Mine says the world has already ended, does that count?
Comment on Religious people: The world is ending
ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 1 week ago
Christians in 1st century: the world is ending very soon! Muslims in 7th century: the world is ending very soon! Mormons in 19th century: the world is ending very soon!
Given enough apocalyptic religions one of them would be right, but I think that religion doesn’t exist yet.
Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
The classical options are that the world will end in the future, is currently ending, or ended in the past. Today, I’m here to tell you that there is another option: the world never even existed. Poof!
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The mayan one in 2012 was the best one so far. There was some real hype about it, movies, media, news, everyone was on it.
In the end it turned out that it was the day Gangnam Style became the first youtube video reaching 1 billion views. Some would say it really was the apocalypse.
somethingsnappy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Christians in the 1st century? So people that followed Paul after he wrote the earliest texts around 50-60AD?
marcos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Paul himself.
And then before the turn of the 5th century, the 10th century, the 15th century… Christians do love those round numbers.
watson387@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The Yahweh cult was a doomsday cult wasn’t it?
marcos@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, there was a series of crazy cults by the 20th century too. But they were a much smaller share of the people.
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Not all early Christians followed Paul. The church in Jerusalem under James was at odds with Paul on a number of subjects. There were also more radical groups outside Jerusalem that combined Christianity with Greek philosophy, having women preaching and leading congregations, and incorporating various mystical beliefs that didn’t originate in Judaism or the teachings of Jesus.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Matthew 16:28 - “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
Jesus himself said that his own followers would be alive to see the end of the world. Hence the medieval legend of The Wandering Jew.
futatorius@lemm.ee 1 week ago
The Muslims have never had a big, convoluted End Times mythos like the Christians, at least not in the Qur’an. At some point in the indefinite future, there will be Judgement Day, and everybody living or dead will get hauled in front of Allah and the recording angel will play back your scorecard. Then it’s Jinnah (heaven) or Jehenna (hell).
There are quite a number of hadiths (extra-scriptural reports of things Muhammad said or did) that talk about the end times. Hadiths are assessed by Islamic scholars based on their provenance and general credibility. Those originating from people close to the Prophet are ranked higher; those that contradict the Qur’an are downgraded. Most of the non-Qur’anic end times narratives sound very similar to Christian eschatology, except that the Mahdi, the successor prophet to Muhammad, appears. Jesus (Issa) returns, there’s the Antichrist (the Dajjal) stirring up mischief, signs and portents, the giants Gog and Magog running amok, the stars fall from the sky as meteors, etc, etc.
It’s not as entertaining as Ragnarök, but it’s more coherent than the Christian fundies’ fanfic.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 week ago
As always, Wikipedia is a good resource here:
en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap…
Incomplete, obviously.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Apocalypticism will always be in fashion.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 1 week ago
When you make people follow bunch of rules that nobody else follows, you need some kind of carrot to dangle in front of them. Salvation and afterlife rewards don’t cost anything and there’s zero chance you need to pay up or get called no your bullshit. Win-win.