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An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’
(www.theguardian.com)
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Why are the American religious right so fixated on the rapture? It's a death cult sprawling across the nation like a cancer.
Because it gives them the ability to let themselves off the hook for participating in the destruction of the planet.
Destruction of the planet, hardly. The earth has and will shrug of worse than humanity. Thinking otherwise is giving humanity too much credit.
Destruction of humanity is more likely. We are actively making the earth worse for us, and many other species. But there are many more which will survive and thrive after we destroy ourselves.
You know what I meant
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I think when people say "destruction of the planet" they are really meaning "our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct".
Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we're gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we'll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that's a bit in the weeds).
There’s also the childish desire for an “I told you so” as they watch anyone they don’t like being sent to hell.
Because they think that they're going to be the ones who are rewarded, not the ones who will be punished.
These people think they're in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.
Because they think they will go to heaven. If I read the Bible I'd say they wouldn't.