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[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not quite the same, but when my wife was a kid, some of her hardcore fundie neighbors ran up MASSIVE loan and credit card debts on the lead-up to one of these rapture dates in the '90s. They thought that since they would soon be chilling with Jesus in Heaven they wouldn't have to face financial consequences. It financially ruined them and they lost everything.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Huh. Isn’t that the Sin of Greed then? Seems even if there had been a rapture they self-selected out.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I stopped trying to rationalize these people's 'reasoning' a long time ago.

[–] Seleni@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, I understand it. I think it’s stupid, but I understand it.

They believe Good is something you are, not something you do. So anything they do is Good, because they’re Good. If a Bad Person does the same thing, say, running up debt; they did something Bad, because Bad People only do Bad things.