I am always amused by these doomsday cults predicting the end of the world.
As long has there been human writing, people have been saying the end is nigh. Nobody has ever been right!
As long has there been human writing, people have been saying the end is nigh. Nobody has ever been right!
You aren't wrong. I've been a Christian of some stripe, my whole life. Even general Armageddon predictions (soon!) are really dumb and I wish we would stop them.
Besides being wrong, they're either a pointless distraction or they're counterproductive. Counterproductive because fear sucks as a long term motivator.
Faiths have examples and our job as adherents is to strive to embody the example. That's it.
The rest of the guff might be supportive if applied correctly. Mostly, we don't do that.
Like, if you created a dataset with the notable features of various doomsday cults and then compared them with the notable features of Rationalism, then used that dataset to inform your priors in an attempt to answer the question, “Are my concerns about impending doom reasonable or have I succumbed to a doomsday cult?” surely the only reasonable answer is, “I have succumbed to a doomsday cult.”
And yet here we are.