 1758732248.0\n", + "My BIL went full down the rabbit hole for the 2012 rapture, yet was also hoarding \"end of the world\" seeds. \n", + "\n", + "Not a lot of mental consistency with these folks. 1758732279.0\n", + "I don't know any, but I do get a good laugh whenever someone ruins their finances/life due to religion. \n", + "\n", + "Religion is toxic. 1758732814.0\n", + "As a Christian, according to Scripture, no one except God knows when the Rapture will happen. I am not telling you what to believe or not believe, but I would never trust anyone who says the Rapture is coming soon. Maybe it'll be 180 years from now, maybe tomorrow, but predictions are not the same as knowing. To risk sounding redundant, literally only God knows when the Rapture will happen. Jesus loves everyone and when the Rapture happens whatever time period it is in, there still will be chances for people left behind to get saved. Anyone who believes and admits out loud or in their heart/mind if they can't talk that Jesus is Lord and that He died and rose again and admit they're a sinner and ask forgiveness/repent, they will be saved. Being saved does not equal sinless though and we will only be entirely free of sin when we get to heaven, if my intrepretation is correct. Many Christians do not do what they're supposed to, and they give us a bad name. 1758742655.0\n", + "I'm a Christian, but this post was how I first heard there was even supposed to be one.\n", + "\n", + "That sounds like more of a niche Bible belt / Evangelical thing? 1758745669.0\n", + "Not all rhombuses are squares, but all squares are rhombuses.\n", + "\n", + "Not all Christians believe in the rapture...\n", + "\n", + "And to further dial that down, not all those who believe in the rapture believe that prediction.\n", + "\n", + "Please remember that Christianity isn't a unified group, it's a classification for all groups that believe Jesus is the Christ. Beliefs can vary massively from group to group. 1758755311.0\n", + "Theistic religions like Christianity are cults created by men for men to control women to keep them from having other men’s babies. They teach children to place ultimate faith in authority figures and avoid thinking critically for themselves. They encourage mental illness by convincing people to believe in imaginary friends, voices, visions and raptures rather than the actual physical reality they exist in. Religion is a coping mechanism for people who can’t handle the absurdist reality that there is no purpose or meaning to life beyond the scant few years we’re alive to experience this exceedingly insignificant sliver of the universe. 1758806608.0\n", + "I never heard anything about it (outside of Reddit), and I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt. \n", + "\n", + "It's almost like a few people on Reddit and blew it out of proportion. 1758738727.0\n", + "They celebrated that bigot killing himself be getting someone else to pull the trigger. They celebrated his bigot wife swearing revenge for his suicide in the name of Jesus. These people would fly into buildings if trump told them to do it. 1758737404.0\n", + "There were like a dozen of them, and it isn't their first time. 1758731249.0\n", + "C'mon, even the ones posting about it on TikTok and wherever didn't really believe it was going to happen. If they did, why would they still be *posting*?? 1758731475.0\n", + "I think it's only the extreme evangelical Christians that hop on board for these things. 1758731501.0\n", + "I don't know any. I tend to ignore religious zealots for this reason. 1758731655.0\n", + "What if the Rapture did happen but we were the ones who got left behind 1758731687.0\n", + "I don't know I haven't seen any but I live in an urban area and it's reallllllllly quiet outside except the highway. 1758731696.0\n", + "Haven't asked.  Hopefully the area disillusioned, but they probably are digging through 4chan and GETTR posts to figure out the next rapture date.   1758731715.0\n", + "I actually don't know anyone IRL who paid any attention to this...just whack job Christians on Tiktok. 1758731812.0\n", + "The only Rapture I remember is the song by Blondie when they essentially invented hip hop. /s 1758731932.0\n", + "The ones I know are shaking their heads at the ones that thought they were being uplifted. 1758731981.0\n", + "Currently in a meeting 1758731995.0\n", + "They are aren't real Christians because the bible literally says that man will not know the time nor the day. Not even the angels or the son will know only the father. 1758732053.0\n", + "https://youtu.be/JnbfuAcCqpY?si=V04OKMB6V1BkaL9a 1758732073.0\n", + "All the Christians that I know didn't even know a rapture was coming 1758732212.0\n", + "Only the people who are hardwired into the Internet even knew about this, for people in the real world it was just another Tuesday. 1758732251.0\n", + "This was meant to happen? 1758732257.0\n", + "what? 1758732287.0\n", + "They all left!!!! 😭 and didn’t leave me anything… just gave it to the church for some reason  1758732435.0\n", + "Christian here, first I've heard of a rapture. I also don't know if the rapture is something someone just made up by weirdo evangelicals. 1758732477.0\n", + "They got the few actual believers yesterday, just not enough of them to notice. 1758732565.0\n", + "I do know that this is a topic of discussion in a couple of churches, one of which my friend is a lay-pastor in because some of the parishioners thought, *\"this is it!\"* and the discussion amongst the staff he's in is, *\"we need to do better on our teaching from the bible.*\" 1758732615.0\n", + "Oh it happened. None of them were qualified. 1758732772.0\n", + "The odds of making the rapture is pretty bad if it’s true there are only 144000 who will be taken\n", + "\n", + "Thats like one out of every 60,000 people.   1758732788.0\n", + "Nobody took that seriously 1758732813.0\n", + "They figured they weren't chosen 1758732854.0\n", + "None I know took it seriously or even heard about it. 1758732856.0\n", + "I thought rapture already happened and Macho Man Randy Savage was the only one admitted to heaven 1758732877.0\n", + "If you don't know someone who was all in, how do you know they weren't raptured? 1758733047.0\n", + "Same as last time. 1758733211.0\n", + "Christian here. I didn't buy it, none of my religious friends bought it, and now r/dankchristianmemes is having a good time. 1758733272.0\n", + "I heard rumor someone actually sold their BMW for like pennies days before and they want it back lol. 1758733357.0\n", + "I’ll be honest I tried to find rapture tik toks and all I found were ironic meme posts making fun of rapture tok. 1758733386.0\n", + "Jesus hates them ... and rightfully so. 1758733408.0\n", + "The rapture does not exist in biblical texts, so I am not sure why people were even talking about it to begin with. 1758733411.0\n", + "Not sure what you're talking about, but I feel like it'd be a bigger event in the news if it happened 1758733419.0\n", + "What timezone does the rapture occur in ?\n", + "\n", + "Is it the same time everywhere, or does it I.e. start at UTC time and go around the world? And if so, could you in theory jump on an airplane, travel around the world, and stay ahead of the rapture.\n", + "\n", + "So many unanswered questions. 1758733421.0\n", + "Re-calculating 1758733439.0\n", + "It DID happen. They didn’t make the cut. 1758733479.0\n", + "The Rapture concept has no basis in historical Christianity, and was cooked up nonsense from the 19th century version of today's tv evangelists. 1758733488.0\n", + "Didn't hear about it from a single person in real life, seems only an internet/terminally online thing 1758733517.0\n", + "I'm Christian and the ones saying it will happen today are ridiculous. It clearly says we won't know the time or hour of his return. It doesn't say it will be like a thief in the night on October 24th at 3:44 am lol 1758733550.0\n", + "this all sounds so very important\n", + "\n", + "not sure to who\n", + "\n", + "i'm out 1758733553.0\n", + "I don't like the idea of being taken by a raptor. \n", + "\n", + "So, relief. 1758733556.0\n", + "Isn't that a 7th day adventist thing or all xtian nutjobs adopting it now? 1758733604.0\n", + "Does anyone really know anyone who believed this? If you know one single Christian who believed this, I’d be interested to hear. 1758733651.0\n", + "Every time the Rapture comes around, it gets into the news but doesn't seem to impact anyone I actually know or interact with. And I'm a pastor so I interact with a lot of religious people. But even the conservative ones are mostly \"Yeah, this again.\" 1758733710.0\n", + "It was like 0.00001% of Christians specifically on TikTok that believed it. Most of us are still chillin 1758733722.0\n", + "Wait the rapture happened ? 1758733743.0\n", + "Mark 10:25 1758733880.0\n", + "Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Bible that only 144,000 people will get into heaven? There’s been over 100 billion people that have lived up to this point. 1758734022.0\n", + "Ah damn, did I miss another one? I didn't even *know* about this one. Man.... I like keeping up with these things. I still have a pamphlet from the one in 2012. 1758734065.0\n", + "I don’t know anyone that delusional. 1758734081.0\n", + "They are whining about getting made fun of. They should be making fun of these predictions too. Their own holy book says no one knows the time of the rapture so why the fuck do these people fall for it every goddamned time? 1758734086.0\n", + "I don't know. I haven't seen them today...ooohhhh 1758734113.0\n", + "I was raised Southern Baptist in the Bible belt and legit heard nothing about this except on sites making fun of it. 1758734135.0\n", + "It would take all of my willpower to not stop answering my phone and leave an empty set of clothing and shoes posed on my doorstep for when they come around to see why I'm not answering. 1758734187.0\n", + "Most christians don't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. It's always some kooky offshoot. 1758734209.0\n", + "As a Christian myself, I don’t know any Christians personally who believed it would happen on a certain date. Most of them know better than that. As Gods word tells us, nobody can know this. 1758734211.0\n", + "as a \"Christian\" it looks like i was left behind. So that means i must be a heathen? 1758734226.0\n", + "All I know is that the police are being very rude about this -- I just tried taking this car that was parked on the street from somebody who I presume was raptured (it had the right bumper stickers!) and now the police are being totally unfair, using words like \"grand theft auto\". \n", + "\n", + "I personally feel like for the next one? There should be a paperwork requirement or something to avoid situations like this. 1758734284.0\n", + "Same way they have every other time this has happened: forget about it and wait for the next one. 1758734360.0\n", + "I have 2 crazy aunts (twins) in their 60s who are prepared for the rapture. Any day now. That's their life style. No family. No life. They just live in a small studio apartment waiting for that rapture. 1758734393.0\n", + "Bahahaha  1758734393.0\n", + "I know a lot of Christians and none of them took this seriously. 1758734434.0\n", + "I actually don’t know any hardcore Christians that believed this. The Christian people I do know just treated it like another day.  1758734437.0\n", + "Asked my religulous coworker about all this rapture business his response was they’re all crazy because God won’t let you know when it happens. 1758734458.0\n", + "I always am curious that, given we are in the era of AI Deepfakes, someone could make a rapture video to show their heavily evangelized family and make em freak the hell out that they got left behind while \"reports\" flood in about the worldwide \"rapture\"\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Would probably not be invited to Thanksgiving then~ 1758734496.0\n", + "I didn't even hear anything about no rapture until today. I keep seeing things though so I got to ask, what's going on? Who predicted this one? 1758734582.0\n", + "I’ll bet maga Christians are super confused why trump wasn’t raptured. 1758734604.0\n", + "They were not the chosen ones…again 1758734611.0\n", + "Other people, nature, books 1758734737.0\n", + "what is this rupture 1758734783.0\n", + "Looks like they didn't take Trump, either. I thought he and Jesus were BFFs or something. 1758734847.0\n", + "Only saw it on the internet. Haven't heard of any people in real life even mention it. 1758734905.0\n", + ". . . God's too damn picky about who gets raptured. 1758734926.0\n", + "Thankfully I don't know anyone like that personally. 1758734938.0\n", + "I don’t associate with Christians.  1758734942.0\n", + "This was only believed by Q-Annon Christians. If you want to know how they're doing, go on Tic Tok. They've been posting there all morning apparently. 1758734953.0\n", + "I talked to a Catholic friend who just rolled his eyes when I mentioned it. Then we shared some hilarious FB posts about it. Also, I volunteered my services to look after peoples' properties when they get raptured. All they had to do was sign over their titles and deeds. I was shocked that nobody took me up on that. 1758734989.0\n", + "They called and asked me if I wanted to Rapture, but it was from an unknown phone number so I didn't answer. Their loss. 1758735015.0\n", + "There is a rapture coming every 20 years or so. They always make excuse for it not coming, too. 1758735029.0\n", + "People can’t wait to die and go to heaven. \n", + "\n", + "You sure this ain’t a death cult? You sure ‘bout that? 1758735046.0\n", + "I’ll probably get attacked but I’m a Christian and didn’t believe this stupid prediction. It says in the Bible you won’t be able to predict it. I just live everyday like it’s my last. 1758735092.0\n", + "Blaming it on other people. 1758735142.0\n", + "Nobody know the time or place. 1758735162.0\n", + "All of them are saying the Prophet was wrong. I figured no one was elligble. Just like the last 11 Raptures. 1758735168.0\n", + "Literally no one I know thought they were going to be raptured.  1758735230.0\n", + "What does it say about “Left-behind” Christians? 1758735287.0\n", + "same way they handle everything that contradicts their beliefs: denial. 1758735305.0\n", + "So instead of actually trying to make this world a little better, they’re hoping for it to be torn apart in one big bang? 1758735311.0\n", + "There's far more people talking about other people believing in the rapture than there are people actually believing in the rapture. You're talking about a microscopic number of people who actually bought this (just like every time this happens), and they'll probably do what most people do when they're this catastrophically wrong: either laugh about it, or pretend that they never actually believed it in the first place. 1758735318.0\n", + "can someone pls explain the rapture ideology for us athiest agnostic hethens? 1758735340.0\n", + "Can someone explain where this rapture nonsense came from? 1758735371.0\n", + "I have been walking around nude for 3 days now because I don’t want to leave a bunch of clothes behind for the non-believers to clean up after I go. It’s that sort of kindness and compassion that gets you on the Rapture Train. 1758735427.0\n", + "Wouldn’t the rapture mean that we already went through 1000 year tribulation period?? If so, it could have been worse. BTW-those going to the fiery place, it’s “gonna be a party!” Lots of Heathens to hang with for Eternity. 1758735573.0\n", + "Let's see - they will lash out by demand other people live by the rules of their religion. You know - gay marriage is bad, contraceptives are bad, abortion is bad, everyone has to pray in school - stuff like that.\n", + "\n", + "In other words, business as usual. \n", + "\n", + "(Not all Christians, of course). 1758735580.0\n", + "There was supposed to be a rapture? And I missed it? 1758735611.0\n", + "Please tell me someone left piles of clothes lying around their neighbourhood just for the shits and giggles. 1758735723.0\n", + "I don’t know any. 1758735724.0\n", + "This is the first I'm hearing of it. 1758735729.0\n", + "What's this rapture thing about, what did I miss? 1758735748.0\n", + "Guess they didn't measure up to Gods standards. 1758735816.0\n", + "Christians do not believe in rapture, only a small bunch of American nuts do. 1758735940.0\n", + "The rapture already happened. It was February 27th, 2003. They only took Fred Rogers. The only one worthy 1758735952.0\n", + "I became a satanist since all \"good Christian's\" are in heaven and the demons became normal 1758735956.0\n", + "Oh, you know, even though we weren't part of the group that got called yesterday, we're still confident God has it all figured out. Gonna have to see if we can get our jobs back and some of our belongings, though. 1758735989.0\n", + "Was today another rapture? And I missed it?! 1758736076.0\n", + "They just rework the math and say they forgot to carry the 1.   1758736136.0\n", + "How many people actually went all-in and sold their property or did things that *prove* they were all-in. I saw a story about one woman who sold her house. That’s the only example I saw in the western world. I’m sure there are others (because of course there are others), but I have to wonder if their numbers are significant.\n", + "\n", + "Personally, I don’t know anyone who actually believes “end times” are coming or that people will be “raptured” to Heaven. I know they exist, and I know self-described believers exist in *large* numbers (evangelicals in the US are always talking about “end times,” and they often donate money to orgs that help Jewish people emigrate to Israel because this is a condition for the apocalypse beginning), but there’s a difference between *saying* you believe in these things (and even donating money) vs believing in a *specific* prophecy to the degree that you *act* like it (i.e., sell your possessions, re-home your pets, or prepare in other ways that require actual commitment and cannot be undone easily). 1758736255.0\n", + "Wouldn't it be funny if everyone around them just started ignoring them as if they weren't there and acting as if they were invisible? LMAO. That would be hilarious. 1758736267.0\n", + "i\n", + "don’t think i know any personally 1758736303.0\n", + "Stupid and brainwashed as ever 1758736321.0\n", + "Did the Mormons make it? 1758736334.0\n", + "Absolutely zero catholics here knew about the rapture.\n", + "\n", + "Source:i live in Poland, catholics are like 90% of the population in my area. 1758736346.0\n", + "Not fit for consumption. Do not harvest. 1758736388.0\n", + "I went to talk to them but all I found was a robe and a note that said, “fuck” 1758736400.0\n", + "Funnily enough not a single person I actually talk to said a single thing about it. 1758736409.0\n", + "I think it was mostly on TikTok, Called \"RaptureTok.\" TikTok is a menace to society and it's only going to get worse with Trumpists involved in the new ownership. 1758736444.0\n", + "IOOTL. Why has there been all this rapture talk lately? Was there another prophesized date that came and went? 1758736538.0\n", + "I'm about to turn 47. I think this is my, IDK, the first one I recalled. I know there were a lot more than this week's circle jerk. It just goes to show how much this never really was a major thing to anyone who knew it was not how it's supposed to go. 1758736541.0\n", + "Jesus just couldn't bear to take Donald Trump while he has so much work to do making America great again. He knew the rapture was scheduled, but as he looked down on the greatest nation in the history of the Earth our heavenly father just thought \"let him do a little more good in my holy name before I take him.\" And so not only did President Trump stop between 12 and 75 wars, he also stopped the rapture. How they have not given this man control over the entire world is beyond me. 1758736550.0\n", + "Yo, are we dead now? 1758736565.0\n", + "I guess they weren't good Christians. 1758736631.0\n", + "Real Christians didn’t buy that shit, only the performative ones. 1758736641.0\n", + "Please remember by God's own words in the Bible no one will ever know A) when the rapture is, and B) who the anti-christ is. The Bible lists many steps that will take place before the end of time and one of those things is \"1,000 years of worldwide peace.\" The peace described even says animals will be at peace and the \"lion will lie with the lamb.\" As a joke I've always said one way to ensure the end of time never occurs is if when every baby born on Earth the doctor proclaimed \"This child is the anti-christ!\" then it's not possible that child will ever be the anti-christ.\n", + "\n", + "I bring this up because true Christians don't believe we will ever know when the rapture will happen. It says it multiple times in multiple ways in the Bible. But as always different cults, sects, and odd translations of the Bible come out every once in a while and people think they know God's plan. That's the equivalent of an ant knowing what Einstein was thinking except the gap is even bigger with us and God because we believe he is bound by nothing. \n", + "\n", + "More importantly, did even 1% of Christians believe the rapture was really upon us, or is it another distraction/deflection from all the crazy stuff in the news? \"Uh hey greg the Kirk, Epstein, and Trump news is getting stale, lets throw in some religious wackiness! Oh there we go, 150 million more clicks! The ad revenue was worth it\" We've almost integrated tabloids into our daily news just simply for ad revenue clicks. Business > actual news these days. 1758736643.0\n", + "Nobody I know believes this nonsense and we are all Christian’s lol 1758736690.0\n", + "I was really hoping fore more Rapture crashout videos. 1758736718.0\n", + "as a christian I knew it wasnt gonna happen cause the point is that we wont know when it happens 1758736742.0\n", + "I didn’t know what a rapture is (still don’t) until now lol and I have some closer friends that are Christian 🙃 1758736822.0\n", + "Wait. What did I miss? 1758736843.0\n", + "I mean I think it did happen, its just those not living like Christ said are left behind. \n", + "\n", + "Let them stew on that. 1758737010.0\n", + "Lot to unpack here, but TikTok isn't reality should be the first one...\n", + "\n", + "Essentially all of Christianity believes in a future 'Second Coming of Christ' and associated final judgement (see: Nicene Creed (Catholics), Apostles Creed (Protestants)).\n", + "\n", + "Not all of Christianity believes that this event will result in Christians disappearing from earth followed by a period of divine torment (aka pre-trib/'Rapture').\n", + "\n", + "Of those who do, even less believe that it is possible for any given human to figure out when it will happen. 1758737012.0\n", + "I dont think anyone actually believed it was time.\n", + "\n", + "I'm betting, however, that some did make videos saying they do, hoping the algorythm pushed them to relevance. 1758737031.0\n", + "Are the Christian Rapture-believers in the thread with us right now? 1758737050.0\n", + "Well, *I'm* pissed! 1758737053.0\n", + "I know precisely zero who actually believed that it would happen. 1758737138.0\n", + "I think it was very much an online thing, I do not know any christians in person who did more than pity or mock those who thought it was happening lol 1758737178.0\n", + "Man I knew I had fallen behind in my Christian duties, but what on earth is Rupture, I don't recall having heard of it, ever. Is it some evangelical stuff?\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "EDIT Oh yeah, I looked it up and indeed nothing that exists in my version of Christianity.  1758737217.0\n", + "Won't broach the topic with Christian Nationalists who tithe to a cult. 1758737274.0\n", + "Maybe it will be tomorrow /s 1758737314.0\n", + "Christian here. It is astounding to me how many of these people just ignore Matthew 25:13. 1758737353.0\n", + "The rapture interpretation of Thessalonians is a false teaching. 1758737356.0\n", + "I’m really interested to hear how Joshua Mhlakela is explaining his rapture not taking place. Maybe it only happened in South Africa for his followers? Has anyone checked in on them??? 1758737391.0\n", + "The rapture happened and everyone got left behind.\n", + "\n", + "That should tell you something 1758737449.0\n", + "The rapture happened; no one was worthy of being raptured. They will try again in 4 years. 1758737469.0\n", + "My favorite rapture had to be the Harmonic Convergence back in the mid 80's. One of my friends went to a local park where the Rapture Hippies were gathered and some clever person was selling souvenir tshirts.\n", + "\n", + "Great T-shirt. 1758737491.0\n", + "The Rapture happened. If you're still here, you didn't make the cut. 1758737783.0\n", + "Jesus came down, but he bricked off the Jewish Space Laser over Georgia and the Rapture has been delayed again. 1758737801.0\n", + "Maybe it really did happen. But none of the so called Christians qualified because, from my experiences, none of them truly follow the book. They pick and choose what suites their lifestyle.\n", + ">\n", + "If anyone was truly raptured, nobody would ever know because the people who were, were out doing gods work and didn't record a video of it happening to show everyone how Christian they were. 1758737856.0\n", + "It happened already earlier today. 10 POC got raised up. No one from the MAGA cult made the cut. \n", + "They want to keep this info suppressed. 1758737911.0\n", + "All the real Christians I know actually read and understand the Bible. No one will no the time. 1758737963.0\n", + "ITT: Not a single person who knows anyone who believed it 1758738055.0\n", + "The one in my office is still here. \n", + "\n", + "I'm guessing it's because she didn't upgrade to the gold-embossed autographed ultra MAGA limited edition Bible. She just has the regular maga one. 1758738117.0\n", + "I tell them my other Christian friends all went ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ 1758738137.0\n", + "It’s Biden’s fault 1758738213.0\n", + "I worry for them as much as I worry for the guy on the rascal scooter at the gas station, throwing dollars into the Lottery machines. 1758738356.0\n", + "Why the hell did they think it was the rapture this time 1758738379.0\n", + "Are we sure it didn't happen? Only 144,000 people get taken during the rapture. I haven't checked on my ultra christian neighbors. We aren't very close. Maybe they WERE taken? 1758738738.0\n", + "I'm on the list for The Rupture.\n", + "\n", + "I'm pretty sure of that. 1758738769.0\n", + "Literally never heard of it until after it was over. 1758739026.0\n", + "They are out acting like jerks. They didnt get captured bc they are terrible so they are living up to that. I really wish their god would make an exception or 2 and just take them all. 1758739099.0\n", + "Hell, I got raptured and I don't even believe in Jebus. 1758739375.0\n", + "Phew. I can't wait to meet Dio and Lemmy 🤘🏻 1758739792.0\n", + "not convinced yet this wasn't just some spontaneous social media hype 1758739802.0\n", + "Why did you post this 12 hours before it hits midnight in the U.S.? Did they give a specific time frame for it? 1758739952.0\n", + "username checks out. 1758740004.0\n", + "The “Christians” that believed that this Rapture was going to happen aren’t even technically “Christians”. At least I don’t think Evangelists are actually Christians. 1758740105.0\n", + "I need to change careers and be a Rapture preacher. Tell them to voluntarily give me all their belongings and then disappear. These conservatives Christians are so easy to con. 1758740128.0\n", + "I want to do the Muslim version because of all the virgins. 1758740453.0\n", + "That implies religious people can be introspective, and if that were the case they'd probably be very upset with the long history of slavery and child abuse from every religion. 1758740510.0\n", + "You guys know these crazies in real life? Thankfully I only know the ones on TikTok. I'm not religious but grew up around it and I know the Bible says nobody knows the day or the hour and these Christians are going against their own scripture 1758740729.0\n", + "I don’t know any personally, but traffic seemed a little lighter today. So I think them all… 1758740789.0\n", + "My dear blessed friend Caroline was hoping the Lord would take her but she wasn’t taken, and now she’s wondering if it has something to do with her job defending a lifelong sexual predator and his government that is terrorizing the people and threatening their supposedly “God Given” rights. She’s rich so she’ll get over it, as the rich Fundamentalists always have for centuries! 1758740829.0\n", + "Fuck if I know, the only ones I'm around occasionally (like my Mom) know better than to talk religion or politics with me.\n", + "\n", + "I'm sure somehow it's Biden's fault.\n", + "\n", + "If they did start in on me with their mythology, I'd counter with my sadness that I was left behind at the Gray Havens and didn't get to go to Valinor. 1758740883.0\n", + "Still waiting for those Clouds of Glory and the Silver Trumpets. \n", + "\n", + "We are already looking at the tiny handed AntiChrist every day on the news. 1758740888.0\n", + "the Christians i know ignore all of that nonsense every time it comes up. \n", + "\n", + "i don't remember exactly where, and i don't remember the exact wording, but basically there is a bit in the bible that says \n", + "\n", + " \" and it shall come as thief in the night, and no one can foretell it's arrival. \n", + "\n", + "which means, basically, if they are predicting it, they are already proven wrong by their own book.\n", + "\n", + "the \"christians\" i know .. well, we don't talk much. i have no idea how they are dealing with the sudden but inevitable betrayal. 1758740910.0\n", + "Make sure to remind them that they weren't good enough - maybe for supporting Donald Trump, the anti-Christ. 1758740916.0\n", + "Wait, it happened again? 1758740936.0\n", + "Am a Christian myself - not a single one of my Christian friends heard about or believed this nonsense. Granted, none of my friends are on TikTok. 1758741043.0\n", + "None went all-in. I am at Church every Sunday and nobody mentioned this. 1758741225.0\n", + "As a Christian, I’m not actually surprised. I’ve not been very good at it. 1758741356.0\n", + "I always laugh my ass off at the gullible idiots. 1758741374.0\n", + "I’m a Christian. I don’t know any Christian’s who’ve fallen for this.  1758741376.0\n", + "Bit disappointed, the lines at Hobby Lobby are really short now, same at Costco, so it's not all bad. 1758741478.0\n", + "Womp womp 1758741527.0\n", + "My Pilates teacher is trying to reorganise all the classes and 1-1s they cancelled and their eldest daughter is upset that they are starting university late and is desperately trying to sort out accommodation while being doubly upset that they aren't staying in halls. 1758741533.0\n", + "CANT HEAR YOU!! BEING RAPTURED!! LALALALALALA 1758741554.0\n", + "please- no christians. This is a very specific group of people. This belief of rapture contradicts what most (catholic + most other evangelicals) believe about the end. 1758741640.0\n", + "LOL I'm not that close with any Christians 1758741700.0\n", + "As a non-religious person, I didn't even know there was a rapture scheduled.... 1758741751.0\n", + "I really wish you lot would genuinely shame and humiliate these people. how many times can these people get themselves into a panic and then see it come and go with nothing happening? I'm not even American and this is like the third time in my own life I've heard of one of these things happening god knows how many \"rapture panics\" have actually happened in my lifetime. 1758741814.0\n", + "About half my “network” is Christian. I don’t know a single one who thought this was anything except nonsense from a very small minority. 1758742215.0\n", + "Most Christians do not believe \"the rapture\" to be a thing, so I guess they're mostly fine. The idea only came about in the 19th century. Mind you, they've got a pope now! 1758742220.0\n", + "I'm Catholic and didn't even know what a rapture is until an episode of American Dad and even then I thought it was some joke. I have no idea what weird protestant denominations believe in this, but I've never seen someone seriously talk about it as anything other than a joke concept. Is this some non denominational methobapestalian thing? 1758742270.0\n", + "At all the churches I've attended as I've moved around the country, probably all of the Christians believe in the Rapture. As far as I've seen, not a single one of them has believed this date or any of the other dates people have thrown out there. 1758742371.0\n", + "Spanish church head was probably running around my hometown saying (Google Translate warning) Te lo dije. He is against the rapture idea. Papa, Te saludo. 1758742391.0\n", + "Wait, did I miss the rapture??? 1758742719.0\n", + "“If all the good people got sucked up into heaven, that makes us a bunch of assholes.” 1758742735.0\n", + "Don't know, or care, how they feel but I love all the suckers that sold their cars, houses and other belongings thinking this would be the end. LMFAO 1758742921.0\n", + "Only if Christianity wasn’t made up by the Jews 1758743006.0\n", + "No Christian I know is that stupid. And most aren't part of denominations that believe in the rapture in the first place. 1758743049.0\n", + "Can’t find any of them. 1758743066.0\n", + "Pretty good since the rapture is a heresy anyways. No Christian who respects the bible should believe in it. 1758743154.0\n", + "\"I'm in heaven now... so sorry I died\" 1758743222.0\n", + "I don't know anybody who actually believed it. Most Christians (myself included) consider a premillenial rapture to be a heresy and the end of the world to be completely impossible to predict. 1758743243.0\n", + "All the ones I knew were taken, so can’t really answer that question for the next 1000 years 1758743246.0\n", + "I'm not religious but I work with a lot of Catholics and Christians. Not one of them believe in the rapture and were making light hearted jokes about it yesterday. What kind of Christians do you hang out with?? 1758743300.0\n", + "I’m not entirely sure that the majority of southern Protestants and Restoriation era Christians really have a clear idea of what exactly the rapture is, or even of what heaven of the Kingdom of Heaven actually looks like. \n", + "\n", + "I would bet that if you asked 100 southern church of Christ or Baptist church goers, many of them would struggle to describe end times or even the concept of paradise in anything other than the vaguest terms, being with your loved ones, eternal peace, no pain…etc\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Because if this, I think if confronted with some kind of rapture event, most of them would more likely write it off as some kind of event unrelated to their faith like an alien invasion, some freak natural event we don’t know about, or even some inexplicable magical event that more likely came from the devil than god. I’m not kidding. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Most of these people(meaning Protestants, Evangelicals, and Fundamentalists) don’t have any real codified metaphysical belief system other than what helps them sleep at night and comforts them when they lose a loved one. “we’ll see them again one day”. \n", + "\n", + "In other words, I feel pretty confident that most of the religious people around me woild goin into cope mode real hard. Cognitive dissonance set to overdrive. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "What’s sad about this is that this means so many people in the world are ready to condemn millions and deny rights to their own citizens and neighbors over something that if you asked them about it likely wouldn’t be able to articulate an answer more complex than what we tell 5 year olds when they get scared at night. 1758743314.0\n", + "Without ridicule, I just want to know what false religious leaders are teaching their flocks today about “why not” or “what went wrong” 1758743440.0\n", + "What's the point of selling off possessions? It's not like they can use any of that in their Heaven... The most I could ever see is asking non-Christian friends to take care of their pets. People are weird. 1758743707.0\n", + "Shit, was that today? 1758743717.0\n", + "I once asked a Christian friend, \"What if that already happened? Maybe the Black Death was one of the plagues or whatever, and rapture happened over 1ķ years ago?\"\n", + "\n", + "He got really sad thinking he was one of the \"left behinds\". 1758743721.0\n", + "Did another rapture happen and someone forgot to tell me? 1758743810.0\n", + "They're already looking for the next big thing to be duped by once again 1758743836.0\n", + "Hey, it’s not Thursday yet. They still have time. 1758743915.0\n", + "I think a lot of them would double down, saying it’s just another test of faith or that the real rapture is still coming. Admitting they were wrong would be too painful. 1758744080.0\n", + "crazy people still believe all the garbage in the bible.\n", + "\n", + "personally i think jesus either never existed or was a con man. 1758744145.0\n", + "come on, no one actually believed this did they? 1758744317.0\n", + "I only saw people talking about how ridiculous the claim of it happening, not anyone who actually believed it 1758744475.0\n", + "They are gullible or dont read their Bible. It specifically says you cant know the day or hour. Only the father knows when. So picking a time guarantees you are wrong 1758744549.0\n", + "The what now? 1758744644.0\n", + "This rapture thing is so ridiculous I sometimes think its all hoax - they're all acting stupid just for fun and views. 1758744719.0\n", + "those darn christians, so smart to not fall for rapture scams..... but believe the rapture which will come when nobody is suspecting. ha. 1758744821.0\n", + "None most those that it would happen are a very a small group.\n", + "\n", + "Most Christians hold the time is unknowable due this quote [Matthew 24:36](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A36&version=NIV) “But about that day or hour **no** **one** **knows**, **no**t even the angels in heaven, **no**r the Son, but only the Father. 1758744889.0\n", + "According to the Bible, the rapture or the second coming, if it did happen wouldn't leave people behind, everyone would be taken. 1758744940.0\n", + "There was a rapture??? lol 1758745036.0\n", + "Now that I think about it, I don’t know a single Christian person that actually believed it was coming like that lol. 1758745053.0\n", + "I was spared from the Thanos Snap, so I'm used to it. 1758745252.0\n", + "Lol the morons who sold their earthly possessions. 1758745258.0\n", + "I dont know anyone who actually took the latest prediction seriously. 1758745452.0\n", + "I have a strong feeling this \"event\" was only known to terminally online people like yall 1758745565.0\n", + "we're still here cause we werent good enough and have to suffer some more 1758745660.0\n", + "Well the majority of Christians don’t believe in a pre tribulation rapture. None or maybe most of the ones I know, don’t believe in it and are doing just fine today. 1758745875.0\n", + "*Aw, crap. Was that today?* 1758746302.0\n", + "[deleted] 1758746366.0\n", + "Someone somewhere has probably made a lame \"can't spell left behind without the LEFT\" political joke. 1758746475.0\n", + "The Rapture is not a Christian belief or doctrine. It was an invention of John Nelson Darby in 1830 and later adopted by American evangelicals in order to radicalize protestant churches to be the genocidal fundamentalists they are today. 1758746667.0\n", + "Parece que agora quem ficou está no modo ‘trial gratuito’ da vida… sem garantia de renovação. 1758746748.0\n", + "Who cares? 1758746791.0\n", + "My Dad has a list of \"potentials\" that he's been winnowing through over the last two decades. Last week when I stopped in to see him, he gave me the speech: \"If that happens, I stashed my money and guns. Your brother knows where, he'll share with you, and if you get them first, you should share with him,\" etc, etc.\n", + "\n", + "...he does this EVERY time one of these dates comes up, as if I wouldn't be Raptured as well if it were an actual thing and not just American Christian Fanfiction. 1758746801.0\n", + "I saw videos saying if ‘you are watching this on the 23rd you were left behind. I feel so sorry for you’. \n", + "\n", + "I haven’t seen any of them yet posting about how it’s now the 24th. Probably just need another day. 1758746879.0\n", + "Attended church last Sunday and I did not hear a single utterance of the word rapture when I was there, and I was inside from 10-3pm, it's just some social media ragebait 1758746979.0\n", + "The rapture definitely happened. If you’re still here you’re a bad person just fyi  1758747230.0\n", + "i wish i sold pet rapture insurance. 1758747511.0\n", + "I don't know anyone that stupid. 1758747826.0\n", + "What kind of “all-in” was happening? 1758747843.0\n", + "I live in a very religious area of the US South and work at an (admittedly pretty liberal) church and the only references I saw to the day being significant were jokes online. This is all because a dude in South Africa had a dream, right? It's not the sort of thing that most people take seriously. 1758747922.0\n", + "Y'all know Christians????? 1758748309.0\n", + "I’m Christian but I never heard a word about this until now 1758748548.0\n", + "I mean, just tell them they weren't worthy enough 1758749051.0\n", + "Ah ha ha ha 🤣 just got to laugh at people sometimes 1758749357.0\n", + "Maybe it's because I'm highly skeptical of things people say or do on social media but I think most people were just genuinely trolling because most people on social media can't recognize trolling or a skit to save their lives. They also immediately want to judge other people for likes and a sense of moral superiority. 1758749586.0\n", + "What if the rapture happened centuries ago, and we're the ones who stayed behind? 1758749671.0\n", + "Ruptured who and ruptured what? 1758749908.0\n", + "Guess we all believed the false GOD 1758749945.0\n", + "I should've scooped up a nice car 1758749995.0\n", + "I'm still hunting for a nicer empty car I can claim with some clothes and shoes in it. Finders Keepers!!!!! 1758750281.0\n", + "Maybe the Rapture did happen and only a few made the cut. 1758750588.0\n", + "Hopefully in line crying at walmart 1758750758.0\n", + "You don’t remember the whole 2012 thing? 1758750916.0\n", + "Just like the Jan 6th crowd, very quiet, deflection, prayers of the faithful so God spaired, or it's not an exact science BUT it is coming soon, just not that day. Mostly \"rapture what rapture\" 1758750940.0\n", + "No one here knows any Christians that went all-in on this recent rapture, and the people saying they do are likely pretending to score some fake internet points.\n", + "\n", + "It was an extremely fringe belief among the craziest of the crazies that only got widespread internet recognition because of how ridiculous it was. Don’t mistake it for some mainstream trend. 1758751039.0\n", + "Idk how they’re handling it but I sure am disappointed. 1758751290.0\n", + "Only about a third of American Christians believe in the rapture at all fyi. This is because that doctrine was invented by John Nelson Darby in the 1800s and so is only part of modern Christian denominations that have no historical connection with the religion.\n", + "\n", + "It's not taught by Catholicism, Eastern or Oriental Orthodoxy or the Assyrian Church of the East. It's also not taught by the Anglicans or any of the mainline Protestant denominations like Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, etc. \n", + "\n", + "It's really only the Evangelical Dispensationalist churches that teach this stuff. The Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, Independent Fundamentalist Baptists and non-denominational mega churches that are basically Southern Baptist in all but name.\n", + "\n", + "They make the rest of us look foolish because they make up weird shit that historically has never been taught by the religion. Not to be too mean to them though, as most Christians that do believe in the rapture believe that the date of it is unknowable in advance and don't buy into any of the predictions.\n", + "\n", + "It's the fringe of what is already a minority that propagates this nonsense. 1758751643.0\n", + "Pretending it was a big joke that they were in on 1758751643.0\n", + "I honestly don't know any that talked about it. Honestly all I've seen is people memeing on people supposedly saying it is coming. 1758751711.0\n", + "It's really simple, the \"rapture\" isn't biblical. At best it's a misinterpretation of some passages, at worst a blatant tool to manipulate the gullible. Fact is if a person actually took the time to read the bible with a critical eye they'd find that a lot of \"end times\" scripture is nothing like what many people think it is.\n", + "\n", + "For example if and when Armageddon happens it happens. Christians aren't supposed to be working to bring it about. Not trying to predict when it'll happen either. Just live a good righteous life and when the time comes be prepared to be judged. Nothing more. 1758751842.0\n", + "this isn't the first rapture and it won't be the last, you've gotta feel bad for those that liquidated all their assets believing it was actually gonna happen though 1758751954.0\n", + "It’s messy, the ones I know who were all-in are kind of spinning right now. Some are in denial. Others are beating themselves up, thinking they weren’t good enough or didn’t pray hard enough. And then you’ve got a few who are flat-out angry at pastors, at God, even at themselves. It’s tough to watch, because their whole life was built on that promise, and now it feels like the ground’s been pulled out from under them. A couple are trying to rebuild fast, clinging to new explanations, new timelines, just so they don’t feel lost. And some are really quiet, almost like they’re grieving. 1758752090.0\n", + "We have one lady we know and she is still texting my wife about this rapture stuff (still time left!) and wants us to hop on the Christianity train, accept whatever to get into the kingdom of god, so we can be taken away where ever... if it weren't for knowing the family for like 30 years and her husband just being one of the nicest people we know, then we'd block her. Her daughters are pretty heavy into this too unfortunately. She ain't part of a Christian cult ot anything but the past 5 years has gotten stranger and stranger.\n", + "\n", + "The rest of my Christian friends? Quiet and a few of the funny (funny \"haha\" that is...) ones are joking about it all. My one friend and me were talking about it yesterday night and he summed it up as being brought up right. And the proceeded to joke about not wanting to see his mother any time soon because he wasn't exactly sure where she might have ended up.\n", + "\n", + "But I will say, there are some extreme outliers out there. 1758752218.0\n", + "They are doing well, miscalculated things, new date is set and coming soon. 1758752420.0\n", + "Anyone have Instagram etc links to these people proclaiming the Rapture, I want to see their tears/justifications after it all. 1758752456.0\n", + "I do t think it was real. \n", + "\n", + "No, I mean obviously the thing wasn’t, but I’m also thinking the people making videos were just pretending to be idiots for clicks. They gotta be killing it on the follow up views, too. 1758752574.0\n", + "Hopefully they’re finding strength and perspective situations like that test faith in ways nothing else can. 1758752583.0\n", + "Cry Baby Cry!!! 1758752659.0\n", + "So, there was a Rapture related video I saw yesterday, that I tried to make a post about, trying to focus on the potential experience and situation. The subreddit said something like \"endpoint not found\". Put like a 10 word reply in the comment and it went through, so I'm assuming it was being blocked because I had \"certain keywords\" the subreddit didn't like. \n", + "\n", + "Anywho.... here's the post I WANTED to make there, but I think it would still apply here (for the most part).\n", + "\n", + "These videos worries me. Particularly the HEAVILY religious demographic in our world. I'd like to elaborate:\n", + "\n", + "Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or medical professional in any way, shape, or form and have never done any official training. I am not trying to diagnose her. I also am no lawyer and am not recommending or advocating any type of legal action or advice. Seek out a real legal professional, not a reddit post. I am trying to provide context and reasoning for my opinion/analysis through my simple Google searches. Who knows, maybe this post may be of interest to others 🤷‍♀️. I am not attempting or intending to bash/shame/hate on religion(s), those who believe in a higher power (regardless of belief systems), or instigate violent actions. In fact, I denounce violence towards ANY individual, group, or community. I am also not trying to denounce any religion, trying to \"convert\" anyone, push my own beliefs or any political/religious agenda.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Intro:\n", + "I think it is plausible that SOME people posting these types of videos were experiencing a form of sleep deprivation. But Ill talk about this one particularly. The information and clues I am getting from the video alone is what I'm basing this on. What I'm trying to communicate is my analysis and understanding of the situation as best as possible. Additionally, I wish to show empathy toward her, or anyone else who may read this post based on what I have found. I'm not trying to make a wild comment or accusation without providing context or sources. Just like how any religious folk would reference their religious text. I'm not trying to stoke hate, feat, resentment, violence, or demeaning anyone (or a group).\n", + "\n", + "Resources:\n", + "Various information, research, and studies can be found on Google or other search engines. Looking at an APA study ( https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/10/science-of-nightmares) and another organization with published studies. The APA seemed like a solid starting point.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "1. Quantity of Time Awake-\n", + "\n", + "In the study on the APA website, there are many observations made about how outside stress and sleep deprivation affect dreams. I make a point on this because in the video, they mentioned they were struggling to sleep and did not get sleep \"until this morning.\" They do not FULLY state or provide sufficient information to determine an exact she hasn't slept before that morning. However, let's generously/logically say she was awake the previous day for a normal 9a - 5p work shift. Maybe awake 1 hour before to allow for getting ready, packing lunch, and travel. So a 8am start for beimg awake. Do we know that info EXACTLY? No. I think it is at least reasonable and logical to use this starting time for analysis.\n", + "\n", + "Mentioning \"...this morning\" and struggling to sleep the previous night is noteable. This would suggest she has been awake for likely 24-ish hours. At least when considering likely sleeping time (8 hours), scheduling, routines people would have, and the same 8am workday start in this example.\n", + "\n", + "Now, she didn't say that she got \"x- hours of sleep,\" so maybe she got adequate sleep. Maybe she experienced what is referred to as a \"micro-sleep.\" Which would be a symptom of Stage 3 Sleep Deprivation:\n", + "\n", + "\"Stage 3 (48 hours without sleep): You begin to experience microsleeps, brief periods of sleep that occur involuntarily. Cognitive functions such as memory and decision-making are severely impaired. You may also start experiencing sleep deprivation headaches and mood disturbances.\"\n", + "\n", + "(https://www.advocatehealth.com/health-services/sleep-medicine/sleep-deprivation)\n", + "\n", + "Is it possible they are at Stage 3? Yes. Is it likely? I dont know. I can't say for sure, because that is not clarified enough in the video alone, there is no indication of other symptoms she's having, and we can see much of her body to make reasonable considerations to determine what Stage she is at. Other than probably being Stage 1 based on the logical scenario above, as Stage 1 is 24 hrs of no sleep. But going 24 hours of no sleep will still have an affect. There ARE common side effects, but everyone is different.\n", + "\n", + "2. Stress Factors/Considerations-\n", + "\n", + "According to that same APA article, one research and doctor states,\n", + "\n", + "\"Research has indicated that both nightmare frequency and severity are associated with higher levels of self-reported worry, depersonalization, paranoia, and hallucinatory experiences (Rek, S., et al., Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 52, No. 9, 2017). In general, people whose personality types skew higher on neuroticism and negative affect seem to be most susceptible to nightmares. When they experience stress in their waking lives, it can “flip the switch” that leads to troubled dreams, Kelly said. “When these individuals are sleeping, there’s more activation of fear memories and negative emotion,” he explained.\"\n", + "\n", + "This would suggest her high stress and worry about the Rapture may influence the nightmare. The \"subject/scene\" of the dream is the Rapture itself, and the stress may influence the dream either being a nightmare or normal dream (i.e. negative, neutral, or positive). I'm not claiming or suggesting she neurotic. The point is that stress and topics of worry in one's life can influence a dream.\n", + "\n", + "3. Possible Religious Influence?-\n", + "\n", + "Again, not bashing on religion, but the theme/\"vibe\" of many comments I have seen online are usually attacking religion and making comparisons along the lines of:\n", + "\n", + "- Religion is a cult\n", + "- Stockholm syndrome\n", + "- Patterns of Abuse and Manipulation within religious teachings\n", + "\n", + "Again, I can't say if this is the case for her. Especially since each religion and the tenants/teachings vary. Not to mention how a particular place of worship will hold to those teachings. Like allowing for growth and changes, heavy shame, individualized application of the teaching, etc. I am inferring this from personal experiences growing up with one religion across multiple places of worship, as well as various comments/stories I see online. In my experiences, one location spoke about the teachings as a guiding compass. Whereas a different place was VERY heavy handed on shaming those who didn't adhere to teachings practically verbatim.\n", + "\n", + "Can we logically apply it to the woman in the video? Not really. I think it is at least worth considering all sides of this point, especially if you (or someone you know) may be experiencing something similar in the video. It IS worth considering that this element IS a possibility and something to keep in mind.... 1758752686.0\n", + "I'm just fascinated that all these so called Christians in government got left behind. 1758752703.0\n", + "So, there was a Rapture related video I saw yesterday, that I tried to make a post about, trying to focus on the potential experience and situation. The subreddit said something like \"endpoint not found\". Put like a 10 word reply in the comment and it went through, so I'm assuming it was being blocked because I had \"certain keywords\" the subreddit didn't like. \n", + "\n", + "Anywho.... here's the post I WANTED to make there, but I think it would still apply here (for the most part).\n", + "\n", + "These videos worries me. Particularly the HEAVILY religious demographic in our world. I'd like to elaborate:\n", + "\n", + "Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or medical professional in any way, shape, or form and have never done any official training. I am not trying to diagnose her. I also am no lawyer and am not recommending or advocating any type of legal action or advice. Seek out a real legal professional, not a reddit post. I am trying to provide context and reasoning for my opinion/analysis through my simple Google searches. Who knows, maybe this post may be of interest to others 🤷‍♀️. I am not attempting or intending to bash/shame/hate on religion(s), those who believe in a higher power (regardless of belief systems), or instigate violent actions. In fact, I denounce violence towards ANY individual, group, or community. I am also not trying to denounce any religion, trying to \"convert\" anyone, push my own beliefs or any political/religious agenda.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Intro:\n", + "I think it is plausible that SOME people posting these types of videos were experiencing a form of sleep deprivation. But Ill talk about this one particularly. The information and clues I am getting from the video alone is what I'm basing this on. What I'm trying to communicate is my analysis and understanding of the situation as best as possible. Additionally, I wish to show empathy toward her, or anyone else who may read this post based on what I have found. I'm not trying to make a wild comment or accusation without providing context or sources. Just like how any religious folk would reference their religious text. I'm not trying to stoke hate, feat, resentment, violence, or demeaning anyone (or a group).\n", + "\n", + "Resources:\n", + "Various information, research, and studies can be found on Google or other search engines. Looking at an APA study ( https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/10/science-of-nightmares) and another organization with published studies. The APA seemed like a solid starting point.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "1. Quantity of Time Awake-\n", + "\n", + "In the study on the APA website, there are many observations made about how outside stress and sleep deprivation affect dreams. I make a point on this because in the video, they mentioned they were struggling to sleep and did not get sleep \"until this morning.\" They do not FULLY state or provide sufficient information to determine an exact she hasn't slept before that morning. However, let's generously/logically say she was awake the previous day for a normal 9a - 5p work shift. Maybe awake 1 hour before to allow for getting ready, packing lunch, and travel. So a 8am start for beimg awake. Do we know that info EXACTLY? No. I think it is at least reasonable and logical to use this starting time for analysis.\n", + "\n", + "Mentioning \"...this morning\" and struggling to sleep the previous night is noteable. This would suggest she has been awake for likely 24-ish hours. At least when considering likely sleeping time (8 hours), scheduling, routines people would have, and the same 8am workday start in this example.\n", + "\n", + "Now, she didn't say that she got \"x- hours of sleep,\" so maybe she got adequate sleep. Maybe she experienced what is referred to as a \"micro-sleep.\" Which would be a symptom of Stage 3 Sleep Deprivation:\n", + "\n", + "\"Stage 3 (48 hours without sleep): You begin to experience microsleeps, brief periods of sleep that occur involuntarily. Cognitive functions such as memory and decision-making are severely impaired. You may also start experiencing sleep deprivation headaches and mood disturbances.\"\n", + "\n", + "(https://www.advocatehealth.com/health-services/sleep-medicine/sleep-deprivation)\n", + "\n", + "Is it possible they are at Stage 3? Yes. Is it likely? I dont know. I can't say for sure, because that is not clarified enough in the video alone, there is no indication of other symptoms she's having, and we can see much of her body to make reasonable considerations to determine what Stage she is at. Other than probably being Stage 1 based on the logical scenario above, as Stage 1 is 24 hrs of no sleep. But going 24 hours of no sleep will still have an affect. There ARE common side effects, but everyone is different. 1758752712.0\n", + "2 questions arise from this 12th failed rapture. 1 How can people be so gullible that they sell their house and belongings. Surly something is not connected in their heads. and 2 just what do they think was going to happen to the money from said sale when they got taken away. Does heaven have a banking system and do credit cards work there? 1758752732.0\n", + "Most are just updating the calendar like it was dentist appointment that got moved. 1758753073.0\n", + "Pretty sure good portion of Christians don’t believe in the Rapture. Some Protestant Evangelical preacher came up with it in the 1830s. The Rapture is not a concept based in scripture.  1758753103.0\n", + "sorry no takesys backsys 1758753181.0\n", + "Meh, rationalize it away. What else… 1758753213.0\n", + "*They’re mostly explaining it the same way we all explain failed doomsday dates:* *God rescheduled.* 1758753222.0\n", + "'Rapture' is a weird 19th century Seppo Protestant/pseudo-cult concept.\n", + "\n", + "None of the chritistians I know belong to any of the Seppo inspired denominations. 1758753246.0\n", + "All the good ones got raptured, nobody even misses the guy 1758753294.0\n", + "I think the rapture actually happened and God took everyone worthy up to heave - which is fucking nobody. 1758753354.0\n", + "You know damn well they are gonna memory hole this and repeat this shit the next time the world is gonna end. 1758753468.0\n", + "Imagine the utopia we'd all be in here on earth had it worked! 1758753495.0\n", + "I think we're at a point now where people are so willing to act any kind of way for attention, that this was kind of the first \"influencer only\" rapture.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Like, other raptures had build up, math was often involved, book deals, even vague gestures to scriptures. This seemed like one person saying it, then a bunch of people repeating it for clicks (both positive and critical) but in the real world no one actually believed it, not like they'd used to, not even a small story about grocery lineups or demonstrations. Like a super fast mini-cycle of a regular rapture.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "The year 2000 was really the high point of this stuff 1758753901.0\n", + "Oh dammit did I miss another rapture? 1758754086.0\n", + "I remember being told about the sighting of a “red heifer” in 1997 supposedly signifying the end of the world in 2000. I was fucking terrified. I believe we all lived. Stop caring about what these dopes are saying who are rooting on the end of the world. 1758754445.0\n", + "Finally, the denial has stopped. They accepted and admitted defeat, you heard it hear first 1758754501.0\n", + "As I don't live in a swampy region of the USA, I didn't actually know anyone. 1758754630.0\n", + "There was a rapture? 1758754694.0\n", + "It’s all make believe 1758754874.0\n", + "If things happened the way they were described in the book of Revelations, the Rapture would've happened almost two thousand years ago. Some of the places/things described don't even exist anymore. \n", + "\n", + " \n", + "The Raptor happened long before even that. 1758754892.0\n", + "I don’t know anyone that stupid 1758754939.0\n", + "There was a rapture? I didn't even notice... 1758755180.0\n", + "What if it did actually happen yesterday, and none of the so-called Christians were raptured? Lol 1758755195.0\n", + "No take-backs! 1758755813.0\n", + "Yesterday god delivered me plans to make a rapture launcher 1758756408.0\n", + "I asked the day before this huge Cristian guy at work if he thinks the rapture would happen the mext day. He said, and I'm actually quoting him here, he will pray it does. The rapture is literally the event before doomsday. He was paying for doomsday. The fuck. 1758756780.0\n", + "If you use the world's most advanced telescope, you might see the goal post somewhere out there in deep space 1758757090.0\n", + "This is the sort of thing that is greatly exagerrated online, I don't think any mainstream Christians were in on this 1758757303.0\n", + "I wish it had happened and taken all those fucks away. 1758757610.0\n", + "I am never surprised by the stupid things that people believe. 1758758108.0\n", + "This post is very reassuring that my theory of it being a hilarious internet trolling was correct. 1758758279.0\n", + "I think its a translation mistake and the word is actually \"Rupture\" like that street in Beijing that mysteriously Ruptured this week. Or the fact that my meat pie ruptured after being baked and exploded on me and the kitchen... I'm ok by the way. thanks for your concern. 1758758281.0\n", + "They feel ruptured. 1758758298.0\n", + "Nobody here knows anyone who went all-in.\n", + "\n", + "It's not like this was ALL christians. It was one tiny group, probably in the thousands or hundreds or maybe even dozens, amidst a religion with like a billion adherents. 1758758474.0\n", + "If any of the Christians I know are that dumb (and uneducated on biblical stuff) they're keeping their mouths shut. I suspect this is mostly big with a relative handful of people on Tik Tok and people desperately trying to avoid the whole Epstein files thing. 1758758492.0\n", + "It’s gotta sting. Imagine spending your whole life judging everyone else, screaming about who’s ‘saved’ and who’s ‘damned,’ only to find out you didn’t make the cut yourself. Like training for a marathon you swore you were winning, and then watching the finish line vanish while you’re still tying your shoes. Now they’re left behind with the rest of us only difference is, we weren’t the ones bragging about a front-row ticket to paradise. Karma has a sense of humor, and it doesn’t hand out refunds. 1758758724.0\n", + "This is Reddit. Nobody here personally knows any Christians. 1758758791.0\n", + "I don’t think the Christians who believe they were left behind are on Reddit 1758758884.0\n", + "I live in Tennessee and no one I know even gave it a thought. I doubt they even knew it was supposed to happen today. 1758759119.0\n", + "This guy is still all in.\n", + "\n", + "https://youtu.be/EiqZKFdeKng?si=JktXowMen6r-Wr9e 1758759445.0\n", + "Maybe the rapture did happen, and you just didn't make the cut. 1758759450.0\n", + "it happened, jesus is just tired of our shit and no one got raptured 1758759615.0\n", + "if you knew any actual christians, you'd know none of them believed there was going to be a rapture yesterday 1758759826.0\n", + "Who else has been playing Blondie all day? 1758759850.0\n", + "All I know is, I wasted a good day at work telling everyone to fuck off cause I’m flying up today. \n", + "Should have seen their faces today, as if they saw a ghost 1758759864.0\n", + "I expected it. I'm not a great person. 1758759971.0\n", + "Like I need to know how some stories are ending. People quit jobs, signed over deeds, and let go of their whole lives for this. This one woman gave up everything and took her kids to the beach to wait for Jesus. What happens now?! 1758760050.0\n", + "It means, we're *all*, unclean. 1758760061.0\n", + "I am a Christian. I know dozens, if not hundreds, of other Christians. Of all those people, I don't know one who took it seriously. 1758760116.0\n", + "Is this why my neighbor who I’ve NEVER seen go to church put up a giant white cross in his front yard last week? Next to the wacky waving arm inflatable Trump…. 1758760512.0\n", + "I'm just glad that I don't know anyone that dumb and that the only reason I know about it is because of the internet. 1758760530.0\n", + "Here's a real answer for this thread:\n", + "\n", + "My aunt and uncle in law didn't believe they'd be raptured yesterday, but they believed they were going to be raptured a couple of years ago. They spent a considerable amount of time trying to convince my husband that it was true and that he needed to accept Jesus into his life before it happened. That didn't happen, and (SHOCKER) neither did the rapture. They've now cut themselves off from all of their friends and family out of humiliation and have turned into nasty, bitter people. I wish I knew what their explanation is for not being taken, but they won't speak to us anymore. 1758760626.0\n", + "How do we know it didn't happen? Maybe like, two hermits were taken. 1758760781.0\n", + "There was a Rapture? When? Where? Did they scare the birds and bats? 1758760961.0\n", + "I keep scrolling Instagram to see if anyone is posting about it, since I don’t know anyone in real life that believed it. 1758761830.0\n", + "I don't know a single person who has believed in any of the raptures that have happened in my 54 years of existence. 1758761830.0\n", + "Aussie here. I don't know any Christians.  1758762093.0\n", + "I grew up in a church that had me convinced as a preteen that the rapture was around the corner.  When the interpretations started falling apart and they started giving us new ones, I stopped listening.  That was a long time ago.  \n", + "I only say that because I’ve moved back to my small town in the deepest part of the Bible Belt and don’t know anybody who was expecting the recent one.  At least nobody mentioned it.  I’ve only seen mentions of it in the media.   1758762202.0\n", + "There was a rapture? 1758762534.0\n", + "Don't know and don't care.\n", + "\n", + "I've seen way too many raptures at this point. Paying attention just encourages more. 1758762613.0\n", + "Wild how every few years someone predicts the end and life just keeps going 😂 1758763383.0\n", + "This feels like an elaborate way for someone to disguise their planned disappearance to be with their other family. 1758763443.0\n", + "Heard nothing about a rapture and I live in Peru where separation of church and state doesn't exist in any form. 1758763577.0\n", + "I forgot the rapture was yesterday. 1758763838.0\n", + "Apparently it’s too woke up there. 1758764835.0\n", + "I don't know any Christians that were left behind...\n", + "\n", + "Wait..\n", + "\n", + "Oh no. :( 1758765076.0\n", + "I don't know anyone personally that believed it, but after seeing videos the last couple days I was looking forward to them all leaving. What happened?? 1758765724.0\n", + "It’s “gods test!” and “real Christian’s know they’ll never know the exact date”. Same shit they’ve spewed for years. 1758765760.0\n", + "I had this very same question thanks for asking. Any screenshots anyone can share are welcome 1758766082.0\n", + "You're assuming all of us believe the predictions are valid. 1758767145.0\n", + "They’re recalculating, or waiting for someone else to recalculate, because they can’t believe that they were left behind. 1758767408.0\n", + "Perhaps, it is more of a \"timeline split\" thing than an actual \"rapture\" thing. Like... at pivotal points every so many years, our values and perceptions of life shift our realities. Those people get sent to a more hellish timeline, aligned with a very demanding God who will eventually burn them all, and we continue existing with the shell copies of them - running on autopilot. Wouldn't it be glorious if after today, those who are not just running on autopilot have really focused on how the world is about to become a place where everyone can live in peace and flourish as a species?\n", + "\n", + "No... I'm not high. I just like to dream. 1758767939.0\n", + "Someone fill me in what rapture? I’ve been working long shifts all week and I don’t watch the news 1758768172.0\n", + "[Welcome to heaven](https://youtu.be/a9s6FRLNJAo) 1758768200.0\n", + "This is hilarious 😂 They all got what they deserved, which was nothing 1758768698.0\n", + "I think it was more of a social media tik tok thing. People around me had heard of it, but no one was actually believing or doing it. More like jokes and hearsay 1758769257.0\n", + "What if it already happened, and we are all descendants of shitty people. I would love that. 😂 1758769539.0\n", + "They're probably not having a great time 1758769746.0\n", + "They can hang out with the ones left behind from the last time 1758770308.0\n", + "Any real Christians knew it was bogus because \"No one can tell the time of his arrival\" \n", + "\n", + "Matthew 24:36\n", + "\n", + "This was just a grift, like all rapture hysteria is 1758770342.0\n", + "They littetaly can never admit when they’re wrong , they are doing fine . 1758771080.0\n", + "I am a very religious individual who knows a lot of very religious people. In my workplace I'm the go-to guy for any and all theological questions and ribbing. I found out about this the day before because someone asked me what I thought, probably as a joke. I am not sure that a single real person actually thought the rapture was happening yesterday... I have maybe one person in my mind who would even consider it a possibility, and that individual's connection to reality is sometimes suspect. It's a loud minority on tiktok if anything. 99.99% of Christians are much smarter than that, I assure you. 1758771166.0\n", + "They are all doing the K-PAX so it's open ended are they or aren't they?  1758771563.0\n", + "So which is it, Christians are gullible fools or they’re not worthy? 1758771964.0\n", + "I wish I had known about this beforehand, was hoping to convince some morons to give me their money or property, no returns. 1758772190.0\n", + "[deleted] 1758772243.0\n", + "They are coping and seething. All the excuses. God diddnt rapture because the liberals did/do X. 1758774421.0\n", + "There was a Rapture ? 1758774588.0\n", + "Someone in my town did put up a sign at an intersection that said Jesus is returning September 23 and 24 1758774744.0\n", + "Try to convince them that EVERYONE got raptured into an exact copy of the world from yesterday. 1758775386.0\n", + "Personally I believe in the rapture but I’m not here for it happening any time soon. I’d have been so stressed if I got raptured yesterday 😅 1758775404.0\n", + "Well looks like the world didn't end guess the jokes on them. 1758775654.0\n", + "Reddit was the first I've heard of it and I live in the south. 1758776056.0\n", + "They all need some serious therapy!! Don’t forget the tithe on Sunday!! 1758776292.0\n", + "I don't talk to lunatics, op. 1758776348.0\n", + "Or how about this. Rapture did not happen. So... ... Did God lie or was another impersonating God? 1758776365.0\n", + "I'm not sure, every time I run into one I scream \"Aiiieeh...a demon'\" and run away. I get some cardio in and don't have to waste my time talking to idiots so it's win-win. 1758776384.0\n", + "I got an email from Jesus today.  He apologized and said they’ve been having problems with illegals crashing the gate.  He said he and his dad were still sorting things out (lots of finger pointing), but they hope to reschedule another rapture soon. 1758776743.0\n", + "Just remind them they weren't chosen daily 1758777537.0\n", + "Not sure…. They’re not here. Jesus said most of them went to hell 1758779774.0\n", + "Pretty sure this was entirely satire on tik tok 1758780190.0\n", + "Just because you want something to be true or a part of the Bible doesn’t make it true. \n", + "\n", + "American religions love to add and change the Bible so it fits their belief system. \n", + "\n", + "I think it was of a social media trend and people being wishful. \n", + "\n", + "It is a sign of the times. People are tired. Maybe aliens, maybe AI taking over, maybe ww3 or civil war. Or maybe we have a president that won’t ever step down.\n", + "\n", + "I like this song \n", + "“Sign of the times”\n", + "\n", + "https://youtu.be/qN4ooNx77u0?si=ZIweoZYHFTcuvq8G 1758781058.0\n", + "This is so much fun. It really is just a chance for insane people to do whatever they want on the basis of religion. People got rid of the things they didn't need, their houses kids or husbands. They will be much better off now because chaos brings rebirth and they will be doing something completely different next year, and evolve while people complain about the same old shit. Idk why it makes people so mad? 1758783503.0\n", + "Can we just gaslight the Christians into being better people? Like, tell them:\n", + "“Yeah, my niece and her family got raptured. Not you.\n", + "Wow, maybe you’re not that great of a person as you thought. Maybe try harder.”\n", + "\n", + "(I’m venting, been a long day at work.)\n", + "Not all of them are bad, but some of y’all need to take a big swig out of that book you like to throw around and stop sipping the communion wine while you do it.\n", + "Just because you get a cookie after you brag about the bullshit you did last week to a guy in a wooden box doesn’t mean you get a free pass, Robert. 1758784305.0\n", + "I don't know any that believed it. 1758784843.0\n", + "I mean it says in the Bible that no one knows when it will happen so we can safely assume that every rapture prediction we will be alright. 1758786671.0\n", + "Be an atheist..\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Make tons of stupid rapture tik tok videos claiming to be Christian.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Wait until after the day..\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Make fun of all Christians and feel self righteous.. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Self soothe further about your choices in life. 1758788782.0\n", + "Not sure, they haven't yet answered my Facebook post. Yeah I did it, got to get the punches in when it's applicable. 1758789521.0\n", + "All of the Christians I know are Catholic or Orthodox so they didn't care. Didn't even know about it until a secular told me. 1758791656.0\n", + "I wonder if any of them think the rapture did happen but they didn’t make the list? 1758794881.0\n", + "one day an alien is going to arrive and tell us about how all the other planets that are inhabited were raptured and very few beings were left behind 1758795307.0\n", + "Maybe there was a rapture n none of us, especially American evangelicals are deserving of heaven. Just a thought 1758795383.0\n", + "Who disappeared? 1758795839.0\n", + "You are asking about a minority. Just FYI. Most of us knew this was not happening. Enjoy the comments and your fleeting entertainment. Get some popcorn, rip into it, forget about it 5 days from now, and go back to normal. 1758796741.0\n", + "None of the Christians I know in real life believed it was happening, just something I saw internet people talking about. 1758797119.0\n", + "Christian here, not one Christian II know put more than a second of thought into it. 1758798137.0\n", + "Don’t miss out on the next one.\n", + "\n", + "www.rapturetimer.com 1758799816.0\n", + "Ughhh. I'm tired of it. Any follower of Christ knows this is all one big troll. Please, for all our sakes, find a hobby. 1758799952.0\n", + "They just moved the date 1758800661.0\n", + "I don't know much about the bible, but I was kind of hoping we'd get Revelations before we got Rapture. 1758801304.0\n", + "shit did it not happen, i thought after 6 hours in the office i was in some sort of hell. 1758801406.0\n", + "I remember this being announced on the radio in the 1970s a couple times while going to school. I always thought, \"What a bunch of loonies.\" Still haven't changed my position one iota. lol 1758801430.0\n", + "I remember this being announced on the radio in the 1970s a couple times while going to school. I always thought, \"What a bunch of loonies.\" Still haven't changed my position one iota. lol 1758801453.0\n", + "I remember this being announced on the radio in the 1970s a couple times while going to school. I always thought, \"What a bunch of loonies.\" Still haven't changed my position one iota. lol 1758801467.0\n", + "Wait was this actually a thing, like people saying the world's gonna end and all that? 1758801514.0\n", + "I don't hang out with idiots so it didn't alter my views of the people I spend time with at all.\n", + "\n", + "I only learned about it from reddit and watched these morons give their cars away. 1758801532.0\n", + "None of the Christians I know said anything about the rapture, but none of them use reddit, and most likely aren't on TikToK, cause that's where I read it originated from. TikTok seems very manipulative to me right now. 1758801901.0\n", + "The internet is a sin. If you actually read the Bible, you would realise how much it contradicts itself. Christians pick and choose what they like about it. We are all human, and there is always something we can't live without. Any christian believers I see on the internet are all sinners, in my opinion. Especially reddit. The answer to your question is. They are dealing with the rapture because they are blinded by being human. 1758802135.0\n", + "They haven't read or replied to my texts yet. I'll tell you when I hear back. 1758803022.0\n", + "lol. I'm a Christian and I've never heard of this latest rapture prediction. Anyone who claims to know the rapture and when Christ will return is automatically a heretic. The bible literally says no one knows. 1758803731.0\n", + "Here's the thing maybe it did happen and none of them made the cut lol. Wouldn't be surprising 1758804538.0\n", + "Lutheran and I made the error of reading Revelations way too young. I don’t remember a rapture in there. 1758806244.0\n", + "Tragic knowing that in each state there was at least one home annihilation to this death spell. 1758806287.0\n", + "A few are reconsidering. Many are doubling down.\n", + "\n", + " \n", + "[https://ia802802.us.archive.org/4/items/pdfy-eDNpDzTy\\_dR1b0iB/Festinger-Riecken-Schachter-When-Prophecy-Fails-1956.pdf](https://ia802802.us.archive.org/4/items/pdfy-eDNpDzTy_dR1b0iB/Festinger-Riecken-Schachter-When-Prophecy-Fails-1956.pdf) 1758806753.0\n", + "I don't know about them, but this Pagan is very upset. I didn't get to adopt a bunch of cats that got left behind. Assuming only cats because all dogs go to heaven. 1758808178.0\n", + "it happened they took the good people. 1758808288.0\n", + "Complete denial 1758808813.0\n", + "They just want the world to end so very much... 1758808985.0\n", + "I’m sure the people who believed the rapture was going to happen are the same people who voted for an orange con man. 1758809485.0\n", + "I’m shocked that people who thought they could predict rapture and people who feel that segment of society is representative of anything beyond a few loonies have been given so much space on all these social media apps. Never met either one of these people in real life. 1758809684.0\n", + "If there is a date when people say the rapture is going to happen, I'll 99.9% sure it won't be then. \n", + "\n", + "When Jesus said \"but of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only\" he wasn't kidding. \n", + "\n", + "We are closer today than we've ever been 1758809971.0\n", + "They’re not left behind, they are busily creating their own tribulation period. 1758810414.0\n", + "It says we won't know the thour or the day, that could mean if it happened we, the ones left don't know it happened! 1758810495.0\n", + "I don’t really speak with them anymore so I don’t know. \n", + "\n", + "I did report via group text to the knitting/crochet/embroidery group of our town library about our recent meeting. I included that none of us had raptured. Got a chuckle back. 1758810658.0\n", + "Just goes to show how easy it is to manipulate a cultish mentality. 1758811434.0\n", + "My wife's friend unfriended everyone in Facebook and other social media accounts. She won't take calls or respond to texts. She was visually verified to still be present on earth. 1758811555.0\n", + "where did this one come from? who is telling them it’s the rapture? 1758811710.0\n", + "Imagine spending your whole life thinking that if you sin, all you have to do is visit a man-made box on Sunday and simply ask to be forgiven...\n", + "\n", + "God forbid people actually take accountability for their actions. I think God wants you to own up to being a sinner instead of using religion as a tool to avoid repercussions. Society would appreciate that too. \n", + "\n", + "If God is all forgiving...then I'm sure I'll be forgiven for calling out the bullshit. \n", + "\n", + "Also, no **raptors** this year. 🤣 1758811805.0\n", + "I still don’t know how we get to this point every time considering to date no one has accurately predicted when the rapture will occur. 1758811900.0\n", + "The Rapture !?!? Oh shit Siri was supposed to set an alarm for me!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 1758812956.0\n", + "No real Christian buys into that rapture crap there is nothing in the Bible and it was written by men that wanted control over the weak minded. 1758813210.0\n", + "My question reading about this most recent one is talk of people selling all of their worldly goods. Why would you sell anything if you’re leaving the earth, that’s just earthly money and you won’t be one to care about what happens to anything you own. 1758813223.0\n", + "Pretty sure the only religions that actually thought it was gonna happen were the \"God will heal me from this snakebite\" kinda churches, because I'd be willing to bet the majority of the main Christianity base such as myself either didn't either realize this was a thing til social media said or if they did, realizes it isn't something you plan for 1758813335.0\n", + "So I was raptured. \n", + "\n", + "I'm typing this from heaven right now. I feel bad for everybody down on earth but hey at least I got mine. 1758813942.0\n", + ">went all in\n", + "\n", + "Somebody is on the internet too much 1758814304.0\n", + "The Rapture happens every single day, they just take 1-3 people at a time. it’s like slowly rolling out software 1758814453.0\n", + " The last time there was a “rapture” I made a post about it on Bungie’s “The Flood” board. So yeah…this ain’t the first and it won’t be the last 1758815430.0\n", + "glad I missed it 1758817943.0\n", + "I know a lot of Christians and nobody I knew believed this. 1758819952.0\n", + "I didn’t know a single Christian who believed this was happening 1758829352.0\n", + "Call me crazy but I think the rapture is actually a mass Christian cultural phenomenon where people think they are going to die but in reality it’s the ego imploding in on itself. Once there is no more denial left, there is no where to run(fear), and there is no more people to blame then the ego has no where to hide and it thinks it’s going to die. Once this happens people live on to experience mindfulness compassion empathy and respect.\n", + "\n", + "But hey I’m just a girl that believes the real “devil” is our ego that we are in a fight with within ourselves. And boy does the US have many characters with big egos. 1758832786.0\n", + "So is it safe to assume that all of the ones remaining are the bad ones because all of the good ones already left? 1758835053.0\n", + "wish I bought a bunch of Biden Kamala merch and left them all over Trump town 1758837170.0\n", + "Fine, because I knew it wouldn't happen. 1758840256.0\n", + "I firmly belive the world ended in 2016 and we just dont remember the people who got raptured. Dicks out for Harambe 1758840328.0\n", + "I only know 1 person who would be that crazy. I don't talk to her if I can help it. 1758842407.0\n", + "Only in America… 1758843920.0\n", + "What rapture? 1758844742.0\n", + "The Christians I know take the verse about “you won’t know the time or day” pretty seriously, so none of them thought it was happening. 1758844829.0\n", + "I'm personally looking forward to partying with the Lord of darkness 1758844992.0\n", + "Back in 2011 when this was happening, [I put this on the lawn when my friends were coming over for dinner.](https://imgur.com/a/i4L2iY1) 1758846664.0\n", + "I’m in a religious area of the Deep South and haven’t seen a single Facebook post or even heard a single person mention this. I only recall seeing one other mention of it before today, I think on Reddit, and then a single video on tik tok today of people in Africa in some forest. \n", + "\n", + "Was this really a thing? 1758847886.0\n", + "No real Christian went \"all-in\" on this rapture prediction. Raptures are predicted all the time. They are nothing new and they are all obviously wrong. The reason I say \"real Christians\" is because the Bible is extremely clear about this. Even Jesus himself doesn't know when it is, let alone some random pastor from South Africa. Any Christian who fell for this, I would question their knowledge of the Bible, or if a church was preaching this I would question that church's validity. It's not up for debate.\n", + "\n", + "I mean the idea of a rapture itself is up for debate, but \"the return of Jesus\" which is commonly conflated with the rapture, the timing of that \"event\" whatever it may end up being is not up for debate. *Nobody* will ever reliably predict it. 1758848172.0\n", + "Normal christians didnt buy it nor shouldve literally anyone. Normal people didnt buy it* 1758850698.0\n", + "This whole rapture thing is amusing and bewildering.\n", + "\n", + "It has no basis in the tradition of the ancient Christian Church. Personally, I think it just appeals to an individual's person pride, \"Well, I am certainly going to be raptured...\"\n", + "\n", + " \n", + "But what do I know, I only have a Masters of Divinity from a reputable school run by the most ancient of Christian Churches.\n", + "\n", + "Evangelicals are weird... 1758852125.0\n", + "I’m Christian and have no idea why anyone would say they know the day, month or year it’s supposed to happen because the Bible literally says, no one will know. 1758856943.0\n", + "ITT: Non-christians who didn't go all-in 1758857263.0\n", + "Real Christians knew that the people who predicted this were false prophets. The Bible itself says that we are not to predict the day of Christ's return. 1758858317.0\n", + "As a Christian, I was a bit worried I’d see people who actually believed it in real life, but thankfully I think it’s mainly a chronically online thing.\n", + "\n", + "I was at Bible study this morning and we were all laughing about it. It’s always pretty funny to watch go down 1758858994.0\n", + "They immediately switch to \"that was gawd testing us...\" 1758865162.0\n", + "They're in denial 1758866946.0\n", + "A brief search.\n", + "\n", + "The Rapture doctrine is not universal.\n", + "Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and mainline Protestant churches generally reject it as unbiblical.\n", + "It is most common in American Evangelical and Pentecostal circles, especially those influenced by dispensationalism. 1758868612.0\n", + "what if the rapture already happened long ago and now we are all stuck in this hellhole? 1758871096.0\n", + "No doubt there were those who cheated through the rapture so they'd never learn that it was false. Can you take a guess how? 💊🥃🤢😵💀👻 1758871635.0\n", + "Frantic calls to the people they left all of their belongings to and backpedaling the deed to the house they gave to the church 1758872310.0\n", + "None. \n", + "\n", + "But I’m Lutheran, we don’t believe in that whole rapture malarkey. 1758884319.0\n", + "Christian’s who believe in the Rapture as understood in popular culture are Dispensational. It is a popular strand in the United States but not very common throughout the majority world. And while it is popular among American “evangelicals,” it is by no means the majority view in America or held by all evangelicals.\n", + "\n", + "Furthermore, considering Scripture’s repeated warnings that “no one will know the day or hour” the vast majority of Christians, dispensational or otherwise, think those predictions are utter lunacy.\n", + "\n", + "That is to say, I know a lot of dispensationists… I don’t know a single person who took this prediction seriously… 1758888073.0\n", + "My pastor is currently rebranding it as 'God's final test of patience.' The church coffee hour has gotten noticeably more competitive though. 1758892681.0\n", + "Haven’t Christians figured out that they have all been saying Jesus will return on X date, all the way back to *at the very least* WWII? Ya know, the one with all the nuclear annihilation? It didn’t happen then, it’s not happening now; it is never going to happen. They all just want to believe that everyone who’s worthy will be raptured BEFORE the tribulation, when in fact the Bible gives absolutely no indication whether it would be at the beginning, in the middle (3.5 years), or at the end of all human suffering. The ones I know are silently cheering for the world to end so they can go to heaven. 1758894575.0\n", + "Unfortunately I don't know anyone who really fell for it 1758899492.0\n", + "[removed] 1758905908.0\n", + "I haven't paid my Christianity fees in decades. I didn't realize it was required to be part of the rapture. 1758907211.0\n", + "i think most religious people know this wont happen. they are just happy to lie to themselves enough to make life a little more bearable.\n", + "\n", + "how do you keep people in line that have nothing to look forward to. tell them in death there is more reward or punishment. religion was born. 1758915411.0\n", + "They have Jesus Trump to guide them 1758921915.0\n", + "They weren't left behind. The world decided that they'd spread the word of another crackpot preacher who wanted to make money and a name for themselves. 1758922188.0\n", + "Im not religious but who TF do these pastors telling people it’s the rapture. If Jesus said that he did not know, are pastors above Jesus? And who are these Christian’s believing a pastor over Christ’s own words? 1758945797.0\n", + "I’ve survived them all. I remember a kid in my French class in high school, went up to the board to draw out why we were all going to virtually perish during Y2K. I asked him how his week went when we got back from break 🤷🏻‍♀️. He didn’t think it was funny 1758948003.0\n", + "😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 1758949751.0\n", + "I don't know anyone like that. I know this Greek Orthodox guy who knew the Rapture would only come when least expected, though. We had a laugh about it. 1758961242.0\n", + "I don't hang with people who think that way and no one in my family is that far off reality, either. So, until this very moment, it's not even a thing I ever thought about.\n", + "\n", + "Nutters be nuttin. 1758974390.0\n", + "First I've heard that there was apparently a 'rapture' lol.  1758976653.0\n", + "Normal Christians didnt even know it was happening. My local church were laughing about it a few days ago.\n", + "\n", + "It's just these nuts in the US that pay for the privilege of listening to televangilist rhetoric.\n", + "\n", + "Listen to Jesus He Knows me and you will understand 1758980199.0\n", + "Dispensationalism isn't Christianity, it's a lunatic fringe 'idea' that's barely over 120 years old. Denounced as heresy by most everyone with half a brain. Ppl out here thinking \"Left Behind\" books weren't fiction... 1758986236.0\n", + "My parents laughed when i told em. Plus we got some pretty funny posts 1759022634.0\n", + "Hmm, I’m a Christian and either whoever was on invites did a terrible job at sending them out or the rapture didn’t happen \n", + "\n", + "(hint: second one is the correct one) 1759038476.0\n", + "I've always had a problem reconciling the concept of good being all knowing and all god, with the idea that some people might not be accepted into heaven. does not compute 1759056951.0\n", + "The real Rapture was the friends we made along the way. 1759077729.0\n", + "Most that I know have just said \"yeah the rapture isn't real\" or \"Most people with a brain knew it was not coming then\" and what really stook out to me was my close friend Andrew who said (Qupted from Text) \"The whole point of the second coming of Christ is we don't know when it will be, a large part of it is integrity, so that if Christ comes back and we know the day, well its really easy to ask for frogiv4eness that day and be christlike for that day, but matthew said in 24:36 - 'We don't know the time nor the hour' there for anyone who claims to know the rapture is lying. Dispensationalists at their finest\" 1759085472.0\n", + "As a Christian I ignore any and all prophecy’s of a rapture. The Bible says no man may know the date. Something like that. And nobody I know is stupid enough to believe any prophecy 1759089420.0\n", + "Theres been so many already, lol . I just feel for the next one. im going to see if they'd give me their earthly possessions and get it legally notated so they can't take it back after. Though of course many of them wouldn't because they dont actually believe it, they just hope its happening. \n", + "\n", + "Granted, a few in the 2000s sold businesses and stuff thinking a rapture was coming it was hilarious, imo like watching a cult realize they didn't ascend. 1759171939.0\n", + "They’re either in denial, doubling down, or suddenly really interested in theology. 1759203982.0\n", + "Great! none of the Christians i know thought it was happening considering there is hard warnings that no one will know the time right there in the bible. :D 1759260863.0\n", + "Wear a nut cup and you won't get raptured. 1759279944.0\n", + "If you think you're good enough to be \"raptured\" then you're not good enough to be raptured... 1759326610.0\n", + "This shows that God does not exist with this nonsense idea of the Rapture. 1759435433.0\n", + "😅🤣😅😂😅😂😂😅🤣🤣🤣😅😂😂😅😂🤣🤣🤣😅😂 1759793481.0\n", + "The rapture happened just inside of us not the outside that’s what they want you to think that god is outside of you when your one with god and all that is. 1759952000.0\n", + "It hasn't happened yet. 1760057936.0\n", + "The rapture will be on Shmita Cycle according to Brandon Biggs. God didn’t reveal him the day & the hour. Only the Father knows. 1762350629.0\n", + "I knew no one and I’m a student at a christian seminary. We know Gods word and the fact that Jesus said only the Heavenly Father knows the time and date. 1758749190.0\n", + "All the Christians in the comments defending themselves, I mean this with sincerity: you cannot distance yourself from other Christians to justify and absolve yourselves. The Christians who believe this shit exist, they do go to your churches and then go to other ones and get radicalized there. These are YOUR people experiencing literal spiritual psychosis. Take accountability, claim your community and actually fucking do something about all this bullshit. I’m so over all of you, I’ve been surrounded by evangelicals, fundamentalists, and reformed modern pseudo-liberal Christians my whole life and I’ve never met such a homogenous group of compassionately-devoid people. 1758787665.0\n", + "\"Redditors of reddit, Christians are le bad and le stupid, right? Now give me updoots.\" 1758804679.0\n", + "As far as I know, nobody I know personally fell for this one. But the people I know who might have are also people I'm sorta LC with, so I haven't really talked to them in the last week or so. \\*shrug\\* 1758731466.0\n", + "Nelson sez ha ha 1758731874.0\n", + "Crap, did I miss another rapture? I guess I’m just going to have to wait for the next one…again. 1758732242.0\n", + "I should've gone around last night and put pants, shirts, and socks in piles all over. Opportunity missed. 1758732590.0\n", + "(Yawn).....when is the next supposed one? 1758732878.0\n", + "I think it valuable to tell them the rapture happened and there are a lot of people out there not as pure as they want you to believe. 1758732912.0\n", + "Trump is looking into this rapture business and will have an answer in 2 weeks. 1758734416.0\n", + "Somehow, I know the damn Democrats are to blame 1758737303.0\n", + "It was only antifa that went the rest left behind. 1758738591.0\n", + "I’m bummed it didn’t happen. Was looking forward to finding a nice house that got raptured and just taking it then claiming squatters rights down the road. 1758738748.0\n", + "Free yourselves from this religious delusion. The Bible is demonstrably false-i.e. the world was not created in 7 days. Wake up people. Get into REALITY. 1758743462.0\n", + "It happened . If you're still here you didn't pass 1758748809.0\n", + "I think we should agree with all of them in advance next time that if they're wrong they have to admit the whole thing is bullshit.\n", + "\n", + "That would have saved so much aggregation over the ... centuries. 1758750083.0\n", + "None that I know, including me, went \"all in\" on it. Not even a subject that came up in a conversation.\n", + "\n", + "We knew better. 1758750147.0\n", + "I've heard no one talk about the rapture except reddit-atheists circle-jerking about it. 1758758371.0\n", + "The only people who talk rapture talk are women that are bored with their husbands and want them dead because divorce is a sin, people that are in debt, and others that feel entitled but are losers in a general sense. Lottery ticket meth fantasies 1758760546.0\n", + "Tell them they supported Trump, the Anti Christ. That is why they are still here. 1758762818.0\n", + "Anyone seen Charlie ? 1758763437.0\n", + "I took mine to a tall cliff and told them “it only works if you take a …leap of faith”. 1758771995.0\n", + "I don't know which redditors need to hear this, but random Christian TikTokers don't speak for God, nor do they influence his plans. 1758781923.0\n", + "I just read that 1800 immigrants from Alligator Alcatraz have just disappeared after they closed it down without record. No family members know where they are. The irony if they were the ones to be taken with the rapture. \n", + "The alternative is unimaginably sad 😔 \n", + "All of those rapture videos were so crazy. Do they still believe in Santa too 1758791796.0\n", + "A shitload of people went missing from Aligator Alcatraz, a lot of people are saying. Why aren't they talking about that. Kinda coincidental don't you think? Easily seeded psyop 1758804670.0\n", + "My question is about the return of Christ. Does he return as a 33 yr old, as a new Miracle baby or as a 2058 yr old? 1758804796.0\n", + "Catholics don’t believe in the Rapture. It was made up by Protestants. 1758828846.0\n", + "Christians didn't think the rapture was happening yesterday. A few mistakenly thought it might but most of us knew its gonna get a LOT worse before it's rapture time 1758731633.0\n", + "No one actually believed it, just a story spread to mock Christians. 1758731054.0\n", + "This is what happens when you believe in a sky god. 1758780814.0\n", + "Well, they didn't have to get left behind.  Im sure there is some perfectly good kool-aid they could have enjoyed to get to their ficticious holy place.  Clearly they are not truly committed to their imaginary friend.  1758733204.0\n", + "I didn’t even hear about this until i saw snarky comments about it on reddit. Is this another classic case of r/atheism letting people know how smart they are? 1758736729.0\n", + "I know lots of Christians but not one of them gave any credence to this rapture thing. I think non-believers are more interested in it than the vast majority of Christians. 1758747073.0\n", + "This post is a from a troll farm. Only post, no comment history. Why are these still being allowed on this sub? I live in the Bible Belt of America and the only place I seen/heard about a rapture is on Reddit. 1758753744.0\n", + "We are all disappointed but somehow we’re carrying on knowing we are apparently irredeemable for unknown reason. 1758753802.0\n", + "I'm a proud Christian and had no idea there was supposed to be a rapture, seems like a thing made up by non religious types to try and knock down true Christians...Jesus loves you all and stop falling for fake news 1758759404.0\n", + "This is like the kid pretending to be a cat and requesting litter boxes, anyone claiming it is most likely cashing in on views 1758760973.0\n", + "They already justified it somehow. Lmao it's what they do full time. 1758763544.0\n", + "Not sure, they do not seem to be home and they are not responding to my texts or answering my calls, yet I can see their car in their driveway.................. 1758769093.0\n", + "The rapture isn't even part of the Bible or a backstory  1758770237.0\n", + "Lots of people were beamed up. If you’re still here then… 1758781698.0\n", + "Fuck em 1758793247.0\n", + "My husband died yesterday. I like to pretend he was just raptured. 1758806531.0\n", + "As a Christian, I was a little disappointed today (September 25) when I woke up and realized I was still here. But to be honest, I’m doing fine. God gives us tests to strengthen our faiths and I have no doubt that this was a test.   1758841155.0\n", + "No one is left behind, the man known as \"Jesus\" - his name is Yeshua Ben Yosef of Nazareth - did return. He has been here since June 26.  His autobiography \"Take Down The Cross My Name is Not Jesus\" was published on that day in September.   So it is true he has returned he is here - the media, vatican and government are trying to cover it up.   He is openly publishing under Holy Divine artist ID on Amazon music and his identity is registered with US copyright office/library of congress.     As for The Rapture that story is a lie made up by a school teacher in the 1800's.  Yeshua is not going to fly down from the clouds, he established a tech company and a publishing company ahead of his arrival.    1760435986.0\n", + "Not necessarily about the Christians I know, just a thought to ponder regarding the rapture all together.\n", + "\n", + " The rapture did happen but not the way you think because although there is some truth in the bible it was hijacked long ago for political and power gains against the common people. But to believe this you need to realize God is all around us, he is the dirt under your feet, your neighbors dog, the homeless man on the street, the leaves, the sea, the sky and the universe. There is no one coming down to pluck you off this earth because we are all extensions OF him ON him. The rapture was him coming for his church because the physical church is corrupted. His real church is our minds, our spirits and the vessel that carries us. The rapture awakened some to realize this as a whole, that all religions are connected because we are all extensions of him, which means opening your third eye and rediscovering our true powers and the real connection to God. The raptured people now help awaken people to the matrix the elites have made to keep our vibrations down and not live how God intended, which isn't going to work. It's living as a community, living off God's creations not the fake stuff. The people who experienced the rapture now walk this physical world preaching what and who, God and Us are. To wake people up and truly connect. God is not indoors, he is outside, he is the sun, the wind, the water. Get outside, take your shoes off and ground yourself, truly connect to God. Eat healthy off God creations not the processed food and medicines that is slowly killing us. We have 5 years to prepare, 5 years to wake up and start living as we were intended because the entity that is the United States, Isreal and the Elites of this world are going to kill us if we keep allowing them to stray us farther from God and our true purpose. To LIVE, LOVE and ASCEND 1760895218.0\n", + "OP specifically titled this to make it seem like this was a mainstream Christian view in order to disparage them.\n", + "\n", + "edit: downvote me all you like, I'm right. There is a very strong dislike for Christians on reddit. 1758736573.0\n", + "No Christian knows what you’re talking about… but you don’t have to get ready if you stay ready! There’s a whole community outside of Reddit that leaves the house and will be at church on Sunday. You’re welcome to join us anytime, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed but it’s like exercise for your soul! 1758764715.0\n", + "LMFAO. That whole thing was a balloon blown up by Reddit leftists to pop later. I have heard 0 Christians saying anything about a rapture. 1758736163.0\n", + "The dumbasses do this every decade; they just have a much bigger megaphone, thanks social media!\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "MAGA! 1758732628.0\n", + "Not all of us believers adhere to the \"rapture\" concept of end of times.\n", + "\n", + "Many of us will ask a similar question of you: how are you handling the fact that \"what you bind on earth, you bind in heaven\" meaning: you will be the kind of person you are now and you will reside with people like you in that eternal world. So, if you are selfish, arrogant, foolish, hateful then that is what your eternal future holds for you and you get to live with similar people ..... forever (or until there is a way for you to change).\n", + "\n", + "So... you're creating your eternal future right how. How you doing with that? 1758733237.0\n", + "Maybe the end of the world was the start of the fall of Trump at the UN… 1758734484.0\n", + "[deleted] 1758737206.0\n", + "They should all go home and rethink their lives. Hopefully they’ll realize people don’t want their Death Kirks. 1758750421.0\n", + "Y’all won’t be laughing at it’s worst, promise that. 1758757252.0\n", + "No one knows any of these people and the shit on social media was for views. Maybe great grandma told someone she hopes it happens, but no one was really all-inn on this. Hence the absolute non-answers in this thread.\n", + "\n", + "I think more than anything this shows how one side wants to revel so badly in the \"stupidity\" of the other. And it just go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. The only sheep I see are people that think everyone else is a sheep. 1758769541.0\n", + "Gotta ask, as a Christian and conservative, the only context I have for people thinking the rapture was happening this week was left wing propagandist social media. As in, if it wasn’t for the people making fun I wouldn’t have been aware.\n", + "\n", + "Was this even real or made up? We are in the day and age of “why wait when we can create” a controversy 1758736288.0\n", + "You thinking all of Christianity believes this is your own thing to sort out lmao 1758802401.0\n", + "Get a job 1758736070.0\n", + "It's no sillier to believe in the rapture than it is to believe in impending climate doom 1758821070.0\n", + "Wtf are you even talking about . If there is even a rapture it wont be for a while. Nothing indicating a rapture has happened 1758769766.0\n" + ] + } + ], + "source": [ + "toplevelcomments = []\n", + "\n", + "submission.comments.replace_more(limit=None) # limit=None\n", + "for top_level_comment in submission.comments:\n", + " print(top_level_comment.body, top_level_comment.created)\n", + " toplevelcomments.append([])" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 24, + "id": "9613f6eb-03df-42bf-9f06-19d99103435d", + "metadata": { + "scrolled": true + }, + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "I dont think youll ever make the cut then. I know i wont.\n", + "Spoiler alert: all the raptures were real, just very few make the actual cut and God keeps giving us another chance every few decades or so\n", + "\n", + "Twilight Zone ending : God said this was the last chance\n", + "Those are rookie numbers, I've lived through at least 10 raptures, 4 Mayan apocalypses, and 1 y2k\n", + "There can be as many as anyone wants. The Rapture is one of those things that seems important to Christianity but is entirely absent from the Bible.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "The Devil is another one of those. There's a serpent in the Garden of Eden and an angel who tempts Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, but they're unrelated (and the second one is explicitly in God's employ, to be sure that Christ understands the sacrifice he's making).\n", + "12th? Fucking hell. We must really suck.\n", + "Ya not even the first rapture this year.\n", + "Read this and thought \"only three? Are you old enough to be on Reddit?\"\n", + "I counted 45 for me from this list [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\\_of\\_dates\\_predicted\\_for\\_apocalyptic\\_events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events)\n", + "Here's what Christians don't want to hear, but is well-known:\n", + "\n", + "First of all, the New Testament makes no reference to anything known as The Rapture, not even really in Revelations.\n", + "\n", + "The Book of Revelations regards not only a time where Christians were being hunted and murdered, but where they believed the return of Christ was *imminent*. They thought it was going to happen within their lifetimes; that Jesus would return and get justice against their persecutors. When this didn't happen (as it doesn't with all religious Doomsday scenarios), they pretty much said \"well, someday it'll happen, so let's keep saying it will and people will believe it.\"\n", + "\n", + "Strictly speaking, the Book of Revelations is actually very, very, very outdated. But hey, we all gotta believe something.\n", + "Y2k was nothing because a lot of programmers worked overtime fixing code to be ready for it.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Kinda like how you don't hear about the ozone hole anymore.  We banned the chemicals causing it in an international treaty in the 80s.\n", + "Harold Camping. LOL.\n", + "Cool. You didn't answer the question.\n", + "Now, for the twelfth time, we enter the Days of Darkness.\n", + "60 plus since I was born.\n", + "I'm still convinced Y2k actually happened all the computers shut everything down and some of us were left behind. Things got really stupid after that.\n", + "I guessed 5, but then decided to look it up. I counted 48, even more if I go by names instead of dates.\n", + "\n", + "You figure the religious would have learned by now and even their own book tells them otherwise, but they keep going.\n", + "I stopped counting at 30.\n", + "Currently have a 100% rapture avoidance rate...can that help me get a job?\n", + "I just sing to myself, \"It's just another day 🎶\"\n", + "Wait, there was a rapture?\n", + "If you lived in 2000, you experienced a couple dozen that year alone. That was the most popular year for doomsday predictions.\n", + "Macho Man Randy Savage died to prevent the rapture.  He was the cream of the crop and rose to the top. \n", + "It's like a drafting a fantasy team, but God keeps looking at the options and deciding to check the waiver wire instead.\n", + "Seth Rogen: Jesus fucking Christ.\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: You might wanna stay away from saying that.\n", + "\n", + "Seth Rogen: Jesus fucking Christ? Why? Why can't I say that?\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: One of the ten commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.\n", + "\n", + "Seth Rogen: Jesus isn't the name of the Lord. God is the name of the Lord.\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: Jesus and God is all the same.\n", + "\n", + "Jay Baruchel: It's a trinity.\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.\n", + "\n", + "James Franco: It's like Neapolitan ice cream.\n", + "I keep wishing one these damn things would actually work so we could finally get rid of all these people. The world would be such a better place.\n", + "According to Jehovah’s Witnesses there are only 144,000 available seats in heaven so it was very unlikely that there was room for anyone anyway. No Witness that’s currently alive will make it to heaven. You can ask them how that makes them feel. It should be the same answer the unraptured rapture folks would give you.\n", + "Thirteenth if you include the 1980 version by Blondie.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "https://youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?si=GuxIcA1opr5v8vKW\n", + "Wild how many times it’s been predicted and people still keep waiting.\n", + "And a Mayan apocalypse!\n", + "OH MAN I remember the Mayan Apocalypse and Y2K, hahahahahahaha\n", + "There's probably countless raptures guessed at by kids wanting to be special. I personally made several predictions that (obviously) didn't go anywhere. This is just counting those that have been recorded or grown to a certain size. But they're all equally incorrect and ridiculous...\n", + "Which is especially odd when you consider the Rapture doesn't even have an actual basis in theology\n", + "Last time I went through a rapture, Macho Man Randy Savage was taken away from us.\n", + "\n", + "This time, a Macho Man Randy Savage biopic gets announced.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "There will be churches erected to this man.\n", + "Didja count all the subgenius X-days?\n", + "What if Rapture does really happen at the specified dates its just that almost very few make the cut that it didnt get newsworthy or sometimes the bar was so high that at one point nobody did...\n", + "How many raptures do you think there’ll be? An infinite amount!?!?!?\n", + "> This is like the third Rapture I've lived through.\n", + "\n", + "It's like Shedeur Sanders in the nfl draft, we finished 3 rounds and I am still here. getting real antsy.\n", + "As an 11 year old I was forced to attend the fundamentalist church in Orlando where Benny Hinn got his start. Besides him not being able to heal me from whatever, us kids were petrified of the inevitable rapture that was certain at least twice a year. Still waiting.\n", + "Dang so we are going through an annual rapture? So much like my New Year’s resolution I gotta make a rapture one too\n", + "There was the 2012 Mayan apocalypse that all the evangelicals were up in arms about, and then this one that were the two I've seen in recent times that were taken 'seriously' by believers. Of course both were absurd nonsense prima fascia to anyone bothering to do even the slightest bit of reading but convincing people to believe the scripture of a book they've never even read is one of modern Christianity's greatest feats.\n", + "I was invited to a rapture next week, but I’ve already made plans to go to a different rapture with my friend.\n", + "\n", + "It’s always so busy this time of year!\n", + "[removed]\n", + "I got a shirt that say's \"I survived the 13th Bʼakʼtun\"\n", + "You’re not given all your money away that’s why. I’ll look after it, or I can ship it you when you get there.\n", + "Hey, the Mayan apocalypse happened! It's just the date was wildly optimistic.\n", + "If we're talking the apocalypses on the Wikipedia page, I'm at 61. I think I'm up there with Buffy Summers, \"oh, there was another apocalypse? Well that's nice.\"\n", + "To be fair, not every \"end times\" prediction was also a _rapture_ prediction specifically. Like, most of them though.\n", + "21 for me, according to Wikipedia.💅 criteria: second coming of Christ.\n", + "The Mayan one was nuts, Iceland volcano erupted and was all over news lol\n", + "It's rapturin' time!\n", + "Just showing what a loving God he is, waiting until it's a bakers dozen.\n", + "[deleted]\n", + "Apparently god treats the rapture the way Hobbits treat breakfast.\n", + "Did you count Blondie's?\n", + "These assholes have gone from waiting for the rapture, to praying for the rapture and now finally doing everything they can to try to bring the rapture about. If watching the world burn means they finally get to be right it is a trade off they are willing to embrace with open arms.\n", + "Death cults be like that. \n", + "\n", + "I mean, what would we do if people couldn’t escape their life’s pain through a charlatan selling eternal happiness with your loved ones. \n", + "\n", + "World might become that very place.\n", + "I've had friends who, claimed to, completely believe several of those rapture forecasts were real. All I said to them was \"really?\". After the date passed we never spoke about it.\n", + "\n", + "It's really hard to not scream at them \"MAYBE YOUR BELIEFS ARE BULLSHIT AND YOU ARE A MORON.\" But that's not how you get those types of brains to start listening to what you say.\n", + "Rapture isn't real so they keep selling the idea.\n", + "Seriously though I wish I was good at art (and I refuse to use AI when it's for making money) but I wanna make a t-shirt to sell. On the front it would have Jesus descending from the heavens above and below him there would be a big city in ruins with people on fire running in the streets, dogs and cats having sex, nazis riding on the backs of dinosaurs, demons eating people, all kinds of fucked up imagry. Then on the back of the shirt in big gold letters across the top \"I survived the Apocalypse (Again)\" followed by [a list of all the dates the apocalypse was supposed to happen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events#20th_century)\n", + "Some are devoutly repentant, others confused; many seek community, pastors, and explanations, while a few double down.\n", + "Yeah I've been though quite a few... last big one I remember in the news people were selling pet sitting duties to Christians in the event they got raptured.\n", + "Out of the loop: Who declared a rapture?\n", + "I remember the Mayan apocalypse. I thought that one was pretty interesting and probably had more merit than the rest.\n", + "\n", + "Personally, I’m really disappointed that those people are still here. Maybe one day we will all be blessed with a proper rapture.\n", + "I'm gonna tell people that my aunt legitimately got raptured\n", + "Jesus Christ, do us all a favour and take them already. I’m so sick of this shit.\n", + "Haha, Wikipedia's rapture tally is the real holy book at this point—don't forget Harold Camping's 2011 double-whammy (May and October fails). I survived that one hiding under my bed with a family-sized Doritos bag. Which \"end times\" edition scarred you the most, or are we betting on the next TikTok prophet?\n", + "I remember finding a neat website years ago that let you check how many apocalypse predictions you've lived through, but I can't remember the name ;-;\n", + "Like the NFL draft over here. I’m not even 12th round pick. Damn.\n", + "Don’t forget Hale-Bopp. I even bought a new black Nike track suit and matching shoes.\n", + "Haha, 12 and counting—survived '11's Camping flop by hiding in mom's basement with Twinkies. If 13 hits, what's your bunker snack?\n", + "[removed]\n", + "Twelve whiffs? I'm the undisputed champ of eternal benchwarmers—blaming my Y2K Spam stash for the permanent snub.\n", + "You know that means you were just left behind 12 times. So sad 😞\n", + "Maybe one of them was the real one, but only like one or two people qualified so nobody noticed. Anyone go missing today?\n", + "Those are only the ones we know about. When I was in the mental hospital, there was a woman who told me she was a \"bride of Christ\" and that the rapture would be coming next Tuesday (it didn't). I'm sure tons of Christians and Christian groups have expected thousands of raptures over the years.\n", + "See, they've actually all been correct, just no one has been worthy\n", + "This one didn't even wake me up. At least Y2K was fun.\n", + "I told my wife, who hadn’t heard about this week’s rapture, about it this morning. She looked at me and said straight faced “dang…missed it again.” I died laughing.\n", + "I missed a rapture prediction!?! Damn, I hate that. What if it really happened this time? Id look so stupid.\n", + "I’m waiting to repent until I max my osrs account.\n", + "Imagine like three people went missing each time though.\n", + "the best judgement day was Terminator\n", + "I created a wish list for books to help me through my depression https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2XALQQ8RZK4B1?ref_=wl_share\n", + "My grandma, a highly religious woman, died on one of the rapture days. It roughly lines up with the time when the whole world went to shit, so I've been saying it happened in 2011.\n", + "The Rapture is specifically the Christian apocalypse when God takes all the true believers and leaves the rest of us behind\n", + "Thankfully, my car wasn't eaten this time.\n", + "Are you counting Harold Camping as 1 or 2 raptures?\n", + "Huh. I thought it was way more than 12. How many times did that one preacher guy keep moving the date when it kept not happening?\n", + "I was terrified of 2012 as a kid\n", + "I didnt get left behind, you did. Its not complicated.\n", + "I was in Tulum on the day Mayan calendar ended and that massive storm that rolled in freaked us out. Also riding the catamaran ferry in 12' waves back to Cozumel was intense. \n", + "I have a theory that the rapture actually happened already and only like 3 people disappeared.\n", + "The entire religion is based around a guy that mistakenly predicted the apocalypse and his return within his disciples' lifetimes. Christianity really takes the cake for the \"Fell For It Again\" awards.\n", + "https://istodaytherapture.com/\n", + "Turns out they're more like rounded drafts\n", + "> Twelfth\n", + "\n", + "This is the first time I can remember seeing twelfth spelled out instead of 12th. It's slightly disconcerting. Probably because I always pronounce it *twelth*.\n", + "Y2K is gonna happen any day now.\n", + ">Mayab, non-specific Judgment Days, and Y2K need not apply.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Apocalypse snobs & gatekeepers ruin all the fun.\n", + "Hold the fuck up... The Myan's didn't say it was the end of the world, but the end of an era. \n", + "\n", + "I don't think anyone would fight me on the idea that at the end of 2012 was probably when shit started getting progressively weirder and weirder by the year.\n", + "How are the snacks?\n", + "Of course the wifi is good. You are inside the cloud.\n", + "I actually paid them fifty thousand dollars to send me back down. I wasn't into that scene.\n", + "Are there enough chairs?\n", + "lets go to the taco, cheesecake, beer and weed tasting place tonight for dinner.\n", + ">The WiFi is pretty good surprisingly\n", + "\n", + "This was unironically a major issue I had with the idea of heaven when I was a kid. I remember I used to love to play MW2 when I got home from school at the end of the day and I remember thinking about how if I died and went to heaven, I wouldn't be able to play call of duty with my friends. And how could it be heaven without that? \n", + "\n", + "That said, I still remember a dream I had not long after my grandma died. I dreamt I went to heaven to visit her. But heaven wasn't all white clouds and shit, I went to her house. The house my grandpa built that she lived in almost until she died. She moved in with us at the end, but that was her home. And I remember I was kinda scared knocking on the door. But when I did it was my grandma who answered and she was inside hanging out with my grandpa, who had died when I was a baby. The whole dream was just spending the day with them. It helped a lot with processing her death. If there is a heaven, I hope that's what it is. Just a place where we can go and be with the ones we love. Nothing extravagant, I don't need riches and comfort beyond belief. I just want what we have here with some of the bullshit removed, ya know?\n", + "I hear there's a shortage of chairs. Is that true?\n", + "What’s reddit doing in heaven? \n", + "He's lying, heaven has their own reddit!\n", + "HEY! I made that joke yesterday!\n", + "Can I have your car? Gave mine away, thinking I made the cut...\n", + "Damn, that's what's up. When you see the big guy tell em' I said \"why?\"\n", + "Starting youre own \"I'm in heaven\" AMA thread within a thread I see.\n", + "\n", + "How's the view?\n", + "They got VPN? Virtual Pious Network?\n", + "Joke's on you. I like it here.\n", + "Have they changed the WiFi password yet? Last time it was INRI and I told them it was too easy to guess.\n", + "Say hi to all the pets who've gone on ahead, please.\n", + "WiFi being good is to be expected. It is heaven after all.\n", + "I did their wifi, they were really invested in doing it right\n", + "Lucky. I've got the room next to the noisy ice machine.\n", + "I reckon it feels good over there. 😂😊\n", + "What’s the WiFi password?\n", + "Is the rumored chair shortage real?\n", + "\\*Joke's\n", + "There’s no Villa fans in heaven\n", + "What's the wifi password up there? Is it '[jesuschristismyn\\*gga\\*](https://youtu.be/F74zwVO9JaU?list=RDF74zwVO9JaU)'?\n", + "That’s why it’s heaven, blazing fast internet speeds for free/s\n", + "Is there a shortage of chairs?\n", + "How is OJ doing?\n", + "And yet you can get on reddit with the riffraff, huh?\n", + "Can u ask God \"wtf\" and also if he drops 10k in my account I will convert.\n", + "Y'all are closer to Musk's satellites, so of course the reception's solid.\n", + "There's Reddit in heaven? Fuck that\n", + "Yes, the wifi's good, but unfortunately Netflix is only available in Spanish and Korean ....\n", + "Is the weed any good?\n", + "I know you're lying because if Heaven is real then reddit is nowhere near it.\n", + "You don't need all that karma in heaven. Leave some for us!\n", + "Why would any part of this be funny? Are you allowed to be Christian on Reddit? Like if I read the Bible do I get kicked off?\n", + "You don’t get a heaven verified check mark or anything?\n", + "Are David Bowie and Prince up there? I miss them\n", + "Did you have your first meal of Big Mac and Diet Coke yet?\n", + "Oh thank god.\n", + "\n", + "..hah.\n", + "The conservatives say you can thank Elohim Musk's FirmamentLink for that, but I don't buy it\n", + "> The WiFi is pretty good surprisingly\n", + "\n", + "As an Australian and an atheist, I’m now really torn…\n", + "Your fetish allowed up there ?\n", + "\n", + "Also, are you walking on clods from water or evaporated cum from all the spilled seed that are considered muredersd babies?\n", + "Thanks to Hedy!\n", + "I mean, here in the US we are definitely living in hell\n", + "Are there hot girls or mostly dudes\n", + "What's the password?\n", + "\n", + "I bet it's 12345...\n", + "Are you dumb? You’re in heaven. Why wouldn’t the WiFi be good? wtf. \n", + "What’s the WiFi password?\n", + "Like, am I supposed to have an idea about what is going on? Reddit sure acts like it is common knowledge.\n", + "[removed]\n", + "FYI, this has been happening before idiots on tiktok ever existed\n", + "The whole idea of rapture is such an American thing in genral. I am not Christian but the one i know is just normal people who have very little in common with their American counterparts. They do not believe thay people will come one day and smite the non-believers.\n", + "I think this one was legit but they were so late getting the word out that the rest of us were like, “What, tomorrow? No. No good. You have to give at least a week” and then they huddled together, grumbled amongst themselves for a bit and said, “Fine. We won’t do it. Jerks.” and that was that. I’m pretty sure…\n", + "I mean, the concept of the \"Rapture\" was made up in the 19th century and that verse is talking about the second coming which is a different thing. But, yeah, according to the Bible not even Jesus knows when he's coming back.\n", + "Is this an American thing? I've never heard Christians in Europe discuss rapture. And I was raised Catholic in Poland, so pretty hard core.\n", + "Anybody who calls themself a Christian who thinks they know when the Rapture is going to happen a) hasn't read the Bible, and b) is probably divorced enough from reality anyways to convince themself that they DID get raptured and now are living in Heaven.\n", + "Yeah, this. I’m a Christian and have long considered any prediction of the second coming or rapture to be a fool’s errand. I have no respect for Christians who try and predict it - that tells me everything I need to know about them.\n", + "No one expects the four horsemen\n", + "Theologically literate people know that Matthew also shows right before the verse you're quoting that Jesus is saying, \"Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.\"\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Jesus himself believed his second coming would happen in the lifetime of his disciples. Paul believed Jesus second coming would happen in his lifetime too. \n", + "But most only start quoting this as an excuse after the rapture they'd been hyping doesnt happen.\n", + "\"I'll get around to it when I feel like it! You don't have to keep pestering me.\" - Gawd\n", + "So few people though\n", + "At the height of the popularity of the Left Behind series, our local (Episcopal) priest became uncharacteristically animated while making this exact point, and declared from the lectern that the belief in rapture was “heresy”. That’s not a word you hear often in an Episcopalian homily!\n", + "Imagine being part of the Christian fandom and not knowing the lore. It's like, why are you even here, Bernice? You're a poser, not a real fan.\n", + "Yes we only get our info from the real non-scam bible\n", + "[removed]\n", + "And two verse before that one:\n", + "\n", + "\"Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.\" Matthew 24:34\n", + "\n", + "The context is jesus explaining the sign of the end times. It seems pretty clear that the ends times were supposed to happen during the generation of jesus.\n", + "Religion is more than any sacred texts it reveres or uses. It's what people do. If you set off fireworks on Christmas, that's part of your religion. If you ignore parts of texts, that's part of your religion. I don't think there's anyone who could possibly follow all of the sacred texts of Christianity because certain parts like Proverbs are just collections of aphorisms that contradict each other. \n", + "\n", + "These are intentionally back to back in Proverbs: \n", + " \n", + "“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.”\n", + "\n", + "and \n", + "\n", + "“Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.”\n", + "\n", + "Obviously you can't follow both simultaneously.\n", + "\n", + "The point is, as the Chinese would put it, to have a \"belly full of ink.\" You learn general ideas and apply them as appropriate. It would be nearly impossible to follow both of those directives at the same time in every situation.\n", + "\n", + "If you kept just trying to follow every line verbatim in the Bible you'd end up in a padded room. And I don't think there are really any religions are reduced to simply the texts that they claim as foundational. There's always a culture surrounding them and other various practices.\n", + "The rest of us really want those people to suddenly vanish overnight. So let's hold out a little hope.\n", + "Just falling for the big scam then?\n", + "Which christians are allowed sex before marriage now hard to keep track of what’s a real Christian or not with all these spin offs\n", + "This. Sad but true.\n", + "Made even better by the weirdly specific number of people who will get raptured. Somewhere around 135k people from memory. In today’s age that means the yearly number of people who go missing is statistically bad but not unusual enough to raise any flags.\n", + "I mean….theyre still falling for a rapture scam by letting a fairytale govern their worldview and behavior.\n", + "But what if someone guessed the right date? Would God change it so they wouldn't keep banging on about being right?\n", + "I dunno if you’ve noticed but we seem to be in very short supply of real Christians lately…\n", + "There are a lot of parts of that book that many \"Christians\" just choose to ignore.\n", + "Also I don’t recall the number but it’s like “we’ll take like 400k folks and that’s it” it clearly states the amount of people who would be raptured and it’s like a medium sized US CITY worth of folks. So a hell of a lot of the christers would be left behind\n", + "I always love that real Christians thing. I really doubt it has anything to do with whether they're real Christians or not probably has to do whether they've been misled.\n", + "Are “real Christians” in the room with us right now?\n", + "I was immediately thinking, “But doesn’t Jesus say it will happen like a thief in the night and no one will know when it happens? What value is there in thinking you figured out when it will happen?”\n", + "\n", + "Weird people man\n", + "LOL \"Real Christians\"\n", + "I mean technically the day being referred to here is not the rapture.\n", + "I just… none of that is real. \n", + "\n", + "Hope this helps!\n", + "\n", + "They fall for a magic book and an invisible sky wizard instead.\n", + "If Jesus doesn’t know when the rapture is, some lonely white woman in her basement doesn’t either.\n", + "> Real Christians know their lore\n", + "\n", + "I am gonna start calling Scripture Lore in my church and see how long I can get away with it.\n", + "\n", + "It's cool, they know my shenanigans.\n", + "I'm gonna write a book. Every line is just a date, and me predicting the second coming of Christ. He ain't never coming back.\n", + "This.\n", + "Evangelicals are allergic to Matthew especially!\n", + "While it's a very valid point, to get there you had to go through 7:3: \"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?\"\n", + "\n", + "The passage you quote seems to suggest that Jesus is not aware of the date, which surely must be wrong as you all decided that he was God all along. Another idea that came late but was suddenly gospel. Not quite as late as the rapture but late nonetheless.\n", + "Real Christians don’t believe the words of the Bible are to be adhered to verbatim to begin with \n", + "I mean... its the same rule for Half Life 3 right?\n", + "I'm not even Christian, but I do happen to know that because of the passage that you wrote, according to Scripture, it's a sin (a deadly one, no less) to try to figure out when the Apocalypse is coming, because doing so would be an act of pride by attempting to put yourself on the same level of knowledge as God.\n", + "And even if Christ will return, I do believe that Christians will have to SUFFER through the 7 years before it just like how Christ suffered on the cross.\n", + "\n", + "How can you be a Christian and want to escape suffering, when that is exactly what you signed up for in the first place.\n", + "You mean that Matthew fella from TicTok?\n", + "\n", + "/s\n", + "Yea they’re just normally delusional and not terminally delusional so it’s fine right\n", + "“Real” Christians don’t run around proclaiming themselves as such. They let good deeds tell the story. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless. Give of yourself to help those in need.\n", + "Sounds like a childish scam to keep everyone frightened for all eternity.\n", + "\n", + "...\n", + "“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God”\n", + "\n", + "How many Christians do you know who have given away all their wealth and live like paupers as Jesus very clearly and insistently told them to?\n", + "\n", + "If “real Christians” know their lore yet totally ignore it, then they’re not real Christians\n", + "well they didn't know when he wrote that. now i know. it's right after everyone gives me their property\n", + "There is no such thing as a “real Christian”, which is why they fall for these scams.\n", + "to be fair, this one did try to loophole their way through that by attaching it to the feast of trumpets\n", + "It says that no one knows the day or hour, but it never says that nobody knows the year, month, or week. ;)\n", + "All organized religion is a scam, one way or the other.\n", + "\n", + "As an adult in 2025, I would not recommend anyone putting too much stake into what a heavily editorialized collection of greatest hits fantasy short stories of the last few millenias has to say about anything, really. Nor what *some guy* who spent a decade practicing public speaking and have read them maybe twice has to say about what they mean.\n", + "They just fall for the religious scam.\n", + "This is why we always RTFM first……says it right in the good book lol\n", + "I’ve always assumed “rapture” and “ the apocalypse” and other such “events” were just metaphors for death in general. \n", + "\n", + "You don’t know when you gonna die. Maybe tonight. Maybe next week. May even be in 34.716 years. So… be reddy yo.\n", + "Using scripture to counter scripture is never going to win that battle because people can always decide on their own what scripture counts and what doesn't, what scripture means this vs that... it's something every christian - and really every religious person - does, even ones who don't believe in the rapture.\n", + "TBF Jesus in Matthew was talking about the coming of the “Son of Man” as as a “he” not a “I” or “me”. The meaning has been greatly debated since Matthew wrote it in Greek.\n", + "False. Anyone who actually goes through the process of reading the Bible would no longer be Christian.\n", + "They didnt know the day. It was constantly being debated between 23rd or 24th. Checkmate bible verse\n", + "You will be surprised how many Christians that know their Bible and read it daily STILL fall for this stuff. They have mush for brains. \n", + "The more studious ones (the guys reading tons of commentries and translations) though won't fall for it.\n", + "It’s almost like they are supposed to be good Christian’s 100% of the time and not pick and choose when to be good and then “pray and ask forgiveness” every time they are a complete asshole. \n", + "That general theme is prominent in all Abrahamic Religions. It’s considered not to be the business of Humans when the world will end. You’re supposed to do best with the time given to you, however long that may be.\n", + "The Jesus chapter where he kills a fig tree has a good story and lesson for people. \n", + "Something something: \"Know a person for the fruit that they bear. Know the false messiah for the fruit that they bear\" \n", + "Something along those lines. I think to sum it up is that you can know if someone is good or bad, or that their teachings are good or wrong, by how their life is, or the results of like.. \n", + "..I'm not sure how to phrase things. Maybe you can do better explaining it?\n", + "You know it's ridiculous when my relatively conservative Christian coworker was clowning on the \"rapture\" this week.\n", + "Thank you! Exactly. People constantly making predictions is getting on my nerves.\n", + "\"lore\"\n", + "\n", + "fairy tales\n", + "If 'real' christians actually knew their bible lore, then they're absolute monsters. It's chock full of rape, incest, genocide, and slavery. But most christians only know what was drilled into them at sunday school, 'the lord is loving', 'god loves you', etc etc.\n", + "\n", + "They never actually go over the horrific parts of it. That's why I feel pity for the christians that only know their religion from what their pastor preaches to them. But I feel absolute disgust towards those that KNOW of the dark side of the bible and are ok with it.\n", + "\n", + "[https://www.evilbible.com/](https://www.evilbible.com/)\n", + "This. All become some South African pastor said it was going to happen. Sounds more like a Nigerian prince IMO.\n", + "All of Christianity is a rapture scam lol\n", + "the whole damn bible is a rapture scam bruh\n", + "Yeah, where the hell are these people? I saw a couple FB screenshots on reddit, but I'm not aware of anyone I know crazy enough to actually think the rapture was actually going to happen.\n", + "Yeah, just a bunch of wackos on social media trying to get clicks and attention\n", + "Redditor sees an extremely fringe Cristian belief and thinks every single on of them believes it.\n", + "\n", + "One of my friends is Cristian and they didn't even know about it until I joked about it to them yesterday.\n", + "I've seen a ton of my leftist friends joking about it and not one Christian mentioning it. Of course it's all the ones that repeatedly announce their social media purges.\n", + "Correct. Bible thumper here. Didn’t even know about it until I saw the memes on /r/dankchristianmemes\n", + "Ok so I'm not the only one who thinks that many Christians didn't actually believe it was going to happen. And even though I am a liberal I think it was blown out of proportion from other people who are anti Evangelism and stuff.\n", + "That's sort of how the internet works. Makes a small amount of people seem like a large community of people.\n", + "Yeah the tiktoks, many many of them were joking\n", + "Almost as if the internet (and reddit specifically) love to exaggerate things so they feel superior to others!\n", + "\n", + "Like holy hell, I'm the farthest thing from a christian (but also not an annoying atheist) and even I knew that not one actual god fearing christian believed this would happen. Regardless of my non-beliefs I do respect other peoples choice to.\n", + "\"you will know neither the day nor the hour\" is pretty unambiguous in scripture, so for the most part it's just weird alternate cult groups who seem to keep perpetuating this idea about knowing when the world will end. Nothing really new or even unique to chistianity there.\n", + "There are way more people making jokes about it than earnestly expected anything to happen.\n", + "\n", + "I wouldn’t be surprised if pushing the views of a tiny handful of people were a psyop of some sort.\n", + "Thats what I wondered about. I don’t know many Christians but when I asked one he knew nothing of it. Part of me thinks it was all a joke.\n", + "I got one of the extreme outliers among the bunch of Christians I know. She still texting trying to last minute convert me and my wife before being lifted somewhere.\n", + "Wait was that a thing? I’m a Catholic and didn’t know people believed that.\n", + "\n", + "I don’t know a single person that believed that. But yeah, at least people who know about being catholic know no one but god knows.\n", + "Because they're too good to be raptured? /s\n", + "I wish I didn't know any of them. My sister and a family friend fell HARD for it. At first I thought I should have them admitted but then I thought maybe they ate good shrooms and it will wear off. Nope. I had to block them both; apparently they decided they needed to save my soul before THEY were raptured. Crazy. \n", + "This time. I know at least one that was completely convinced by the Blood Moon over Israel thing.\n", + "Do you think they gave up on the rapture [after this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QynNpzqYt0Y)?\n", + "I’m going to very shyly come out and say I’m related by marriage (husband’s brother and his wife) to fanatics who believed it to the point they sent emails to everyone making sure they’re ready. \n", + "\n", + "My husband told me they were very quiet last night when he saw them. Their obsession from the past couple of weeks wasn’t even mentioned.\n", + "\n", + "My husband and I joked that instead of dropping in to see them last night we should have pretended he’d been raptured and they must have been left behind. But we decided their ego wouldn’t take it and although it’s what they deserve, we don’t have time for the aftermath. \n", + "\n", + "My MIL, the narcissist who got her family involved in the evangelical church and who has spent her life believing she’s above everyone because she has a special relationship with God that nobody else has, strangely never even mentioned anything about the rapture to anyone before it was supposed to happen and hasn’t mentioned anything since.\n", + "Not a Christian but I deal feel the second coming yesterday.\n", + "The ones I know were too busy salivating over Charlie Kirk's funeral to notice the scheduled rapture\n", + "It's an Evangelical thing, since rapture theology was invented by a 19th century Evangelical named Darby. Most Christians don't believe in the Rapture, though Evangelicals deny that anyone but themselves are actually Christians. They are very narcissistic and also very gullible, since they have been trying and failing to predict their Rapture for the last 150 years.\n", + "It’s a TikTok thing sadly\n", + "Guessing the day like spiritual Bingo is definitely not a biblical thing.\n", + "I'm a christan and I've never believed in the rapture. It's not even scriptural. It makes no sense to me.\n", + "There's a little overlap there.\n", + "It’s the same picture\n", + "They're\\_the\\_same\\_picture.jpg\n", + "...too easy...\n", + "Yep\n", + "Someone missed out on playing the craziest prank on their loved ones. Imagine their loved one wakes up in the morning and they just see a pile of clothes on the floor with shoes, socks, jewelry, and sunglasses as if the person just evaporated. They think the person got raptured and they're still here wondering where everything went wrong.\n", + "I'm a Christian, and I have Christian friends and family - none of them heard about or were discussing this.\n", + "My Christian friends all roll their eyes at Rapture proclamations. I don't think it's that they don't believe it will happen but the bible is pretty clear that no one, not even Jesus, would see it coming.\n", + "I’m family with some EXTREMELY religious people, and the only place I’ve even heard about this is on Reddit..\n", + "I'll just add that no one outside the US bought into that. I am actually learning about this \"rapture\" while stumbling on this post.\n", + "Agreed, the Bible flat out says people will claim to have visions knowing the date of the end times and they’re wrong.\n", + "Indeed. The majority of Christians do not believe specifically in *rapture* — that is, they don't believe that at the end of the world, the good will be bodily summoned to heaven while the Earth below becomes effectively a hellscape — in the first place.\n", + "\n", + "And among those that do, only a tiny minority believe it's even *possible* to predict the date, since Matthew 24:36 says directly \"about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.\"\n", + "Its a exploit thing like \"Rapture is coming so all old people gone senile should donate all your money to your mega-church.\"\n", + "Give him a minute\n", + "The same folks what waited for hours for JFK Jr to come back from the dead had set their sights a wee bit higher this time, full on evangelical rapture\n", + "Dont know about rapture or christians but humanity as we know it will definitely be extinct at some point in time.\n", + "I mean isn’t the whole idea of a magical rapture strictly something idiots believe in?\n", + "Yeah I didn’t even know this was a thing until I saw this post\n", + "Well, and idiot Christian thing\n", + "I only wish. The one friend still has texts coming in at my wife's phone (almost 6:00pm, Eastern timezone) and it is even more frantic than this morning.\n", + "\n", + "Boy is she going to be weirded out when she wakes up tomorrow morning. My wife said she also might regretful for giving a whole bunch of stuff away, but I doubt it - they got some serious coin. Shopping spree!\n", + "I feel like the idea of a rapture is a perfect example of human vanity; to think that the world ending would have anything to do with 1 species of bipedal monkeys is peak main character syndrome. We’re all just barely sentient fuzz growing on a cosmic rock.\n", + "If you can convince a ton of people to substitute \"reason\" with \"faithful obedience\" you have a ton of idiots that will do and believe whatever you want. At some point as a believer you have to take a couple steps back and go \"What exactly is going on here?\"\n", + "Huh the Venn diagram is a near perfect circle…\n", + "Well put.\n", + "It's more of a Christian idiot thing than a Christian imbecile thing.\n", + "I can hardly think of anything more idiotic than having an imaginary friend.\n", + "The venn diagram of those 2 is nearly a perfect circle.\n", + "Well.... They go hand in hand a lot.\n", + "Those are the same thing\n", + "The venn diagram of the two is a circle\n", + "Pardon me. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.\n", + "Tomato tomato\n", + "Idiot, Christian, tomato, tomato\n", + "That Venn Diagram is a circle.\n", + "That Venn diagram is a circle. (Source: went to fundie school, am jaded)\n", + "They’re kinda synonymous. \n", + "That Venn diagram is nearly a circle\n", + "I think I’m the idiot, wishing and hoping that all Christians would vanish in the rapture. \n", + "\n", + "There are probably 1 in 10000 or less so called Christians that would qualify.\n", + "The Venn Diagram is pretty much just one circle there.\n", + "Oddly the only people I see excitedly awaiting the rapture every time it is supposed to happen are Christians.\n", + "Are those two things mutually exclusive?\n", + "... there is an overlap\n", + "There's a Venn diagram\n", + "Venn circle\n", + "They’re synonymous\n", + "Yeah at this point that Venn diagram is just a circle\n", + "redundant\n", + "Bro, the Venn diagram of \"idiot\" and \"Christian\" is a circle.\n", + "As they say, hate to admit with that kind of magical thinking the Venn diagram is pretty close to a circle. Believing in things through faith and your gut feels like a mental illness to me. Observable facts and data or gtfo. LOL\n", + "It's both. Those two are not mutually exclusive. If you believe in the bible, you'll believe in anything.\n", + "That's the same thing, no?\n", + "No I'm pretty confident that only Christians believe in the rapture. Dumb Christians, sure, but all still Christians. The venn diagram of this group is a circle.\n", + "tomayto, tomahto\n", + "Lots of overlap in those two groups. Venn diagram that looks like a partial eclipse.\n", + "But you repeat yourself. \n", + "why not both ?\n", + "Difference being?\n", + "What’s the difference?\n", + "That Venn diagramm is a circle with another circle inside of it.\n", + "The intersection between those two groups is humongous. \n", + "Can you point out the difference, I'm struggling to find any between the two.\n", + "For those of us out of the loop, where did this idea come from and why?\n", + "This is too logical for Reddit. I don’t know any Christians from our church or otherwise that said anything about a rapture. I didn’t even know there was supposed to be one until I saw the atheist critics making fun of it. This was not some widespread belief among all people of faith. You might be able to find some crazy cultish church rambling about it, but this wasn’t an “every Christian believes this” type of deal. \n", + "\n", + "They don’t care. If it’s an opportunity to sling shit at Christians they will jump all over it. Facts, logic, and perspective mean nothing to these people. Just throw dumbass memes to the echo chamber and convince yourself this is true and all Christians believed it. They just don’t care about being right and never will.\n", + "Yeah I thought that was just a goofy meme, not that people actually believed it. I'm not a Christian anymore but trust me I would have been hearing it from family, coworkers, and a couple friends.\n", + "Yeah only about half of Christians believe in the rapture anyways and even they knew it wasn't gonna be yesterday\n", + "I only heard of it this time because my friends, mothers pastor told his congregation it was likely to happen. They are out there, but it seems like it was just the wackiest of the wacky.\n", + "That’s pretty psycho. Thousands of people not sharing it as illusion, globally, but pretending to.\n", + "It was an exercise for the drama students on TikTok to practice their ‘to camera’ work.\n", + "This reminds me of another one called Q… atheists are struggling with fact v. fiction harder than any of us right now so I genuinely have the upmost of sympathy because I used to be an atheist myself.\n", + "I know a single person who believed it. She’s now saying that it’s going to happen in 7 days because Noah was on the Ark for 7 days before the flood came. It’s wild because she is normally a very reasonable person and her brother, who I know better, is a pastor of a church. He has no idea where this came from either.\n", + "\n", + "It’s bonkers to me.\n", + "Man, I wish I could say the same. There was a legit group, albiet small, maybe 5 people, in my town that were out waiting for it to happen outside in a nearby neighborhood. Was it as widespread? No, of course not, but the fact anyone was got by it is sad.\n", + "It's an Evangelical Protestant concept and one that tends to be centered on evangelicals in North America.\n", + "> But in my actual life, I haven't seen any Christians even giving it a moment of thought.\n", + "\n", + "On the other side of that coin: I live in the South and the Megachurch across the street from my neighborhood entrance had their LED marquee sign out front showing messages about preparing for the rapture all weekend and this past Monday. Yesterday it was back to their usual \"Join us for worship services, Sunday 9:00am\"\n", + "I only heard about it from people mocking it\n", + "Agree with all of this. I grew up Methodist and never heard of \"rapture\" until I dated a girl in my 20s whose family was evangelical.\n", + "My far right Christian family believes the rapture is coming in their lives\n", + "The thing is, saying \"I'm a Christian\" without specifying which denomination gives people very little knowledge about your belief system. You could be anywhere form Catholic to Mormon to Evangelical to Lutheran, all which have wildly different and incompatible cosmologies and theologies.\n", + "\n", + "For a certain group of very powerful Christians (Evangelicals), the rapture is extremely real and is going to happen (hopefully) within their lifetime.\n", + "I know some who believed it. Not enough to sell their stuff though.\n", + "I was at a committee meeting at my church last night it never came up. This thread is the second time I heard of it; the first was a co-worker jokingly asking if we had heard the big news on TikTok.\n", + "\n", + "Even in my parents' more conservative church (I was raised Reformed but am now Methodist) rapture stuff was always viewed more skeptically as a weird fringe thing like snake-handling where there's only a few places that actually believe in and do it but it's weird so they get a lot of attention in broader culture.\n", + "Unfortunately, real Christians really do believe this. My parents and the church I grew up in believed in this sort of thing long before TikTok or even social media was invented. I spent my entire childhood living in fear of the apocalypse and the rapture. In fact, every September was a guarantee for this because the favorite theory in my church was that the rapture would happen on Rosh Hashanah.\n", + "I was just at church today to eat dinner. They have community dinners on Wednesday nights for $5. \n", + "\n", + "I didn't hear \"rapture\" all night. The first time I heard \"rapture\" today was this Reddit thread. I didn't see a single social media thing about rapture all day other than this thread. \n", + "\n", + "The 2012 Armageddon I could understand a lot of people believing it. Because there was a lot of social media about it, a lot of videos, and 2012 the movie. One of my favorite disaster movies. And there was *some* ancient mythology about 2012 being the apocalypse. I didn't see anything about today being some sort of mythological apocalypse.\n", + "> I personally don't even think the rapture is a real Christian concept. \n", + "\n", + "Hooooo boy when has this ever been a precondition?\n", + "I was part of an Evangelical Christian group in the late 90s and when the year 2000 was coming, there was discussion about what if this was the year for it, but with the same energy that you tell you friends, \"some day, wouldn't it be nice to travel to Europe? See the Eiffel Tower?\", except that the latter is treated with FAR more plausibility that maybe some day college graduates could save up enough money for a trip. \n", + "\n", + "The sentiment wasn't really, \"I expect to be raptured in 2000\" and more like, \"wouldn't it be neat to ascend to heaven early?\"\n", + "Yeah this was literally the first I've heard of it as well. Also if you don't mind a random question from a curious stranger on the interwebz do you believe in free will? Like, I have Christian family members and some are all about free will being super important as a gift God has given them and just as many others are more into the concept that their path through life was already set in stone from before they were born and they are just kind of \"going through the story\" (my phrasing not theirs)\n", + "I always think this stuff is just an internet hoax until these people gather in real life.\n", + "Mass hysteria? \n", + "\n", + "You are describing your religion.\n", + "As far as it being a “real” Christian concept, my dad was an evangelical pastor in the 60s and 70s before he died. He went to TN Temple University for his studies. He taught the rapture in his churches. All of the churches my mom took us to after he died in the 80’s and 90’s were teaching this stuff and really pushing the idea that 2000 was the year it was going to happen. \n", + "\n", + "I haven’t been to church in decades now but still have family and friends that go and they’re still teaching the same stuff. The rapture is a big deal in these churches. I’ve seen a lot of them really ramping up with the craziness since 2016. They really believe these are the end times. \n", + "Actually, there's is a passage in the Bible (I don't remember what book or verse) but it says two farmers were working in the field, then one of them suddenly vanished but all his clothes were left laying on the ground. This is obviously a reference to the rapture, but it's the only reference to the rapture in the Bible, but it's good enough for me. What else could it possibly by referring to, so the rapture And the fact that it will happen is true\n", + "I mean even if something like this *were* to happen. Why would you float into the sky? To go where? There's nothing up there, it's space. Heaven is not up there. This is my problem with Jesus' ascension. Where did he go? Why did he float up into the sky?\n", + "Regarding your last full paragraph, it's the biblical version of Half Life 3.\n", + "So what happens after Christ's return and when does everyone who \"got saved\" go to heaven if not then? And they're supposed to leave heaven again and judge the poor lost schmucks later.... Or something \n", + "Just chiming in to say I love Dan McClellan. I came across him on tiktok a year or two ago and he has helped me understand things tremendously.\n", + "> There is no evidence ~~to support the notion that Jesus Christ is returning to sweep his followers up into the clouds.~~\n", + "\n", + "It's religion. There is no evidence period.\n", + "Oh, darn it all to heck! One of my favorite jokes, when I see random clothes laying in the street (esp if several pieces), is to point and say \"Aww, they got raptured!\" Now I have to find a new joke that denigrates religion! Dag. Nabbit.\n", + "One of the best deaths from Six Feet Under concerns the rapture and shows how someone might just think it was happening:\n", + "\n", + "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5QKOsSEw18\n", + "When I was a kid, I did not want to be raptured, so every night I would say something like \"I bet Jesus is coming tonight\". Trapped in your own logic, bible.\n", + "So someone changed something in the Bible or at least made a huge deal about it in the christian community. The term rapture was a spread world wide. Dont you think that could have happened when they made the first testaments in the first place ?\n", + "He's a doctor. Can't you tell by his colorful thumbnails and 1911 videos? He's got a PATREON ffs.\n", + "\n", + "Everyone knows science needs big eyed thumbs and a \"like and subscribe\" at the end of his \"studies.\"\n", + "\n", + " \n", + "Sheesh. I didn't get the memo there was a rapture, or the previous 12.\n", + "\n", + "Where's the complaint window?\n", + "You got the verse correct and the original word is in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and is harpazo, which means to be caught up or snatched away, in the latin translation it's rapiemur, root word rapio, which is why the word rapture is used. \n", + "\n", + "*Note the root word harpazo is conjugated here in greek translation, but that's still it. \n", + "[Greek translation](https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm) \n", + " \n", + "*And also rapio/rapere here as rapiemur \n", + "[Latin translation](https://www.biblestudytools.com/vul/1-thessalonians/4-17.html) \n", + "\n", + "Irenaeus (130 A.D. – 202 AD), bishop of the church in Lyons, France, described the church leaving the sinful world just before unprecedented disasters. He uses the term “caught up”, but the meaning is clear.\n", + "\n", + "Cyprian (200 AD – 258 AD), bishop of the church in Carthage, wrote :\"Do you not give God thanks, do you not congratulate yourself, that by an early departure you are taken away, and delivered from the shipwrecks and disasters that are imminent?\" Once again showing a belief in a taking away event.\n", + "\n", + "Ephraim (306 AD – 373 AD), deacon of in the church in Syria in the 300s AD, wrote: \"For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins.\"\n", + "\n", + "And there are plenty more. This is not a new concept. You are only correct in that picking a date isn't worth the time, although technically someone could make a lucky guess. The season is supposed to be known but not the specific date, nor hour.\n", + "They would be the last to be \"raptured\" which is ironic.\n", + "I was talking about this with my wife, who was raised religiously. Luckily she started to figure out that flavor of Christianity was BS around middle school (I cannot remember which type of church), but she did confirm the rapture and the “left behind” books were really pushed on them. Apparently some of her peers were *really* into it. \n", + "\n", + "That being said, I’ve seen more about this from ex-Christians explaining the whole history and culture behind it, rather than from people who actually believe it’s going to happen.\n", + "I know a handful.\n", + "I was born in Arkansas, lived in Missouri, South Carolina, and Georgia and I've known a fuckton, including my own grandparents. Who when they found out when I was 7 years old didn't even know what baptism was called their pastor at like 1pm on a Tuesday and raced me down to the church for an emergency baptism, they were that worried that every second I wasn't baptized was one more second I might miss the rapture.\n", + "\n", + "\"I've never sucked a dick, so blowjobs can't be real\" is such a solipsistic non-argument that's so overused. Probably a bad faith argument a lot of the time like the racist who says \"I've never even met a racist\" to try to muddy the waters, which is honestly more respectable than people who truly think that things they haven't personally experienced inside their own tiny bubble can't be real.\n", + "I know many who think it's coming soon, but they don't claim a date. They believe it strongly enough to not prepare for retirement and stuff like that.\n", + "I do, sadly. Saw an acquaintance at a mutual friend's funeral that I hadn't seen in some time. He'd recently been \"born again\", and was terribly concerned for my soul, because the Rapture could be any day now. \n", + "He's never been a bad person, and he's not one now. But he used to be rational.\n", + "We got one, but the rest? Either chill or joking about it.\n", + "Fwiw I grew up catholic and it wasn’t discussed publicly but behind closed doors.\n", + "Then they should've studied the Bible more, just not set specific dates.\n", + "They obviously do. Or those left behind books wouldn’t have sold like they did\n", + "\n", + "Considering those books are rapture fan fic\n", + "I don't know anyone that doesn't play an instrument\n", + "What about wizard in the sky scams?\n", + "I live in God's waiting room. I'm surrounded by churches and such, was raised Christian, and attended church all the way up to Covid before I quietly left. And in the various Christian communities I've been in or kept in touch with, not a single person battery at an eye at this pat rapture. \n", + "\n", + "One of my old pastors basically said the rapture was a thing of mass hysteria and cult ideology. Basically, they misinterpreted a couple of verses in the Bible and ran with it. \n", + "\n", + "The only person I knew who was hell bent on it happening was this strange hermit of a man in my neighborhood. He had a sign and everything. I remember walking home in high school to him just idlely standing in his yard. Apparently, he'd been out there a good chunk of the day. And after he didn't get raptured, he continued on with his life. \n", + "\n", + "Wonder how he's doing?\n", + "Yeap I’m from bama and didn’t even know this was a thing until I saw it all over Reddit. I’m almost convinced it’s only a thing on Reddit lmao.\n", + "Perhaps you don't know a single person who **actually acknowledged** that they believe in this. \n", + "\n", + "Which is a very different thing altogether.\n", + "Anybody else seen \"The Leftovers\" on HBO? I don't think the show ever mentioned the \"Rapture,\" but I always thought it seemed very similar.\n", + "The Rapture does have many who believe in it. \"A majority of Christians?\" Maybe not. But in the millions? Absolutely.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "They went in hard on this in the 90s in the church I was forced to attend. They did it with such conviction that it gave me nightmares for awhile.\n", + "There are many other reasons for me to shout that\n", + "As a Christian, there are a lot of things \"all Christians do\" that only a very small fraction of them actually do. \n", + "\n", + "This should be learning lesson for those who believed in the rapture, but also those who believe all Christians do X because they knew one or two who did it.\n", + "This was a tiny fraction. There have been larger \"Rapture scares\" in the past before. I'm glad it didn't catch on.\n", + "How can you be christian and not believe in the rapture? It's a pretty huge part of the new testament.\n", + "And insulting those who believe differently from you is intelligent? Or Are you showing everyone your immaturity\n", + "You'd be surprised. The church I grew up in would absolutely have been all in on this if they knew about it, especially if they could trace the origin to Baptists.\n", + "\n", + "I lived through more than a few \"the rapture is imminent\" times.\n", + "\n", + "You don't even want to know the shit they made us watch to make sure we knew how important it was to not be left behind.\n", + "One of my now former coworkers believed it was going to happen, was getting more and more upset that no one else was taking it seriously -- even the more religious coworkers of mine. He quit on Saturday, heard he tried to get his job back today but failed.\n", + "I didnt even know there was supposedly a rapture ubtil yesterday on reddit. I thought it was some new meme.\n", + "I only saw a couple of posts about it here on Reddit and both were about TikTok and how it was trending over there.\n", + "I only heard about it on Reddit and I’m from the Bible Belt. Redditors see some reason to take shots at Christian’s and they dive head first. It’s amazing to me how this works it’s like hive brain mentality to the max\n", + "As a Baptist in East Texas, literally Reddit and there was one joke about it in my church group.\n", + "Do you normally hang around evangelical Christians?\n", + "If your neighbors kids were in school, wouldn't the \"rapture juice\" reach them in school as well?\n", + "\n", + "I mean you people have been waiting over 2000 years for this to happen so why should Billy miss math?\n", + "Finally, someone actually talking about someone they knew who believed in it! Thank you for sharing what you saw, even if it wasn't very dramatic.\n", + "I'm an atheist and I'm not even fully convinced this wasn't mostly a meme that people with a hate-boner for religion just blew up in an effort to apply it to all of Christianity. I'm not on TikTok but I understand this was mostly a TikTok thing, and of the ones I did watch they definitely had a meme vibe and not a \"I really think I'm getting zapped to heaven tomorrow\" vibe. \n", + "\n", + "Like 18-year-old, freshly atheist disgruntled me would regrettably eat it up. In the near 20 years since that point in my life where I've, you know, grown up and all that, it's obviously a blatant attempt to \"dunk\" on religion for something that maybe .01% of Christians world-wide actually bought in to earnestly.\n", + "I think it was just a fun meme the internet go ahold of.\n", + "*It's all just a grift.* \n", + "\n", + "(Let that marinate)\n", + "To be fair, religions as an entirety are a grift.\n", + "You're soooooo close\n", + "The same grift as the wizard in the sky?\n", + "I hate getting these last minute changes! How can a person get ready for the rapture in just 2 days? \n", + "I mean, I've got to do the laundry, need to figure out what to wear, I'll need to get my hair done and believe me it's not easy getting an appointment at my barbershop in such short notice! \n", + "And what do I pack? Do I pack for warm weather, cold weather, will it be rainy? And then there's all the chores I should've done, but I'm still waiting for some parts to arrive! \n", + "\n", + "Nah, 2 days ain't gonna cut it. We'll need to postpone that shit.\n", + "Well, time to stop acting sinfully. \n", + "\n", + "Or else, you'll have to go back to work. \n", + "And pay off that mortgage.\n", + "The Crapture\n", + "Maybe he’s just tired of yours? 😅 /s \n", + "I feel you 💯\n", + "Hint: the people producing this stuff know. It’s engagement bait. \n", + "\n", + "The more ridiculous it is, the more views they get. \n", + "\n", + "The people “laughing at them” are just upping their view counts and that’s all they ever wanted.\n", + "I'm familiar with these types. Used to be one. By their logic, all of this has already happened and now we just need to wait for Jesus. That's part of why so many were excited about trump. \n", + "Boy, the Real Christians™ are gonna be so disappointed when they learn the entire New Testament is Greek mythology of Jewish mythology of Mesopotamian mythology, and none of its non-*ex post facto* predictions have come true or will come true\n", + "this is known as the 2nd coming\n", + "or so says whatever interpreter of biblical slop you choose to adhere to\n", + "Thats awesome 🤣🤣🤣\n", + "> The Catholics and Orthodox don't theologically believe in dispensational premillennialism (aka \"the rapture\")\n", + "\n", + "The \"Rapture\" as an idea was basically invented by John Nelson Darby in the 1830s. He was a Bible teacher and the founder of the \"Exclusive Brethren.\"\n", + "\n", + "While it's true there has been a little sanding around the edges, fundamentally nothing in Catholic doctrine is that \"new.\"\n", + "\n", + "Most of it is well over 1,000 to 1,500 years old.\n", + "\n", + "So it would make sense that the Catholics have no belief in it. The idea is not even 200 years old yet.\n", + "\n", + "The Catholics do believe Jesus will return (\"Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.\") but there's no belief they'll be sucked up into Heaven when that happens.\n", + "Some of us Protestants don't believe in it either\n", + "It's an evangelical thing \n", + "I'm fairly online, and this is the first I'm even hearing about all of this. Lol\n", + "You’re right that the rapture was an invention of American evangelicals, but Christians all over the world believe in it. Granted American Christians are the vast majority that do but still it is a Christian belief.\n", + "\n", + "If I said this:\n", + "The trinity is not in the Bible. Christianity does not believe in it.\n", + "\n", + "You’d think I was stupid. It’s the same thing with the rapture.\n", + "Can u explain?\n", + "I was so brainwashed and grew up Southern Baptist. The rapture was ingrained in me. It’s crazy that as an adult I realize what nonsense it is. As a child, I’d lay awake in my bed out of fear that everyone I knew would disappear and I’d be left. I had to watch plays about it and everything. Truly a mind fuck.\n", + "/r/foundsatan\n", + "I suspect the rapture enthusiasts are a rather small percentage of practicing ~~Christians.~~ TikTokers.\n", + "\n", + "FTFY.\n", + "Exactly\n", + "Username checks out. Sorry you had such shit people.\n", + "Look up [Great Disappointment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment).\n", + "\n", + "Not only did this happen, it's happened dozens of times in the last few centuries and it's going to happen again before long.\n", + "\n", + "It's as American as apple pie, even if this one was triggered by a South African.\n", + "r/nothingeverhappens\n", + "Good cuz I don’t have any sick days and I still need to accumulate more PTO at work\n", + "Yeah, only a truly crazy person would believe that the rapture is actually happ\n", + "Yep mental gymnastics comes out to play.\n", + "What if the real rapture was the friends we made along the way?\n", + "Where did you hear that? That sounds like something maybe a Jehovah's Witness or Seventh Day Adventist would believe, but not the majority of flavors of Christianity.\n", + "Haha so true!\n", + "I was wanting so badly to prank them. But I don’t know anyone who believed it.\n", + "While I agree that the Christian nationalists are unlikely to be singled out for particularly good treatment like \"rapturing\", because a lot of them are dicks and much of the program is plain dickish, I think that modern liberal ideas of what Christ actually taught are somewhat skewed as well.\n", + "\n", + "Christ wants you to want to take care of your neighbor of your own accord. Voting to tax billionaires and everyone else to pay for them isn't what he was talking about.\n", + "\n", + "While I have no love for billionaires, and I couldn't give a three second fuck whether they get to keep their money or not, I think the liberal idea that taxation is a substitute for voluntary charity is bollocks.\n", + "\n", + "Yes, we need social welfare programs. That's because society doesn't work if you start letting everyone live shitty lives and then die. They start getting angry and upset if they don't feel like they're getting anything out of society. And then we have revolutions and civil wars and more people die, and then we start all over again. Social welfare programs are the payoff for civilization which benefits everyone. And that's why they can make plenty of sense.\n", + "\n", + "But pretending that Christ wants liberal things like taxpayer funded universal health care is aside from the point. I don't think he actually cares about that if you don't have a personal investment in it. If you're not doing these things for people yourself, and I don't mean just giving some money or voting for something, or paying more taxes, but actual time and effort, you're doing it wrong.\n", + "\n", + "I think someone like President Carter had it right. His heart was in the right place as President, but honestly, if he's actually in heaven, it's because once he'd stepped down from office, he went back to work building houses for people with his own time and effort. Not because he was more liberal than the Republican candidate at the time. \n", + "\n", + "Christ made it clear that taxation and things related to that don't matter to him or God. Being a Republican or Democrat, or a conservative or liberal doesn't mean a thing. They're just paths for how we get along while we're alive. \n", + "\n", + "If that one Christian Nationalist who voted for Trump happens to be an otherwise good person who might not be too bright and is easily taken in by a grifter like Trump, but does put in the time to help his neighbor, it could be a little iffy, but I think he could make it. And that one liberal who talked a good game, but never lifted a finger except to complain about Trump online and chide people for being insufficiently progressive? I am not sure they have the advantage.\n", + "Oh yes, clearly hateful tribalists who mock their neighbors will be the chosen people. No doubt.\n", + "\n", + "Jesus wants nothing to do with any tribalists on either side. Try treating people like people.\n", + "Maybe she was taken !!\n", + "See how long it takes until she gets in contact, and if she complains about you not contacting her just tell her you assumed she was raptured and that you didn't make the cut.\n", + "I guess you can’t ask her daily “How’s that rapture going?”\n", + "I'm sorry to hear that she bought into it. Do you think it may prevent her from buying into the next one?\n", + "Because they aren’t actual Christians.\n", + "You’re funny\n", + "Yes, I wondered about their thought processes as the day wore on and absolutely nothing happened.\n", + "What makes you say that?\n", + "I have seen a ton of them. You just aren’t looking at the right subs I guess\n", + "Hi you found me\n", + "Definitely a schtick. I unfortunately know some folk who are generally awful people and treat people exactly how you would expect. But ya know, its the current fad online to drop a flurry of hate filled, racist vitriol and as long as you say youre a Christian its all fine and dandy.\n", + "The OMG ITS THE RAPTURE people are a special and thankfully small group of fringe believers. Most of my Christian friends do believe in it but also understand that you can't predict it. \n", + "\n", + "There's usually at least one group a year that claims that it's imminent, don't think too hard about it.\n", + "If I can believe in a god existing, then, I could believe that you're a liar.\n", + "\n", + "Do you know who agrees with me? I'll give you a hint...she's laying here next to me, and she has the same last name as you. I'll give you 2 guesses.\n", + "\n", + "If you get it correct on the first guess, I know she'll be proud of you!\n", + "\n", + "Cheers!\n", + "Spit take! \n", + "\n", + "\"Sorry, I thought you were white\" God\n", + "You read the whole Bible and you STILL believed?!?!\n", + "It blew up on TikTok.\n", + "I was wondering the same thing. Unless you thought a significant other wasn’t going to be beamed up by Scotty. Though, I also cannot imagine banks being still viable after a rapture. We know the bank CEO’s will still be here but probably not enough tellers.\n", + "It's mostly an internet hoax thing. There was a really small group of American evangelicals that believed the rapture was happening today. Most American Christians don't even believe in the rapture at all.\n", + "Thy orange man knoweth also\n", + "Underwear with skid marks. A St. Christopher cross (if evangelicals even believe in that or is it all Jesus?).\n", + "Well, they don't \"die,\" they ascend to Heaven to be with Christ, which is supposed to be a good thing. But I've noticed some of the Rapture Tik Tokkers crying about never getting to see their children again, so...\n", + "It is mostly only evangelicals. The rapture isn't actually mentioned in the Bible.\n", + "Fuck. Nope. There's no swear filter on.\n", + "Reddit isn’t a place for facts\n", + "Isn't it talked about in Revelations? Or is that something else?\n", + "The preacher will become a real estate agent, side hustle.\n", + "American Evangelical Christians are the height of stupidity and hypocrisy . Fucking mega churches\n", + "It was invented by some guy named will from Massachusetts after a head injury in the 1830s\n", + "Ahem….This year’s RaptureFest started in Africa. *Africa.*\n", + "The rapture is not a thing. I'm not being an \"edgy atheist\", and I'm not saying there is no God or no afterlife. It really only started being a thing in the 19th century. It's amazing how little most Christians know about the history of Christianity.\n", + "Same. Askreddit is the only place i've heard about this.\n", + "I get what your saying i do. Lets not forget that the president of the United States was elected in large part thanks to the internet. Our government is passing laws based on memes because of the internet. Its sad but the internet is the real world now. if we like it or not.\n", + "No, it was just a meme\n", + "Thank you for the tag. I truly believed you got raptured and were talking to us from heaven...\n", + "I know a lot of Christians and the only time I heard about this was people online making memes lol\n", + "Christians bad now upvote please so I feel better about being part of the minority of chronically online losers that base our entire personality and beliefs on what this social media site tells me. Oh, and my axe! Fucking embarrassing.\n", + "Depends on which group of Christians you talk to. Southern Baptists generally do.\n", + "I genuinely wonder if there is a small group of Christians somewhere that is pro-LGBQT and believes the Rapture is imminent at the same time.\n", + "*Those are fake Christians. I'm a real Christian and I can tell you with absolute certainty...* Now where have I heard that before...🤔\n", + "It was a tik tok tning.\n", + "What is that like? I live in a very unreligious country and I'm personally more anti theist that atheist. Do people merrily get each other with a \"Good Morning the Lord has granted us a wonderful day \" kind of thing or is it petty \"normal\"?\n", + "You live in an alternative reality you populate with enemies.\n", + "this guy knows how it is\n", + "I followed 2 on Tic TOC yesterday. I just CANNOT WAIT TO see them today.\n", + "\n", + "One was going out to buy one hundred Bibles for the people who \"were left\"\n", + "\n", + "The other had a giant stash (hundreds) of candles & matches because she assumed that the power would fail. These were for the inevitable desperate looters.\n", + "\n", + "They were both in tears.\n", + "It is, it's nowhere in the bible.\n", + "It was made up in 1830 by a guy named Darby\n", + "Oooh, YEAH!!!!\n", + "Was that the time Roy was gonna die according to the website moss used?\n", + " About a year ago we had a patient at our nursing home who had sold everything they owned and ended up on the street because they believed they were going to be raptured. I overheard him telling a nurse he wasn’t Covid vaxxed because it changes your DNA and God would no longer recognize you as fully human so you wouldn’t be taken up.\n", + ">Would probably not be invited to Thanksgiving then~\n", + "\n", + "Desirable outcome or no?\n", + "It all depends on your flavor of Christianity. The real sickos are the ones who want the end times so badly they are trying to usher it in.\n", + "It was something a guy made up in the 1800s. Basically only fringe sects of christianity believe in it. Not in the Bible at all.\n", + "What the hell makes you think that YOU'RE going to heaven?!\n", + "It's hard to know about something that doesn't exist and is an element created to govern peoples actions and keep them moderately controllable until it comes to combat other beliefs that are stealing from the church coffers.\n", + "Nice!!!\n", + "Coming soon to a theater near you... Just like all the fictional monsters\n", + "Religion is the con...\n", + "It wasn’t our breed of “Christian’s” that started it. It was just the right amount of crazy that it was adopted by them.\n", + "You probably won't find much since only like 30% of American Christians believe in the rapture at all since it's not Biblical and wasn't taught by any church at all till the 1800s.\n", + "\n", + "And of the Christians that do believe in the rapture only about 2% are willing to commit to a specific date.\n", + "\n", + "So it's really only the ultra fringe of what is already a minority position.\n", + "2. Stress Factors/Considerations-\n", + "\n", + "According to that same APA article, one research and doctor states,\n", + "\n", + "\"Research has indicated that both nightmare frequency and severity are associated with higher levels of self-reported worry, depersonalization, paranoia, and hallucinatory experiences (Rek, S., et al., Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 52, No. 9, 2017). In general, people whose personality types skew higher on neuroticism and negative affect seem to be most susceptible to nightmares. When they experience stress in their waking lives, it can “flip the switch” that leads to troubled dreams, Kelly said. “When these individuals are sleeping, there’s more activation of fear memories and negative emotion,” he explained.\"\n", + "\n", + "This would suggest her high stress and worry about the Rapture may influence the nightmare. The \"subject/scene\" of the dream is the Rapture itself, and the stress may influence the dream either being a nightmare or normal dream (i.e. negative, neutral, or positive). I'm not claiming or suggesting she neurotic. The point is that stress and topics of worry in one's life can influence a dream.\n", + "\n", + "3. Possible Religious Influence?-\n", + "\n", + "Again, not bashing on religion, but the theme/\"vibe\" of many comments I have seen online are usually attacking religion and making comparisons along the lines of:\n", + "\n", + "- Religion is a cult\n", + "- Stockholm syndrome\n", + "- Patterns of Abuse and Manipulation within religious teachings\n", + "\n", + "Again, I can't say if this is the case for her. Especially since each religion and the tenants/teachings vary. Not to mention how a particular place of worship will hold to those teachings. Like allowing for growth and changes, heavy shame, individualized application of the teaching, etc. I am inferring this from personal experiences growing up with one religion across multiple places of worship, as well as various comments/stories I see online. In my experiences, one location spoke about the teachings as a guiding compass. Whereas a different place was VERY heavy handed on shaming those who didn't adhere to teachings practically verbatim.\n", + "\n", + "Can we logically apply it to the woman in the video? Not really. I think it is at least worth considering all sides of this point, especially if you (or someone you know) may be experiencing something similar in the video. It IS worth considering that this element IS a possibility and something to keep in mind....\n", + "The rapture itself is a gift. It doesn't actually appear in the Bible.\n", + "Hey we still have time. It's only 9:20 here.\n", + "Dude sold his car and everything on tic tok. It was hilarious.\n", + "So far, no, it's not worked for me trying it, maybe you'll have better luck.\n", + "The bible doesn't mention the rapture at all, so...no.\n", + ">\n", + "We are closer today than we've ever been\n", + "\n", + "I mean that is how time works, so yeah\n", + "Predictions of return go back hundreds of years before that.\n", + "It's not in the Bible. It's a doctrine invented in the early 1800s by an American guy named Darby. It attempts to harmonize the conflicting verses about the last days (the early Christians and the New Testament itself states that Jesus would return within their lifetimes to set up his kingdom). It ignores the traditional interpretation of certain books in the Bible and combines verses that were previously not linked. \n", + "\n", + "As a theology, it introduces more problems than it solves, but it is effective at motivating people who need a physical or practical, not spiritual, reason to believe.\n", + "Me too, and I'm a Christian. But I'm a universalist Christian and I think, eventually, God wins and everyone is in Paradise with him.\n", + "I got a good chuckle from this.\n", + "Like Groucho Marx said.\n", + "It will be around Sept 23,2028 to mud 2029. Brandon said He saw in a vision that Jesus showed him that late 2029, the world is already too evil !\n", + "This was started by a guy in the 1830s. A scammer.\n", + "There are more than 2 billion Christians on the planet. It's not a monolithic group, not even when you narrow it down to Christians within the U.S. I think we have to dig a little deeper to see what certain people have in common that might cause them to lean one way or the other.\n", + "Duh! The dinosaur fossils proved it was all bullshit years and years ago.\n", + "Wait it’s gonna be WORSE?\n", + "Reddit is so stupid. They think they are trolling Christians but we are laughing at thier misguided attempts to mock and cause outrage. \n", + "\n", + "Next ask Reddit question should be “why are Christians countries always superior to Muslim ones”.\n", + "I’ve literally only seen anything ever mentioned about this rapture on Reddit and my social circles includes many Christian people. Probably a majority even.\n", + "This is patently false. I have multiple family members who have been taken for this multiple times now. I have letters from them saying what I should do afterwards and to not “take the mark of the beast”.\n", + "Oh sweet summer child...\n", + "Only those that read the Bible know that no one knows or will know when the Second Coming happens.\n", + "Why is it to mock Christians, its literally in the Bible?\n", + "I like the expression \"sky daddy,\" although I rarely hear it anymore.\n", + "As apposed to a ground god? Just asking.\n", + "No, its another case of religious nut jobs being wrong, again.\n", + "I was beamed up. Didn't like the accommodations and returned. The all you can eat buffets were just ordinary continental breakfasts. Mostly generic liquor, too. Disappointed.\n", + "Yes of course he did. Would you like to leave the Common Room, now dear, and go back to your room for your nap now?\n", + "? The title specifically asks about Christians that “went all in”, not Christians in general\n", + "[deleted]\n", + "That never happened.\n", + "I do believe it was Pastor Joshua Mhlakela that kicked it off because he said \"God spoke to him\" and even told him to live stream the day it was supposed to happen. And it snowballed from there. The chrisitian tiktokers in the US really put the cringe on the whole thing with some of the stuff they posted.\n", + "\n", + "So no, this was a Christian thing and other Christians didn't loudly stand up and put a stop to it. I'm pretty sure the \"left wing propagandist\" crowd was making fun of it.\n", + "It wasn't implied that all Christians believe in the rapture.\n", + "A bunch of people were predicting it would happen yesterday. Yet again. This is a fairly regular occurrence. \n", + "\n", + "I can't even be bothered to check why they thought it anymore. It is always some numerology bullshit\n", + "Down vote me idc read your scriptures... as a Christian... its clearly written folks\n" + ] + } + ], + "source": [ + "secondlevelcomments = []\n", + "\n", + "submission.comments.replace_more(limit=None)\n", + "for top_level_comment in submission.comments:\n", + " for second_level_comment in top_level_comment.replies:\n", + " print(second_level_comment.body)\n", + " secondlevelcomments.append(second_level_comment.body)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "8037e7f0-97c2-401f-854f-c062babe9dc2", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [] + } + ], + "metadata": { + "kernelspec": { + "display_name": "Python [conda env:base] *", + "language": "python", + "name": "conda-base-py" + }, + "language_info": { + "codemirror_mode": { + "name": "ipython", + "version": 3 + }, + "file_extension": ".py", + "mimetype": "text/x-python", + "name": "python", + "nbconvert_exporter": "python", + "pygments_lexer": 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Locate elements using XPath\n", + "\n", + "- Extract structured data\n", + "\n", + "- Store scraped results in a DataFrame" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "49995214-3b60-4871-9973-a84e9eefab80", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "# When to Use Selenium\n", + "\n", + "**Use Selenium when:**\n", + "\n", + "- Data is loaded dynamically using JavaScript\n", + "\n", + "- Content does not appear in page source\n", + "\n", + "- Pages require scrolling, clicking, or waiting\n", + "\n", + "- APIs are unavailable\n", + "\n", + "⚠️ Selenium is slower than BeautifulSoup but much more powerful." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "57927a29-6e65-4eef-ac28-5aaeb7707493", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 1: Install Required Libraries\n", + "\n", + "**Why these libraries?**\n", + "- selenium: Automates browser interaction\n", + "- webdriver-manager: Automatically manages browser drivers\n", + "- pandas: Stores scraped data in tabular format" + ] + }, + { + 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selenium webdriver-manager \n", + "\n", + "import pandas as pd\n", + "\n", + "import time\n", + "from selenium import webdriver #used to automate web browser interaction\n", + "from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import service #This helps in managing the ChromeDriver service that Selenium uses to interact with the Chrome browser.\n", + "from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager #This class automatically downloads and sets up the latest version of ChromeDriver\n", + "\n", + "from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By #The By class is used to locate elements on a web page" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "112cc8a3-c3af-4395-9b2c-c3a73ffd8cec", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 3: Launch the Browser\n", + "\n", + "**What this does**\n", + "\n", + "- Automatically downloads the correct ChromeDriver\n", + "- Launches a Chrome browser instance\n", + "- Eliminates manual driver setup" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 3, + 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"nb_links = len(soup.find_all(class_=\"product_pod\"))\n", + "print(f\"There are {nb_links} links in this page\")\n", + "# Output: There are 94 links on this page\n", + "\n", + "# Text from the page\n", + "print(soup.get_text())" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "4588ac18-b7b7-47c5-9e1d-fe2f55d5134e", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 5: Locate Elements\n", + "```python\n", + "books = soup.find_all(\"article\", class_=\"product_pod\")\n", + "```\n", + "\n", + "### Why?\n", + "- Each book is wrapped in an `article` tag\n", + "- `class_` helps filter relevant elements\n", + "\n", + "---\n" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 17, + "id": "10609575-47a3-4c70-ba06-4b26ed42c705", + "metadata": { + "scrolled": true + }, + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "A Light in the ...\n", + "\n", + "£51.77\n", + "\n", + "\n", + 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library **PRAW** (Python Reddit API Wrapper).\n", + "\n", + "Unlike traditional web scraping:\n", + "\n", + "- Reddit **provides an API**\n", + "\n", + "- Data is structured, reliable, and faster to access\n", + "\n", + "- This method is **legal and recommended**\n", + "\n", + "### By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:\n", + "\n", + "- Authenticate with Reddit’s API\n", + "\n", + "- Extract posts from a subreddit\n", + "\n", + "- Collect metadata such as title, score, and URL\n", + "\n", + "- Extract comments and replies\n", + "\n", + "- Store data in CSV format" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "cbdc3065-84c8-4bf1-8cc6-1c2d28e78c3d", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Why use Reddit API instead of HTML scraping?\n", + "\n", + "| HTML Scraping | Reddit API |\n", + "| ------------------------ | ---------------- |\n", + "| Breaks if layout changes | Stable structure |\n", + "| Slower | Faster |\n", + "| Risk of blocking | Approved access |\n", + "| Messy text | Clean JSON data |\n" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "731ab1cc-9b28-4aba-aaf8-5dec71d4063b", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 1: Install required libraries\n", + "\n", + "**Why these libraries?**\n", + "\n", + "- **praw:** Official Reddit API wrapper for Python\n", + "\n", + "- **pandas:** Store and analyze scraped data" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 2, + "id": "b964bc74-0c37-44ad-94ee-d47fde402f1a", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "Requirement already satisfied: praw in c:\\users\\niral\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages (7.8.1)\n", + "Requirement already satisfied: prawcore<3,>=2.4 in c:\\users\\niral\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages (from praw) (2.4.0)\n", + "Requirement already satisfied: update_checker>=0.18 in c:\\users\\niral\\anaconda3\\lib\\site-packages (from praw) (0.18.0)\n", + "Requirement already satisfied: websocket-client>=0.54.0 in 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datetime\n", + "from pprint import pprint # pretty print" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "a496e044-f14a-4a2c-977f-a83c68bc97db", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 2: Create a Reddit Developer Application\n", + "\n", + "-\tA user account is required to use Reddit API. If you don’t have it follow this link. https://www.reddit.com\n", + "-\tVisit https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/\n", + "-\tScroll down to the 'Developed Applications' section and click on \"Create App\" or \"Create Another App\".\n", + "-\tFill in the form:\n", + "-\tname: Your application's name.\n", + "-\tApp type: Choose 'script'.\n", + "-\tdescription: Can be left blank.\n", + "-\tredirect uri: http://localhost:8080 (required for script type but won't be used here).\n", + "-\tClick \"Create app\"\n", + "-\tNow, your app has a secret key (e.g., vg8NL-iEOB9uJVS4rexYW2XITqvh1g).\n" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "e3b332cd-7a47-407b-a1ff-0809ba63fd63", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 3: Authenticate with Reddit API\n", + "\n", + "**What this does**\n", + "\n", + "- Authenticates your script with Reddit\n", + "\n", + "- Allows access to public subreddit data\n", + "\n", + "**Why user_agent is required**\n", + "\n", + "- Identifies your application\n", + "\n", 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Mayan apocalypse, non-specific Judgment Days, and Y2K need not apply. 1758730542.0\n", + "Jokes on them, I'm in heaven with all my friends and we're making fun of everybody still down there from above. \n", + "\n", + "The WiFi is pretty good surprisingly. 1758732407.0\n", + "This was definitely one of those idiots on TikTok things. 1758732421.0\n", + "“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” Matthew 24:36\n", + "\n", + "Real Christians know their lore and don’t fall for rapture scams. 1758731225.0\n", + "Not one Christian I know believed they were going to be raptured yesterday so there's nothing to handle. 1758730526.0\n", + "I think this is more of an idiot thing rather than a Christian thing 1758731515.0\n", + "This was not a wide spread believed event in the Christian community. I only heard about it from a bunch of people making up the story that this was a widely believed event. So no, none I know of went all in in the first place. 1758730759.0\n", + "I'm a Christian. I'm active in my church. Most of my friends are Christians.\n", + "\n", + "I don't know a single person in real life who thought the rapture was actually happening. I personally don't even think the rapture is a real Christian concept. \n", + "\n", + "I did read comments online from people who believed in it. But in my actual life, I haven't seen any Christians even giving it a moment of thought.\n", + "\n", + "I suspect it was more of an online sort of mass hysteria for people with anxiety. 1758731728.0\n", + "Just a reminder:\n", + "\n", + "There is no such thing as the rapture. It isn't happening, not now, and not ever. There is no evidence to support the notion that Jesus Christ is returning to sweep his followers up into the clouds. The concept of the rapture has been read into the Bible very, very recently, primarily credited to John Nelson Darby, a 19th century Bible translator and teacher.\n", + "\n", + "He primarily took 1 Thessalonians 4:17, talking about the people of Christ being snatched up into the air. Paul is referencing a Greco-Roman convention called apantesis where a Roman leader would return to a city and his people would come out of the city and meet him. However, at that point, the entry would go back into the city. Darby inherently misunderstood the imagery from Paul who took the same idea and just rotated it vertically. Using Paul's imagery, people might rise up to meet Christ, but they would come back down to earth and Christ would be ruling from earth itself.\n", + "\n", + "The Evangelical Christian doctrine of the Rapture has been a popular mechanism to instill fear and anxiety in their adherents. Countless people have believed in the possibility of being \"left behind\" and the fiction and focus on the subject, especially after the books / movies and other media in the 90s, have caused substantial harm especially to children and teens who were subjected to it in church.\n", + "\n", + "The Rapture is not in the Bible. It is not happening. The very text of the Bible says that no one (not even Christ) knows when he will return, so anyone who picks a date would be literally excluding that date from contention because that would mean that one person did know the date.\n", + "\n", + "For more details on this, Dr. Dan McClellan is a phenomenal resource (most of what I've written here is based on his work). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4BhxYz1l4 1758733331.0\n", + "Non-Christian here, I’m more disappointed than the evangelicals are. I was hoping they would clear our and we could finally some peace. 1758776890.0\n", + "I don't know a single Christian who believes in rapture scams. 1758730652.0\n", + "You guys do know that this is a very small subsect of people, right?\n", + "\n", + "I live in the Bible belt, I don't know a single person who believed in this. In fact, I doubt most of the Christians down here are even on the sections of the internet where those people were and even know that this was a thing. 1758732521.0\n", + "I think people are greatly overestimating the number of Christians who believe in rapture. It is a very small group, amplified by millions of people shouting \"LOOK AT THE STUPID CHRISTIANS!\" 1758732273.0\n", + "I doubt very seriously people really believed this event would take place. People can act like they believe, but actual belief in something so ridiculous seems unlikely. I’m sure everyone talking about the Rapture went to work this morning, and carried on with their lives. 1758730811.0\n", + "I haven't actually heard anyone believing it'd happen, it got *way* overblown here on Reddit 1758730974.0\n", + "Our neighbours kept their kids home yesterday and when my kids came home they were over knocking on the door looking to play.\n", + "\n", + "They're the type to get caught up in every conspiracy, so the wife and I had a good chuckle. 1758731450.0\n", + "Honestly I think this whole thing is way overblown.\n", + "\n", + "As a Christian I heard about this like 2 days before.\n", + "\n", + "It’s all just a grift. 1758731502.0\n", + "This is like the 20th rapture Ive been thru 🥱 1758740984.0\n", + "Did I miss ANOTHER fucking rapture? Getting real tired of your shit Jesus. 1758739242.0\n", + "Laughing at Tiktokers for thinking they know anything 1758731111.0\n", + "Anyone who believed the rapture was happening isn't a real Christian because there is nowhere outrighting stating a magical rapture where people dissapear. \n", + "\n", + "Instead, the Bible outlines that the world will first be consumed by conquest, war, famine, disease, plagues, great disasters, the falling of the wormwood star, and the rise of the false prophet that would unite the world under their banner. Then after the world is thrown into chaos then Crist will return to lead his followers to overthrow the antichrist and usher in the kingdom of God on earth for the believers and the repentant to enjoy. 1758733345.0\n", + "My wife got raptured. I came home and heard her saying “oh God, I’m coming. God I’m coming!” Her clothes were on the floor and I haven’t seen her since. 1758770524.0\n", + "I know a guy who took random clothes out and put them all over the place near a few hateful churches. 1758745854.0\n", + "I know a lot of Catholics, a good number of Protestants, and a decent amount of Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Catholics and Orthodox don't theologically believe in dispensational premillennialism (aka \"the rapture\"), and none of my Protestant friends have ever brought it up, so I doubt they believe in it either, or at least didn't believe in this one. 1758731673.0\n", + "The actual rapture happened when Harembe died. We're all what's left. 1758732307.0\n", + "The only people who thought there was a rapture yesterday was the chronically online. 1758731401.0\n", + "I work at a power plant in Texas, most of my coworkers go to church on Sundays, have not heard a word about the Rapture. 1758732091.0\n", + "Rapture is an invention of american evangelicans. Christianity does not believe in it 1758744675.0\n", + "I believe there's a God. I love my children. I try to be a good person.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Ask for organized religion? Hard pass. I've seen it become an excuse for a lot of bad things. A lot of anger and hatred. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Hopefully that's enough to get us where we're going. And if i'm wrong, at least, I didn't waste my only life worrying about the wrong stuff. 1758757385.0\n", + "I'm kinda bummed it didn't happen. There's a guy who lives on the next block who has a SWEET Audi A6 I would have loved to have gotten my heathen hands on if he had gotten hoovered up to heaven. 1758741404.0\n", + "Man, I remember being 5-10 years old and staying up until the sun came up waiting for the Rapture, terrified. My mom was obsessed with the book of Revelation and told us about the Rapture, the trials and tribulations, the AntiChrist, the mark of the beast, all of it. She also told me that it would happen \"when no one expects it\", so I made sure to stay up expecting that shit.\n", + "\n", + "Not necessarily my mom's fault, but this kind of terror shit is child abuse. 1758754203.0\n", + "I'm an exvangelical and back in May 2011 there was supposed to be a rapture that got a lot of internet attention before it was supposed to happen. Even in my circles it was very much mocked but I had one old high school friend who was actually posting about it as if it was real and when it didn't happen he deleted his social media. When we reconnected like 2 years later he was an atheist. 1758772835.0\n", + "I am a catholic and I knew it wasn’t going to happen, the bible says nobody knows when it happens. 1758983595.0\n", + "You should act like you and others got raptured. Ignore them and have like one friend reach out and be like “I haven’t heard from them in days. I saw a pure white light in their house the other night, haven’t heard from them since” 1758730311.0\n", + "I know plenty of Christians. None I know went all-in. I suspect the rapture enthusiasts are a rather small percentage of practicing Christians. 1758731107.0\n", + "I don’t know. I’m a Christian and I don’t know anyone stupid enough to participate. 1758731757.0\n", + "Worst mass deportation ever!! 1758740998.0\n", + "Doesn't one of the books state that you won't know when the rapture is coming, yet they keep predicting it anyway? 1758743336.0\n", + "As someone who could be called Christian; IF there was going to be a rapture then it would be AFTER the time of tribulations rather than before. It's a test. Can you still be good and hold on to your faith, morals, and ethics even when faced with said tribulations? That's what it's about. Not God yeeting away all his followers before the bad times and letting the earth and the unbelievers rot. It would be a betrayal of creation. That being said the rapture and times of tribulations stuff isn't really literal, it's allegory. Just archetypal stories retold in order to impart knowledge rather than prophecy. Evangelicals and their ilk are pretty batshit crazy. 1758744500.0\n", + "Idk, but im pretty bummed theyre still here. 1758759066.0\n", + "I told someone, “Got cut from Team Rapture, eh?”\n", + "\n", + "They didn’t take that very well. 1758773117.0\n", + "Im a Christian and was laughing on these fake Christians with there fake visions. Do not mistake these false prophets for Christians. They are not. 1758784272.0\n", + "I had 2 family members calling me often because they believed it (and I was going to hell).\n", + "\n", + "They have been posting like nothing even happened. Pretending they weren’t convinced life was ending. 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I honestly believe “Rapture Abuse” should be prosecuted and “Rapture Trauma “ should be a recognized diagnosis. 1758824693.0\n", + "I'm Catholic, we don't believe in that shit 😅\n", + "\n", + "I'm currently watching Rapture Tok with a cup of hot tea and some cookies for a good time 🥂 1758915750.0\n", + "No christians went all in. A few TikTokers acted like they went all in for clout. Nothing is real. 1758731057.0\n", + "[I’m really excited to hear back from the queer person whose homophobic aunt gave them their $40k life savings in cash because they weren’t going to need it after Tuesday.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITA_WIBTA_PUBLIC/s/2vMjiqtYBG) 1758738607.0\n", + "The Christian’s know that rapture isn’t scheduled. 1758731417.0\n", + "I've lived through a few. It's always the same. They're real quiet for a couple days while someone figures out the mental gymnastics to explain why it didn't happen, then in some time, they're right back to the bullshit. 1758732157.0\n", + "I'm sure they are busy moving the goalposts. 1758732387.0\n", + "And now their prolly “ohhh Jesus was just testing our faith.. ohh” 1758734306.0\n", + "I want to know how all those people that gave/sold everything they own and quit their jobs spectacularly are doing in this economy. 1758734320.0\n", + "I think Jesus came down, but he was arrested by ICE and taken to El Salvador 1758734419.0\n", + "Matthew 34:36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father\"\n", + "\n", + "Anyone claiming they know when is wrong according to their own teachings. Anyone trying to hasten the end is doing the work of Satan. 1758735051.0\n", + "I was really hoping it would go down and get rid of all of the idiots so us in the \"Left Behind\" group could go back to believing in science, the rule of law, and common sense. Too bad... They're still here. I hate evangelicals. 1758735056.0\n", + "Maybe the rapture actually did happen but it was only like 5 or 6 people in the entire world and nobody noticed? 1758736810.0\n", + "I’m dying to know what the vibes in the households of the people who sold all their shit were like 1758739104.0\n", + "They'd all be dumbfounded because they didn't believe in this shit in the first place.\n", + "\n", + "Seems like the Rapture is mostly a US Evangelical thing, European Catholics (grew up as one) probably believe in heaven and hell or at least an afterlife of sorts but not the Rapture. Not even Lutherans, the second biggest denomination here, take this quackery seriously. 1758739510.0\n", + "They should take a page from Buddhism. \"Ah, yes, I *chose* not to be raptured and instead stayed behind to save other people.\" 1758741080.0\n", + "My question is, why do a majority of Christian’s, believe THEY will be raptured? Isn’t the rapture only supposed to pull 400,000 people, and leave everyone else? 1758743925.0\n", + "Someone I sort of know, who is very religious and believed the Rapture was happening yesterday, is now blaming witches for putting a spell on her to make her believe it was happening. 1758744969.0\n", + "Three guys I know are still stuck to their ceilings. 1758745644.0\n", + "I do remember back in 1999 a coworker was convinced. Sold everything and move himself and family, including 2 small kids, to Jerusalem cause he was *sure* the world was going to end. Dude was nuttier than a bag of hammers. Never did see him again, not that I wanted to. 1758745913.0\n", + "The only Christians to meet the requirements are probably a handful of genuinely pious poor people in third world countries. American \"Christians\" don't stand a chance. 1758746445.0\n", + "The surest sign there’s been a rapture is that everyone is still here. 1758747231.0\n", + "The next time they do this shit, the rest of us need to close our curtains, stay home and not answer the phone. Let them sweat a little. 1758749127.0\n", + "All I can think about is Parks and Rec. 🤷‍♂️😂 1758751960.0\n", + "Their real rapture will be when the epstein files are fully released 🤣 1758754549.0\n", + "I’d love “hey you don’t need this stuff sell it to\n", + "Me for a dollar. Yeah, your house, car, dollar. Hell I’ll\n", + "Be generous a dollar _each_”. Prove your faith. 1758756957.0\n", + "Still insufferable assholes thumping a book they don't actually read or follow. In other words, it's a day ending in Y. 1758762693.0\n", + "They'll just make some bullshit excuse that they got the time and date wrong and it'll be the next one that's the real one... Rinse and repeat. Religion doesn't need to make sense to regular people, only to the believers. 1758762736.0\n", + "I work with a devout Christian guy. I said to him yesterday that I was sad to see him still there as it was Rapture Day. We both had a big laugh about it. \n", + "\n", + "None of the Christians I know are dumb enough to have believed that. 1758764490.0\n", + "idk but rosh hashana was lit 1758765765.0\n", + "No one actually believes this but 6 mentally maligned individuals who racked up millions of views making fun of them now it’s a cultural phenomenon, or something. 1758766727.0\n", + "Just like NFTs gone and forgotten about 1758796418.0\n", + "They're probably busy being just as fucking stupid as they were before? Why care? It's like caring about the thoughts of an earthworm 1758801761.0\n", + "If a rapture really did happen, the white Christian nationalists would not be chosen but rather the average liberal who has values more in line with what Jesus taught. 1758743948.0\n", + "My mom was pretty convinced. It’s been crickets 1758731604.0\n", + "I was the only one who even mentioned it. 1758730864.0\n", + "I must be like 3rd string or aome shit. 1758732097.0\n", + "I grew up evangelical and a ton of my friends and family are still conservative evangelicals - I couldn't find one who thought the Rapture was actually happening yesterday. \n", + "\n", + "I think this is a case of a very small group of people (relatively speaking) having access to social media and appearing much larger than they actually are because they got attention. \n", + "\n", + "Anyway, here's a link to 88 reasons the rapture is coming in 1988. Don't worry, once it didn't happen they wrote a sequel for 1989. [https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13043072-88-reasons-why-the-rapture-is-in-1988](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/13043072-88-reasons-why-the-rapture-is-in-1988) 1758733345.0\n", + "They don't care when they're wrong. 1758733840.0\n", + "Just remember, the rapture is actually an idea from the early-mid 1800’s.\n", + "\n", + "You can’t expect uniformity in religion normally, much less so from shit concocted almost ~2000 years after the religion was founded. 1758734494.0\n", + "Dont say *left* beihind, they're already triggered enough 1758738835.0\n", + "I don’t know anyone who thought that was true. 1758738861.0\n", + "I saw something today that says they think God is waiting for the Epstein files to be released. 1758741323.0\n", + "I don't see this said enough. The Rapture isn't in the Bible. It was \"invented\" in the 1800s. 1758742491.0\n", + "A Rapture would be the best thing for the world. These “chosen ones” are a lot of what is wrong with the world. 1758743439.0\n", + "Depends on the Christians you actually mean.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "If we're talking about real Christians, they're fine because we all know that no one except God knows the time and day it will happen.\n", + "\n", + "If we're talking about Christian Nationalists, I hope they're taking it the worst way possible. 1758744463.0\n", + "there's no fucking rapture only delulu evangelists 1758744937.0\n", + "Did anyone other than brain-rotted Tik Tokkers even know about this? 1758745124.0\n", + "I can't shake the thought that if the Rapture was real and you made a Tik Tok video saying \"Rapture is happening, but I'll make a follow up video if it doesn't\", wouldn't God know that in your soul you don't really believe it's going to happen and therefore wouldn't Rapture you??\n", + "\n", + "Basically, in making contigencies for the Rapture you're demonstrating that you don't trust God. God knows this and isn't going to let you into Heaven. The mere fact that you haven't given away all your Earthly possessions shows that you aren't fully on board with God's plan, so why would you expect him to welcome you into Heaven??\n", + "\n", + "It's almost like it's all made up... 1758748352.0\n", + "How are they handling it? Just like every other aspect of their delusions. Constant goal post movement. \n", + "\n", + "I’ve not seen many responses but I guarantee anybody who believed it Tuesday will NOT have a moment of self reflection. 1758750864.0\n", + "An old, but classic psychological field study on this type of thing that was partially used to establish and support the theory of cognitive dissonance was Leon Festinger’s 1956 book When Prophecy Fails. It’s pretty interesting. The researchers made connections with people in a doomsday cult, and profiled the cult members both before and after their doomsday date passed. It was interesting to read about the various characteristics of people who join these types of cults and the variety of reactions of them after the prophecy failed. 1758751016.0\n", + "Virtually nobody actually believed this. it was a tiny handful of people, many of whom I suspect were faking for views, that got posted on social media. It's plain in black white in the Bible that nobody can know ahead of time when it will hppen. 1758761022.0\n", + "The doofus wants his dog and truck back. A deal's a deal pal. 1758762270.0\n", + "The rapture isn’t even biblical. 1758763987.0\n", + "Dang. I was hoping for some peace and quiet but instead I gotta deal with this shit still. 1758765414.0\n", + "they’re busy moving the goal posts 1758766694.0\n", + "If they are true Christians then they know it was fake, no one knows the time and day 1758767781.0\n", + "The funny thing is, if the rapture is true the very low key and kind Christian’s are the ones getting taken away so we probably wouldn’t even notice they were gone unless we knew and loved them personally enough to notice. We’ve lived through like 10 raptures, but for all we know ppl were taken every time and god keeps trying bc so few ppl meet his quota 😅 then it just leaves us with more and more batshit evangelicals with less and less decent believers to combat their narrative from the inside… 1758767833.0\n", + "I’ve been telling people the rapture happened „sorry only POCs were raptured to get them somewhere safe“ 1758769500.0\n", + "I don't know about them but I was really counting on getting a new car, maybe move into one of those empty McMansions 1758770275.0\n", + "I was walking into work and some polite gents were handing out pocket bibles. I wanted very much to chuck it into the street. I simply declined taking one. \n", + "\n", + "I also, very much wanted to ask “weren’t you supposed to be raptured yesterday?” 1758771229.0\n", + "Follow-up question: What's rapture tik tok looking like the last 12 hours? More crying? Moving goalposts? Silent? 1758771948.0\n", + "I don’t even like calling them Christians. Rapture isn’t biblical and it’s antithetical to all the teachings of the Bible. 1758773366.0\n", + "What happened with the tik tok lady who sold her house 1758774456.0\n", + "Christianity is the only group that seems to never lose credibility with its followers after making countless incorrect predictions. It's the end of the world every year according to them. 1758777320.0\n", + "God keeps on having do-overs in hope He'll find a true Christian. In the last 30 attempts He's netted two yellow labs and a female mallard. I can understand the labs, but what's the deal with that mallard? 1758782532.0\n", + "the good news is that girl who had to poop but didnt want to be on the toilet when rapture came can finally relieve her bowels! 1758784067.0\n", + "I've been gaslighting them all day and it's been a blast 1758787648.0\n", + "As an atheist all I can say is beam them up, Jesus. 1758797906.0\n", + "No true Christian. 1758799298.0\n", + "Most Christians are not of the \"rapture\" variety. 1758802338.0\n", + "The rapture makes as much sense as getting 70 virgins when you die. It's hilarious that people actually fall for this fantasy. 1758804298.0\n", + "Since the “rapture” is completely unbiblical it’s not something I worry about. 1758804653.0\n", + "You realize this wasn't a mainstream thing. 99.999999999999999999999% of Christians didn't take this seriously and that's if they even heard about it at all. 1758810687.0\n", + "True Christians are fine and dont feel left behind.  We know that no one except for God himself knows the day and time so the rest is all noise 1758817526.0\n", + "Most of them are probably busy trying to explain how this was just a test run and the real rapture is coming any minute now. 😅 1758927384.0\n", + "I feel like any Christian extreme enough to have those beliefs wouldn't socialise with anybody outside of their church, least of all a Redditor. 1758975068.0\n", + "Y’all see the footage of the Ugandan Christians gathering in the forest and up a hill singing and waiting for the rapture? Then the inevitable coming down and going home? 1759053368.0\n", + "Calendar re-set for October (missed September clearly). \n", + "Good Luck with that.\n", + "Wonder what the next iteration will be? 1759101643.0\n", + "You'd have better luck finding an abortionist in the Vatican than finding an evangelical Christian on Reddit. 1758730928.0\n", + "The rapture has been extended to today. 1758732757.0\n", + "They really should have committed like the heavens gate folks. Bet they all went to work that day as well. They don’t believe it, it’s just schtick. 1758738900.0\n", + "MAGA Christians wake up disappointed they have to live in the world they created. 1758742569.0\n", + "Honestly, i'm not sure I've ever met an actual Christian. Also, nothing about \"the Rapture\" is biblical. 1758745442.0\n", + "I’m devastated that these twats are still around to wreck it for the rest of us. 1758745766.0\n", + "I've heard quite a few say that yesterday was a \"test\" to see who the true faithful were. I've never seen people move goal posts so fast in my life. 1758747896.0\n", + "If heaven exist, I dont want to enter it if it's full of americal evangelicalists. It would be hell for me. 1758751918.0\n", + "I think Jesus did come down from the heavens to do the rapture, but then ICE immediately picked him up. 1758753609.0\n", + "They're probably trying to buy their car back.  1758731494.0\n", + "I don't know anyone who went all in on it. Given the number of raptures I've lived through I can't fathom how anyone can still go all in on these predictions. 1758731812.0\n", + "I know Baptists, pentecostals, etc. Literally the only people talking about this that I have run into are redditors. I ASKED people from those backgrounds if they'd heard the rapture was yesterday, and they'd heard nothing. 1758731838.0\n", + "What if the raptures are actually happening, but nobody is ever worthy enough? 1758731880.0\n", + "Well technically they have to the end of the day today. Yesterday was just the dead getting it. 1758731905.0\n", + "I work with a pretty hardcore Christian (the kind that has actually read his Bible and practices what Jesus preached). He hadn't even heard about it and thought it was absolute nonsense when I told him. 1758732021.0\n", + "So do we have a list now of all the people who were “raptured” yesterday? Would love to see it 1758732196.0\n", + "I actually don’t know any real life people who thought they’d be raptured. It certainly was not mentioned in church this past weekend. (Then again my church doesn’t go for pop culture weirdness like the rapture, and for that matter hardly ever mentions the end times or anything like that.) \n", + "\n", + "But hey, maybe some of the disappointed people will choose to watch The Leftovers to deal with their confusion and I’m always glad when people watch The Leftovers. 1758732374.0\n", + "Just as an aside for anyone who doesn't know: The concept of the rapture didn't exist until the early 1800s. 1758733615.0\n", + "I’m a Christian. I believe in the Rapture. I don’t believe anyone knows when it will be (Matt. 24:36). I am continuing to live life as normal. 1758733837.0\n", + "I wish i had known sooner and I was somewhat known to have enough followers to make it fun...basically the idea was to admit I was wrong about the rapture...that what I witnessed was beyond anything I had ever seen...if I had the money, even make some videos of like parents floating away...get loads of people in on it and pretend they all witnessed people disappear right in front of them and have discussions on how they wish they had believed and felt really bad about it...then all the Christians who did believe it was going to happen see those videos and see lots of them, they'd sit their wondering why they didn't go...then later do interviews with said people and be like, clearly you were not a good enough Christian as you didn't go 1758733868.0\n", + "Just as mentally deficient as they were before. 1758733930.0\n", + "Evilgelicals give the rest of us Christians a bad name. 1758734119.0\n", + "If you can believe in a god existing, you can believe anything. 1758734121.0\n", + "Seems to me all these “evangelicals” would have been out last week evangelizing. \n", + "\n", + "In the end they preferred to keep it to themselves 1758734239.0\n", + "I have been telling people the rapture did happen, but we are all heathens alike, deal with it! 1758734244.0\n", + "This happens all the time. Cult shit. 1758734249.0\n", + "Even God doesn’t want those losers, lol. 1758734300.0\n", + "The Rapture is always a fun time to see what morons actually full send on it. There's been plenty of times in my lifetime it really came to head. 2000-2001 we had a big push for it and people were selling off all their stuff. \n", + "\n", + "Like I've always semi curious to know what it takes mentally to have this blinding faith that you think a magical bearded man is going to pluck you from this dirt ball to the sky and just not even have a rational brain cell fire to go.....hey maybe this isn't real. \n", + "\n", + "That's like running into a brick wall in a train station so I can go hang out with some magic folk. That's the same level of ridiculousness the rapture applies to. 1758734478.0\n", + "If they weren’t willing to give away all their possessions and money then they didn’t really believe. 1758734586.0\n", + "I honestly feel like the bible is a book of lore. There is no rapture. What he’s talking about, in bible speak, is you fuggin DIED homie! 1758734834.0\n", + "Did anyone get any stuff from a Christian relative - and do they want it back now???? 1758735194.0\n", + "This is literally something I've only heard about on Reddit. 1758735253.0\n", + "Some one needs to tell them they wasn't good enough Christians. 1758735515.0\n", + "I'm as disappointed as they are. 1758735644.0\n", + "I have a hard time believing anybody was really taking it seriously. I'm pretty sure it was all just memes. 1758735691.0\n", + "The majority of the Christians I know aren't evangelical/stupid enough to believe this nonsense. 1758735741.0\n", + "This is like kids eating Tide Pods but for Reddit atheists instead of middle aged Facebook moms...\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "I'm sure there was some small subset of Christians that believe that the rapture was coming today, but not nearly enough for you average reddit poster to know any of them. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Hell, I live in a pretty rural area of the southern US, and I don't know how many people I know even believe in the rapture as a concept, much less have a date in mind.  1758735773.0\n", + "All I know is that I like my airline pilots to be atheists so when the rapture comes, someone is still flying the plane. 1758735906.0\n", + "Is this a regional thing? I live in a very red/Christian area and never heard even a little peep until I saw reddit making fun of it. 1758736089.0\n", + "I don’t know a single Christian who thought the rapture was going to happen.\n", + "\n", + "This was definitely an example of the internet not being real life. 1758736147.0\n", + "I haven't read my Bible in a long time but if I remember correctly there's no mention of any \"Rapture\" I do seem to recall something about the \"elect\" who would ascend to divinity ahead of everyone else in church as a child though. But my impression then was globally it would amount to a handful of people. \n", + "\n", + "So, my thinking is if those people vanished this week and you were expecting to be raptured, maybe it's time to reassess your life. Maybe literally do some introspective soul searching to determine if you're really worthy or just assume you are. If I'm not mistaken, the first tenant of being truly Christian is to not hate anyone. To not judge others. Good luck with that. 1758736230.0\n", + "I’m Christian and the only way I know of this is from Reddit making of Christians for believing it. Lol 1758736248.0\n", + "People need to get off the internet🙄 didnt hear one peep about this outside of reddit. 1758736337.0\n", + "I only heard about it from Reddit, so I'm doing good. 1758736782.0\n", + "Hopefully the rapture took them all, so we can start making the world a better place. 1758736832.0\n", + "I think the rapture is an American thing we don’t have it here in the UK. 1758737065.0\n", + "I’m 43 now and all the people who were upset about the first 20 raptures we were supposed to have that never came are either dead now or too old to care anymore. Seriously, if you’re an elder millennial, your grandparents and parents have been pretty vocally preparing for the rapture since you were born and we are desensitized to it now. 1758737071.0\n", + "Stop making a big deal of what a tiny minority of people believe in.\n", + "\n", + "Overwhelming majority of Christians didn’t believe that the end of the world would happen yesterday. 1758737209.0\n", + "I don't know any Christians. 1758737280.0\n", + "The rapture happened. It’s just that nobody made the cut. 1758737506.0\n", + "I don't know anyone that stupid 1758738406.0\n", + "Very few actual Christians fall for these hoaxes. 1758738436.0\n", + "I actually go to a women's Bible study on Tuesday mornings and my table was all giggles about the whole rapture thing because we all knew it was absolute bollocks. My mom called me this morning and was like \"so I guess the rapture didn't happen yesterday\" and we had a good laugh. \n", + "\n", + "I don't think most Christians believed an ounce of it. It seems like every once in a while some group of people gets all riled up saying they believe the rapture will happen on X day. I don't know where they get their ideas from but they're not the majority, for sure. 1758738438.0\n", + "I was raptured then sent back, mistaken identity. 1758738788.0\n", + "Ah dammit. Did I miss it? Every. Single. Time. 1758739119.0\n", + "I'm now living in one of their mansions. 1758739236.0\n", + "Any good post-rapture TikToks to share? 1758739244.0\n", + "Nobody in real life with any sanity believed this. Besides the Bible is clear that nobody knows when so the “ believers” need to chill 1758739334.0\n", + "The whole idea of the rapture only came about around the time of the American Civil War. It didnt even catch on until the early 20th century when the Scofield Bible was circulating in the US. 1758739518.0\n", + "The Bible says we will not know when the rapture happens. Part of the problem is people who believe for the most part don’t even know what the Bible says. I believe but I wanted to make sure I read the dang book before I just believed in something. 1758740011.0\n", + "My pap said fuck the rapture I'm going out beforehand so I don't find out who isn't going, myself included. \n", + "\n", + "He went a few days before the rapture was due at nearly 100 years old. RIP old man 1758740063.0\n", + "They're saying that it was either a test run or that there was human error and they misunderstood what God's message really was. 1758740199.0\n", + "I was raptured once. It didn't take, I think I got it from sitting on a public toilet. 1758740525.0\n", + "I’m kinda sad….. I was looking forward to all those people being called home….. have you spent anytime looking at these ass hats…. Imagine a world without these crazies who do so much stupid shot in the name of an old white guy with a beard who lives in a cloud bank. 1758740558.0\n", + "I'm still trying to find anyone who truly believed it to begin with, honestly. I'm skeptical that people saying they believed it on TikTok actually did and I don't kno anyone IRL who did. And I'm Christian, my daughter goes to a private Christian school, so I don't think this is just a matter of not knowing any Christians. 1758740616.0\n", + "I’ve seen several say that the joke is on the rest of us because it was a test from God 🤔 Sure, Jan. 1758740665.0\n", + "They keep asking for their house title back.\n", + "\n", + "(annoying, not gonna happen) 1758740955.0\n", + "I'm posting from Heaven rn. 1758741034.0\n", + "Christian here, first time I’m hearing about this. Can’t believe anybody fell for it when the Bible clearly says no one knows when the rapture will happen 1758741156.0\n", + "What part of not knowing when He will return was unclear in the Bible? 1758741815.0\n", + "It's important to note about Rapture that only a few Christian denominations even believe in the concept. Catholics and many Protestant churches do not believe the Rapture is part of the end times. 1758742622.0\n", + "Fine because it’s all just part of a grift 1758742671.0\n", + "I sometimes feel a rapture-like event happened during COVID, which is why the world has been upside down ever since. 1758742722.0\n", + "It did happen. \n", + "\n", + "And only the truly good ones ascended. \n", + "\n", + "Which is why nothing has changed. \n", + "\n", + "God will probably try again soon. 1758743145.0\n", + "Literally don’t know a real person who said a word about this. Glad I don’t have any dummies like this in my life. 1758743435.0\n", + "Pretty funny if the Rapture did actually happen - but it was just some dude named Steve in Ohio that got raptured and now his family all just think he ran off… 1758743792.0\n", + "I think they’re just rescheduling the end of the world for a new date. 1758745456.0\n", + "Out of the entire length of human history and the existence of this planet. These fools are so self centered to think the most holy most existential moment is going to happen to them at the convenience of their toilet seats.\n", + "\n", + "I am glad that I have absolutely no interaction in my life with people this insane. 1758745814.0\n", + "What I like to point out is that there are more disappearances daily worldwide than the total number of souls that will be raptured. So even if it does happen it wouldn't be statistically significant from any other day. 1758745872.0\n", + "I don't know any regular real life Christians who were even aware of anything about this...why is the internet acting like everyone thought it was happening? It was just one random African guy. \n", + "\n", + "All I've seen were a ton of Christians online saying that no one knows when it's supposed happen and that this guy was just a liar like the literal *thousands if not millions* of people over human history who have said \"yeah, the world is ending in a few months.\n", + "\n", + "We've had this discussion a billion times and over and over. I know a lot of you have a this pathetic fixation and a hate boner for Christianity because you're too spineless to criticize other religions because they're not white enough, but man...this was not a Christian thing. It never is. It's always some fringe cult leader moron that no one takes seriously. Why do you think the Pope never comes out and says anything or talks with them? Everyone knows it's bullshit including 99.999% of Christians...even the ones who never read the bible and barely know anything about their own religion. It's basic Sunday School Veggie Tales stuff. False Prophets.\n", + "\n", + "The reason this happens literally every months for the last thousands of years is because when people get older, we tend to find comfort in the idea of the world ending soon because it means we wont miss anything when we die. things can stop being when we stop being. It's not just religious people. It's all of you anti-religion people too. Whether it's a politician who is going to end everything, some other country is going to end everything, a natural disaster, aliens, an epidemic. Everyone at some point has a fantasy about some kind of end all be all event that changes everything. And sometimes they get a massive amount of attention. And you know why people, including logical ones engage with it or entertain the idea? Because a part of them wants the excitement and for something significant to happen even when it's bad. We hype up events and say \"this is going to change everything!\" and then things just go back to normal with only gradual and slow non-dramatic changes that most people don't feel unless directly affected. A lot of people in some way shape or form want it or at least think about it at least a few times. 1758747370.0\n", + "denmark here, reddit is the only place I've heard of any rapture forecast 1758747524.0\n", + "Why sell things when you can't take the money with you?  1758748581.0\n", + "So sad the rapture didn't happen. I mean, just *think* of all the parking spaces that would free up. 1758748696.0\n", + "They'll just say that it's a test of their faith and move on. 1758748723.0\n", + "Only on Reddit was this news 1758749031.0\n", + "I still don't know when this started or when it was supposed to happen... The one friend I have who I know is Christian didn't mention it at all\n", + "\n", + "I guess it's a weird US thing? 1758749296.0\n", + "One thing's for sure! They are *not* appreciating me telling them yesterday was the anniversary the release of Blondie's [Rapture](https://youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?si=kIqsajUt4GhA1sER).\n", + "\n", + "It wasn't, but I'm trying to give them an *exit strategy*.\n", + "\n", + "I'd also like to apologize to Christianity. When I was *fucking terrified* of the first rapture in the 80s, I said \"I predict the rapture will happen in the next million years\". According to the Goat Herders' Guide to the Galaxy, that means that it cannot happen since no one knows the time.\n", + "\n", + "Sorry. 1758749861.0\n", + "This was like the least believed rapture in my life. Only the extra special dumbies 1758750103.0\n", + "Its funny how all Raptures are set in the USA 1758750740.0\n", + "I know a lot of Christians. I don't know any who went \"all in\" on this. In fact, most laughed and had no idea this was even a thing.\n", + "\n", + "I think a lot of this is hyped up nonsense where a handful of people say something dumb and then people on the \"other team\" pick it up and run with it to say *\"hurr hurr look how dumb they all are!\"* 1758751903.0\n", + "I've been swamped at work recently and I missed it. Why didn't I get into heaven this time? 1758752224.0\n", + "Sounds like they didnt pray hard enough 1758752442.0\n", + "Gilted by God? 1758752540.0\n", + "Call them The Unwanted 1758752639.0\n", + "It must suck to be a Christian (mainly American Christians) and realise that once again you got left behind in the Rapture. \n", + "\n", + "I guess it just shows that American Christians aren’t actually very Christian and are going to hell. 1758752788.0\n", + "I say we declare it a successful rapture! Yes! It really happened! Absolutely EVERY human being who had God's favor was called home today. All none of them. You weren't raptured? Oh well. You missed it. You have failed the great test. Now you are stuck here with all the rest of us heathens. On the up-side we have cookies! 1758752817.0\n", + "Didn't you hear? God is delaying the Rapture until the Epstein Files are released.\n", + "\n", + "(Not kidding, that's what some are actually saying: https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFilterNews/comments/1npa4yi/christians_say_god_is_delaying_rapture_until/ 1758753329.0\n", + "I swear us Christians don't even read the scripture. “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭24‬:‭36‬ 1758754022.0\n", + "Anyone still here today will spend eternity in damnation with us homos and commies. \n", + "Welcome! \n", + "Jello shot? 1758754389.0\n", + "I don't know anyone this dumb thankfully. 1758754744.0\n", + "Rapture complete. \n", + "\n", + "The only one worth taken was a 13 year old Icelandic atheist girl. 1758754791.0\n", + "I wanted to leave empty clothes piles randomly in stores. Just to watch the fallout as people lose their minds. 1758754948.0\n", + "Raptures are overrated. Personally, I'm waiting for the Apocalypse and Armageddon. 🤣 1758755222.0\n", + "Shit! I missed it. 1758755505.0\n", + "Huh? Did I miss anything?  1758755834.0\n", + "I dont know any Christians that were awaiting the rapture because I dont associate with deranged lunatics and cult members. 1758756751.0\n", + "You mean it did not happen? There were a few people I was really hoping would get raptured so I would not have to deal with them anymore. 1758756823.0\n", + "I actually don't know any other than one person in the christian sub (I was peeking in) that was arguing with me \"you never know\" and after it didn't happen they stopped responding to me 1758757016.0\n", + "God, I'm glad I don't associate with that brand of religious. 1758757236.0\n", + "Lets say the rapture was coming... to be so pretentious to believe you'd be chosen so you give away everything.\n", + "\n", + "If it were to happen, the ones being picked would be that old kind lady thats unsure if shes has been good enough. (She has)\n", + "\n", + "Or that homeless guy giving away his last 5 bucks so someone else could have a meal.\n", + "\n", + "Or that couple that saves animals and people that needs help.\n", + "\n", + "Not a single fucking priest or pastor would be flying up. They got it all wrong but think they got it all right.\n", + "\n", + "Not a single person that gave money to a church would be picked.\n", + "\n", + "Thats just how i view it. Cant buy yourself into heaven, its based on deeds and heart. 1758757478.0\n", + "They doing what they do. If their god did it, he did it for a reason. If he didn't, he didn't for a reason. They think this makes sense. It's why we need more of the separation of church and state not less. \n", + "\n", + "The rapture is as stupid as Catholics classifying beavers as fish back in the day or reluctantly accepting electricity. They just do shit for ridiculous reasons. It's as silly as saying Mormons gave up polygamy because of prophecy. Or snake handlers & speaking in tongues as devotion. The list goes on and on of the remaining \"modern\" mythologies that are not nearly as entertaining as their polytheistic predecessors. \n", + "\n", + "\"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.\"\n", + "\n", + "George Carlin 1758757525.0\n", + "I don't think it was actually a thing. \n", + "\n", + "I am involved in 3 churches doing work. No one thought Jesus was returning. \n", + "\n", + "I think people on Tik Tok saw this as a chance to get views, pretended to be excited about Jesus returning, and got clicks. And next week, they'll do something else. 1758757622.0\n", + "I’m devastated. Over the past 30 days I liquidated all my personal assets/ possessions. I sat all alone in my empty house all day yesterday, I fell asleep during the night. I awoke this morning in my cold empty house, no food, barely any money. I’ve going through the 7 stages of grief, I’m angry at God. Guess I’ll have to yank up on my old bootstraps and get a job. 1758758369.0\n", + "The Rapture did happen. No one made the cut 1758758475.0\n", + "The number of people that actually believed in the rapture couldn't have been more than a couple hundred schizophrenics and I don't think they had much going on before that anyway 1758759394.0\n", + "The rapture was real, but no one qualified 1758760529.0\n", + "If you want to freak them out, tell them the rapture actually happened, but they didn’t make the cut. 1758760682.0\n", + "Please God! Take them! No, please leave me, we will be fine. 1758761419.0\n", + "Only good Christians get Raptured. Soooooo…. 1758761426.0\n", + "You know how many raptures I’ve lived through? 🤣 1758761749.0\n", + "Rapture is a human construct meaning it will never happen. Nothing more than hopes and prayers. 1758762288.0\n", + "as a non believer who lives in a heavily christian area, I am havinga good hearty laugh . f them all 1758762461.0\n", + "Were they hoping to die??? 1758762502.0\n", + "Maybe all the good Christian’s are gone. We’re all the folks left behind. 1758764065.0\n", + "I'm afraid I don't know anyone quite that stupid 1758764644.0\n", + "I never heard anything about it except people gloating after the fact and most of the people I know are Christian (I'm an atheist). 1758764763.0\n", + "I live in a US state bordering an ocean so nothing. 1758765556.0\n", + "Wait we didn’t rapture? 1758765636.0\n", + "Not sure but if anyone would still like to make a donation (like a car, house, money) to us godless heathens, please drop me a DM and I will see to it that these assets are distributed fairly.\n", + "\n", + "I hear heaven has a VIP fast track ticket pass for those who are feeling \\*extra\\* generous. 1758765903.0\n", + "If you know 'Christians' who thought anyone could predict the rapture, they're not Christians. 1758765905.0\n", + "The misunderstanding of scripture, eschatology and the rapture is what is causing all the predictions rubbish.  Evangelicals got it wrong.  The rapture is an event for THE LAST DAY after the GREAT TRIBULATION is fulfilled.  Many believe they will be spared from the darkest period in human history when antichrist Donald Trump persecutes and kills Christians around the world after declaring himself to be god in the Jewish temple in Jerusalem.  Christians will be shocked when there is NO RAPTURE and they're being offered the mark of the beast or death for refusing it.  Christianity in the final days will be a call to forfeit one's life and become a martyr for their faith in Christ.  \"Remember they hated me first\".   It will be the most terrifying period in history and Christians must trust God to carry them \"through\" this tribulation while giving them the strength to suffer and die  1758766196.0\n", + "They have Reddit in heaven. It’s amazing up here, suckers !!!! 1758768174.0\n", + "The Bible says no man will know the hour, so I never really listen to these dates 1758768495.0\n", + "r/raptureatemyface 1758768771.0\n", + "I ask again. AGAIN?!?? They fell for this AGAIN??? 1758768940.0\n", + "Well... I had zero expectations... and still I was disappointed. 1758769630.0\n", + "All this rapture stuff is absolutely wild to me. I grew up Eastern Orthodox and we have absolutely no concept of this in that church. I remember hearing about it for the first time when I was in high school and I was like...there's no way people actually believe this. 1758770742.0\n", + "noone cared. Only weird social media people like me on reddit thought they cared and made up a thing and then made fun of the made up people for the made up thing. 1758770768.0\n", + "I thought we were in hell or purgatory already tbh 😭 humans are a plague 1758770904.0\n", + "Yea cause it’s not like it’s some made up bullshit - just that all the believers were unworthy, suck at life & being raptured- losers 1758772789.0\n", + "Thankfully, the Christians I know don't have religious psychosis. 1758774165.0\n", + "Same as Jehovah’s Witness’s have after years of false predictions, guess I’ll just keep attending meetings and wait for the next false hope. 1758774371.0\n", + "Most Christians know better than to try and predict the rapture. Jesus said that even *he* didn't know when he'd be returning. It's literally right there in the Bible. 1758775607.0\n", + "I asked if it they were wrong or if it really happened and they just weren’t good enough Christians to get chosen 1758775759.0\n", + "My parents are Southern Baptist and my dad’s birthday was “rapture day”. They didn’t mention it once of believe. Because revelations foretells that won’t know the day of rapture. 1758775814.0\n", + "is this the same rapture like in Bioshock? 1758775936.0\n", + "I remember being a fundamentalist Christian growing up very well. The rapture happened quite often back then. As a kid, it was actually incredibly traumatizing having every adult in my life tell me the world is going to end about every 6 months. Always terrified. The amount of nights, as a child, I stayed up crying and praying begging god to spare me, years of having multiple people surround me, \"lay hands on me,\" and start yelling at me to release the demons.. literally thinking I had demons inside me.. I was like 7 years old. I didn't even like girls yet but there were actual demons in me? fuck that shit. I'm 30 and still dealing with the fallout. The fear, paranoia, the ego of believing the whole universe was created for me. That I had special \"gifts\" god gave me. It's so unhealthy \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "If somehow, some way, a Christian who's in that world reads this, you are not raising your kids to be good people. You're indoctrinating them, you're traumatizing them, you're torturing them into behaving. You're not being a good parent. You're not taking them to church, youre taking them directly to hell, and locking the gate so they'll burn for the rest of their mortal lives.. 1758776551.0\n", + "Are we in the Good Place now? 1758776952.0\n", + "I don’t personally know any Christians that believed the Rapture was going to happen. I believe the book says ‘like a thief in the night’ and ‘no man shall know the time or day’ or something like that. 1758777217.0\n", + "Sorry was there a rapture scare I wasn’t aware of? 1758778249.0\n", + "Any actual Christian knows better. The ones you saw on social media were the fake ones. 1758778343.0\n", + "They were disappointed that I, an atheist, was chosen for the rapture and they weren’t. I decided to come back though… forgot my phone charger. 1758778620.0\n", + "This rapture was preached by a south african priest, most people who belived this or heard of it, is from north america. \n", + "\n", + "Very few people actually belive the rapture is coming because most christians know that noone can know the date or time. and the worst thing ive seen someone do is selling their car. 1758779407.0\n", + "Guess they weren’t the chosen people. 🤷‍♂️ 1758780222.0\n", + "None of the christians I know were even aware of such a thing. Big on reddit tho 1758780539.0\n", + "I'm a Christian and many of my friends are Christians. I had never even heard of this idiotic prediction until the day it was supposed to happen. When it started to gain media attention, everybody I knew was making fun of it, because it was just another prediction of something that we knew wasn't going to happen.\n", + "\n", + "Some people outside the church also fail to understand that the entire idea of a \"rapture\" is a belief held by a minority of Christians. The idea wasn't even invented until the early 1800s. It's a position held by a small minority of the world's Christians. There are plenty of articles about the subject online, including one at Wikipedia from which you can learn how relatively few Christians take this seriously. To be frank, it's mostly just nutcases, but nutcases get a lot of media attention. 1758780582.0\n", + "If history has taught me anything if they sold everything they own they'll start a new church that guesses a new date every couple of years 1758782943.0\n", + "Cognitive dissonance, as has been the case when Jesus already lied and failed to come back 2000 years ago. 1758783531.0\n", + "Who the fuck knows Christians who went all in on this particular rapture? What shithole are those people living in? 1758784803.0\n", + "Currently live-streaming a sermon titled ‘God’s WiFi must be down 1758790168.0\n", + "I hang out with non-red christians. I think none of them ever heard of this. 1758791247.0\n", + "I was promised all these assholes were gonna leave. We could have gotten so much done.... 1758794165.0\n", + "I can’t believe people fall for this crap. Don’t they know what happened to the [Heaven’s Gate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_group)) cult and what Jesus said about false prophets? 1758794918.0\n", + "The thing I'm wondering is: who made money off of this? 1758797360.0\n", + "I can't find them. 1758798164.0\n", + "“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”\n", + "\n", + "If you are a Christian that spent time going to church you’d already know this by now. 1758798924.0\n", + "We all know it’s appointed unto man to die. In fact there’s only two persons in the book who were raptured (caught up into the sky) Elijah and Enoch. Guess what??? They get to come back as messengers someday. but guess what else? They too will die. Even Jesus died but then showed there’s more to it than death. \n", + "\n", + "So how these churchiest cringes today somehow believe that they get a free twinkle of the eye on that one (compared to the rest) shows the depravity of their self entitlement. Personally, I can’t stand it. Personally it’s an abhorrence to the whole real message of the Maker - to Love and support each other.\n", + "\n", + "It’s gotten soooo bad with the lack of separation between state and church that it’s time to tax them for their meddling with political intentions. 1758799172.0\n", + "When you're old, every day i seems like a \"rapture\" whether or not you're a Christian. Someone you know leaves and you get left behind. 1758802149.0\n", + "GACO god always chickens out 1758802214.0\n", + "The Rapture isn’t in the Bible. It was created by fundamentalists in the 1830s. 1758803075.0\n", + "Hail Zorp! 1758804157.0\n", + " My toxic coworker took the day off, so we had a potluck and made sure we took lots of photos to share. 1758805117.0\n", + "The new excuse is their god has postponed it until the Epstein files are released.\n", + "\n", + "Matthew 24:36, states, \"But about that day or hour no one knows,\" They just don't get it. 1758805594.0\n", + "I've lived through so many of these the rapture or the end of the world....if they believed the Bible, which I am an atheist but they aren't and they seem to ignore that one little verse that says no one knows the time you know when the big guy burst through the worm hole and carries all the oxygen breathers through the galaxy looking for the right worm hole and would that make a good novel or what...worm hole or burst. 1758806015.0\n", + "I've got no idea didn't even hear about this til yesterday guess it was a con job. 1758809725.0\n", + "Lived through 19 raptures according to Wikipedia. 1758810261.0\n", + "According to my local minister, the reason we didn't experience the Rapture was that we didn't demonstrate our readiness to be swept off to heaven. We all needed to give at LEAST an additional $250 per person ($125 per adherent) as a sign to God we are dedicated and ready to give up our worldly possessions and join him in heaven. \n", + "\n", + "(If you've read this far, I hope you're laughing - this is intended as satire.) 1758811901.0\n", + "rené rapp just started her tour the day of, so my RAPpture did in fact happen & it is glorious 🥰 1758813038.0\n", + "Do people really think these people were serious and weren't just engagement baiting people?\n", + "\n", + "I get it, it's tempting to scoff at the religious nuts, but maybe you're the one being played here. 1758814364.0\n", + "I don't even know any Christians who have been taken in by the fake rapture nonsense. 1758814435.0\n", + "Well I was really looking forward to getting all my Christian friends stuff. Some of them nice houses! Oh well, as a Jew I have no hope of being raptured so you know gotta live out the tribulation in style! 1758816867.0\n", + "Maybe it did happen and this is heaven as of today?  1758817831.0\n", + "If you feel the rapture is coming tomorrow, feel free to do the good Christian thing and send me all your money! :) 1758817857.0\n", + "I feel like this is a uniquely American thing as I've not come across this at all (Europe).\n", + "\n", + "However, this has happened a number of times and this time seems to be the first time I've heard a lot of people selling stuff etc. Is this because of tiktok? 1758823744.0\n", + "The Rapture happened! It totally happened.\n", + "\n", + "Everybody still here is damned.\n", + "\n", + "Wearing a crucifix? Tough luck, God doesn't want you. You're going to burn extra hard because of your hypocrisy, he saw through you.\n", + "\n", + "bwahahahahaha 1758830816.0\n", + "The very fact that someone gave a date to the rapture guaranteed it wasn’t happening. lol\n", + "Scripture is very clear no one knows the time but God. 1758860036.0\n", + "Total apostate here having a blast laughing at all of them, \"Still here? God didn't want you, eh? Oh well, can't say I'm surprised\"🤷🏽‍♀️😂🤣😂 1758895390.0\n", + "Damn.. all those annoying people are still here... 1758906558.0\n", + "the rapture happened and we all got left behind 1759072930.0\n", + "Literally nothing happened\n", + "On the day of the rapture. And all I could think of that day is how my mom named our animal crossing island rapture ☂️☂️☂️☂️ 1759318069.0\n", + "They're moving the goalposts to spiritualize it and say it spiritually happened OR that they had it confused and it's happening later but short term later. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "It's never happening and they're insistent so much it's disturbing 1759599742.0\n", + "Guys guys guys slow down remember the 21 day delay we all know to be true that hadn't been mentioned until now 1760054000.0\n", + "My Christian brother refuses to believe it. He says that they just got the date wrong and that it will happen September 23rd of another year. When I told him that he had a job under Biden, he got angry and stormed off. Lol! 1760288161.0\n", + "Reminder to all that hardly anybody outside North America believes in the rapture at all. American evangelicals have evolved their own religion that is unrecognisable to the vast majority of the world's Christians. 1760339463.0\n", + "Joyful. \n", + "\n", + "These motherfuckers actually think they're GOOD ENOUGH to be raptured to heaven.\n", + "\n", + "The audacity 💀 1760395525.0\n", + "Evangelical Christian here. I don’t know any that took it seriously. We just remind each other that the Bible says “nobody knows the day or the hour, not even the son” and debate whether the rapture will actually be a thing. 1758732695.0\n", + "Damn, I’m still here! Oops, I forgot to drink my Kool-Aid. 🤣 1758730830.0\n", + "People who get excited for the rapture need to learn that they're exactly the type of people who should expect to go straight to hell. 1758731242.0\n", + "Probably the same way they did the last time the rapture was predicted and didn't materialize. Begging the people to whom they gave away their wealth to pretty please give it back. Rinse and repeat; now do you understand why these people routinely vote against their own interests? 1758731674.0\n", + "None I know are that stupid. 1758731108.0\n", + "The internet is not the real world. Christians did not believe this was going to happen. I don't think anyone at my church even heard about this. 1758731564.0\n", + "Not only were they left behind but so were all their devious friends. What sort of skeletons are they keeping in their closets? 1758732062.0\n", + "The same as 2012 and the other times they’ll fall back on what other believers told them. “nobody will know the day or hour” talk about how god works in mysterious ways. And then wait until the next event that convinces them. 1758732204.0\n", + "As a Christian I'm more of disappointed and concerned because so many people believed liars when even an atheist someone who has no faith whatsoever could open the book and read clear as day that it says \" no one knows the day or the hour of the return of Christ.\" And completely understand that all the people who believe in a rapture was today or going to be yesterday were lied to and didn't have the common sense or know how to actually read scripture 1758732296.0\n", + "Couldn't tell ya, haven't spoken to them in years. 1758732333.0\n", + "What? Did people in America think it is rapture time? Why? 1758732337.0\n", + "They're saying the rapture won't happen til the Epstein files are released. 1758732517.0\n", + "I'm part of a sizeable Christian church and community and no one I've talked to this week thought that was real. The Christians you're talking about are the .001%. Remember that anytime you see something weird. We all get the same platform but some of us are crazy. 1758732768.0\n", + "I stopped believing in fairytales when I was about 10 years old. I suggest you do the same. The world would become a better place. 1758747587.0\n", + "They've been trying to predict the date of the rapture since the 1800s when it was invented. 1758763769.0\n", + "I mean, pretty good…\n", + "\n", + "Have you seen the new ballroom we’re building? 1758770935.0\n", + "I don't know about you guys, but I got raptured. They have the internet in heaven!\n", + "\n", + "And guess what!? No evangelicals are here. It's funny as fuck!\n", + "\n", + "/satire (if you hadn't figured it out). 1758791372.0\n", + "[This user was raptured] 1758792837.0\n", + "So, none of you a\\*\\*holes are gone? 1758731414.0\n", + "Does it ever occur to them that maybe the rapture did happen? Then none of them were worthy. 1758731550.0\n", + "I was looking forward to society flourishing but I guess not 1758731694.0\n", + "I can’t believe they keep falling for this. I’m old and I can recall several of these predictions - one was going to be on my birthday - and every time they just go Whoops! Recalculating!\n", + "\n", + "Somewhere in their bible it says no one shall know the hour or day… and to beware of false prophets. But they continue to be suckers in so many ways. 1758732012.0\n", + "I hope they feel like idiots. 1758732336.0\n", + "1844 called. 1758731046.0\n", + "Edgy atheist redditors are way more invested in this than Christians actually were.\n", + "\n", + "Only a tiny percentage of people actually believed it. 1758731711.0\n", + "The concept of Rapture has never been popular in Christianity and has always been more popular among atheists who think Christians believe it. 1758749820.0\n", + "Wouldn't know. I don't make friends with gay-haters. 1758730348.0\n", + "Still as stupid as shit. 1758731704.0\n", + "None that I know even knew that it was even a suggestion. Then again none of the Christian’s I know are morons either. 1758731190.0\n", + "How do these people function in the real world? 1758732248.0\n", + "My BIL went full down the rabbit hole for the 2012 rapture, yet was also hoarding \"end of the world\" seeds. \n", + "\n", + "Not a lot of mental consistency with these folks. 1758732279.0\n", + "I don't know any, but I do get a good laugh whenever someone ruins their finances/life due to religion. \n", + "\n", + "Religion is toxic. 1758732814.0\n", + "As a Christian, according to Scripture, no one except God knows when the Rapture will happen. I am not telling you what to believe or not believe, but I would never trust anyone who says the Rapture is coming soon. Maybe it'll be 180 years from now, maybe tomorrow, but predictions are not the same as knowing. To risk sounding redundant, literally only God knows when the Rapture will happen. Jesus loves everyone and when the Rapture happens whatever time period it is in, there still will be chances for people left behind to get saved. Anyone who believes and admits out loud or in their heart/mind if they can't talk that Jesus is Lord and that He died and rose again and admit they're a sinner and ask forgiveness/repent, they will be saved. Being saved does not equal sinless though and we will only be entirely free of sin when we get to heaven, if my intrepretation is correct. Many Christians do not do what they're supposed to, and they give us a bad name. 1758742655.0\n", + "I'm a Christian, but this post was how I first heard there was even supposed to be one.\n", + "\n", + "That sounds like more of a niche Bible belt / Evangelical thing? 1758745669.0\n", + "Not all rhombuses are squares, but all squares are rhombuses.\n", + "\n", + "Not all Christians believe in the rapture...\n", + "\n", + "And to further dial that down, not all those who believe in the rapture believe that prediction.\n", + "\n", + "Please remember that Christianity isn't a unified group, it's a classification for all groups that believe Jesus is the Christ. Beliefs can vary massively from group to group. 1758755311.0\n", + "Theistic religions like Christianity are cults created by men for men to control women to keep them from having other men’s babies. They teach children to place ultimate faith in authority figures and avoid thinking critically for themselves. They encourage mental illness by convincing people to believe in imaginary friends, voices, visions and raptures rather than the actual physical reality they exist in. Religion is a coping mechanism for people who can’t handle the absurdist reality that there is no purpose or meaning to life beyond the scant few years we’re alive to experience this exceedingly insignificant sliver of the universe. 1758806608.0\n", + "I never heard anything about it (outside of Reddit), and I live in the buckle of the Bible Belt. \n", + "\n", + "It's almost like a few people on Reddit and blew it out of proportion. 1758738727.0\n", + "They celebrated that bigot killing himself be getting someone else to pull the trigger. They celebrated his bigot wife swearing revenge for his suicide in the name of Jesus. These people would fly into buildings if trump told them to do it. 1758737404.0\n", + "There were like a dozen of them, and it isn't their first time. 1758731249.0\n", + "C'mon, even the ones posting about it on TikTok and wherever didn't really believe it was going to happen. If they did, why would they still be *posting*?? 1758731475.0\n", + "I think it's only the extreme evangelical Christians that hop on board for these things. 1758731501.0\n", + "I don't know any. I tend to ignore religious zealots for this reason. 1758731655.0\n", + "What if the Rapture did happen but we were the ones who got left behind 1758731687.0\n", + "I don't know I haven't seen any but I live in an urban area and it's reallllllllly quiet outside except the highway. 1758731696.0\n", + "Haven't asked.  Hopefully the area disillusioned, but they probably are digging through 4chan and GETTR posts to figure out the next rapture date.   1758731715.0\n", + "I actually don't know anyone IRL who paid any attention to this...just whack job Christians on Tiktok. 1758731812.0\n", + "The only Rapture I remember is the song by Blondie when they essentially invented hip hop. /s 1758731932.0\n", + "The ones I know are shaking their heads at the ones that thought they were being uplifted. 1758731981.0\n", + "Currently in a meeting 1758731995.0\n", + "They are aren't real Christians because the bible literally says that man will not know the time nor the day. Not even the angels or the son will know only the father. 1758732053.0\n", + "https://youtu.be/JnbfuAcCqpY?si=V04OKMB6V1BkaL9a 1758732073.0\n", + "All the Christians that I know didn't even know a rapture was coming 1758732212.0\n", + "Only the people who are hardwired into the Internet even knew about this, for people in the real world it was just another Tuesday. 1758732251.0\n", + "This was meant to happen? 1758732257.0\n", + "what? 1758732287.0\n", + "They all left!!!! 😭 and didn’t leave me anything… just gave it to the church for some reason  1758732435.0\n", + "Christian here, first I've heard of a rapture. I also don't know if the rapture is something someone just made up by weirdo evangelicals. 1758732477.0\n", + "They got the few actual believers yesterday, just not enough of them to notice. 1758732565.0\n", + "I do know that this is a topic of discussion in a couple of churches, one of which my friend is a lay-pastor in because some of the parishioners thought, *\"this is it!\"* and the discussion amongst the staff he's in is, *\"we need to do better on our teaching from the bible.*\" 1758732615.0\n", + "Oh it happened. None of them were qualified. 1758732772.0\n", + "The odds of making the rapture is pretty bad if it’s true there are only 144000 who will be taken\n", + "\n", + "Thats like one out of every 60,000 people.   1758732788.0\n", + "Nobody took that seriously 1758732813.0\n", + "They figured they weren't chosen 1758732854.0\n", + "None I know took it seriously or even heard about it. 1758732856.0\n", + "I thought rapture already happened and Macho Man Randy Savage was the only one admitted to heaven 1758732877.0\n", + "If you don't know someone who was all in, how do you know they weren't raptured? 1758733047.0\n", + "Same as last time. 1758733211.0\n", + "Christian here. I didn't buy it, none of my religious friends bought it, and now r/dankchristianmemes is having a good time. 1758733272.0\n", + "I heard rumor someone actually sold their BMW for like pennies days before and they want it back lol. 1758733357.0\n", + "I’ll be honest I tried to find rapture tik toks and all I found were ironic meme posts making fun of rapture tok. 1758733386.0\n", + "Jesus hates them ... and rightfully so. 1758733408.0\n", + "The rapture does not exist in biblical texts, so I am not sure why people were even talking about it to begin with. 1758733411.0\n", + "Not sure what you're talking about, but I feel like it'd be a bigger event in the news if it happened 1758733419.0\n", + "What timezone does the rapture occur in ?\n", + "\n", + "Is it the same time everywhere, or does it I.e. start at UTC time and go around the world? And if so, could you in theory jump on an airplane, travel around the world, and stay ahead of the rapture.\n", + "\n", + "So many unanswered questions. 1758733421.0\n", + "Re-calculating 1758733439.0\n", + "It DID happen. They didn’t make the cut. 1758733479.0\n", + "The Rapture concept has no basis in historical Christianity, and was cooked up nonsense from the 19th century version of today's tv evangelists. 1758733488.0\n", + "Didn't hear about it from a single person in real life, seems only an internet/terminally online thing 1758733517.0\n", + "I'm Christian and the ones saying it will happen today are ridiculous. It clearly says we won't know the time or hour of his return. It doesn't say it will be like a thief in the night on October 24th at 3:44 am lol 1758733550.0\n", + "this all sounds so very important\n", + "\n", + "not sure to who\n", + "\n", + "i'm out 1758733553.0\n", + "I don't like the idea of being taken by a raptor. \n", + "\n", + "So, relief. 1758733556.0\n", + "Isn't that a 7th day adventist thing or all xtian nutjobs adopting it now? 1758733604.0\n", + "Does anyone really know anyone who believed this? If you know one single Christian who believed this, I’d be interested to hear. 1758733651.0\n", + "Every time the Rapture comes around, it gets into the news but doesn't seem to impact anyone I actually know or interact with. And I'm a pastor so I interact with a lot of religious people. But even the conservative ones are mostly \"Yeah, this again.\" 1758733710.0\n", + "It was like 0.00001% of Christians specifically on TikTok that believed it. Most of us are still chillin 1758733722.0\n", + "Wait the rapture happened ? 1758733743.0\n", + "Mark 10:25 1758733880.0\n", + "Doesn’t it say somewhere in the Bible that only 144,000 people will get into heaven? There’s been over 100 billion people that have lived up to this point. 1758734022.0\n", + "Ah damn, did I miss another one? I didn't even *know* about this one. Man.... I like keeping up with these things. I still have a pamphlet from the one in 2012. 1758734065.0\n", + "I don’t know anyone that delusional. 1758734081.0\n", + "They are whining about getting made fun of. They should be making fun of these predictions too. Their own holy book says no one knows the time of the rapture so why the fuck do these people fall for it every goddamned time? 1758734086.0\n", + "I don't know. I haven't seen them today...ooohhhh 1758734113.0\n", + "I was raised Southern Baptist in the Bible belt and legit heard nothing about this except on sites making fun of it. 1758734135.0\n", + "It would take all of my willpower to not stop answering my phone and leave an empty set of clothing and shoes posed on my doorstep for when they come around to see why I'm not answering. 1758734187.0\n", + "Most christians don't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture. It's always some kooky offshoot. 1758734209.0\n", + "As a Christian myself, I don’t know any Christians personally who believed it would happen on a certain date. Most of them know better than that. As Gods word tells us, nobody can know this. 1758734211.0\n", + "as a \"Christian\" it looks like i was left behind. So that means i must be a heathen? 1758734226.0\n", + "All I know is that the police are being very rude about this -- I just tried taking this car that was parked on the street from somebody who I presume was raptured (it had the right bumper stickers!) and now the police are being totally unfair, using words like \"grand theft auto\". \n", + "\n", + "I personally feel like for the next one? There should be a paperwork requirement or something to avoid situations like this. 1758734284.0\n", + "Same way they have every other time this has happened: forget about it and wait for the next one. 1758734360.0\n", + "I have 2 crazy aunts (twins) in their 60s who are prepared for the rapture. Any day now. That's their life style. No family. No life. They just live in a small studio apartment waiting for that rapture. 1758734393.0\n", + "Bahahaha  1758734393.0\n", + "I know a lot of Christians and none of them took this seriously. 1758734434.0\n", + "I actually don’t know any hardcore Christians that believed this. The Christian people I do know just treated it like another day.  1758734437.0\n", + "Asked my religulous coworker about all this rapture business his response was they’re all crazy because God won’t let you know when it happens. 1758734458.0\n", + "I always am curious that, given we are in the era of AI Deepfakes, someone could make a rapture video to show their heavily evangelized family and make em freak the hell out that they got left behind while \"reports\" flood in about the worldwide \"rapture\"\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Would probably not be invited to Thanksgiving then~ 1758734496.0\n", + "I didn't even hear anything about no rapture until today. I keep seeing things though so I got to ask, what's going on? Who predicted this one? 1758734582.0\n", + "I’ll bet maga Christians are super confused why trump wasn’t raptured. 1758734604.0\n", + "They were not the chosen ones…again 1758734611.0\n", + "Other people, nature, books 1758734737.0\n", + "what is this rupture 1758734783.0\n", + "Looks like they didn't take Trump, either. I thought he and Jesus were BFFs or something. 1758734847.0\n", + "Only saw it on the internet. Haven't heard of any people in real life even mention it. 1758734905.0\n", + ". . . God's too damn picky about who gets raptured. 1758734926.0\n", + "Thankfully I don't know anyone like that personally. 1758734938.0\n", + "I don’t associate with Christians.  1758734942.0\n", + "This was only believed by Q-Annon Christians. If you want to know how they're doing, go on Tic Tok. They've been posting there all morning apparently. 1758734953.0\n", + "I talked to a Catholic friend who just rolled his eyes when I mentioned it. Then we shared some hilarious FB posts about it. Also, I volunteered my services to look after peoples' properties when they get raptured. All they had to do was sign over their titles and deeds. I was shocked that nobody took me up on that. 1758734989.0\n", + "They called and asked me if I wanted to Rapture, but it was from an unknown phone number so I didn't answer. Their loss. 1758735015.0\n", + "There is a rapture coming every 20 years or so. They always make excuse for it not coming, too. 1758735029.0\n", + "People can’t wait to die and go to heaven. \n", + "\n", + "You sure this ain’t a death cult? You sure ‘bout that? 1758735046.0\n", + "I’ll probably get attacked but I’m a Christian and didn’t believe this stupid prediction. It says in the Bible you won’t be able to predict it. I just live everyday like it’s my last. 1758735092.0\n", + "Blaming it on other people. 1758735142.0\n", + "Nobody know the time or place. 1758735162.0\n", + "All of them are saying the Prophet was wrong. I figured no one was elligble. Just like the last 11 Raptures. 1758735168.0\n", + "Literally no one I know thought they were going to be raptured.  1758735230.0\n", + "What does it say about “Left-behind” Christians? 1758735287.0\n", + "same way they handle everything that contradicts their beliefs: denial. 1758735305.0\n", + "So instead of actually trying to make this world a little better, they’re hoping for it to be torn apart in one big bang? 1758735311.0\n", + "There's far more people talking about other people believing in the rapture than there are people actually believing in the rapture. You're talking about a microscopic number of people who actually bought this (just like every time this happens), and they'll probably do what most people do when they're this catastrophically wrong: either laugh about it, or pretend that they never actually believed it in the first place. 1758735318.0\n", + "can someone pls explain the rapture ideology for us athiest agnostic hethens? 1758735340.0\n", + "Can someone explain where this rapture nonsense came from? 1758735371.0\n", + "I have been walking around nude for 3 days now because I don’t want to leave a bunch of clothes behind for the non-believers to clean up after I go. It’s that sort of kindness and compassion that gets you on the Rapture Train. 1758735427.0\n", + "Wouldn’t the rapture mean that we already went through 1000 year tribulation period?? If so, it could have been worse. BTW-those going to the fiery place, it’s “gonna be a party!” Lots of Heathens to hang with for Eternity. 1758735573.0\n", + "Let's see - they will lash out by demand other people live by the rules of their religion. You know - gay marriage is bad, contraceptives are bad, abortion is bad, everyone has to pray in school - stuff like that.\n", + "\n", + "In other words, business as usual. \n", + "\n", + "(Not all Christians, of course). 1758735580.0\n", + "There was supposed to be a rapture? And I missed it? 1758735611.0\n", + "Please tell me someone left piles of clothes lying around their neighbourhood just for the shits and giggles. 1758735723.0\n", + "I don’t know any. 1758735724.0\n", + "This is the first I'm hearing of it. 1758735729.0\n", + "What's this rapture thing about, what did I miss? 1758735748.0\n", + "Guess they didn't measure up to Gods standards. 1758735816.0\n", + "Christians do not believe in rapture, only a small bunch of American nuts do. 1758735940.0\n", + "The rapture already happened. It was February 27th, 2003. They only took Fred Rogers. The only one worthy 1758735952.0\n", + "I became a satanist since all \"good Christian's\" are in heaven and the demons became normal 1758735956.0\n", + "Oh, you know, even though we weren't part of the group that got called yesterday, we're still confident God has it all figured out. Gonna have to see if we can get our jobs back and some of our belongings, though. 1758735989.0\n", + "Was today another rapture? And I missed it?! 1758736076.0\n", + "They just rework the math and say they forgot to carry the 1.   1758736136.0\n", + "How many people actually went all-in and sold their property or did things that *prove* they were all-in. I saw a story about one woman who sold her house. That’s the only example I saw in the western world. I’m sure there are others (because of course there are others), but I have to wonder if their numbers are significant.\n", + "\n", + "Personally, I don’t know anyone who actually believes “end times” are coming or that people will be “raptured” to Heaven. I know they exist, and I know self-described believers exist in *large* numbers (evangelicals in the US are always talking about “end times,” and they often donate money to orgs that help Jewish people emigrate to Israel because this is a condition for the apocalypse beginning), but there’s a difference between *saying* you believe in these things (and even donating money) vs believing in a *specific* prophecy to the degree that you *act* like it (i.e., sell your possessions, re-home your pets, or prepare in other ways that require actual commitment and cannot be undone easily). 1758736255.0\n", + "Wouldn't it be funny if everyone around them just started ignoring them as if they weren't there and acting as if they were invisible? LMAO. That would be hilarious. 1758736267.0\n", + "i\n", + "don’t think i know any personally 1758736303.0\n", + "Stupid and brainwashed as ever 1758736321.0\n", + "Did the Mormons make it? 1758736334.0\n", + "Absolutely zero catholics here knew about the rapture.\n", + "\n", + "Source:i live in Poland, catholics are like 90% of the population in my area. 1758736346.0\n", + "Not fit for consumption. Do not harvest. 1758736388.0\n", + "I went to talk to them but all I found was a robe and a note that said, “fuck” 1758736400.0\n", + "Funnily enough not a single person I actually talk to said a single thing about it. 1758736409.0\n", + "I think it was mostly on TikTok, Called \"RaptureTok.\" TikTok is a menace to society and it's only going to get worse with Trumpists involved in the new ownership. 1758736444.0\n", + "IOOTL. Why has there been all this rapture talk lately? Was there another prophesized date that came and went? 1758736538.0\n", + "I'm about to turn 47. I think this is my, IDK, the first one I recalled. I know there were a lot more than this week's circle jerk. It just goes to show how much this never really was a major thing to anyone who knew it was not how it's supposed to go. 1758736541.0\n", + "Jesus just couldn't bear to take Donald Trump while he has so much work to do making America great again. He knew the rapture was scheduled, but as he looked down on the greatest nation in the history of the Earth our heavenly father just thought \"let him do a little more good in my holy name before I take him.\" And so not only did President Trump stop between 12 and 75 wars, he also stopped the rapture. How they have not given this man control over the entire world is beyond me. 1758736550.0\n", + "Yo, are we dead now? 1758736565.0\n", + "I guess they weren't good Christians. 1758736631.0\n", + "Real Christians didn’t buy that shit, only the performative ones. 1758736641.0\n", + "Please remember by God's own words in the Bible no one will ever know A) when the rapture is, and B) who the anti-christ is. The Bible lists many steps that will take place before the end of time and one of those things is \"1,000 years of worldwide peace.\" The peace described even says animals will be at peace and the \"lion will lie with the lamb.\" As a joke I've always said one way to ensure the end of time never occurs is if when every baby born on Earth the doctor proclaimed \"This child is the anti-christ!\" then it's not possible that child will ever be the anti-christ.\n", + "\n", + "I bring this up because true Christians don't believe we will ever know when the rapture will happen. It says it multiple times in multiple ways in the Bible. But as always different cults, sects, and odd translations of the Bible come out every once in a while and people think they know God's plan. That's the equivalent of an ant knowing what Einstein was thinking except the gap is even bigger with us and God because we believe he is bound by nothing. \n", + "\n", + "More importantly, did even 1% of Christians believe the rapture was really upon us, or is it another distraction/deflection from all the crazy stuff in the news? \"Uh hey greg the Kirk, Epstein, and Trump news is getting stale, lets throw in some religious wackiness! Oh there we go, 150 million more clicks! The ad revenue was worth it\" We've almost integrated tabloids into our daily news just simply for ad revenue clicks. Business > actual news these days. 1758736643.0\n", + "Nobody I know believes this nonsense and we are all Christian’s lol 1758736690.0\n", + "I was really hoping fore more Rapture crashout videos. 1758736718.0\n", + "as a christian I knew it wasnt gonna happen cause the point is that we wont know when it happens 1758736742.0\n", + "I didn’t know what a rapture is (still don’t) until now lol and I have some closer friends that are Christian 🙃 1758736822.0\n", + "Wait. What did I miss? 1758736843.0\n", + "I mean I think it did happen, its just those not living like Christ said are left behind. \n", + "\n", + "Let them stew on that. 1758737010.0\n", + "Lot to unpack here, but TikTok isn't reality should be the first one...\n", + "\n", + "Essentially all of Christianity believes in a future 'Second Coming of Christ' and associated final judgement (see: Nicene Creed (Catholics), Apostles Creed (Protestants)).\n", + "\n", + "Not all of Christianity believes that this event will result in Christians disappearing from earth followed by a period of divine torment (aka pre-trib/'Rapture').\n", + "\n", + "Of those who do, even less believe that it is possible for any given human to figure out when it will happen. 1758737012.0\n", + "I dont think anyone actually believed it was time.\n", + "\n", + "I'm betting, however, that some did make videos saying they do, hoping the algorythm pushed them to relevance. 1758737031.0\n", + "Are the Christian Rapture-believers in the thread with us right now? 1758737050.0\n", + "Well, *I'm* pissed! 1758737053.0\n", + "I know precisely zero who actually believed that it would happen. 1758737138.0\n", + "I think it was very much an online thing, I do not know any christians in person who did more than pity or mock those who thought it was happening lol 1758737178.0\n", + "Man I knew I had fallen behind in my Christian duties, but what on earth is Rupture, I don't recall having heard of it, ever. Is it some evangelical stuff?\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "EDIT Oh yeah, I looked it up and indeed nothing that exists in my version of Christianity.  1758737217.0\n", + "Won't broach the topic with Christian Nationalists who tithe to a cult. 1758737274.0\n", + "Maybe it will be tomorrow /s 1758737314.0\n", + "Christian here. It is astounding to me how many of these people just ignore Matthew 25:13. 1758737353.0\n", + "The rapture interpretation of Thessalonians is a false teaching. 1758737356.0\n", + "I’m really interested to hear how Joshua Mhlakela is explaining his rapture not taking place. Maybe it only happened in South Africa for his followers? Has anyone checked in on them??? 1758737391.0\n", + "The rapture happened and everyone got left behind.\n", + "\n", + "That should tell you something 1758737449.0\n", + "The rapture happened; no one was worthy of being raptured. They will try again in 4 years. 1758737469.0\n", + "My favorite rapture had to be the Harmonic Convergence back in the mid 80's. One of my friends went to a local park where the Rapture Hippies were gathered and some clever person was selling souvenir tshirts.\n", + "\n", + "Great T-shirt. 1758737491.0\n", + "The Rapture happened. If you're still here, you didn't make the cut. 1758737783.0\n", + "Jesus came down, but he bricked off the Jewish Space Laser over Georgia and the Rapture has been delayed again. 1758737801.0\n", + "Maybe it really did happen. But none of the so called Christians qualified because, from my experiences, none of them truly follow the book. They pick and choose what suites their lifestyle.\n", + ">\n", + "If anyone was truly raptured, nobody would ever know because the people who were, were out doing gods work and didn't record a video of it happening to show everyone how Christian they were. 1758737856.0\n", + "It happened already earlier today. 10 POC got raised up. No one from the MAGA cult made the cut. \n", + "They want to keep this info suppressed. 1758737911.0\n", + "All the real Christians I know actually read and understand the Bible. No one will no the time. 1758737963.0\n", + "ITT: Not a single person who knows anyone who believed it 1758738055.0\n", + "The one in my office is still here. \n", + "\n", + "I'm guessing it's because she didn't upgrade to the gold-embossed autographed ultra MAGA limited edition Bible. She just has the regular maga one. 1758738117.0\n", + "I tell them my other Christian friends all went ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ 1758738137.0\n", + "It’s Biden’s fault 1758738213.0\n", + "I worry for them as much as I worry for the guy on the rascal scooter at the gas station, throwing dollars into the Lottery machines. 1758738356.0\n", + "Why the hell did they think it was the rapture this time 1758738379.0\n", + "Are we sure it didn't happen? Only 144,000 people get taken during the rapture. I haven't checked on my ultra christian neighbors. We aren't very close. Maybe they WERE taken? 1758738738.0\n", + "I'm on the list for The Rupture.\n", + "\n", + "I'm pretty sure of that. 1758738769.0\n", + "Literally never heard of it until after it was over. 1758739026.0\n", + "They are out acting like jerks. They didnt get captured bc they are terrible so they are living up to that. I really wish their god would make an exception or 2 and just take them all. 1758739099.0\n", + "Hell, I got raptured and I don't even believe in Jebus. 1758739375.0\n", + "Phew. I can't wait to meet Dio and Lemmy 🤘🏻 1758739792.0\n", + "not convinced yet this wasn't just some spontaneous social media hype 1758739802.0\n", + "Why did you post this 12 hours before it hits midnight in the U.S.? Did they give a specific time frame for it? 1758739952.0\n", + "username checks out. 1758740004.0\n", + "The “Christians” that believed that this Rapture was going to happen aren’t even technically “Christians”. At least I don’t think Evangelists are actually Christians. 1758740105.0\n", + "I need to change careers and be a Rapture preacher. Tell them to voluntarily give me all their belongings and then disappear. These conservatives Christians are so easy to con. 1758740128.0\n", + "I want to do the Muslim version because of all the virgins. 1758740453.0\n", + "That implies religious people can be introspective, and if that were the case they'd probably be very upset with the long history of slavery and child abuse from every religion. 1758740510.0\n", + "You guys know these crazies in real life? Thankfully I only know the ones on TikTok. I'm not religious but grew up around it and I know the Bible says nobody knows the day or the hour and these Christians are going against their own scripture 1758740729.0\n", + "I don’t know any personally, but traffic seemed a little lighter today. So I think them all… 1758740789.0\n", + "My dear blessed friend Caroline was hoping the Lord would take her but she wasn’t taken, and now she’s wondering if it has something to do with her job defending a lifelong sexual predator and his government that is terrorizing the people and threatening their supposedly “God Given” rights. She’s rich so she’ll get over it, as the rich Fundamentalists always have for centuries! 1758740829.0\n", + "Fuck if I know, the only ones I'm around occasionally (like my Mom) know better than to talk religion or politics with me.\n", + "\n", + "I'm sure somehow it's Biden's fault.\n", + "\n", + "If they did start in on me with their mythology, I'd counter with my sadness that I was left behind at the Gray Havens and didn't get to go to Valinor. 1758740883.0\n", + "Still waiting for those Clouds of Glory and the Silver Trumpets. \n", + "\n", + "We are already looking at the tiny handed AntiChrist every day on the news. 1758740888.0\n", + "the Christians i know ignore all of that nonsense every time it comes up. \n", + "\n", + "i don't remember exactly where, and i don't remember the exact wording, but basically there is a bit in the bible that says \n", + "\n", + " \" and it shall come as thief in the night, and no one can foretell it's arrival. \n", + "\n", + "which means, basically, if they are predicting it, they are already proven wrong by their own book.\n", + "\n", + "the \"christians\" i know .. well, we don't talk much. i have no idea how they are dealing with the sudden but inevitable betrayal. 1758740910.0\n", + "Make sure to remind them that they weren't good enough - maybe for supporting Donald Trump, the anti-Christ. 1758740916.0\n", + "Wait, it happened again? 1758740936.0\n", + "Am a Christian myself - not a single one of my Christian friends heard about or believed this nonsense. Granted, none of my friends are on TikTok. 1758741043.0\n", + "None went all-in. I am at Church every Sunday and nobody mentioned this. 1758741225.0\n", + "As a Christian, I’m not actually surprised. I’ve not been very good at it. 1758741356.0\n", + "I always laugh my ass off at the gullible idiots. 1758741374.0\n", + "I’m a Christian. I don’t know any Christian’s who’ve fallen for this.  1758741376.0\n", + "Bit disappointed, the lines at Hobby Lobby are really short now, same at Costco, so it's not all bad. 1758741478.0\n", + "Womp womp 1758741527.0\n", + "My Pilates teacher is trying to reorganise all the classes and 1-1s they cancelled and their eldest daughter is upset that they are starting university late and is desperately trying to sort out accommodation while being doubly upset that they aren't staying in halls. 1758741533.0\n", + "CANT HEAR YOU!! BEING RAPTURED!! LALALALALALA 1758741554.0\n", + "please- no christians. This is a very specific group of people. This belief of rapture contradicts what most (catholic + most other evangelicals) believe about the end. 1758741640.0\n", + "LOL I'm not that close with any Christians 1758741700.0\n", + "As a non-religious person, I didn't even know there was a rapture scheduled.... 1758741751.0\n", + "I really wish you lot would genuinely shame and humiliate these people. how many times can these people get themselves into a panic and then see it come and go with nothing happening? I'm not even American and this is like the third time in my own life I've heard of one of these things happening god knows how many \"rapture panics\" have actually happened in my lifetime. 1758741814.0\n", + "About half my “network” is Christian. I don’t know a single one who thought this was anything except nonsense from a very small minority. 1758742215.0\n", + "Most Christians do not believe \"the rapture\" to be a thing, so I guess they're mostly fine. The idea only came about in the 19th century. Mind you, they've got a pope now! 1758742220.0\n", + "I'm Catholic and didn't even know what a rapture is until an episode of American Dad and even then I thought it was some joke. I have no idea what weird protestant denominations believe in this, but I've never seen someone seriously talk about it as anything other than a joke concept. Is this some non denominational methobapestalian thing? 1758742270.0\n", + "At all the churches I've attended as I've moved around the country, probably all of the Christians believe in the Rapture. As far as I've seen, not a single one of them has believed this date or any of the other dates people have thrown out there. 1758742371.0\n", + "Spanish church head was probably running around my hometown saying (Google Translate warning) Te lo dije. He is against the rapture idea. Papa, Te saludo. 1758742391.0\n", + "Wait, did I miss the rapture??? 1758742719.0\n", + "“If all the good people got sucked up into heaven, that makes us a bunch of assholes.” 1758742735.0\n", + "Don't know, or care, how they feel but I love all the suckers that sold their cars, houses and other belongings thinking this would be the end. LMFAO 1758742921.0\n", + "Only if Christianity wasn’t made up by the Jews 1758743006.0\n", + "No Christian I know is that stupid. And most aren't part of denominations that believe in the rapture in the first place. 1758743049.0\n", + "Can’t find any of them. 1758743066.0\n", + "Pretty good since the rapture is a heresy anyways. No Christian who respects the bible should believe in it. 1758743154.0\n", + "\"I'm in heaven now... so sorry I died\" 1758743222.0\n", + "I don't know anybody who actually believed it. Most Christians (myself included) consider a premillenial rapture to be a heresy and the end of the world to be completely impossible to predict. 1758743243.0\n", + "All the ones I knew were taken, so can’t really answer that question for the next 1000 years 1758743246.0\n", + "I'm not religious but I work with a lot of Catholics and Christians. Not one of them believe in the rapture and were making light hearted jokes about it yesterday. What kind of Christians do you hang out with?? 1758743300.0\n", + "I’m not entirely sure that the majority of southern Protestants and Restoriation era Christians really have a clear idea of what exactly the rapture is, or even of what heaven of the Kingdom of Heaven actually looks like. \n", + "\n", + "I would bet that if you asked 100 southern church of Christ or Baptist church goers, many of them would struggle to describe end times or even the concept of paradise in anything other than the vaguest terms, being with your loved ones, eternal peace, no pain…etc\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Because if this, I think if confronted with some kind of rapture event, most of them would more likely write it off as some kind of event unrelated to their faith like an alien invasion, some freak natural event we don’t know about, or even some inexplicable magical event that more likely came from the devil than god. I’m not kidding. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Most of these people(meaning Protestants, Evangelicals, and Fundamentalists) don’t have any real codified metaphysical belief system other than what helps them sleep at night and comforts them when they lose a loved one. “we’ll see them again one day”. \n", + "\n", + "In other words, I feel pretty confident that most of the religious people around me woild goin into cope mode real hard. Cognitive dissonance set to overdrive. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "What’s sad about this is that this means so many people in the world are ready to condemn millions and deny rights to their own citizens and neighbors over something that if you asked them about it likely wouldn’t be able to articulate an answer more complex than what we tell 5 year olds when they get scared at night. 1758743314.0\n", + "Without ridicule, I just want to know what false religious leaders are teaching their flocks today about “why not” or “what went wrong” 1758743440.0\n", + "What's the point of selling off possessions? It's not like they can use any of that in their Heaven... The most I could ever see is asking non-Christian friends to take care of their pets. People are weird. 1758743707.0\n", + "Shit, was that today? 1758743717.0\n", + "I once asked a Christian friend, \"What if that already happened? Maybe the Black Death was one of the plagues or whatever, and rapture happened over 1ķ years ago?\"\n", + "\n", + "He got really sad thinking he was one of the \"left behinds\". 1758743721.0\n", + "Did another rapture happen and someone forgot to tell me? 1758743810.0\n", + "They're already looking for the next big thing to be duped by once again 1758743836.0\n", + "Hey, it’s not Thursday yet. They still have time. 1758743915.0\n", + "I think a lot of them would double down, saying it’s just another test of faith or that the real rapture is still coming. Admitting they were wrong would be too painful. 1758744080.0\n", + "crazy people still believe all the garbage in the bible.\n", + "\n", + "personally i think jesus either never existed or was a con man. 1758744145.0\n", + "come on, no one actually believed this did they? 1758744317.0\n", + "I only saw people talking about how ridiculous the claim of it happening, not anyone who actually believed it 1758744475.0\n", + "They are gullible or dont read their Bible. It specifically says you cant know the day or hour. Only the father knows when. So picking a time guarantees you are wrong 1758744549.0\n", + "The what now? 1758744644.0\n", + "This rapture thing is so ridiculous I sometimes think its all hoax - they're all acting stupid just for fun and views. 1758744719.0\n", + "those darn christians, so smart to not fall for rapture scams..... but believe the rapture which will come when nobody is suspecting. ha. 1758744821.0\n", + "None most those that it would happen are a very a small group.\n", + "\n", + "Most Christians hold the time is unknowable due this quote [Matthew 24:36](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024%3A36&version=NIV) “But about that day or hour **no** **one** **knows**, **no**t even the angels in heaven, **no**r the Son, but only the Father. 1758744889.0\n", + "According to the Bible, the rapture or the second coming, if it did happen wouldn't leave people behind, everyone would be taken. 1758744940.0\n", + "There was a rapture??? lol 1758745036.0\n", + "Now that I think about it, I don’t know a single Christian person that actually believed it was coming like that lol. 1758745053.0\n", + "I was spared from the Thanos Snap, so I'm used to it. 1758745252.0\n", + "Lol the morons who sold their earthly possessions. 1758745258.0\n", + "I dont know anyone who actually took the latest prediction seriously. 1758745452.0\n", + "I have a strong feeling this \"event\" was only known to terminally online people like yall 1758745565.0\n", + "we're still here cause we werent good enough and have to suffer some more 1758745660.0\n", + "Well the majority of Christians don’t believe in a pre tribulation rapture. None or maybe most of the ones I know, don’t believe in it and are doing just fine today. 1758745875.0\n", + "*Aw, crap. Was that today?* 1758746302.0\n", + "[deleted] 1758746366.0\n", + "Someone somewhere has probably made a lame \"can't spell left behind without the LEFT\" political joke. 1758746475.0\n", + "The Rapture is not a Christian belief or doctrine. It was an invention of John Nelson Darby in 1830 and later adopted by American evangelicals in order to radicalize protestant churches to be the genocidal fundamentalists they are today. 1758746667.0\n", + "Parece que agora quem ficou está no modo ‘trial gratuito’ da vida… sem garantia de renovação. 1758746748.0\n", + "Who cares? 1758746791.0\n", + "My Dad has a list of \"potentials\" that he's been winnowing through over the last two decades. Last week when I stopped in to see him, he gave me the speech: \"If that happens, I stashed my money and guns. Your brother knows where, he'll share with you, and if you get them first, you should share with him,\" etc, etc.\n", + "\n", + "...he does this EVERY time one of these dates comes up, as if I wouldn't be Raptured as well if it were an actual thing and not just American Christian Fanfiction. 1758746801.0\n", + "I saw videos saying if ‘you are watching this on the 23rd you were left behind. I feel so sorry for you’. \n", + "\n", + "I haven’t seen any of them yet posting about how it’s now the 24th. Probably just need another day. 1758746879.0\n", + "Attended church last Sunday and I did not hear a single utterance of the word rapture when I was there, and I was inside from 10-3pm, it's just some social media ragebait 1758746979.0\n", + "The rapture definitely happened. If you’re still here you’re a bad person just fyi  1758747230.0\n", + "i wish i sold pet rapture insurance. 1758747511.0\n", + "I don't know anyone that stupid. 1758747826.0\n", + "What kind of “all-in” was happening? 1758747843.0\n", + "I live in a very religious area of the US South and work at an (admittedly pretty liberal) church and the only references I saw to the day being significant were jokes online. This is all because a dude in South Africa had a dream, right? It's not the sort of thing that most people take seriously. 1758747922.0\n", + "Y'all know Christians????? 1758748309.0\n", + "I’m Christian but I never heard a word about this until now 1758748548.0\n", + "I mean, just tell them they weren't worthy enough 1758749051.0\n", + "Ah ha ha ha 🤣 just got to laugh at people sometimes 1758749357.0\n", + "Maybe it's because I'm highly skeptical of things people say or do on social media but I think most people were just genuinely trolling because most people on social media can't recognize trolling or a skit to save their lives. They also immediately want to judge other people for likes and a sense of moral superiority. 1758749586.0\n", + "What if the rapture happened centuries ago, and we're the ones who stayed behind? 1758749671.0\n", + "Ruptured who and ruptured what? 1758749908.0\n", + "Guess we all believed the false GOD 1758749945.0\n", + "I should've scooped up a nice car 1758749995.0\n", + "I'm still hunting for a nicer empty car I can claim with some clothes and shoes in it. Finders Keepers!!!!! 1758750281.0\n", + "Maybe the Rapture did happen and only a few made the cut. 1758750588.0\n", + "Hopefully in line crying at walmart 1758750758.0\n", + "You don’t remember the whole 2012 thing? 1758750916.0\n", + "Just like the Jan 6th crowd, very quiet, deflection, prayers of the faithful so God spaired, or it's not an exact science BUT it is coming soon, just not that day. Mostly \"rapture what rapture\" 1758750940.0\n", + "No one here knows any Christians that went all-in on this recent rapture, and the people saying they do are likely pretending to score some fake internet points.\n", + "\n", + "It was an extremely fringe belief among the craziest of the crazies that only got widespread internet recognition because of how ridiculous it was. Don’t mistake it for some mainstream trend. 1758751039.0\n", + "Idk how they’re handling it but I sure am disappointed. 1758751290.0\n", + "Only about a third of American Christians believe in the rapture at all fyi. This is because that doctrine was invented by John Nelson Darby in the 1800s and so is only part of modern Christian denominations that have no historical connection with the religion.\n", + "\n", + "It's not taught by Catholicism, Eastern or Oriental Orthodoxy or the Assyrian Church of the East. It's also not taught by the Anglicans or any of the mainline Protestant denominations like Lutherans, Presbyterians, Methodists, Episcopalians, etc. \n", + "\n", + "It's really only the Evangelical Dispensationalist churches that teach this stuff. The Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, Independent Fundamentalist Baptists and non-denominational mega churches that are basically Southern Baptist in all but name.\n", + "\n", + "They make the rest of us look foolish because they make up weird shit that historically has never been taught by the religion. Not to be too mean to them though, as most Christians that do believe in the rapture believe that the date of it is unknowable in advance and don't buy into any of the predictions.\n", + "\n", + "It's the fringe of what is already a minority that propagates this nonsense. 1758751643.0\n", + "Pretending it was a big joke that they were in on 1758751643.0\n", + "I honestly don't know any that talked about it. Honestly all I've seen is people memeing on people supposedly saying it is coming. 1758751711.0\n", + "It's really simple, the \"rapture\" isn't biblical. At best it's a misinterpretation of some passages, at worst a blatant tool to manipulate the gullible. Fact is if a person actually took the time to read the bible with a critical eye they'd find that a lot of \"end times\" scripture is nothing like what many people think it is.\n", + "\n", + "For example if and when Armageddon happens it happens. Christians aren't supposed to be working to bring it about. Not trying to predict when it'll happen either. Just live a good righteous life and when the time comes be prepared to be judged. Nothing more. 1758751842.0\n", + "this isn't the first rapture and it won't be the last, you've gotta feel bad for those that liquidated all their assets believing it was actually gonna happen though 1758751954.0\n", + "It’s messy, the ones I know who were all-in are kind of spinning right now. Some are in denial. Others are beating themselves up, thinking they weren’t good enough or didn’t pray hard enough. And then you’ve got a few who are flat-out angry at pastors, at God, even at themselves. It’s tough to watch, because their whole life was built on that promise, and now it feels like the ground’s been pulled out from under them. A couple are trying to rebuild fast, clinging to new explanations, new timelines, just so they don’t feel lost. And some are really quiet, almost like they’re grieving. 1758752090.0\n", + "We have one lady we know and she is still texting my wife about this rapture stuff (still time left!) and wants us to hop on the Christianity train, accept whatever to get into the kingdom of god, so we can be taken away where ever... if it weren't for knowing the family for like 30 years and her husband just being one of the nicest people we know, then we'd block her. Her daughters are pretty heavy into this too unfortunately. She ain't part of a Christian cult ot anything but the past 5 years has gotten stranger and stranger.\n", + "\n", + "The rest of my Christian friends? Quiet and a few of the funny (funny \"haha\" that is...) ones are joking about it all. My one friend and me were talking about it yesterday night and he summed it up as being brought up right. And the proceeded to joke about not wanting to see his mother any time soon because he wasn't exactly sure where she might have ended up.\n", + "\n", + "But I will say, there are some extreme outliers out there. 1758752218.0\n", + "They are doing well, miscalculated things, new date is set and coming soon. 1758752420.0\n", + "Anyone have Instagram etc links to these people proclaiming the Rapture, I want to see their tears/justifications after it all. 1758752456.0\n", + "I do t think it was real. \n", + "\n", + "No, I mean obviously the thing wasn’t, but I’m also thinking the people making videos were just pretending to be idiots for clicks. They gotta be killing it on the follow up views, too. 1758752574.0\n", + "Hopefully they’re finding strength and perspective situations like that test faith in ways nothing else can. 1758752583.0\n", + "Cry Baby Cry!!! 1758752659.0\n", + "So, there was a Rapture related video I saw yesterday, that I tried to make a post about, trying to focus on the potential experience and situation. The subreddit said something like \"endpoint not found\". Put like a 10 word reply in the comment and it went through, so I'm assuming it was being blocked because I had \"certain keywords\" the subreddit didn't like. \n", + "\n", + "Anywho.... here's the post I WANTED to make there, but I think it would still apply here (for the most part).\n", + "\n", + "These videos worries me. Particularly the HEAVILY religious demographic in our world. I'd like to elaborate:\n", + "\n", + "Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or medical professional in any way, shape, or form and have never done any official training. I am not trying to diagnose her. I also am no lawyer and am not recommending or advocating any type of legal action or advice. Seek out a real legal professional, not a reddit post. I am trying to provide context and reasoning for my opinion/analysis through my simple Google searches. Who knows, maybe this post may be of interest to others 🤷‍♀️. I am not attempting or intending to bash/shame/hate on religion(s), those who believe in a higher power (regardless of belief systems), or instigate violent actions. In fact, I denounce violence towards ANY individual, group, or community. I am also not trying to denounce any religion, trying to \"convert\" anyone, push my own beliefs or any political/religious agenda.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Intro:\n", + "I think it is plausible that SOME people posting these types of videos were experiencing a form of sleep deprivation. But Ill talk about this one particularly. The information and clues I am getting from the video alone is what I'm basing this on. What I'm trying to communicate is my analysis and understanding of the situation as best as possible. Additionally, I wish to show empathy toward her, or anyone else who may read this post based on what I have found. I'm not trying to make a wild comment or accusation without providing context or sources. Just like how any religious folk would reference their religious text. I'm not trying to stoke hate, feat, resentment, violence, or demeaning anyone (or a group).\n", + "\n", + "Resources:\n", + "Various information, research, and studies can be found on Google or other search engines. Looking at an APA study ( https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/10/science-of-nightmares) and another organization with published studies. The APA seemed like a solid starting point.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "1. Quantity of Time Awake-\n", + "\n", + "In the study on the APA website, there are many observations made about how outside stress and sleep deprivation affect dreams. I make a point on this because in the video, they mentioned they were struggling to sleep and did not get sleep \"until this morning.\" They do not FULLY state or provide sufficient information to determine an exact she hasn't slept before that morning. However, let's generously/logically say she was awake the previous day for a normal 9a - 5p work shift. Maybe awake 1 hour before to allow for getting ready, packing lunch, and travel. So a 8am start for beimg awake. Do we know that info EXACTLY? No. I think it is at least reasonable and logical to use this starting time for analysis.\n", + "\n", + "Mentioning \"...this morning\" and struggling to sleep the previous night is noteable. This would suggest she has been awake for likely 24-ish hours. At least when considering likely sleeping time (8 hours), scheduling, routines people would have, and the same 8am workday start in this example.\n", + "\n", + "Now, she didn't say that she got \"x- hours of sleep,\" so maybe she got adequate sleep. Maybe she experienced what is referred to as a \"micro-sleep.\" Which would be a symptom of Stage 3 Sleep Deprivation:\n", + "\n", + "\"Stage 3 (48 hours without sleep): You begin to experience microsleeps, brief periods of sleep that occur involuntarily. Cognitive functions such as memory and decision-making are severely impaired. You may also start experiencing sleep deprivation headaches and mood disturbances.\"\n", + "\n", + "(https://www.advocatehealth.com/health-services/sleep-medicine/sleep-deprivation)\n", + "\n", + "Is it possible they are at Stage 3? Yes. Is it likely? I dont know. I can't say for sure, because that is not clarified enough in the video alone, there is no indication of other symptoms she's having, and we can see much of her body to make reasonable considerations to determine what Stage she is at. Other than probably being Stage 1 based on the logical scenario above, as Stage 1 is 24 hrs of no sleep. But going 24 hours of no sleep will still have an affect. There ARE common side effects, but everyone is different.\n", + "\n", + "2. Stress Factors/Considerations-\n", + "\n", + "According to that same APA article, one research and doctor states,\n", + "\n", + "\"Research has indicated that both nightmare frequency and severity are associated with higher levels of self-reported worry, depersonalization, paranoia, and hallucinatory experiences (Rek, S., et al., Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 52, No. 9, 2017). In general, people whose personality types skew higher on neuroticism and negative affect seem to be most susceptible to nightmares. When they experience stress in their waking lives, it can “flip the switch” that leads to troubled dreams, Kelly said. “When these individuals are sleeping, there’s more activation of fear memories and negative emotion,” he explained.\"\n", + "\n", + "This would suggest her high stress and worry about the Rapture may influence the nightmare. The \"subject/scene\" of the dream is the Rapture itself, and the stress may influence the dream either being a nightmare or normal dream (i.e. negative, neutral, or positive). I'm not claiming or suggesting she neurotic. The point is that stress and topics of worry in one's life can influence a dream.\n", + "\n", + "3. Possible Religious Influence?-\n", + "\n", + "Again, not bashing on religion, but the theme/\"vibe\" of many comments I have seen online are usually attacking religion and making comparisons along the lines of:\n", + "\n", + "- Religion is a cult\n", + "- Stockholm syndrome\n", + "- Patterns of Abuse and Manipulation within religious teachings\n", + "\n", + "Again, I can't say if this is the case for her. Especially since each religion and the tenants/teachings vary. Not to mention how a particular place of worship will hold to those teachings. Like allowing for growth and changes, heavy shame, individualized application of the teaching, etc. I am inferring this from personal experiences growing up with one religion across multiple places of worship, as well as various comments/stories I see online. In my experiences, one location spoke about the teachings as a guiding compass. Whereas a different place was VERY heavy handed on shaming those who didn't adhere to teachings practically verbatim.\n", + "\n", + "Can we logically apply it to the woman in the video? Not really. I think it is at least worth considering all sides of this point, especially if you (or someone you know) may be experiencing something similar in the video. It IS worth considering that this element IS a possibility and something to keep in mind.... 1758752686.0\n", + "I'm just fascinated that all these so called Christians in government got left behind. 1758752703.0\n", + "So, there was a Rapture related video I saw yesterday, that I tried to make a post about, trying to focus on the potential experience and situation. The subreddit said something like \"endpoint not found\". Put like a 10 word reply in the comment and it went through, so I'm assuming it was being blocked because I had \"certain keywords\" the subreddit didn't like. \n", + "\n", + "Anywho.... here's the post I WANTED to make there, but I think it would still apply here (for the most part).\n", + "\n", + "These videos worries me. Particularly the HEAVILY religious demographic in our world. I'd like to elaborate:\n", + "\n", + "Disclaimer: I'm not a doctor or medical professional in any way, shape, or form and have never done any official training. I am not trying to diagnose her. I also am no lawyer and am not recommending or advocating any type of legal action or advice. Seek out a real legal professional, not a reddit post. I am trying to provide context and reasoning for my opinion/analysis through my simple Google searches. Who knows, maybe this post may be of interest to others 🤷‍♀️. I am not attempting or intending to bash/shame/hate on religion(s), those who believe in a higher power (regardless of belief systems), or instigate violent actions. In fact, I denounce violence towards ANY individual, group, or community. I am also not trying to denounce any religion, trying to \"convert\" anyone, push my own beliefs or any political/religious agenda.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Intro:\n", + "I think it is plausible that SOME people posting these types of videos were experiencing a form of sleep deprivation. But Ill talk about this one particularly. The information and clues I am getting from the video alone is what I'm basing this on. What I'm trying to communicate is my analysis and understanding of the situation as best as possible. Additionally, I wish to show empathy toward her, or anyone else who may read this post based on what I have found. I'm not trying to make a wild comment or accusation without providing context or sources. Just like how any religious folk would reference their religious text. I'm not trying to stoke hate, feat, resentment, violence, or demeaning anyone (or a group).\n", + "\n", + "Resources:\n", + "Various information, research, and studies can be found on Google or other search engines. Looking at an APA study ( https://www.apa.org/monitor/2024/10/science-of-nightmares) and another organization with published studies. The APA seemed like a solid starting point.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "1. Quantity of Time Awake-\n", + "\n", + "In the study on the APA website, there are many observations made about how outside stress and sleep deprivation affect dreams. I make a point on this because in the video, they mentioned they were struggling to sleep and did not get sleep \"until this morning.\" They do not FULLY state or provide sufficient information to determine an exact she hasn't slept before that morning. However, let's generously/logically say she was awake the previous day for a normal 9a - 5p work shift. Maybe awake 1 hour before to allow for getting ready, packing lunch, and travel. So a 8am start for beimg awake. Do we know that info EXACTLY? No. I think it is at least reasonable and logical to use this starting time for analysis.\n", + "\n", + "Mentioning \"...this morning\" and struggling to sleep the previous night is noteable. This would suggest she has been awake for likely 24-ish hours. At least when considering likely sleeping time (8 hours), scheduling, routines people would have, and the same 8am workday start in this example.\n", + "\n", + "Now, she didn't say that she got \"x- hours of sleep,\" so maybe she got adequate sleep. Maybe she experienced what is referred to as a \"micro-sleep.\" Which would be a symptom of Stage 3 Sleep Deprivation:\n", + "\n", + "\"Stage 3 (48 hours without sleep): You begin to experience microsleeps, brief periods of sleep that occur involuntarily. Cognitive functions such as memory and decision-making are severely impaired. You may also start experiencing sleep deprivation headaches and mood disturbances.\"\n", + "\n", + "(https://www.advocatehealth.com/health-services/sleep-medicine/sleep-deprivation)\n", + "\n", + "Is it possible they are at Stage 3? Yes. Is it likely? I dont know. I can't say for sure, because that is not clarified enough in the video alone, there is no indication of other symptoms she's having, and we can see much of her body to make reasonable considerations to determine what Stage she is at. Other than probably being Stage 1 based on the logical scenario above, as Stage 1 is 24 hrs of no sleep. But going 24 hours of no sleep will still have an affect. There ARE common side effects, but everyone is different. 1758752712.0\n", + "2 questions arise from this 12th failed rapture. 1 How can people be so gullible that they sell their house and belongings. Surly something is not connected in their heads. and 2 just what do they think was going to happen to the money from said sale when they got taken away. Does heaven have a banking system and do credit cards work there? 1758752732.0\n", + "Most are just updating the calendar like it was dentist appointment that got moved. 1758753073.0\n", + "Pretty sure good portion of Christians don’t believe in the Rapture. Some Protestant Evangelical preacher came up with it in the 1830s. The Rapture is not a concept based in scripture.  1758753103.0\n", + "sorry no takesys backsys 1758753181.0\n", + "Meh, rationalize it away. What else… 1758753213.0\n", + "*They’re mostly explaining it the same way we all explain failed doomsday dates:* *God rescheduled.* 1758753222.0\n", + "'Rapture' is a weird 19th century Seppo Protestant/pseudo-cult concept.\n", + "\n", + "None of the chritistians I know belong to any of the Seppo inspired denominations. 1758753246.0\n", + "All the good ones got raptured, nobody even misses the guy 1758753294.0\n", + "I think the rapture actually happened and God took everyone worthy up to heave - which is fucking nobody. 1758753354.0\n", + "You know damn well they are gonna memory hole this and repeat this shit the next time the world is gonna end. 1758753468.0\n", + "Imagine the utopia we'd all be in here on earth had it worked! 1758753495.0\n", + "I think we're at a point now where people are so willing to act any kind of way for attention, that this was kind of the first \"influencer only\" rapture.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Like, other raptures had build up, math was often involved, book deals, even vague gestures to scriptures. This seemed like one person saying it, then a bunch of people repeating it for clicks (both positive and critical) but in the real world no one actually believed it, not like they'd used to, not even a small story about grocery lineups or demonstrations. Like a super fast mini-cycle of a regular rapture.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "The year 2000 was really the high point of this stuff 1758753901.0\n", + "Oh dammit did I miss another rapture? 1758754086.0\n", + "I remember being told about the sighting of a “red heifer” in 1997 supposedly signifying the end of the world in 2000. I was fucking terrified. I believe we all lived. Stop caring about what these dopes are saying who are rooting on the end of the world. 1758754445.0\n", + "Finally, the denial has stopped. They accepted and admitted defeat, you heard it hear first 1758754501.0\n", + "As I don't live in a swampy region of the USA, I didn't actually know anyone. 1758754630.0\n", + "There was a rapture? 1758754694.0\n", + "It’s all make believe 1758754874.0\n", + "If things happened the way they were described in the book of Revelations, the Rapture would've happened almost two thousand years ago. Some of the places/things described don't even exist anymore. \n", + "\n", + " \n", + "The Raptor happened long before even that. 1758754892.0\n", + "I don’t know anyone that stupid 1758754939.0\n", + "There was a rapture? I didn't even notice... 1758755180.0\n", + "What if it did actually happen yesterday, and none of the so-called Christians were raptured? Lol 1758755195.0\n", + "No take-backs! 1758755813.0\n", + "Yesterday god delivered me plans to make a rapture launcher 1758756408.0\n", + "I asked the day before this huge Cristian guy at work if he thinks the rapture would happen the mext day. He said, and I'm actually quoting him here, he will pray it does. The rapture is literally the event before doomsday. He was paying for doomsday. The fuck. 1758756780.0\n", + "If you use the world's most advanced telescope, you might see the goal post somewhere out there in deep space 1758757090.0\n", + "This is the sort of thing that is greatly exagerrated online, I don't think any mainstream Christians were in on this 1758757303.0\n", + "I wish it had happened and taken all those fucks away. 1758757610.0\n", + "I am never surprised by the stupid things that people believe. 1758758108.0\n", + "This post is very reassuring that my theory of it being a hilarious internet trolling was correct. 1758758279.0\n", + "I think its a translation mistake and the word is actually \"Rupture\" like that street in Beijing that mysteriously Ruptured this week. Or the fact that my meat pie ruptured after being baked and exploded on me and the kitchen... I'm ok by the way. thanks for your concern. 1758758281.0\n", + "They feel ruptured. 1758758298.0\n", + "Nobody here knows anyone who went all-in.\n", + "\n", + "It's not like this was ALL christians. It was one tiny group, probably in the thousands or hundreds or maybe even dozens, amidst a religion with like a billion adherents. 1758758474.0\n", + "If any of the Christians I know are that dumb (and uneducated on biblical stuff) they're keeping their mouths shut. I suspect this is mostly big with a relative handful of people on Tik Tok and people desperately trying to avoid the whole Epstein files thing. 1758758492.0\n", + "It’s gotta sting. Imagine spending your whole life judging everyone else, screaming about who’s ‘saved’ and who’s ‘damned,’ only to find out you didn’t make the cut yourself. Like training for a marathon you swore you were winning, and then watching the finish line vanish while you’re still tying your shoes. Now they’re left behind with the rest of us only difference is, we weren’t the ones bragging about a front-row ticket to paradise. Karma has a sense of humor, and it doesn’t hand out refunds. 1758758724.0\n", + "This is Reddit. Nobody here personally knows any Christians. 1758758791.0\n", + "I don’t think the Christians who believe they were left behind are on Reddit 1758758884.0\n", + "I live in Tennessee and no one I know even gave it a thought. I doubt they even knew it was supposed to happen today. 1758759119.0\n", + "This guy is still all in.\n", + "\n", + "https://youtu.be/EiqZKFdeKng?si=JktXowMen6r-Wr9e 1758759445.0\n", + "Maybe the rapture did happen, and you just didn't make the cut. 1758759450.0\n", + "it happened, jesus is just tired of our shit and no one got raptured 1758759615.0\n", + "if you knew any actual christians, you'd know none of them believed there was going to be a rapture yesterday 1758759826.0\n", + "Who else has been playing Blondie all day? 1758759850.0\n", + "All I know is, I wasted a good day at work telling everyone to fuck off cause I’m flying up today. \n", + "Should have seen their faces today, as if they saw a ghost 1758759864.0\n", + "I expected it. I'm not a great person. 1758759971.0\n", + "Like I need to know how some stories are ending. People quit jobs, signed over deeds, and let go of their whole lives for this. This one woman gave up everything and took her kids to the beach to wait for Jesus. What happens now?! 1758760050.0\n", + "It means, we're *all*, unclean. 1758760061.0\n", + "I am a Christian. I know dozens, if not hundreds, of other Christians. Of all those people, I don't know one who took it seriously. 1758760116.0\n", + "Is this why my neighbor who I’ve NEVER seen go to church put up a giant white cross in his front yard last week? Next to the wacky waving arm inflatable Trump…. 1758760512.0\n", + "I'm just glad that I don't know anyone that dumb and that the only reason I know about it is because of the internet. 1758760530.0\n", + "Here's a real answer for this thread:\n", + "\n", + "My aunt and uncle in law didn't believe they'd be raptured yesterday, but they believed they were going to be raptured a couple of years ago. They spent a considerable amount of time trying to convince my husband that it was true and that he needed to accept Jesus into his life before it happened. That didn't happen, and (SHOCKER) neither did the rapture. They've now cut themselves off from all of their friends and family out of humiliation and have turned into nasty, bitter people. I wish I knew what their explanation is for not being taken, but they won't speak to us anymore. 1758760626.0\n", + "How do we know it didn't happen? Maybe like, two hermits were taken. 1758760781.0\n", + "There was a Rapture? When? Where? Did they scare the birds and bats? 1758760961.0\n", + "I keep scrolling Instagram to see if anyone is posting about it, since I don’t know anyone in real life that believed it. 1758761830.0\n", + "I don't know a single person who has believed in any of the raptures that have happened in my 54 years of existence. 1758761830.0\n", + "Aussie here. I don't know any Christians.  1758762093.0\n", + "I grew up in a church that had me convinced as a preteen that the rapture was around the corner.  When the interpretations started falling apart and they started giving us new ones, I stopped listening.  That was a long time ago.  \n", + "I only say that because I’ve moved back to my small town in the deepest part of the Bible Belt and don’t know anybody who was expecting the recent one.  At least nobody mentioned it.  I’ve only seen mentions of it in the media.   1758762202.0\n", + "There was a rapture? 1758762534.0\n", + "Don't know and don't care.\n", + "\n", + "I've seen way too many raptures at this point. Paying attention just encourages more. 1758762613.0\n", + "Wild how every few years someone predicts the end and life just keeps going 😂 1758763383.0\n", + "This feels like an elaborate way for someone to disguise their planned disappearance to be with their other family. 1758763443.0\n", + "Heard nothing about a rapture and I live in Peru where separation of church and state doesn't exist in any form. 1758763577.0\n", + "I forgot the rapture was yesterday. 1758763838.0\n", + "Apparently it’s too woke up there. 1758764835.0\n", + "I don't know any Christians that were left behind...\n", + "\n", + "Wait..\n", + "\n", + "Oh no. :( 1758765076.0\n", + "I don't know anyone personally that believed it, but after seeing videos the last couple days I was looking forward to them all leaving. What happened?? 1758765724.0\n", + "It’s “gods test!” and “real Christian’s know they’ll never know the exact date”. Same shit they’ve spewed for years. 1758765760.0\n", + "I had this very same question thanks for asking. Any screenshots anyone can share are welcome 1758766082.0\n", + "You're assuming all of us believe the predictions are valid. 1758767145.0\n", + "They’re recalculating, or waiting for someone else to recalculate, because they can’t believe that they were left behind. 1758767408.0\n", + "Perhaps, it is more of a \"timeline split\" thing than an actual \"rapture\" thing. Like... at pivotal points every so many years, our values and perceptions of life shift our realities. Those people get sent to a more hellish timeline, aligned with a very demanding God who will eventually burn them all, and we continue existing with the shell copies of them - running on autopilot. Wouldn't it be glorious if after today, those who are not just running on autopilot have really focused on how the world is about to become a place where everyone can live in peace and flourish as a species?\n", + "\n", + "No... I'm not high. I just like to dream. 1758767939.0\n", + "Someone fill me in what rapture? I’ve been working long shifts all week and I don’t watch the news 1758768172.0\n", + "[Welcome to heaven](https://youtu.be/a9s6FRLNJAo) 1758768200.0\n", + "This is hilarious 😂 They all got what they deserved, which was nothing 1758768698.0\n", + "I think it was more of a social media tik tok thing. People around me had heard of it, but no one was actually believing or doing it. More like jokes and hearsay 1758769257.0\n", + "What if it already happened, and we are all descendants of shitty people. I would love that. 😂 1758769539.0\n", + "They're probably not having a great time 1758769746.0\n", + "They can hang out with the ones left behind from the last time 1758770308.0\n", + "Any real Christians knew it was bogus because \"No one can tell the time of his arrival\" \n", + "\n", + "Matthew 24:36\n", + "\n", + "This was just a grift, like all rapture hysteria is 1758770342.0\n", + "They littetaly can never admit when they’re wrong , they are doing fine . 1758771080.0\n", + "I am a very religious individual who knows a lot of very religious people. In my workplace I'm the go-to guy for any and all theological questions and ribbing. I found out about this the day before because someone asked me what I thought, probably as a joke. I am not sure that a single real person actually thought the rapture was happening yesterday... I have maybe one person in my mind who would even consider it a possibility, and that individual's connection to reality is sometimes suspect. It's a loud minority on tiktok if anything. 99.99% of Christians are much smarter than that, I assure you. 1758771166.0\n", + "They are all doing the K-PAX so it's open ended are they or aren't they?  1758771563.0\n", + "So which is it, Christians are gullible fools or they’re not worthy? 1758771964.0\n", + "I wish I had known about this beforehand, was hoping to convince some morons to give me their money or property, no returns. 1758772190.0\n", + "[deleted] 1758772243.0\n", + "They are coping and seething. All the excuses. God diddnt rapture because the liberals did/do X. 1758774421.0\n", + "There was a Rapture ? 1758774588.0\n", + "Someone in my town did put up a sign at an intersection that said Jesus is returning September 23 and 24 1758774744.0\n", + "Try to convince them that EVERYONE got raptured into an exact copy of the world from yesterday. 1758775386.0\n", + "Personally I believe in the rapture but I’m not here for it happening any time soon. I’d have been so stressed if I got raptured yesterday 😅 1758775404.0\n", + "Well looks like the world didn't end guess the jokes on them. 1758775654.0\n", + "Reddit was the first I've heard of it and I live in the south. 1758776056.0\n", + "They all need some serious therapy!! Don’t forget the tithe on Sunday!! 1758776292.0\n", + "I don't talk to lunatics, op. 1758776348.0\n", + "Or how about this. Rapture did not happen. So... ... Did God lie or was another impersonating God? 1758776365.0\n", + "I'm not sure, every time I run into one I scream \"Aiiieeh...a demon'\" and run away. I get some cardio in and don't have to waste my time talking to idiots so it's win-win. 1758776384.0\n", + "I got an email from Jesus today.  He apologized and said they’ve been having problems with illegals crashing the gate.  He said he and his dad were still sorting things out (lots of finger pointing), but they hope to reschedule another rapture soon. 1758776743.0\n", + "Just remind them they weren't chosen daily 1758777537.0\n", + "Not sure…. They’re not here. Jesus said most of them went to hell 1758779774.0\n", + "Pretty sure this was entirely satire on tik tok 1758780190.0\n", + "Just because you want something to be true or a part of the Bible doesn’t make it true. \n", + "\n", + "American religions love to add and change the Bible so it fits their belief system. \n", + "\n", + "I think it was of a social media trend and people being wishful. \n", + "\n", + "It is a sign of the times. People are tired. Maybe aliens, maybe AI taking over, maybe ww3 or civil war. Or maybe we have a president that won’t ever step down.\n", + "\n", + "I like this song \n", + "“Sign of the times”\n", + "\n", + "https://youtu.be/qN4ooNx77u0?si=ZIweoZYHFTcuvq8G 1758781058.0\n", + "This is so much fun. It really is just a chance for insane people to do whatever they want on the basis of religion. People got rid of the things they didn't need, their houses kids or husbands. They will be much better off now because chaos brings rebirth and they will be doing something completely different next year, and evolve while people complain about the same old shit. Idk why it makes people so mad? 1758783503.0\n", + "Can we just gaslight the Christians into being better people? Like, tell them:\n", + "“Yeah, my niece and her family got raptured. Not you.\n", + "Wow, maybe you’re not that great of a person as you thought. Maybe try harder.”\n", + "\n", + "(I’m venting, been a long day at work.)\n", + "Not all of them are bad, but some of y’all need to take a big swig out of that book you like to throw around and stop sipping the communion wine while you do it.\n", + "Just because you get a cookie after you brag about the bullshit you did last week to a guy in a wooden box doesn’t mean you get a free pass, Robert. 1758784305.0\n", + "I don't know any that believed it. 1758784843.0\n", + "I mean it says in the Bible that no one knows when it will happen so we can safely assume that every rapture prediction we will be alright. 1758786671.0\n", + "Be an atheist..\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Make tons of stupid rapture tik tok videos claiming to be Christian.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Wait until after the day..\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Make fun of all Christians and feel self righteous.. \n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Self soothe further about your choices in life. 1758788782.0\n", + "Not sure, they haven't yet answered my Facebook post. Yeah I did it, got to get the punches in when it's applicable. 1758789521.0\n", + "All of the Christians I know are Catholic or Orthodox so they didn't care. Didn't even know about it until a secular told me. 1758791656.0\n", + "I wonder if any of them think the rapture did happen but they didn’t make the list? 1758794881.0\n", + "one day an alien is going to arrive and tell us about how all the other planets that are inhabited were raptured and very few beings were left behind 1758795307.0\n", + "Maybe there was a rapture n none of us, especially American evangelicals are deserving of heaven. Just a thought 1758795383.0\n", + "Who disappeared? 1758795839.0\n", + "You are asking about a minority. Just FYI. Most of us knew this was not happening. Enjoy the comments and your fleeting entertainment. Get some popcorn, rip into it, forget about it 5 days from now, and go back to normal. 1758796741.0\n", + "None of the Christians I know in real life believed it was happening, just something I saw internet people talking about. 1758797119.0\n", + "Christian here, not one Christian II know put more than a second of thought into it. 1758798137.0\n", + "Don’t miss out on the next one.\n", + "\n", + "www.rapturetimer.com 1758799816.0\n", + "Ughhh. I'm tired of it. Any follower of Christ knows this is all one big troll. Please, for all our sakes, find a hobby. 1758799952.0\n", + "They just moved the date 1758800661.0\n", + "I don't know much about the bible, but I was kind of hoping we'd get Revelations before we got Rapture. 1758801304.0\n", + "shit did it not happen, i thought after 6 hours in the office i was in some sort of hell. 1758801406.0\n", + "I remember this being announced on the radio in the 1970s a couple times while going to school. I always thought, \"What a bunch of loonies.\" Still haven't changed my position one iota. lol 1758801430.0\n", + "I remember this being announced on the radio in the 1970s a couple times while going to school. I always thought, \"What a bunch of loonies.\" Still haven't changed my position one iota. lol 1758801453.0\n", + "I remember this being announced on the radio in the 1970s a couple times while going to school. I always thought, \"What a bunch of loonies.\" Still haven't changed my position one iota. lol 1758801467.0\n", + "Wait was this actually a thing, like people saying the world's gonna end and all that? 1758801514.0\n", + "I don't hang out with idiots so it didn't alter my views of the people I spend time with at all.\n", + "\n", + "I only learned about it from reddit and watched these morons give their cars away. 1758801532.0\n", + "None of the Christians I know said anything about the rapture, but none of them use reddit, and most likely aren't on TikToK, cause that's where I read it originated from. TikTok seems very manipulative to me right now. 1758801901.0\n", + "The internet is a sin. If you actually read the Bible, you would realise how much it contradicts itself. Christians pick and choose what they like about it. We are all human, and there is always something we can't live without. Any christian believers I see on the internet are all sinners, in my opinion. Especially reddit. The answer to your question is. They are dealing with the rapture because they are blinded by being human. 1758802135.0\n", + "They haven't read or replied to my texts yet. I'll tell you when I hear back. 1758803022.0\n", + "lol. I'm a Christian and I've never heard of this latest rapture prediction. Anyone who claims to know the rapture and when Christ will return is automatically a heretic. The bible literally says no one knows. 1758803731.0\n", + "Here's the thing maybe it did happen and none of them made the cut lol. Wouldn't be surprising 1758804538.0\n", + "Lutheran and I made the error of reading Revelations way too young. I don’t remember a rapture in there. 1758806244.0\n", + "Tragic knowing that in each state there was at least one home annihilation to this death spell. 1758806287.0\n", + "A few are reconsidering. Many are doubling down.\n", + "\n", + " \n", + "[https://ia802802.us.archive.org/4/items/pdfy-eDNpDzTy\\_dR1b0iB/Festinger-Riecken-Schachter-When-Prophecy-Fails-1956.pdf](https://ia802802.us.archive.org/4/items/pdfy-eDNpDzTy_dR1b0iB/Festinger-Riecken-Schachter-When-Prophecy-Fails-1956.pdf) 1758806753.0\n", + "I don't know about them, but this Pagan is very upset. I didn't get to adopt a bunch of cats that got left behind. Assuming only cats because all dogs go to heaven. 1758808178.0\n", + "it happened they took the good people. 1758808288.0\n", + "Complete denial 1758808813.0\n", + "They just want the world to end so very much... 1758808985.0\n", + "I’m sure the people who believed the rapture was going to happen are the same people who voted for an orange con man. 1758809485.0\n", + "I’m shocked that people who thought they could predict rapture and people who feel that segment of society is representative of anything beyond a few loonies have been given so much space on all these social media apps. Never met either one of these people in real life. 1758809684.0\n", + "If there is a date when people say the rapture is going to happen, I'll 99.9% sure it won't be then. \n", + "\n", + "When Jesus said \"but of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only\" he wasn't kidding. \n", + "\n", + "We are closer today than we've ever been 1758809971.0\n", + "They’re not left behind, they are busily creating their own tribulation period. 1758810414.0\n", + "It says we won't know the thour or the day, that could mean if it happened we, the ones left don't know it happened! 1758810495.0\n", + "I don’t really speak with them anymore so I don’t know. \n", + "\n", + "I did report via group text to the knitting/crochet/embroidery group of our town library about our recent meeting. I included that none of us had raptured. Got a chuckle back. 1758810658.0\n", + "Just goes to show how easy it is to manipulate a cultish mentality. 1758811434.0\n", + "My wife's friend unfriended everyone in Facebook and other social media accounts. She won't take calls or respond to texts. She was visually verified to still be present on earth. 1758811555.0\n", + "where did this one come from? who is telling them it’s the rapture? 1758811710.0\n", + "Imagine spending your whole life thinking that if you sin, all you have to do is visit a man-made box on Sunday and simply ask to be forgiven...\n", + "\n", + "God forbid people actually take accountability for their actions. I think God wants you to own up to being a sinner instead of using religion as a tool to avoid repercussions. Society would appreciate that too. \n", + "\n", + "If God is all forgiving...then I'm sure I'll be forgiven for calling out the bullshit. \n", + "\n", + "Also, no **raptors** this year. 🤣 1758811805.0\n", + "I still don’t know how we get to this point every time considering to date no one has accurately predicted when the rapture will occur. 1758811900.0\n", + "The Rapture !?!? Oh shit Siri was supposed to set an alarm for me!! 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ 1758812956.0\n", + "No real Christian buys into that rapture crap there is nothing in the Bible and it was written by men that wanted control over the weak minded. 1758813210.0\n", + "My question reading about this most recent one is talk of people selling all of their worldly goods. Why would you sell anything if you’re leaving the earth, that’s just earthly money and you won’t be one to care about what happens to anything you own. 1758813223.0\n", + "Pretty sure the only religions that actually thought it was gonna happen were the \"God will heal me from this snakebite\" kinda churches, because I'd be willing to bet the majority of the main Christianity base such as myself either didn't either realize this was a thing til social media said or if they did, realizes it isn't something you plan for 1758813335.0\n", + "So I was raptured. \n", + "\n", + "I'm typing this from heaven right now. I feel bad for everybody down on earth but hey at least I got mine. 1758813942.0\n", + ">went all in\n", + "\n", + "Somebody is on the internet too much 1758814304.0\n", + "The Rapture happens every single day, they just take 1-3 people at a time. it’s like slowly rolling out software 1758814453.0\n", + " The last time there was a “rapture” I made a post about it on Bungie’s “The Flood” board. So yeah…this ain’t the first and it won’t be the last 1758815430.0\n", + "glad I missed it 1758817943.0\n", + "I know a lot of Christians and nobody I knew believed this. 1758819952.0\n", + "I didn’t know a single Christian who believed this was happening 1758829352.0\n", + "Call me crazy but I think the rapture is actually a mass Christian cultural phenomenon where people think they are going to die but in reality it’s the ego imploding in on itself. Once there is no more denial left, there is no where to run(fear), and there is no more people to blame then the ego has no where to hide and it thinks it’s going to die. Once this happens people live on to experience mindfulness compassion empathy and respect.\n", + "\n", + "But hey I’m just a girl that believes the real “devil” is our ego that we are in a fight with within ourselves. And boy does the US have many characters with big egos. 1758832786.0\n", + "So is it safe to assume that all of the ones remaining are the bad ones because all of the good ones already left? 1758835053.0\n", + "wish I bought a bunch of Biden Kamala merch and left them all over Trump town 1758837170.0\n", + "Fine, because I knew it wouldn't happen. 1758840256.0\n", + "I firmly belive the world ended in 2016 and we just dont remember the people who got raptured. Dicks out for Harambe 1758840328.0\n", + "I only know 1 person who would be that crazy. I don't talk to her if I can help it. 1758842407.0\n", + "Only in America… 1758843920.0\n", + "What rapture? 1758844742.0\n", + "The Christians I know take the verse about “you won’t know the time or day” pretty seriously, so none of them thought it was happening. 1758844829.0\n", + "I'm personally looking forward to partying with the Lord of darkness 1758844992.0\n", + "Back in 2011 when this was happening, [I put this on the lawn when my friends were coming over for dinner.](https://imgur.com/a/i4L2iY1) 1758846664.0\n", + "I’m in a religious area of the Deep South and haven’t seen a single Facebook post or even heard a single person mention this. I only recall seeing one other mention of it before today, I think on Reddit, and then a single video on tik tok today of people in Africa in some forest. \n", + "\n", + "Was this really a thing? 1758847886.0\n", + "No real Christian went \"all-in\" on this rapture prediction. Raptures are predicted all the time. They are nothing new and they are all obviously wrong. The reason I say \"real Christians\" is because the Bible is extremely clear about this. Even Jesus himself doesn't know when it is, let alone some random pastor from South Africa. Any Christian who fell for this, I would question their knowledge of the Bible, or if a church was preaching this I would question that church's validity. It's not up for debate.\n", + "\n", + "I mean the idea of a rapture itself is up for debate, but \"the return of Jesus\" which is commonly conflated with the rapture, the timing of that \"event\" whatever it may end up being is not up for debate. *Nobody* will ever reliably predict it. 1758848172.0\n", + "Normal christians didnt buy it nor shouldve literally anyone. Normal people didnt buy it* 1758850698.0\n", + "This whole rapture thing is amusing and bewildering.\n", + "\n", + "It has no basis in the tradition of the ancient Christian Church. Personally, I think it just appeals to an individual's person pride, \"Well, I am certainly going to be raptured...\"\n", + "\n", + " \n", + "But what do I know, I only have a Masters of Divinity from a reputable school run by the most ancient of Christian Churches.\n", + "\n", + "Evangelicals are weird... 1758852125.0\n", + "I’m Christian and have no idea why anyone would say they know the day, month or year it’s supposed to happen because the Bible literally says, no one will know. 1758856943.0\n", + "ITT: Non-christians who didn't go all-in 1758857263.0\n", + "Real Christians knew that the people who predicted this were false prophets. The Bible itself says that we are not to predict the day of Christ's return. 1758858317.0\n", + "As a Christian, I was a bit worried I’d see people who actually believed it in real life, but thankfully I think it’s mainly a chronically online thing.\n", + "\n", + "I was at Bible study this morning and we were all laughing about it. It’s always pretty funny to watch go down 1758858994.0\n", + "They immediately switch to \"that was gawd testing us...\" 1758865162.0\n", + "They're in denial 1758866946.0\n", + "A brief search.\n", + "\n", + "The Rapture doctrine is not universal.\n", + "Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and mainline Protestant churches generally reject it as unbiblical.\n", + "It is most common in American Evangelical and Pentecostal circles, especially those influenced by dispensationalism. 1758868612.0\n", + "what if the rapture already happened long ago and now we are all stuck in this hellhole? 1758871096.0\n", + "No doubt there were those who cheated through the rapture so they'd never learn that it was false. Can you take a guess how? 💊🥃🤢😵💀👻 1758871635.0\n", + "Frantic calls to the people they left all of their belongings to and backpedaling the deed to the house they gave to the church 1758872310.0\n", + "None. \n", + "\n", + "But I’m Lutheran, we don’t believe in that whole rapture malarkey. 1758884319.0\n", + "Christian’s who believe in the Rapture as understood in popular culture are Dispensational. It is a popular strand in the United States but not very common throughout the majority world. And while it is popular among American “evangelicals,” it is by no means the majority view in America or held by all evangelicals.\n", + "\n", + "Furthermore, considering Scripture’s repeated warnings that “no one will know the day or hour” the vast majority of Christians, dispensational or otherwise, think those predictions are utter lunacy.\n", + "\n", + "That is to say, I know a lot of dispensationists… I don’t know a single person who took this prediction seriously… 1758888073.0\n", + "My pastor is currently rebranding it as 'God's final test of patience.' The church coffee hour has gotten noticeably more competitive though. 1758892681.0\n", + "Haven’t Christians figured out that they have all been saying Jesus will return on X date, all the way back to *at the very least* WWII? Ya know, the one with all the nuclear annihilation? It didn’t happen then, it’s not happening now; it is never going to happen. They all just want to believe that everyone who’s worthy will be raptured BEFORE the tribulation, when in fact the Bible gives absolutely no indication whether it would be at the beginning, in the middle (3.5 years), or at the end of all human suffering. The ones I know are silently cheering for the world to end so they can go to heaven. 1758894575.0\n", + "Unfortunately I don't know anyone who really fell for it 1758899492.0\n", + "[removed] 1758905908.0\n", + "I haven't paid my Christianity fees in decades. I didn't realize it was required to be part of the rapture. 1758907211.0\n", + "i think most religious people know this wont happen. they are just happy to lie to themselves enough to make life a little more bearable.\n", + "\n", + "how do you keep people in line that have nothing to look forward to. tell them in death there is more reward or punishment. religion was born. 1758915411.0\n", + "They have Jesus Trump to guide them 1758921915.0\n", + "They weren't left behind. The world decided that they'd spread the word of another crackpot preacher who wanted to make money and a name for themselves. 1758922188.0\n", + "Im not religious but who TF do these pastors telling people it’s the rapture. If Jesus said that he did not know, are pastors above Jesus? And who are these Christian’s believing a pastor over Christ’s own words? 1758945797.0\n", + "I’ve survived them all. I remember a kid in my French class in high school, went up to the board to draw out why we were all going to virtually perish during Y2K. I asked him how his week went when we got back from break 🤷🏻‍♀️. He didn’t think it was funny 1758948003.0\n", + "😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 1758949751.0\n", + "I don't know anyone like that. I know this Greek Orthodox guy who knew the Rapture would only come when least expected, though. We had a laugh about it. 1758961242.0\n", + "I don't hang with people who think that way and no one in my family is that far off reality, either. So, until this very moment, it's not even a thing I ever thought about.\n", + "\n", + "Nutters be nuttin. 1758974390.0\n", + "First I've heard that there was apparently a 'rapture' lol.  1758976653.0\n", + "Normal Christians didnt even know it was happening. My local church were laughing about it a few days ago.\n", + "\n", + "It's just these nuts in the US that pay for the privilege of listening to televangilist rhetoric.\n", + "\n", + "Listen to Jesus He Knows me and you will understand 1758980199.0\n", + "Dispensationalism isn't Christianity, it's a lunatic fringe 'idea' that's barely over 120 years old. Denounced as heresy by most everyone with half a brain. Ppl out here thinking \"Left Behind\" books weren't fiction... 1758986236.0\n", + "My parents laughed when i told em. Plus we got some pretty funny posts 1759022634.0\n", + "Hmm, I’m a Christian and either whoever was on invites did a terrible job at sending them out or the rapture didn’t happen \n", + "\n", + "(hint: second one is the correct one) 1759038476.0\n", + "I've always had a problem reconciling the concept of good being all knowing and all god, with the idea that some people might not be accepted into heaven. does not compute 1759056951.0\n", + "The real Rapture was the friends we made along the way. 1759077729.0\n", + "Most that I know have just said \"yeah the rapture isn't real\" or \"Most people with a brain knew it was not coming then\" and what really stook out to me was my close friend Andrew who said (Qupted from Text) \"The whole point of the second coming of Christ is we don't know when it will be, a large part of it is integrity, so that if Christ comes back and we know the day, well its really easy to ask for frogiv4eness that day and be christlike for that day, but matthew said in 24:36 - 'We don't know the time nor the hour' there for anyone who claims to know the rapture is lying. Dispensationalists at their finest\" 1759085472.0\n", + "As a Christian I ignore any and all prophecy’s of a rapture. The Bible says no man may know the date. Something like that. And nobody I know is stupid enough to believe any prophecy 1759089420.0\n", + "Theres been so many already, lol . I just feel for the next one. im going to see if they'd give me their earthly possessions and get it legally notated so they can't take it back after. Though of course many of them wouldn't because they dont actually believe it, they just hope its happening. \n", + "\n", + "Granted, a few in the 2000s sold businesses and stuff thinking a rapture was coming it was hilarious, imo like watching a cult realize they didn't ascend. 1759171939.0\n", + "They’re either in denial, doubling down, or suddenly really interested in theology. 1759203982.0\n", + "Great! none of the Christians i know thought it was happening considering there is hard warnings that no one will know the time right there in the bible. :D 1759260863.0\n", + "Wear a nut cup and you won't get raptured. 1759279944.0\n", + "If you think you're good enough to be \"raptured\" then you're not good enough to be raptured... 1759326610.0\n", + "This shows that God does not exist with this nonsense idea of the Rapture. 1759435433.0\n", + "😅🤣😅😂😅😂😂😅🤣🤣🤣😅😂😂😅😂🤣🤣🤣😅😂 1759793481.0\n", + "The rapture happened just inside of us not the outside that’s what they want you to think that god is outside of you when your one with god and all that is. 1759952000.0\n", + "It hasn't happened yet. 1760057936.0\n", + "The rapture will be on Shmita Cycle according to Brandon Biggs. God didn’t reveal him the day & the hour. Only the Father knows. 1762350629.0\n", + "I knew no one and I’m a student at a christian seminary. We know Gods word and the fact that Jesus said only the Heavenly Father knows the time and date. 1758749190.0\n", + "All the Christians in the comments defending themselves, I mean this with sincerity: you cannot distance yourself from other Christians to justify and absolve yourselves. The Christians who believe this shit exist, they do go to your churches and then go to other ones and get radicalized there. These are YOUR people experiencing literal spiritual psychosis. Take accountability, claim your community and actually fucking do something about all this bullshit. I’m so over all of you, I’ve been surrounded by evangelicals, fundamentalists, and reformed modern pseudo-liberal Christians my whole life and I’ve never met such a homogenous group of compassionately-devoid people. 1758787665.0\n", + "\"Redditors of reddit, Christians are le bad and le stupid, right? Now give me updoots.\" 1758804679.0\n", + "As far as I know, nobody I know personally fell for this one. But the people I know who might have are also people I'm sorta LC with, so I haven't really talked to them in the last week or so. \\*shrug\\* 1758731466.0\n", + "Nelson sez ha ha 1758731874.0\n", + "Crap, did I miss another rapture? I guess I’m just going to have to wait for the next one…again. 1758732242.0\n", + "I should've gone around last night and put pants, shirts, and socks in piles all over. Opportunity missed. 1758732590.0\n", + "(Yawn).....when is the next supposed one? 1758732878.0\n", + "I think it valuable to tell them the rapture happened and there are a lot of people out there not as pure as they want you to believe. 1758732912.0\n", + "Trump is looking into this rapture business and will have an answer in 2 weeks. 1758734416.0\n", + "Somehow, I know the damn Democrats are to blame 1758737303.0\n", + "It was only antifa that went the rest left behind. 1758738591.0\n", + "I’m bummed it didn’t happen. Was looking forward to finding a nice house that got raptured and just taking it then claiming squatters rights down the road. 1758738748.0\n", + "Free yourselves from this religious delusion. The Bible is demonstrably false-i.e. the world was not created in 7 days. Wake up people. Get into REALITY. 1758743462.0\n", + "It happened . If you're still here you didn't pass 1758748809.0\n", + "I think we should agree with all of them in advance next time that if they're wrong they have to admit the whole thing is bullshit.\n", + "\n", + "That would have saved so much aggregation over the ... centuries. 1758750083.0\n", + "None that I know, including me, went \"all in\" on it. Not even a subject that came up in a conversation.\n", + "\n", + "We knew better. 1758750147.0\n", + "I've heard no one talk about the rapture except reddit-atheists circle-jerking about it. 1758758371.0\n", + "The only people who talk rapture talk are women that are bored with their husbands and want them dead because divorce is a sin, people that are in debt, and others that feel entitled but are losers in a general sense. Lottery ticket meth fantasies 1758760546.0\n", + "Tell them they supported Trump, the Anti Christ. That is why they are still here. 1758762818.0\n", + "Anyone seen Charlie ? 1758763437.0\n", + "I took mine to a tall cliff and told them “it only works if you take a …leap of faith”. 1758771995.0\n", + "I don't know which redditors need to hear this, but random Christian TikTokers don't speak for God, nor do they influence his plans. 1758781923.0\n", + "I just read that 1800 immigrants from Alligator Alcatraz have just disappeared after they closed it down without record. No family members know where they are. The irony if they were the ones to be taken with the rapture. \n", + "The alternative is unimaginably sad 😔 \n", + "All of those rapture videos were so crazy. Do they still believe in Santa too 1758791796.0\n", + "A shitload of people went missing from Aligator Alcatraz, a lot of people are saying. Why aren't they talking about that. Kinda coincidental don't you think? Easily seeded psyop 1758804670.0\n", + "My question is about the return of Christ. Does he return as a 33 yr old, as a new Miracle baby or as a 2058 yr old? 1758804796.0\n", + "Catholics don’t believe in the Rapture. It was made up by Protestants. 1758828846.0\n", + "Christians didn't think the rapture was happening yesterday. A few mistakenly thought it might but most of us knew its gonna get a LOT worse before it's rapture time 1758731633.0\n", + "No one actually believed it, just a story spread to mock Christians. 1758731054.0\n", + "This is what happens when you believe in a sky god. 1758780814.0\n", + "Well, they didn't have to get left behind.  Im sure there is some perfectly good kool-aid they could have enjoyed to get to their ficticious holy place.  Clearly they are not truly committed to their imaginary friend.  1758733204.0\n", + "I didn’t even hear about this until i saw snarky comments about it on reddit. Is this another classic case of r/atheism letting people know how smart they are? 1758736729.0\n", + "I know lots of Christians but not one of them gave any credence to this rapture thing. I think non-believers are more interested in it than the vast majority of Christians. 1758747073.0\n", + "This post is a from a troll farm. Only post, no comment history. Why are these still being allowed on this sub? I live in the Bible Belt of America and the only place I seen/heard about a rapture is on Reddit. 1758753744.0\n", + "We are all disappointed but somehow we’re carrying on knowing we are apparently irredeemable for unknown reason. 1758753802.0\n", + "I'm a proud Christian and had no idea there was supposed to be a rapture, seems like a thing made up by non religious types to try and knock down true Christians...Jesus loves you all and stop falling for fake news 1758759404.0\n", + "This is like the kid pretending to be a cat and requesting litter boxes, anyone claiming it is most likely cashing in on views 1758760973.0\n", + "They already justified it somehow. Lmao it's what they do full time. 1758763544.0\n", + "Not sure, they do not seem to be home and they are not responding to my texts or answering my calls, yet I can see their car in their driveway.................. 1758769093.0\n", + "The rapture isn't even part of the Bible or a backstory  1758770237.0\n", + "Lots of people were beamed up. If you’re still here then… 1758781698.0\n", + "Fuck em 1758793247.0\n", + "My husband died yesterday. I like to pretend he was just raptured. 1758806531.0\n", + "As a Christian, I was a little disappointed today (September 25) when I woke up and realized I was still here. But to be honest, I’m doing fine. God gives us tests to strengthen our faiths and I have no doubt that this was a test.   1758841155.0\n", + "No one is left behind, the man known as \"Jesus\" - his name is Yeshua Ben Yosef of Nazareth - did return. He has been here since June 26.  His autobiography \"Take Down The Cross My Name is Not Jesus\" was published on that day in September.   So it is true he has returned he is here - the media, vatican and government are trying to cover it up.   He is openly publishing under Holy Divine artist ID on Amazon music and his identity is registered with US copyright office/library of congress.     As for The Rapture that story is a lie made up by a school teacher in the 1800's.  Yeshua is not going to fly down from the clouds, he established a tech company and a publishing company ahead of his arrival.    1760435986.0\n", + "Not necessarily about the Christians I know, just a thought to ponder regarding the rapture all together.\n", + "\n", + " The rapture did happen but not the way you think because although there is some truth in the bible it was hijacked long ago for political and power gains against the common people. But to believe this you need to realize God is all around us, he is the dirt under your feet, your neighbors dog, the homeless man on the street, the leaves, the sea, the sky and the universe. There is no one coming down to pluck you off this earth because we are all extensions OF him ON him. The rapture was him coming for his church because the physical church is corrupted. His real church is our minds, our spirits and the vessel that carries us. The rapture awakened some to realize this as a whole, that all religions are connected because we are all extensions of him, which means opening your third eye and rediscovering our true powers and the real connection to God. The raptured people now help awaken people to the matrix the elites have made to keep our vibrations down and not live how God intended, which isn't going to work. It's living as a community, living off God's creations not the fake stuff. The people who experienced the rapture now walk this physical world preaching what and who, God and Us are. To wake people up and truly connect. God is not indoors, he is outside, he is the sun, the wind, the water. Get outside, take your shoes off and ground yourself, truly connect to God. Eat healthy off God creations not the processed food and medicines that is slowly killing us. We have 5 years to prepare, 5 years to wake up and start living as we were intended because the entity that is the United States, Isreal and the Elites of this world are going to kill us if we keep allowing them to stray us farther from God and our true purpose. To LIVE, LOVE and ASCEND 1760895218.0\n", + "OP specifically titled this to make it seem like this was a mainstream Christian view in order to disparage them.\n", + "\n", + "edit: downvote me all you like, I'm right. There is a very strong dislike for Christians on reddit. 1758736573.0\n", + "No Christian knows what you’re talking about… but you don’t have to get ready if you stay ready! There’s a whole community outside of Reddit that leaves the house and will be at church on Sunday. You’re welcome to join us anytime, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed but it’s like exercise for your soul! 1758764715.0\n", + "LMFAO. That whole thing was a balloon blown up by Reddit leftists to pop later. I have heard 0 Christians saying anything about a rapture. 1758736163.0\n", + "The dumbasses do this every decade; they just have a much bigger megaphone, thanks social media!\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "MAGA! 1758732628.0\n", + "Not all of us believers adhere to the \"rapture\" concept of end of times.\n", + "\n", + "Many of us will ask a similar question of you: how are you handling the fact that \"what you bind on earth, you bind in heaven\" meaning: you will be the kind of person you are now and you will reside with people like you in that eternal world. So, if you are selfish, arrogant, foolish, hateful then that is what your eternal future holds for you and you get to live with similar people ..... forever (or until there is a way for you to change).\n", + "\n", + "So... you're creating your eternal future right how. How you doing with that? 1758733237.0\n", + "Maybe the end of the world was the start of the fall of Trump at the UN… 1758734484.0\n", + "[deleted] 1758737206.0\n", + "They should all go home and rethink their lives. Hopefully they’ll realize people don’t want their Death Kirks. 1758750421.0\n", + "Y’all won’t be laughing at it’s worst, promise that. 1758757252.0\n", + "No one knows any of these people and the shit on social media was for views. Maybe great grandma told someone she hopes it happens, but no one was really all-inn on this. Hence the absolute non-answers in this thread.\n", + "\n", + "I think more than anything this shows how one side wants to revel so badly in the \"stupidity\" of the other. And it just go back and forth and back and forth and back and forth. The only sheep I see are people that think everyone else is a sheep. 1758769541.0\n", + "Gotta ask, as a Christian and conservative, the only context I have for people thinking the rapture was happening this week was left wing propagandist social media. As in, if it wasn’t for the people making fun I wouldn’t have been aware.\n", + "\n", + "Was this even real or made up? We are in the day and age of “why wait when we can create” a controversy 1758736288.0\n", + "You thinking all of Christianity believes this is your own thing to sort out lmao 1758802401.0\n", + "Get a job 1758736070.0\n", + "It's no sillier to believe in the rapture than it is to believe in impending climate doom 1758821070.0\n", + "Wtf are you even talking about . If there is even a rapture it wont be for a while. Nothing indicating a rapture has happened 1758769766.0\n" + ] + } + ], + "source": [ + "toplevelcomments = []\n", + "\n", + "submission.comments.replace_more(limit=None) # limit=None\n", + "for top_level_comment in submission.comments:\n", + " print(top_level_comment.body, top_level_comment.created)\n", + " toplevelcomments.append([])" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 24, + "id": "9613f6eb-03df-42bf-9f06-19d99103435d", + "metadata": { + "scrolled": true + }, + "outputs": [ + { + "name": "stdout", + "output_type": "stream", + "text": [ + "I dont think youll ever make the cut then. I know i wont.\n", + "Spoiler alert: all the raptures were real, just very few make the actual cut and God keeps giving us another chance every few decades or so\n", + "\n", + "Twilight Zone ending : God said this was the last chance\n", + "Those are rookie numbers, I've lived through at least 10 raptures, 4 Mayan apocalypses, and 1 y2k\n", + "There can be as many as anyone wants. The Rapture is one of those things that seems important to Christianity but is entirely absent from the Bible.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "The Devil is another one of those. There's a serpent in the Garden of Eden and an angel who tempts Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, but they're unrelated (and the second one is explicitly in God's employ, to be sure that Christ understands the sacrifice he's making).\n", + "12th? Fucking hell. We must really suck.\n", + "Ya not even the first rapture this year.\n", + "Read this and thought \"only three? Are you old enough to be on Reddit?\"\n", + "I counted 45 for me from this list [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\\_of\\_dates\\_predicted\\_for\\_apocalyptic\\_events](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events)\n", + "Here's what Christians don't want to hear, but is well-known:\n", + "\n", + "First of all, the New Testament makes no reference to anything known as The Rapture, not even really in Revelations.\n", + "\n", + "The Book of Revelations regards not only a time where Christians were being hunted and murdered, but where they believed the return of Christ was *imminent*. They thought it was going to happen within their lifetimes; that Jesus would return and get justice against their persecutors. When this didn't happen (as it doesn't with all religious Doomsday scenarios), they pretty much said \"well, someday it'll happen, so let's keep saying it will and people will believe it.\"\n", + "\n", + "Strictly speaking, the Book of Revelations is actually very, very, very outdated. But hey, we all gotta believe something.\n", + "Y2k was nothing because a lot of programmers worked overtime fixing code to be ready for it.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Kinda like how you don't hear about the ozone hole anymore.  We banned the chemicals causing it in an international treaty in the 80s.\n", + "Harold Camping. LOL.\n", + "Cool. You didn't answer the question.\n", + "Now, for the twelfth time, we enter the Days of Darkness.\n", + "60 plus since I was born.\n", + "I'm still convinced Y2k actually happened all the computers shut everything down and some of us were left behind. Things got really stupid after that.\n", + "I guessed 5, but then decided to look it up. I counted 48, even more if I go by names instead of dates.\n", + "\n", + "You figure the religious would have learned by now and even their own book tells them otherwise, but they keep going.\n", + "I stopped counting at 30.\n", + "Currently have a 100% rapture avoidance rate...can that help me get a job?\n", + "I just sing to myself, \"It's just another day 🎶\"\n", + "Wait, there was a rapture?\n", + "If you lived in 2000, you experienced a couple dozen that year alone. That was the most popular year for doomsday predictions.\n", + "Macho Man Randy Savage died to prevent the rapture.  He was the cream of the crop and rose to the top. \n", + "It's like a drafting a fantasy team, but God keeps looking at the options and deciding to check the waiver wire instead.\n", + "Seth Rogen: Jesus fucking Christ.\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: You might wanna stay away from saying that.\n", + "\n", + "Seth Rogen: Jesus fucking Christ? Why? Why can't I say that?\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: One of the ten commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.\n", + "\n", + "Seth Rogen: Jesus isn't the name of the Lord. God is the name of the Lord.\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: Jesus and God is all the same.\n", + "\n", + "Jay Baruchel: It's a trinity.\n", + "\n", + "Craig Robinson: The Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost.\n", + "\n", + "James Franco: It's like Neapolitan ice cream.\n", + "I keep wishing one these damn things would actually work so we could finally get rid of all these people. The world would be such a better place.\n", + "According to Jehovah’s Witnesses there are only 144,000 available seats in heaven so it was very unlikely that there was room for anyone anyway. No Witness that’s currently alive will make it to heaven. You can ask them how that makes them feel. It should be the same answer the unraptured rapture folks would give you.\n", + "Thirteenth if you include the 1980 version by Blondie.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "https://youtu.be/pHCdS7O248g?si=GuxIcA1opr5v8vKW\n", + "Wild how many times it’s been predicted and people still keep waiting.\n", + "And a Mayan apocalypse!\n", + "OH MAN I remember the Mayan Apocalypse and Y2K, hahahahahahaha\n", + "There's probably countless raptures guessed at by kids wanting to be special. I personally made several predictions that (obviously) didn't go anywhere. This is just counting those that have been recorded or grown to a certain size. But they're all equally incorrect and ridiculous...\n", + "Which is especially odd when you consider the Rapture doesn't even have an actual basis in theology\n", + "Last time I went through a rapture, Macho Man Randy Savage was taken away from us.\n", + "\n", + "This time, a Macho Man Randy Savage biopic gets announced.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "There will be churches erected to this man.\n", + "Didja count all the subgenius X-days?\n", + "What if Rapture does really happen at the specified dates its just that almost very few make the cut that it didnt get newsworthy or sometimes the bar was so high that at one point nobody did...\n", + "How many raptures do you think there’ll be? An infinite amount!?!?!?\n", + "> This is like the third Rapture I've lived through.\n", + "\n", + "It's like Shedeur Sanders in the nfl draft, we finished 3 rounds and I am still here. getting real antsy.\n", + "As an 11 year old I was forced to attend the fundamentalist church in Orlando where Benny Hinn got his start. Besides him not being able to heal me from whatever, us kids were petrified of the inevitable rapture that was certain at least twice a year. Still waiting.\n", + "Dang so we are going through an annual rapture? So much like my New Year’s resolution I gotta make a rapture one too\n", + "There was the 2012 Mayan apocalypse that all the evangelicals were up in arms about, and then this one that were the two I've seen in recent times that were taken 'seriously' by believers. Of course both were absurd nonsense prima fascia to anyone bothering to do even the slightest bit of reading but convincing people to believe the scripture of a book they've never even read is one of modern Christianity's greatest feats.\n", + "I was invited to a rapture next week, but I’ve already made plans to go to a different rapture with my friend.\n", + "\n", + "It’s always so busy this time of year!\n", + "[removed]\n", + "I got a shirt that say's \"I survived the 13th Bʼakʼtun\"\n", + "You’re not given all your money away that’s why. I’ll look after it, or I can ship it you when you get there.\n", + "Hey, the Mayan apocalypse happened! It's just the date was wildly optimistic.\n", + "If we're talking the apocalypses on the Wikipedia page, I'm at 61. I think I'm up there with Buffy Summers, \"oh, there was another apocalypse? Well that's nice.\"\n", + "To be fair, not every \"end times\" prediction was also a _rapture_ prediction specifically. Like, most of them though.\n", + "21 for me, according to Wikipedia.💅 criteria: second coming of Christ.\n", + "The Mayan one was nuts, Iceland volcano erupted and was all over news lol\n", + "It's rapturin' time!\n", + "Just showing what a loving God he is, waiting until it's a bakers dozen.\n", + "[deleted]\n", + "Apparently god treats the rapture the way Hobbits treat breakfast.\n", + "Did you count Blondie's?\n", + "These assholes have gone from waiting for the rapture, to praying for the rapture and now finally doing everything they can to try to bring the rapture about. If watching the world burn means they finally get to be right it is a trade off they are willing to embrace with open arms.\n", + "Death cults be like that. \n", + "\n", + "I mean, what would we do if people couldn’t escape their life’s pain through a charlatan selling eternal happiness with your loved ones. \n", + "\n", + "World might become that very place.\n", + "I've had friends who, claimed to, completely believe several of those rapture forecasts were real. All I said to them was \"really?\". After the date passed we never spoke about it.\n", + "\n", + "It's really hard to not scream at them \"MAYBE YOUR BELIEFS ARE BULLSHIT AND YOU ARE A MORON.\" But that's not how you get those types of brains to start listening to what you say.\n", + "Rapture isn't real so they keep selling the idea.\n", + "Seriously though I wish I was good at art (and I refuse to use AI when it's for making money) but I wanna make a t-shirt to sell. On the front it would have Jesus descending from the heavens above and below him there would be a big city in ruins with people on fire running in the streets, dogs and cats having sex, nazis riding on the backs of dinosaurs, demons eating people, all kinds of fucked up imagry. Then on the back of the shirt in big gold letters across the top \"I survived the Apocalypse (Again)\" followed by [a list of all the dates the apocalypse was supposed to happen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events#20th_century)\n", + "Some are devoutly repentant, others confused; many seek community, pastors, and explanations, while a few double down.\n", + "Yeah I've been though quite a few... last big one I remember in the news people were selling pet sitting duties to Christians in the event they got raptured.\n", + "Out of the loop: Who declared a rapture?\n", + "I remember the Mayan apocalypse. I thought that one was pretty interesting and probably had more merit than the rest.\n", + "\n", + "Personally, I’m really disappointed that those people are still here. Maybe one day we will all be blessed with a proper rapture.\n", + "I'm gonna tell people that my aunt legitimately got raptured\n", + "Jesus Christ, do us all a favour and take them already. I’m so sick of this shit.\n", + "Haha, Wikipedia's rapture tally is the real holy book at this point—don't forget Harold Camping's 2011 double-whammy (May and October fails). I survived that one hiding under my bed with a family-sized Doritos bag. Which \"end times\" edition scarred you the most, or are we betting on the next TikTok prophet?\n", + "I remember finding a neat website years ago that let you check how many apocalypse predictions you've lived through, but I can't remember the name ;-;\n", + "Like the NFL draft over here. I’m not even 12th round pick. Damn.\n", + "Don’t forget Hale-Bopp. I even bought a new black Nike track suit and matching shoes.\n", + "Haha, 12 and counting—survived '11's Camping flop by hiding in mom's basement with Twinkies. If 13 hits, what's your bunker snack?\n", + "[removed]\n", + "Twelve whiffs? I'm the undisputed champ of eternal benchwarmers—blaming my Y2K Spam stash for the permanent snub.\n", + "You know that means you were just left behind 12 times. So sad 😞\n", + "Maybe one of them was the real one, but only like one or two people qualified so nobody noticed. Anyone go missing today?\n", + "Those are only the ones we know about. When I was in the mental hospital, there was a woman who told me she was a \"bride of Christ\" and that the rapture would be coming next Tuesday (it didn't). I'm sure tons of Christians and Christian groups have expected thousands of raptures over the years.\n", + "See, they've actually all been correct, just no one has been worthy\n", + "This one didn't even wake me up. At least Y2K was fun.\n", + "I told my wife, who hadn’t heard about this week’s rapture, about it this morning. She looked at me and said straight faced “dang…missed it again.” I died laughing.\n", + "I missed a rapture prediction!?! Damn, I hate that. What if it really happened this time? Id look so stupid.\n", + "I’m waiting to repent until I max my osrs account.\n", + "Imagine like three people went missing each time though.\n", + "the best judgement day was Terminator\n", + "I created a wish list for books to help me through my depression https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2XALQQ8RZK4B1?ref_=wl_share\n", + "My grandma, a highly religious woman, died on one of the rapture days. It roughly lines up with the time when the whole world went to shit, so I've been saying it happened in 2011.\n", + "The Rapture is specifically the Christian apocalypse when God takes all the true believers and leaves the rest of us behind\n", + "Thankfully, my car wasn't eaten this time.\n", + "Are you counting Harold Camping as 1 or 2 raptures?\n", + "Huh. I thought it was way more than 12. How many times did that one preacher guy keep moving the date when it kept not happening?\n", + "I was terrified of 2012 as a kid\n", + "I didnt get left behind, you did. Its not complicated.\n", + "I was in Tulum on the day Mayan calendar ended and that massive storm that rolled in freaked us out. Also riding the catamaran ferry in 12' waves back to Cozumel was intense. \n", + "I have a theory that the rapture actually happened already and only like 3 people disappeared.\n", + "The entire religion is based around a guy that mistakenly predicted the apocalypse and his return within his disciples' lifetimes. Christianity really takes the cake for the \"Fell For It Again\" awards.\n", + "https://istodaytherapture.com/\n", + "Turns out they're more like rounded drafts\n", + "> Twelfth\n", + "\n", + "This is the first time I can remember seeing twelfth spelled out instead of 12th. It's slightly disconcerting. Probably because I always pronounce it *twelth*.\n", + "Y2K is gonna happen any day now.\n", + ">Mayab, non-specific Judgment Days, and Y2K need not apply.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Apocalypse snobs & gatekeepers ruin all the fun.\n", + "Hold the fuck up... The Myan's didn't say it was the end of the world, but the end of an era. \n", + "\n", + "I don't think anyone would fight me on the idea that at the end of 2012 was probably when shit started getting progressively weirder and weirder by the year.\n", + "How are the snacks?\n", + "Of course the wifi is good. You are inside the cloud.\n", + "I actually paid them fifty thousand dollars to send me back down. I wasn't into that scene.\n", + "Are there enough chairs?\n", + "lets go to the taco, cheesecake, beer and weed tasting place tonight for dinner.\n", + ">The WiFi is pretty good surprisingly\n", + "\n", + "This was unironically a major issue I had with the idea of heaven when I was a kid. I remember I used to love to play MW2 when I got home from school at the end of the day and I remember thinking about how if I died and went to heaven, I wouldn't be able to play call of duty with my friends. And how could it be heaven without that? \n", + "\n", + "That said, I still remember a dream I had not long after my grandma died. I dreamt I went to heaven to visit her. But heaven wasn't all white clouds and shit, I went to her house. The house my grandpa built that she lived in almost until she died. She moved in with us at the end, but that was her home. And I remember I was kinda scared knocking on the door. But when I did it was my grandma who answered and she was inside hanging out with my grandpa, who had died when I was a baby. The whole dream was just spending the day with them. It helped a lot with processing her death. If there is a heaven, I hope that's what it is. Just a place where we can go and be with the ones we love. Nothing extravagant, I don't need riches and comfort beyond belief. I just want what we have here with some of the bullshit removed, ya know?\n", + "I hear there's a shortage of chairs. Is that true?\n", + "What’s reddit doing in heaven? \n", + "He's lying, heaven has their own reddit!\n", + "HEY! I made that joke yesterday!\n", + "Can I have your car? Gave mine away, thinking I made the cut...\n", + "Damn, that's what's up. When you see the big guy tell em' I said \"why?\"\n", + "Starting youre own \"I'm in heaven\" AMA thread within a thread I see.\n", + "\n", + "How's the view?\n", + "They got VPN? Virtual Pious Network?\n", + "Joke's on you. I like it here.\n", + "Have they changed the WiFi password yet? Last time it was INRI and I told them it was too easy to guess.\n", + "Say hi to all the pets who've gone on ahead, please.\n", + "WiFi being good is to be expected. It is heaven after all.\n", + "I did their wifi, they were really invested in doing it right\n", + "Lucky. I've got the room next to the noisy ice machine.\n", + "I reckon it feels good over there. 😂😊\n", + "What’s the WiFi password?\n", + "Is the rumored chair shortage real?\n", + "\\*Joke's\n", + "There’s no Villa fans in heaven\n", + "What's the wifi password up there? Is it '[jesuschristismyn\\*gga\\*](https://youtu.be/F74zwVO9JaU?list=RDF74zwVO9JaU)'?\n", + "That’s why it’s heaven, blazing fast internet speeds for free/s\n", + "Is there a shortage of chairs?\n", + "How is OJ doing?\n", + "And yet you can get on reddit with the riffraff, huh?\n", + "Can u ask God \"wtf\" and also if he drops 10k in my account I will convert.\n", + "Y'all are closer to Musk's satellites, so of course the reception's solid.\n", + "There's Reddit in heaven? Fuck that\n", + "Yes, the wifi's good, but unfortunately Netflix is only available in Spanish and Korean ....\n", + "Is the weed any good?\n", + "I know you're lying because if Heaven is real then reddit is nowhere near it.\n", + "You don't need all that karma in heaven. Leave some for us!\n", + "Why would any part of this be funny? Are you allowed to be Christian on Reddit? Like if I read the Bible do I get kicked off?\n", + "You don’t get a heaven verified check mark or anything?\n", + "Are David Bowie and Prince up there? I miss them\n", + "Did you have your first meal of Big Mac and Diet Coke yet?\n", + "Oh thank god.\n", + "\n", + "..hah.\n", + "The conservatives say you can thank Elohim Musk's FirmamentLink for that, but I don't buy it\n", + "> The WiFi is pretty good surprisingly\n", + "\n", + "As an Australian and an atheist, I’m now really torn…\n", + "Your fetish allowed up there ?\n", + "\n", + "Also, are you walking on clods from water or evaporated cum from all the spilled seed that are considered muredersd babies?\n", + "Thanks to Hedy!\n", + "I mean, here in the US we are definitely living in hell\n", + "Are there hot girls or mostly dudes\n", + "What's the password?\n", + "\n", + "I bet it's 12345...\n", + "Are you dumb? You’re in heaven. Why wouldn’t the WiFi be good? wtf. \n", + "What’s the WiFi password?\n", + "Like, am I supposed to have an idea about what is going on? Reddit sure acts like it is common knowledge.\n", + "[removed]\n", + "FYI, this has been happening before idiots on tiktok ever existed\n", + "The whole idea of rapture is such an American thing in genral. I am not Christian but the one i know is just normal people who have very little in common with their American counterparts. They do not believe thay people will come one day and smite the non-believers.\n", + "I think this one was legit but they were so late getting the word out that the rest of us were like, “What, tomorrow? No. No good. You have to give at least a week” and then they huddled together, grumbled amongst themselves for a bit and said, “Fine. We won’t do it. Jerks.” and that was that. I’m pretty sure…\n", + "I mean, the concept of the \"Rapture\" was made up in the 19th century and that verse is talking about the second coming which is a different thing. But, yeah, according to the Bible not even Jesus knows when he's coming back.\n", + "Is this an American thing? I've never heard Christians in Europe discuss rapture. And I was raised Catholic in Poland, so pretty hard core.\n", + "Anybody who calls themself a Christian who thinks they know when the Rapture is going to happen a) hasn't read the Bible, and b) is probably divorced enough from reality anyways to convince themself that they DID get raptured and now are living in Heaven.\n", + "Yeah, this. I’m a Christian and have long considered any prediction of the second coming or rapture to be a fool’s errand. I have no respect for Christians who try and predict it - that tells me everything I need to know about them.\n", + "No one expects the four horsemen\n", + "Theologically literate people know that Matthew also shows right before the verse you're quoting that Jesus is saying, \"Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.\"\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "Jesus himself believed his second coming would happen in the lifetime of his disciples. Paul believed Jesus second coming would happen in his lifetime too. \n", + "But most only start quoting this as an excuse after the rapture they'd been hyping doesnt happen.\n", + "\"I'll get around to it when I feel like it! You don't have to keep pestering me.\" - Gawd\n", + "So few people though\n", + "At the height of the popularity of the Left Behind series, our local (Episcopal) priest became uncharacteristically animated while making this exact point, and declared from the lectern that the belief in rapture was “heresy”. That’s not a word you hear often in an Episcopalian homily!\n", + "Imagine being part of the Christian fandom and not knowing the lore. It's like, why are you even here, Bernice? You're a poser, not a real fan.\n", + "Yes we only get our info from the real non-scam bible\n", + "[removed]\n", + "And two verse before that one:\n", + "\n", + "\"Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.\" Matthew 24:34\n", + "\n", + "The context is jesus explaining the sign of the end times. It seems pretty clear that the ends times were supposed to happen during the generation of jesus.\n", + "Religion is more than any sacred texts it reveres or uses. It's what people do. If you set off fireworks on Christmas, that's part of your religion. If you ignore parts of texts, that's part of your religion. I don't think there's anyone who could possibly follow all of the sacred texts of Christianity because certain parts like Proverbs are just collections of aphorisms that contradict each other. \n", + "\n", + "These are intentionally back to back in Proverbs: \n", + " \n", + "“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you also be like him.”\n", + "\n", + "and \n", + "\n", + "“Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.”\n", + "\n", + "Obviously you can't follow both simultaneously.\n", + "\n", + "The point is, as the Chinese would put it, to have a \"belly full of ink.\" You learn general ideas and apply them as appropriate. It would be nearly impossible to follow both of those directives at the same time in every situation.\n", + "\n", + "If you kept just trying to follow every line verbatim in the Bible you'd end up in a padded room. And I don't think there are really any religions are reduced to simply the texts that they claim as foundational. There's always a culture surrounding them and other various practices.\n", + "The rest of us really want those people to suddenly vanish overnight. So let's hold out a little hope.\n", + "Just falling for the big scam then?\n", + "Which christians are allowed sex before marriage now hard to keep track of what’s a real Christian or not with all these spin offs\n", + "This. Sad but true.\n", + "Made even better by the weirdly specific number of people who will get raptured. Somewhere around 135k people from memory. In today’s age that means the yearly number of people who go missing is statistically bad but not unusual enough to raise any flags.\n", + "I mean….theyre still falling for a rapture scam by letting a fairytale govern their worldview and behavior.\n", + "But what if someone guessed the right date? Would God change it so they wouldn't keep banging on about being right?\n", + "I dunno if you’ve noticed but we seem to be in very short supply of real Christians lately…\n", + "There are a lot of parts of that book that many \"Christians\" just choose to ignore.\n", + "Also I don’t recall the number but it’s like “we’ll take like 400k folks and that’s it” it clearly states the amount of people who would be raptured and it’s like a medium sized US CITY worth of folks. So a hell of a lot of the christers would be left behind\n", + "I always love that real Christians thing. I really doubt it has anything to do with whether they're real Christians or not probably has to do whether they've been misled.\n", + "Are “real Christians” in the room with us right now?\n", + "I was immediately thinking, “But doesn’t Jesus say it will happen like a thief in the night and no one will know when it happens? What value is there in thinking you figured out when it will happen?”\n", + "\n", + "Weird people man\n", + "LOL \"Real Christians\"\n", + "I mean technically the day being referred to here is not the rapture.\n", + "I just… none of that is real. \n", + "\n", + "Hope this helps!\n", + "\n", + "They fall for a magic book and an invisible sky wizard instead.\n", + "If Jesus doesn’t know when the rapture is, some lonely white woman in her basement doesn’t either.\n", + "> Real Christians know their lore\n", + "\n", + "I am gonna start calling Scripture Lore in my church and see how long I can get away with it.\n", + "\n", + "It's cool, they know my shenanigans.\n", + "I'm gonna write a book. Every line is just a date, and me predicting the second coming of Christ. He ain't never coming back.\n", + "This.\n", + "Evangelicals are allergic to Matthew especially!\n", + "While it's a very valid point, to get there you had to go through 7:3: \"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?\"\n", + "\n", + "The passage you quote seems to suggest that Jesus is not aware of the date, which surely must be wrong as you all decided that he was God all along. Another idea that came late but was suddenly gospel. Not quite as late as the rapture but late nonetheless.\n", + "Real Christians don’t believe the words of the Bible are to be adhered to verbatim to begin with \n", + "I mean... its the same rule for Half Life 3 right?\n", + "I'm not even Christian, but I do happen to know that because of the passage that you wrote, according to Scripture, it's a sin (a deadly one, no less) to try to figure out when the Apocalypse is coming, because doing so would be an act of pride by attempting to put yourself on the same level of knowledge as God.\n", + "And even if Christ will return, I do believe that Christians will have to SUFFER through the 7 years before it just like how Christ suffered on the cross.\n", + "\n", + "How can you be a Christian and want to escape suffering, when that is exactly what you signed up for in the first place.\n", + "You mean that Matthew fella from TicTok?\n", + "\n", + "/s\n", + "Yea they’re just normally delusional and not terminally delusional so it’s fine right\n", + "“Real” Christians don’t run around proclaiming themselves as such. They let good deeds tell the story. Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, house the homeless. Give of yourself to help those in need.\n", + "Sounds like a childish scam to keep everyone frightened for all eternity.\n", + "\n", + "...\n", + "“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God”\n", + "\n", + "How many Christians do you know who have given away all their wealth and live like paupers as Jesus very clearly and insistently told them to?\n", + "\n", + "If “real Christians” know their lore yet totally ignore it, then they’re not real Christians\n", + "well they didn't know when he wrote that. now i know. it's right after everyone gives me their property\n", + "There is no such thing as a “real Christian”, which is why they fall for these scams.\n", + "to be fair, this one did try to loophole their way through that by attaching it to the feast of trumpets\n", + "It says that no one knows the day or hour, but it never says that nobody knows the year, month, or week. ;)\n", + "All organized religion is a scam, one way or the other.\n", + "\n", + "As an adult in 2025, I would not recommend anyone putting too much stake into what a heavily editorialized collection of greatest hits fantasy short stories of the last few millenias has to say about anything, really. Nor what *some guy* who spent a decade practicing public speaking and have read them maybe twice has to say about what they mean.\n", + "They just fall for the religious scam.\n", + "This is why we always RTFM first……says it right in the good book lol\n", + "I’ve always assumed “rapture” and “ the apocalypse” and other such “events” were just metaphors for death in general. \n", + "\n", + "You don’t know when you gonna die. Maybe tonight. Maybe next week. May even be in 34.716 years. So… be reddy yo.\n", + "Using scripture to counter scripture is never going to win that battle because people can always decide on their own what scripture counts and what doesn't, what scripture means this vs that... it's something every christian - and really every religious person - does, even ones who don't believe in the rapture.\n", + "TBF Jesus in Matthew was talking about the coming of the “Son of Man” as as a “he” not a “I” or “me”. The meaning has been greatly debated since Matthew wrote it in Greek.\n", + "False. Anyone who actually goes through the process of reading the Bible would no longer be Christian.\n", + "They didnt know the day. It was constantly being debated between 23rd or 24th. Checkmate bible verse\n", + "You will be surprised how many Christians that know their Bible and read it daily STILL fall for this stuff. They have mush for brains. \n", + "The more studious ones (the guys reading tons of commentries and translations) though won't fall for it.\n", + "It’s almost like they are supposed to be good Christian’s 100% of the time and not pick and choose when to be good and then “pray and ask forgiveness” every time they are a complete asshole. \n", + "That general theme is prominent in all Abrahamic Religions. It’s considered not to be the business of Humans when the world will end. You’re supposed to do best with the time given to you, however long that may be.\n", + "The Jesus chapter where he kills a fig tree has a good story and lesson for people. \n", + "Something something: \"Know a person for the fruit that they bear. Know the false messiah for the fruit that they bear\" \n", + "Something along those lines. I think to sum it up is that you can know if someone is good or bad, or that their teachings are good or wrong, by how their life is, or the results of like.. \n", + "..I'm not sure how to phrase things. Maybe you can do better explaining it?\n", + "You know it's ridiculous when my relatively conservative Christian coworker was clowning on the \"rapture\" this week.\n", + "Thank you! Exactly. People constantly making predictions is getting on my nerves.\n", + "\"lore\"\n", + "\n", + "fairy tales\n", + "If 'real' christians actually knew their bible lore, then they're absolute monsters. It's chock full of rape, incest, genocide, and slavery. But most christians only know what was drilled into them at sunday school, 'the lord is loving', 'god loves you', etc etc.\n", + "\n", + "They never actually go over the horrific parts of it. That's why I feel pity for the christians that only know their religion from what their pastor preaches to them. But I feel absolute disgust towards those that KNOW of the dark side of the bible and are ok with it.\n", + "\n", + "[https://www.evilbible.com/](https://www.evilbible.com/)\n", + "This. All become some South African pastor said it was going to happen. Sounds more like a Nigerian prince IMO.\n", + "All of Christianity is a rapture scam lol\n", + "the whole damn bible is a rapture scam bruh\n", + "Yeah, where the hell are these people? I saw a couple FB screenshots on reddit, but I'm not aware of anyone I know crazy enough to actually think the rapture was actually going to happen.\n", + "Yeah, just a bunch of wackos on social media trying to get clicks and attention\n", + "Redditor sees an extremely fringe Cristian belief and thinks every single on of them believes it.\n", + "\n", + "One of my friends is Cristian and they didn't even know about it until I joked about it to them yesterday.\n", + "I've seen a ton of my leftist friends joking about it and not one Christian mentioning it. Of course it's all the ones that repeatedly announce their social media purges.\n", + "Correct. Bible thumper here. Didn’t even know about it until I saw the memes on /r/dankchristianmemes\n", + "Ok so I'm not the only one who thinks that many Christians didn't actually believe it was going to happen. And even though I am a liberal I think it was blown out of proportion from other people who are anti Evangelism and stuff.\n", + "That's sort of how the internet works. Makes a small amount of people seem like a large community of people.\n", + "Yeah the tiktoks, many many of them were joking\n", + "Almost as if the internet (and reddit specifically) love to exaggerate things so they feel superior to others!\n", + "\n", + "Like holy hell, I'm the farthest thing from a christian (but also not an annoying atheist) and even I knew that not one actual god fearing christian believed this would happen. Regardless of my non-beliefs I do respect other peoples choice to.\n", + "\"you will know neither the day nor the hour\" is pretty unambiguous in scripture, so for the most part it's just weird alternate cult groups who seem to keep perpetuating this idea about knowing when the world will end. Nothing really new or even unique to chistianity there.\n", + "There are way more people making jokes about it than earnestly expected anything to happen.\n", + "\n", + "I wouldn’t be surprised if pushing the views of a tiny handful of people were a psyop of some sort.\n", + "Thats what I wondered about. I don’t know many Christians but when I asked one he knew nothing of it. Part of me thinks it was all a joke.\n", + "I got one of the extreme outliers among the bunch of Christians I know. She still texting trying to last minute convert me and my wife before being lifted somewhere.\n", + "Wait was that a thing? I’m a Catholic and didn’t know people believed that.\n", + "\n", + "I don’t know a single person that believed that. But yeah, at least people who know about being catholic know no one but god knows.\n", + "Because they're too good to be raptured? /s\n", + "I wish I didn't know any of them. My sister and a family friend fell HARD for it. At first I thought I should have them admitted but then I thought maybe they ate good shrooms and it will wear off. Nope. I had to block them both; apparently they decided they needed to save my soul before THEY were raptured. Crazy. \n", + "This time. I know at least one that was completely convinced by the Blood Moon over Israel thing.\n", + "Do you think they gave up on the rapture [after this one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QynNpzqYt0Y)?\n", + "I’m going to very shyly come out and say I’m related by marriage (husband’s brother and his wife) to fanatics who believed it to the point they sent emails to everyone making sure they’re ready. \n", + "\n", + "My husband told me they were very quiet last night when he saw them. Their obsession from the past couple of weeks wasn’t even mentioned.\n", + "\n", + "My husband and I joked that instead of dropping in to see them last night we should have pretended he’d been raptured and they must have been left behind. But we decided their ego wouldn’t take it and although it’s what they deserve, we don’t have time for the aftermath. \n", + "\n", + "My MIL, the narcissist who got her family involved in the evangelical church and who has spent her life believing she’s above everyone because she has a special relationship with God that nobody else has, strangely never even mentioned anything about the rapture to anyone before it was supposed to happen and hasn’t mentioned anything since.\n", + "Not a Christian but I deal feel the second coming yesterday.\n", + "The ones I know were too busy salivating over Charlie Kirk's funeral to notice the scheduled rapture\n", + "It's an Evangelical thing, since rapture theology was invented by a 19th century Evangelical named Darby. Most Christians don't believe in the Rapture, though Evangelicals deny that anyone but themselves are actually Christians. They are very narcissistic and also very gullible, since they have been trying and failing to predict their Rapture for the last 150 years.\n", + "It’s a TikTok thing sadly\n", + "Guessing the day like spiritual Bingo is definitely not a biblical thing.\n", + "I'm a christan and I've never believed in the rapture. It's not even scriptural. It makes no sense to me.\n", + "There's a little overlap there.\n", + "It’s the same picture\n", + "They're\\_the\\_same\\_picture.jpg\n", + "...too easy...\n", + "Yep\n", + "Someone missed out on playing the craziest prank on their loved ones. Imagine their loved one wakes up in the morning and they just see a pile of clothes on the floor with shoes, socks, jewelry, and sunglasses as if the person just evaporated. They think the person got raptured and they're still here wondering where everything went wrong.\n", + "I'm a Christian, and I have Christian friends and family - none of them heard about or were discussing this.\n", + "My Christian friends all roll their eyes at Rapture proclamations. I don't think it's that they don't believe it will happen but the bible is pretty clear that no one, not even Jesus, would see it coming.\n", + "I’m family with some EXTREMELY religious people, and the only place I’ve even heard about this is on Reddit..\n", + "I'll just add that no one outside the US bought into that. I am actually learning about this \"rapture\" while stumbling on this post.\n", + "Agreed, the Bible flat out says people will claim to have visions knowing the date of the end times and they’re wrong.\n", + "Indeed. The majority of Christians do not believe specifically in *rapture* — that is, they don't believe that at the end of the world, the good will be bodily summoned to heaven while the Earth below becomes effectively a hellscape — in the first place.\n", + "\n", + "And among those that do, only a tiny minority believe it's even *possible* to predict the date, since Matthew 24:36 says directly \"about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.\"\n", + "Its a exploit thing like \"Rapture is coming so all old people gone senile should donate all your money to your mega-church.\"\n", + "Give him a minute\n", + "The same folks what waited for hours for JFK Jr to come back from the dead had set their sights a wee bit higher this time, full on evangelical rapture\n", + "Dont know about rapture or christians but humanity as we know it will definitely be extinct at some point in time.\n", + "I mean isn’t the whole idea of a magical rapture strictly something idiots believe in?\n", + "Yeah I didn’t even know this was a thing until I saw this post\n", + "Well, and idiot Christian thing\n", + "I only wish. The one friend still has texts coming in at my wife's phone (almost 6:00pm, Eastern timezone) and it is even more frantic than this morning.\n", + "\n", + "Boy is she going to be weirded out when she wakes up tomorrow morning. My wife said she also might regretful for giving a whole bunch of stuff away, but I doubt it - they got some serious coin. Shopping spree!\n", + "I feel like the idea of a rapture is a perfect example of human vanity; to think that the world ending would have anything to do with 1 species of bipedal monkeys is peak main character syndrome. We’re all just barely sentient fuzz growing on a cosmic rock.\n", + "If you can convince a ton of people to substitute \"reason\" with \"faithful obedience\" you have a ton of idiots that will do and believe whatever you want. At some point as a believer you have to take a couple steps back and go \"What exactly is going on here?\"\n", + "Huh the Venn diagram is a near perfect circle…\n", + "Well put.\n", + "It's more of a Christian idiot thing than a Christian imbecile thing.\n", + "I can hardly think of anything more idiotic than having an imaginary friend.\n", + "The venn diagram of those 2 is nearly a perfect circle.\n", + "Well.... They go hand in hand a lot.\n", + "Those are the same thing\n", + "The venn diagram of the two is a circle\n", + "Pardon me. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference.\n", + "Tomato tomato\n", + "Idiot, Christian, tomato, tomato\n", + "That Venn Diagram is a circle.\n", + "That Venn diagram is a circle. (Source: went to fundie school, am jaded)\n", + "They’re kinda synonymous. \n", + "That Venn diagram is nearly a circle\n", + "I think I’m the idiot, wishing and hoping that all Christians would vanish in the rapture. \n", + "\n", + "There are probably 1 in 10000 or less so called Christians that would qualify.\n", + "The Venn Diagram is pretty much just one circle there.\n", + "Oddly the only people I see excitedly awaiting the rapture every time it is supposed to happen are Christians.\n", + "Are those two things mutually exclusive?\n", + "... there is an overlap\n", + "There's a Venn diagram\n", + "Venn circle\n", + "They’re synonymous\n", + "Yeah at this point that Venn diagram is just a circle\n", + "redundant\n", + "Bro, the Venn diagram of \"idiot\" and \"Christian\" is a circle.\n", + "As they say, hate to admit with that kind of magical thinking the Venn diagram is pretty close to a circle. Believing in things through faith and your gut feels like a mental illness to me. Observable facts and data or gtfo. LOL\n", + "It's both. Those two are not mutually exclusive. If you believe in the bible, you'll believe in anything.\n", + "That's the same thing, no?\n", + "No I'm pretty confident that only Christians believe in the rapture. Dumb Christians, sure, but all still Christians. The venn diagram of this group is a circle.\n", + "tomayto, tomahto\n", + "Lots of overlap in those two groups. Venn diagram that looks like a partial eclipse.\n", + "But you repeat yourself. \n", + "why not both ?\n", + "Difference being?\n", + "What’s the difference?\n", + "That Venn diagramm is a circle with another circle inside of it.\n", + "The intersection between those two groups is humongous. \n", + "Can you point out the difference, I'm struggling to find any between the two.\n", + "For those of us out of the loop, where did this idea come from and why?\n", + "This is too logical for Reddit. I don’t know any Christians from our church or otherwise that said anything about a rapture. I didn’t even know there was supposed to be one until I saw the atheist critics making fun of it. This was not some widespread belief among all people of faith. You might be able to find some crazy cultish church rambling about it, but this wasn’t an “every Christian believes this” type of deal. \n", + "\n", + "They don’t care. If it’s an opportunity to sling shit at Christians they will jump all over it. Facts, logic, and perspective mean nothing to these people. Just throw dumbass memes to the echo chamber and convince yourself this is true and all Christians believed it. They just don’t care about being right and never will.\n", + "Yeah I thought that was just a goofy meme, not that people actually believed it. I'm not a Christian anymore but trust me I would have been hearing it from family, coworkers, and a couple friends.\n", + "Yeah only about half of Christians believe in the rapture anyways and even they knew it wasn't gonna be yesterday\n", + "I only heard of it this time because my friends, mothers pastor told his congregation it was likely to happen. They are out there, but it seems like it was just the wackiest of the wacky.\n", + "That’s pretty psycho. Thousands of people not sharing it as illusion, globally, but pretending to.\n", + "It was an exercise for the drama students on TikTok to practice their ‘to camera’ work.\n", + "This reminds me of another one called Q… atheists are struggling with fact v. fiction harder than any of us right now so I genuinely have the upmost of sympathy because I used to be an atheist myself.\n", + "I know a single person who believed it. She’s now saying that it’s going to happen in 7 days because Noah was on the Ark for 7 days before the flood came. It’s wild because she is normally a very reasonable person and her brother, who I know better, is a pastor of a church. He has no idea where this came from either.\n", + "\n", + "It’s bonkers to me.\n", + "Man, I wish I could say the same. There was a legit group, albiet small, maybe 5 people, in my town that were out waiting for it to happen outside in a nearby neighborhood. Was it as widespread? No, of course not, but the fact anyone was got by it is sad.\n", + "It's an Evangelical Protestant concept and one that tends to be centered on evangelicals in North America.\n", + "> But in my actual life, I haven't seen any Christians even giving it a moment of thought.\n", + "\n", + "On the other side of that coin: I live in the South and the Megachurch across the street from my neighborhood entrance had their LED marquee sign out front showing messages about preparing for the rapture all weekend and this past Monday. Yesterday it was back to their usual \"Join us for worship services, Sunday 9:00am\"\n", + "I only heard about it from people mocking it\n", + "Agree with all of this. I grew up Methodist and never heard of \"rapture\" until I dated a girl in my 20s whose family was evangelical.\n", + "My far right Christian family believes the rapture is coming in their lives\n", + "The thing is, saying \"I'm a Christian\" without specifying which denomination gives people very little knowledge about your belief system. You could be anywhere form Catholic to Mormon to Evangelical to Lutheran, all which have wildly different and incompatible cosmologies and theologies.\n", + "\n", + "For a certain group of very powerful Christians (Evangelicals), the rapture is extremely real and is going to happen (hopefully) within their lifetime.\n", + "I know some who believed it. Not enough to sell their stuff though.\n", + "I was at a committee meeting at my church last night it never came up. This thread is the second time I heard of it; the first was a co-worker jokingly asking if we had heard the big news on TikTok.\n", + "\n", + "Even in my parents' more conservative church (I was raised Reformed but am now Methodist) rapture stuff was always viewed more skeptically as a weird fringe thing like snake-handling where there's only a few places that actually believe in and do it but it's weird so they get a lot of attention in broader culture.\n", + "Unfortunately, real Christians really do believe this. My parents and the church I grew up in believed in this sort of thing long before TikTok or even social media was invented. I spent my entire childhood living in fear of the apocalypse and the rapture. In fact, every September was a guarantee for this because the favorite theory in my church was that the rapture would happen on Rosh Hashanah.\n", + "I was just at church today to eat dinner. They have community dinners on Wednesday nights for $5. \n", + "\n", + "I didn't hear \"rapture\" all night. The first time I heard \"rapture\" today was this Reddit thread. I didn't see a single social media thing about rapture all day other than this thread. \n", + "\n", + "The 2012 Armageddon I could understand a lot of people believing it. Because there was a lot of social media about it, a lot of videos, and 2012 the movie. One of my favorite disaster movies. And there was *some* ancient mythology about 2012 being the apocalypse. I didn't see anything about today being some sort of mythological apocalypse.\n", + "> I personally don't even think the rapture is a real Christian concept. \n", + "\n", + "Hooooo boy when has this ever been a precondition?\n", + "I was part of an Evangelical Christian group in the late 90s and when the year 2000 was coming, there was discussion about what if this was the year for it, but with the same energy that you tell you friends, \"some day, wouldn't it be nice to travel to Europe? See the Eiffel Tower?\", except that the latter is treated with FAR more plausibility that maybe some day college graduates could save up enough money for a trip. \n", + "\n", + "The sentiment wasn't really, \"I expect to be raptured in 2000\" and more like, \"wouldn't it be neat to ascend to heaven early?\"\n", + "Yeah this was literally the first I've heard of it as well. Also if you don't mind a random question from a curious stranger on the interwebz do you believe in free will? Like, I have Christian family members and some are all about free will being super important as a gift God has given them and just as many others are more into the concept that their path through life was already set in stone from before they were born and they are just kind of \"going through the story\" (my phrasing not theirs)\n", + "I always think this stuff is just an internet hoax until these people gather in real life.\n", + "Mass hysteria? \n", + "\n", + "You are describing your religion.\n", + "As far as it being a “real” Christian concept, my dad was an evangelical pastor in the 60s and 70s before he died. He went to TN Temple University for his studies. He taught the rapture in his churches. All of the churches my mom took us to after he died in the 80’s and 90’s were teaching this stuff and really pushing the idea that 2000 was the year it was going to happen. \n", + "\n", + "I haven’t been to church in decades now but still have family and friends that go and they’re still teaching the same stuff. The rapture is a big deal in these churches. I’ve seen a lot of them really ramping up with the craziness since 2016. They really believe these are the end times. \n", + "Actually, there's is a passage in the Bible (I don't remember what book or verse) but it says two farmers were working in the field, then one of them suddenly vanished but all his clothes were left laying on the ground. This is obviously a reference to the rapture, but it's the only reference to the rapture in the Bible, but it's good enough for me. What else could it possibly by referring to, so the rapture And the fact that it will happen is true\n", + "I mean even if something like this *were* to happen. Why would you float into the sky? To go where? There's nothing up there, it's space. Heaven is not up there. This is my problem with Jesus' ascension. Where did he go? Why did he float up into the sky?\n", + "Regarding your last full paragraph, it's the biblical version of Half Life 3.\n", + "So what happens after Christ's return and when does everyone who \"got saved\" go to heaven if not then? And they're supposed to leave heaven again and judge the poor lost schmucks later.... Or something \n", + "Just chiming in to say I love Dan McClellan. I came across him on tiktok a year or two ago and he has helped me understand things tremendously.\n", + "> There is no evidence ~~to support the notion that Jesus Christ is returning to sweep his followers up into the clouds.~~\n", + "\n", + "It's religion. There is no evidence period.\n", + "Oh, darn it all to heck! One of my favorite jokes, when I see random clothes laying in the street (esp if several pieces), is to point and say \"Aww, they got raptured!\" Now I have to find a new joke that denigrates religion! Dag. Nabbit.\n", + "One of the best deaths from Six Feet Under concerns the rapture and shows how someone might just think it was happening:\n", + "\n", + "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5QKOsSEw18\n", + "When I was a kid, I did not want to be raptured, so every night I would say something like \"I bet Jesus is coming tonight\". Trapped in your own logic, bible.\n", + "So someone changed something in the Bible or at least made a huge deal about it in the christian community. The term rapture was a spread world wide. Dont you think that could have happened when they made the first testaments in the first place ?\n", + "He's a doctor. Can't you tell by his colorful thumbnails and 1911 videos? He's got a PATREON ffs.\n", + "\n", + "Everyone knows science needs big eyed thumbs and a \"like and subscribe\" at the end of his \"studies.\"\n", + "\n", + " \n", + "Sheesh. I didn't get the memo there was a rapture, or the previous 12.\n", + "\n", + "Where's the complaint window?\n", + "You got the verse correct and the original word is in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 and is harpazo, which means to be caught up or snatched away, in the latin translation it's rapiemur, root word rapio, which is why the word rapture is used. \n", + "\n", + "*Note the root word harpazo is conjugated here in greek translation, but that's still it. \n", + "[Greek translation](https://biblehub.com/interlinear/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm) \n", + " \n", + "*And also rapio/rapere here as rapiemur \n", + "[Latin translation](https://www.biblestudytools.com/vul/1-thessalonians/4-17.html) \n", + "\n", + "Irenaeus (130 A.D. – 202 AD), bishop of the church in Lyons, France, described the church leaving the sinful world just before unprecedented disasters. He uses the term “caught up”, but the meaning is clear.\n", + "\n", + "Cyprian (200 AD – 258 AD), bishop of the church in Carthage, wrote :\"Do you not give God thanks, do you not congratulate yourself, that by an early departure you are taken away, and delivered from the shipwrecks and disasters that are imminent?\" Once again showing a belief in a taking away event.\n", + "\n", + "Ephraim (306 AD – 373 AD), deacon of in the church in Syria in the 300s AD, wrote: \"For all the saints and elect of God are gathered, prior to the tribulation that is to come, and are taken to the Lord lest they see the confusion that is to overwhelm the world because of our sins.\"\n", + "\n", + "And there are plenty more. This is not a new concept. You are only correct in that picking a date isn't worth the time, although technically someone could make a lucky guess. The season is supposed to be known but not the specific date, nor hour.\n", + "They would be the last to be \"raptured\" which is ironic.\n", + "I was talking about this with my wife, who was raised religiously. Luckily she started to figure out that flavor of Christianity was BS around middle school (I cannot remember which type of church), but she did confirm the rapture and the “left behind” books were really pushed on them. Apparently some of her peers were *really* into it. \n", + "\n", + "That being said, I’ve seen more about this from ex-Christians explaining the whole history and culture behind it, rather than from people who actually believe it’s going to happen.\n", + "I know a handful.\n", + "I was born in Arkansas, lived in Missouri, South Carolina, and Georgia and I've known a fuckton, including my own grandparents. Who when they found out when I was 7 years old didn't even know what baptism was called their pastor at like 1pm on a Tuesday and raced me down to the church for an emergency baptism, they were that worried that every second I wasn't baptized was one more second I might miss the rapture.\n", + "\n", + "\"I've never sucked a dick, so blowjobs can't be real\" is such a solipsistic non-argument that's so overused. Probably a bad faith argument a lot of the time like the racist who says \"I've never even met a racist\" to try to muddy the waters, which is honestly more respectable than people who truly think that things they haven't personally experienced inside their own tiny bubble can't be real.\n", + "I know many who think it's coming soon, but they don't claim a date. They believe it strongly enough to not prepare for retirement and stuff like that.\n", + "I do, sadly. Saw an acquaintance at a mutual friend's funeral that I hadn't seen in some time. He'd recently been \"born again\", and was terribly concerned for my soul, because the Rapture could be any day now. \n", + "He's never been a bad person, and he's not one now. But he used to be rational.\n", + "We got one, but the rest? Either chill or joking about it.\n", + "Fwiw I grew up catholic and it wasn’t discussed publicly but behind closed doors.\n", + "Then they should've studied the Bible more, just not set specific dates.\n", + "They obviously do. Or those left behind books wouldn’t have sold like they did\n", + "\n", + "Considering those books are rapture fan fic\n", + "I don't know anyone that doesn't play an instrument\n", + "What about wizard in the sky scams?\n", + "I live in God's waiting room. I'm surrounded by churches and such, was raised Christian, and attended church all the way up to Covid before I quietly left. And in the various Christian communities I've been in or kept in touch with, not a single person battery at an eye at this pat rapture. \n", + "\n", + "One of my old pastors basically said the rapture was a thing of mass hysteria and cult ideology. Basically, they misinterpreted a couple of verses in the Bible and ran with it. \n", + "\n", + "The only person I knew who was hell bent on it happening was this strange hermit of a man in my neighborhood. He had a sign and everything. I remember walking home in high school to him just idlely standing in his yard. Apparently, he'd been out there a good chunk of the day. And after he didn't get raptured, he continued on with his life. \n", + "\n", + "Wonder how he's doing?\n", + "Yeap I’m from bama and didn’t even know this was a thing until I saw it all over Reddit. I’m almost convinced it’s only a thing on Reddit lmao.\n", + "Perhaps you don't know a single person who **actually acknowledged** that they believe in this. \n", + "\n", + "Which is a very different thing altogether.\n", + "Anybody else seen \"The Leftovers\" on HBO? I don't think the show ever mentioned the \"Rapture,\" but I always thought it seemed very similar.\n", + "The Rapture does have many who believe in it. \"A majority of Christians?\" Maybe not. But in the millions? Absolutely.\n", + "\n", + "\n", + "They went in hard on this in the 90s in the church I was forced to attend. They did it with such conviction that it gave me nightmares for awhile.\n", + "There are many other reasons for me to shout that\n", + "As a Christian, there are a lot of things \"all Christians do\" that only a very small fraction of them actually do. \n", + "\n", + "This should be learning lesson for those who believed in the rapture, but also those who believe all Christians do X because they knew one or two who did it.\n", + "This was a tiny fraction. There have been larger \"Rapture scares\" in the past before. I'm glad it didn't catch on.\n", + "How can you be christian and not believe in the rapture? It's a pretty huge part of the new testament.\n", + "And insulting those who believe differently from you is intelligent? Or Are you showing everyone your immaturity\n", + "You'd be surprised. The church I grew up in would absolutely have been all in on this if they knew about it, especially if they could trace the origin to Baptists.\n", + "\n", + "I lived through more than a few \"the rapture is imminent\" times.\n", + "\n", + "You don't even want to know the shit they made us watch to make sure we knew how important it was to not be left behind.\n", + "One of my now former coworkers believed it was going to happen, was getting more and more upset that no one else was taking it seriously -- even the more religious coworkers of mine. He quit on Saturday, heard he tried to get his job back today but failed.\n", + "I didnt even know there was supposedly a rapture ubtil yesterday on reddit. I thought it was some new meme.\n", + "I only saw a couple of posts about it here on Reddit and both were about TikTok and how it was trending over there.\n", + "I only heard about it on Reddit and I’m from the Bible Belt. Redditors see some reason to take shots at Christian’s and they dive head first. It’s amazing to me how this works it’s like hive brain mentality to the max\n", + "As a Baptist in East Texas, literally Reddit and there was one joke about it in my church group.\n", + "Do you normally hang around evangelical Christians?\n", + "If your neighbors kids were in school, wouldn't the \"rapture juice\" reach them in school as well?\n", + "\n", + "I mean you people have been waiting over 2000 years for this to happen so why should Billy miss math?\n", + "Finally, someone actually talking about someone they knew who believed in it! Thank you for sharing what you saw, even if it wasn't very dramatic.\n", + "I'm an atheist and I'm not even fully convinced this wasn't mostly a meme that people with a hate-boner for religion just blew up in an effort to apply it to all of Christianity. I'm not on TikTok but I understand this was mostly a TikTok thing, and of the ones I did watch they definitely had a meme vibe and not a \"I really think I'm getting zapped to heaven tomorrow\" vibe. \n", + "\n", + "Like 18-year-old, freshly atheist disgruntled me would regrettably eat it up. In the near 20 years since that point in my life where I've, you know, grown up and all that, it's obviously a blatant attempt to \"dunk\" on religion for something that maybe .01% of Christians world-wide actually bought in to earnestly.\n", + "I think it was just a fun meme the internet go ahold of.\n", + "*It's all just a grift.* \n", + "\n", + "(Let that marinate)\n", + "To be fair, religions as an entirety are a grift.\n", + "You're soooooo close\n", + "The same grift as the wizard in the sky?\n", + "I hate getting these last minute changes! How can a person get ready for the rapture in just 2 days? \n", + "I mean, I've got to do the laundry, need to figure out what to wear, I'll need to get my hair done and believe me it's not easy getting an appointment at my barbershop in such short notice! \n", + "And what do I pack? Do I pack for warm weather, cold weather, will it be rainy? And then there's all the chores I should've done, but I'm still waiting for some parts to arrive! \n", + "\n", + "Nah, 2 days ain't gonna cut it. We'll need to postpone that shit.\n", + "Well, time to stop acting sinfully. \n", + "\n", + "Or else, you'll have to go back to work. \n", + "And pay off that mortgage.\n", + "The Crapture\n", + "Maybe he’s just tired of yours? 😅 /s \n", + "I feel you 💯\n", + "Hint: the people producing this stuff know. It’s engagement bait. \n", + "\n", + "The more ridiculous it is, the more views they get. \n", + "\n", + "The people “laughing at them” are just upping their view counts and that’s all they ever wanted.\n", + "I'm familiar with these types. Used to be one. By their logic, all of this has already happened and now we just need to wait for Jesus. That's part of why so many were excited about trump. \n", + "Boy, the Real Christians™ are gonna be so disappointed when they learn the entire New Testament is Greek mythology of Jewish mythology of Mesopotamian mythology, and none of its non-*ex post facto* predictions have come true or will come true\n", + "this is known as the 2nd coming\n", + "or so says whatever interpreter of biblical slop you choose to adhere to\n", + "Thats awesome 🤣🤣🤣\n", + "> The Catholics and Orthodox don't theologically believe in dispensational premillennialism (aka \"the rapture\")\n", + "\n", + "The \"Rapture\" as an idea was basically invented by John Nelson Darby in the 1830s. He was a Bible teacher and the founder of the \"Exclusive Brethren.\"\n", + "\n", + "While it's true there has been a little sanding around the edges, fundamentally nothing in Catholic doctrine is that \"new.\"\n", + "\n", + "Most of it is well over 1,000 to 1,500 years old.\n", + "\n", + "So it would make sense that the Catholics have no belief in it. The idea is not even 200 years old yet.\n", + "\n", + "The Catholics do believe Jesus will return (\"Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.\") but there's no belief they'll be sucked up into Heaven when that happens.\n", + "Some of us Protestants don't believe in it either\n", + "It's an evangelical thing \n", + "I'm fairly online, and this is the first I'm even hearing about all of this. Lol\n", + "You’re right that the rapture was an invention of American evangelicals, but Christians all over the world believe in it. Granted American Christians are the vast majority that do but still it is a Christian belief.\n", + "\n", + "If I said this:\n", + "The trinity is not in the Bible. Christianity does not believe in it.\n", + "\n", + "You’d think I was stupid. It’s the same thing with the rapture.\n", + "Can u explain?\n", + "I was so brainwashed and grew up Southern Baptist. The rapture was ingrained in me. It’s crazy that as an adult I realize what nonsense it is. As a child, I’d lay awake in my bed out of fear that everyone I knew would disappear and I’d be left. I had to watch plays about it and everything. Truly a mind fuck.\n", + "/r/foundsatan\n", + "I suspect the rapture enthusiasts are a rather small percentage of practicing ~~Christians.~~ TikTokers.\n", + "\n", + "FTFY.\n", + "Exactly\n", + "Username checks out. Sorry you had such shit people.\n", + "Look up [Great Disappointment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment).\n", + "\n", + "Not only did this happen, it's happened dozens of times in the last few centuries and it's going to happen again before long.\n", + "\n", + "It's as American as apple pie, even if this one was triggered by a South African.\n", + "r/nothingeverhappens\n", + "Good cuz I don’t have any sick days and I still need to accumulate more PTO at work\n", + "Yeah, only a truly crazy person would believe that the rapture is actually happ\n", + "Yep mental gymnastics comes out to play.\n", + "What if the real rapture was the friends we made along the way?\n", + "Where did you hear that? That sounds like something maybe a Jehovah's Witness or Seventh Day Adventist would believe, but not the majority of flavors of Christianity.\n", + "Haha so true!\n", + "I was wanting so badly to prank them. But I don’t know anyone who believed it.\n", + "While I agree that the Christian nationalists are unlikely to be singled out for particularly good treatment like \"rapturing\", because a lot of them are dicks and much of the program is plain dickish, I think that modern liberal ideas of what Christ actually taught are somewhat skewed as well.\n", + "\n", + "Christ wants you to want to take care of your neighbor of your own accord. Voting to tax billionaires and everyone else to pay for them isn't what he was talking about.\n", + "\n", + "While I have no love for billionaires, and I couldn't give a three second fuck whether they get to keep their money or not, I think the liberal idea that taxation is a substitute for voluntary charity is bollocks.\n", + "\n", + "Yes, we need social welfare programs. That's because society doesn't work if you start letting everyone live shitty lives and then die. They start getting angry and upset if they don't feel like they're getting anything out of society. And then we have revolutions and civil wars and more people die, and then we start all over again. Social welfare programs are the payoff for civilization which benefits everyone. And that's why they can make plenty of sense.\n", + "\n", + "But pretending that Christ wants liberal things like taxpayer funded universal health care is aside from the point. I don't think he actually cares about that if you don't have a personal investment in it. If you're not doing these things for people yourself, and I don't mean just giving some money or voting for something, or paying more taxes, but actual time and effort, you're doing it wrong.\n", + "\n", + "I think someone like President Carter had it right. His heart was in the right place as President, but honestly, if he's actually in heaven, it's because once he'd stepped down from office, he went back to work building houses for people with his own time and effort. Not because he was more liberal than the Republican candidate at the time. \n", + "\n", + "Christ made it clear that taxation and things related to that don't matter to him or God. Being a Republican or Democrat, or a conservative or liberal doesn't mean a thing. They're just paths for how we get along while we're alive. \n", + "\n", + "If that one Christian Nationalist who voted for Trump happens to be an otherwise good person who might not be too bright and is easily taken in by a grifter like Trump, but does put in the time to help his neighbor, it could be a little iffy, but I think he could make it. And that one liberal who talked a good game, but never lifted a finger except to complain about Trump online and chide people for being insufficiently progressive? I am not sure they have the advantage.\n", + "Oh yes, clearly hateful tribalists who mock their neighbors will be the chosen people. No doubt.\n", + "\n", + "Jesus wants nothing to do with any tribalists on either side. Try treating people like people.\n", + "Maybe she was taken !!\n", + "See how long it takes until she gets in contact, and if she complains about you not contacting her just tell her you assumed she was raptured and that you didn't make the cut.\n", + "I guess you can’t ask her daily “How’s that rapture going?”\n", + "I'm sorry to hear that she bought into it. Do you think it may prevent her from buying into the next one?\n", + "Because they aren’t actual Christians.\n", + "You’re funny\n", + "Yes, I wondered about their thought processes as the day wore on and absolutely nothing happened.\n", + "What makes you say that?\n", + "I have seen a ton of them. You just aren’t looking at the right subs I guess\n", + "Hi you found me\n", + "Definitely a schtick. I unfortunately know some folk who are generally awful people and treat people exactly how you would expect. But ya know, its the current fad online to drop a flurry of hate filled, racist vitriol and as long as you say youre a Christian its all fine and dandy.\n", + "The OMG ITS THE RAPTURE people are a special and thankfully small group of fringe believers. Most of my Christian friends do believe in it but also understand that you can't predict it. \n", + "\n", + "There's usually at least one group a year that claims that it's imminent, don't think too hard about it.\n", + "If I can believe in a god existing, then, I could believe that you're a liar.\n", + "\n", + "Do you know who agrees with me? I'll give you a hint...she's laying here next to me, and she has the same last name as you. I'll give you 2 guesses.\n", + "\n", + "If you get it correct on the first guess, I know she'll be proud of you!\n", + "\n", + "Cheers!\n", + "Spit take! \n", + "\n", + "\"Sorry, I thought you were white\" God\n", + "You read the whole Bible and you STILL believed?!?!\n", + "It blew up on TikTok.\n", + "I was wondering the same thing. Unless you thought a significant other wasn’t going to be beamed up by Scotty. Though, I also cannot imagine banks being still viable after a rapture. We know the bank CEO’s will still be here but probably not enough tellers.\n", + "It's mostly an internet hoax thing. There was a really small group of American evangelicals that believed the rapture was happening today. Most American Christians don't even believe in the rapture at all.\n", + "Thy orange man knoweth also\n", + "Underwear with skid marks. A St. Christopher cross (if evangelicals even believe in that or is it all Jesus?).\n", + "Well, they don't \"die,\" they ascend to Heaven to be with Christ, which is supposed to be a good thing. But I've noticed some of the Rapture Tik Tokkers crying about never getting to see their children again, so...\n", + "It is mostly only evangelicals. The rapture isn't actually mentioned in the Bible.\n", + "Fuck. Nope. There's no swear filter on.\n", + "Reddit isn’t a place for facts\n", + "Isn't it talked about in Revelations? Or is that something else?\n", + "The preacher will become a real estate agent, side hustle.\n", + "American Evangelical Christians are the height of stupidity and hypocrisy . Fucking mega churches\n", + "It was invented by some guy named will from Massachusetts after a head injury in the 1830s\n", + "Ahem….This year’s RaptureFest started in Africa. *Africa.*\n", + "The rapture is not a thing. I'm not being an \"edgy atheist\", and I'm not saying there is no God or no afterlife. It really only started being a thing in the 19th century. It's amazing how little most Christians know about the history of Christianity.\n", + "Same. Askreddit is the only place i've heard about this.\n", + "I get what your saying i do. Lets not forget that the president of the United States was elected in large part thanks to the internet. Our government is passing laws based on memes because of the internet. Its sad but the internet is the real world now. if we like it or not.\n", + "No, it was just a meme\n", + "Thank you for the tag. I truly believed you got raptured and were talking to us from heaven...\n", + "I know a lot of Christians and the only time I heard about this was people online making memes lol\n", + "Christians bad now upvote please so I feel better about being part of the minority of chronically online losers that base our entire personality and beliefs on what this social media site tells me. Oh, and my axe! Fucking embarrassing.\n", + "Depends on which group of Christians you talk to. Southern Baptists generally do.\n", + "I genuinely wonder if there is a small group of Christians somewhere that is pro-LGBQT and believes the Rapture is imminent at the same time.\n", + "*Those are fake Christians. I'm a real Christian and I can tell you with absolute certainty...* Now where have I heard that before...🤔\n", + "It was a tik tok tning.\n", + "What is that like? I live in a very unreligious country and I'm personally more anti theist that atheist. Do people merrily get each other with a \"Good Morning the Lord has granted us a wonderful day \" kind of thing or is it petty \"normal\"?\n", + "You live in an alternative reality you populate with enemies.\n", + "this guy knows how it is\n", + "I followed 2 on Tic TOC yesterday. I just CANNOT WAIT TO see them today.\n", + "\n", + "One was going out to buy one hundred Bibles for the people who \"were left\"\n", + "\n", + "The other had a giant stash (hundreds) of candles & matches because she assumed that the power would fail. These were for the inevitable desperate looters.\n", + "\n", + "They were both in tears.\n", + "It is, it's nowhere in the bible.\n", + "It was made up in 1830 by a guy named Darby\n", + "Oooh, YEAH!!!!\n", + "Was that the time Roy was gonna die according to the website moss used?\n", + " About a year ago we had a patient at our nursing home who had sold everything they owned and ended up on the street because they believed they were going to be raptured. I overheard him telling a nurse he wasn’t Covid vaxxed because it changes your DNA and God would no longer recognize you as fully human so you wouldn’t be taken up.\n", + ">Would probably not be invited to Thanksgiving then~\n", + "\n", + "Desirable outcome or no?\n", + "It all depends on your flavor of Christianity. The real sickos are the ones who want the end times so badly they are trying to usher it in.\n", + "It was something a guy made up in the 1800s. Basically only fringe sects of christianity believe in it. Not in the Bible at all.\n", + "What the hell makes you think that YOU'RE going to heaven?!\n", + "It's hard to know about something that doesn't exist and is an element created to govern peoples actions and keep them moderately controllable until it comes to combat other beliefs that are stealing from the church coffers.\n", + "Nice!!!\n", + "Coming soon to a theater near you... Just like all the fictional monsters\n", + "Religion is the con...\n", + "It wasn’t our breed of “Christian’s” that started it. It was just the right amount of crazy that it was adopted by them.\n", + "You probably won't find much since only like 30% of American Christians believe in the rapture at all since it's not Biblical and wasn't taught by any church at all till the 1800s.\n", + "\n", + "And of the Christians that do believe in the rapture only about 2% are willing to commit to a specific date.\n", + "\n", + "So it's really only the ultra fringe of what is already a minority position.\n", + "2. Stress Factors/Considerations-\n", + "\n", + "According to that same APA article, one research and doctor states,\n", + "\n", + "\"Research has indicated that both nightmare frequency and severity are associated with higher levels of self-reported worry, depersonalization, paranoia, and hallucinatory experiences (Rek, S., et al., Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, Vol. 52, No. 9, 2017). In general, people whose personality types skew higher on neuroticism and negative affect seem to be most susceptible to nightmares. When they experience stress in their waking lives, it can “flip the switch” that leads to troubled dreams, Kelly said. “When these individuals are sleeping, there’s more activation of fear memories and negative emotion,” he explained.\"\n", + "\n", + "This would suggest her high stress and worry about the Rapture may influence the nightmare. The \"subject/scene\" of the dream is the Rapture itself, and the stress may influence the dream either being a nightmare or normal dream (i.e. negative, neutral, or positive). I'm not claiming or suggesting she neurotic. The point is that stress and topics of worry in one's life can influence a dream.\n", + "\n", + "3. Possible Religious Influence?-\n", + "\n", + "Again, not bashing on religion, but the theme/\"vibe\" of many comments I have seen online are usually attacking religion and making comparisons along the lines of:\n", + "\n", + "- Religion is a cult\n", + "- Stockholm syndrome\n", + "- Patterns of Abuse and Manipulation within religious teachings\n", + "\n", + "Again, I can't say if this is the case for her. Especially since each religion and the tenants/teachings vary. Not to mention how a particular place of worship will hold to those teachings. Like allowing for growth and changes, heavy shame, individualized application of the teaching, etc. I am inferring this from personal experiences growing up with one religion across multiple places of worship, as well as various comments/stories I see online. In my experiences, one location spoke about the teachings as a guiding compass. Whereas a different place was VERY heavy handed on shaming those who didn't adhere to teachings practically verbatim.\n", + "\n", + "Can we logically apply it to the woman in the video? Not really. I think it is at least worth considering all sides of this point, especially if you (or someone you know) may be experiencing something similar in the video. It IS worth considering that this element IS a possibility and something to keep in mind....\n", + "The rapture itself is a gift. It doesn't actually appear in the Bible.\n", + "Hey we still have time. It's only 9:20 here.\n", + "Dude sold his car and everything on tic tok. It was hilarious.\n", + "So far, no, it's not worked for me trying it, maybe you'll have better luck.\n", + "The bible doesn't mention the rapture at all, so...no.\n", + ">\n", + "We are closer today than we've ever been\n", + "\n", + "I mean that is how time works, so yeah\n", + "Predictions of return go back hundreds of years before that.\n", + "It's not in the Bible. It's a doctrine invented in the early 1800s by an American guy named Darby. It attempts to harmonize the conflicting verses about the last days (the early Christians and the New Testament itself states that Jesus would return within their lifetimes to set up his kingdom). It ignores the traditional interpretation of certain books in the Bible and combines verses that were previously not linked. \n", + "\n", + "As a theology, it introduces more problems than it solves, but it is effective at motivating people who need a physical or practical, not spiritual, reason to believe.\n", + "Me too, and I'm a Christian. But I'm a universalist Christian and I think, eventually, God wins and everyone is in Paradise with him.\n", + "I got a good chuckle from this.\n", + "Like Groucho Marx said.\n", + "It will be around Sept 23,2028 to mud 2029. Brandon said He saw in a vision that Jesus showed him that late 2029, the world is already too evil !\n", + "This was started by a guy in the 1830s. A scammer.\n", + "There are more than 2 billion Christians on the planet. It's not a monolithic group, not even when you narrow it down to Christians within the U.S. I think we have to dig a little deeper to see what certain people have in common that might cause them to lean one way or the other.\n", + "Duh! The dinosaur fossils proved it was all bullshit years and years ago.\n", + "Wait it’s gonna be WORSE?\n", + "Reddit is so stupid. They think they are trolling Christians but we are laughing at thier misguided attempts to mock and cause outrage. \n", + "\n", + "Next ask Reddit question should be “why are Christians countries always superior to Muslim ones”.\n", + "I’ve literally only seen anything ever mentioned about this rapture on Reddit and my social circles includes many Christian people. Probably a majority even.\n", + "This is patently false. I have multiple family members who have been taken for this multiple times now. I have letters from them saying what I should do afterwards and to not “take the mark of the beast”.\n", + "Oh sweet summer child...\n", + "Only those that read the Bible know that no one knows or will know when the Second Coming happens.\n", + "Why is it to mock Christians, its literally in the Bible?\n", + "I like the expression \"sky daddy,\" although I rarely hear it anymore.\n", + "As apposed to a ground god? Just asking.\n", + "No, its another case of religious nut jobs being wrong, again.\n", + "I was beamed up. Didn't like the accommodations and returned. The all you can eat buffets were just ordinary continental breakfasts. Mostly generic liquor, too. Disappointed.\n", + "Yes of course he did. Would you like to leave the Common Room, now dear, and go back to your room for your nap now?\n", + "? The title specifically asks about Christians that “went all in”, not Christians in general\n", + "[deleted]\n", + "That never happened.\n", + "I do believe it was Pastor Joshua Mhlakela that kicked it off because he said \"God spoke to him\" and even told him to live stream the day it was supposed to happen. And it snowballed from there. The chrisitian tiktokers in the US really put the cringe on the whole thing with some of the stuff they posted.\n", + "\n", + "So no, this was a Christian thing and other Christians didn't loudly stand up and put a stop to it. I'm pretty sure the \"left wing propagandist\" crowd was making fun of it.\n", + "It wasn't implied that all Christians believe in the rapture.\n", + "A bunch of people were predicting it would happen yesterday. Yet again. This is a fairly regular occurrence. \n", + "\n", + "I can't even be bothered to check why they thought it anymore. It is always some numerology bullshit\n", + "Down vote me idc read your scriptures... as a Christian... its clearly written folks\n" + ] + } + ], + "source": [ + "secondlevelcomments = []\n", + "\n", + "submission.comments.replace_more(limit=None)\n", + "for top_level_comment in submission.comments:\n", + " for second_level_comment in top_level_comment.replies:\n", + " print(second_level_comment.body)\n", + " secondlevelcomments.append(second_level_comment.body)" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": null, + "id": "8037e7f0-97c2-401f-854f-c062babe9dc2", + "metadata": {}, + "outputs": [], + "source": [] + } + ], + "metadata": { + "kernelspec": { + "display_name": "Python [conda env:base] *", + "language": "python", + "name": "conda-base-py" + }, + "language_info": { + "codemirror_mode": { + "name": "ipython", + "version": 3 + }, + "file_extension": ".py", + "mimetype": "text/x-python", + "name": "python", + "nbconvert_exporter": "python", + "pygments_lexer": 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Navigate to a webpage\n", + "\n", + "- Locate elements using XPath\n", + "\n", + "- Extract structured data\n", + "\n", + "- Store scraped results in a DataFrame" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "49995214-3b60-4871-9973-a84e9eefab80", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "# When to Use Selenium\n", + "\n", + "**Use Selenium when:**\n", + "\n", + "- Data is loaded dynamically using JavaScript\n", + "\n", + "- Content does not appear in page source\n", + "\n", + "- Pages require scrolling, clicking, or waiting\n", + "\n", + "- APIs are unavailable\n", + "\n", + "⚠️ Selenium is slower than BeautifulSoup but much more powerful." + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "57927a29-6e65-4eef-ac28-5aaeb7707493", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 1: Install Required Libraries\n", + "\n", + "**Why these libraries?**\n", + "- selenium: Automates browser interaction\n", + "- webdriver-manager: Automatically manages browser drivers\n", + "- pandas: Stores scraped data 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install selenium webdriver-manager \n", + "\n", + "import pandas as pd\n", + "\n", + "import time\n", + "from selenium import webdriver #used to automate web browser interaction\n", + "from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import service #This helps in managing the ChromeDriver service that Selenium uses to interact with the Chrome browser.\n", + "from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager #This class automatically downloads and sets up the latest version of ChromeDriver\n", + "\n", + "from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By #The By class is used to locate elements on a web page" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "markdown", + "id": "112cc8a3-c3af-4395-9b2c-c3a73ffd8cec", + "metadata": {}, + "source": [ + "## Step 3: Launch the Browser\n", + "\n", + "**What this does**\n", + "\n", + "- Automatically downloads the correct ChromeDriver\n", + "- Launches a Chrome browser instance\n", + "- Eliminates manual driver setup" + ] + }, + { + "cell_type": "code", + "execution_count": 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+ +- When to Use Each Scraping Method + +- Ethical & Legal Considerations (robots.txt, Terms of Service) + +# 2 Prerequisites + +- Python Basics + +- Installing Required Libraries + +- Working with Jupyter Notebooks + +- Understanding HTML Structure + +# 3 Method 1: Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup + +- How Static Websites Work + +- Sending HTTP Requests with requests + +- Parsing HTML with BeautifulSoup + +- Extracting Titles, Prices, Links + +- Looping Through Multiple Items + +- Converting Output to DataFrame/CSV + +# 4 Method 2: Web Scraping with Selenium + +- When to Use Selenium + +- Launching a Browser Using WebDriver + +- Understanding XPath + +- Extracting Dynamic Content + +- Interacting with Pages (clicking, scrolling) + +- Capturing Data and Exporting Results + +# 5 Method 3: Using APIs Instead of Scraping (Reddit API with PRAW) + +- Why APIs Are Preferred Over Scraping + +- Creating a Reddit Developer App + +- Authenticating Using PRAW + +- Extracting Subreddit Posts & Metadata + +- Collecting Comments & Replies + +- Exporting API Data + +# 6 Data Storage & Cleaning + +- Creating CSV Files + +- Building DataFrames + +- Handling Missing or Inconsistent Fields + +# 7 Best Practices + +- Avoiding Blocks & Rate Limits + +- Choosing Between BeautifulSoup, Selenium, or API + +- Error Handling and Logging + +- Avoiding Anti-Scraping Protections + +# 8 What You Can Build Next (Expand Your Skills) + +- Applying Scraping in Real Projects + +- Additional Tools & Advanced Techniques + +- Next Steps in Data Collection & Automation + +# 9 Contributor & Acknowledgements diff --git a/web-scraping/Web_Scraping_Tutorial.docx b/web-scraping/Web_Scraping_Tutorial.docx new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c78205d Binary files /dev/null and b/web-scraping/Web_Scraping_Tutorial.docx differ