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People have been predicting the end of the world for as long as there were people.
It'll happen eventually, people are too impatient.
Christians have been waiting for the second coming literally since Jesus left. People in the new testament speak about it as if it would happen in their lifetime, and any Evangelical you meet will tell you they're convinced it'll happen in theirs
My family were missionaries. I didn't believe in that BS. The main thing that I learned is that they use the concept of the mythical Jesus and sacrifice as a crutch to help them get through each day much in the same way addicts do with their drug of choice.
There's good reason why folks who ditch that religion are so much happier.
Well if I could fool myself into believing everything will be fine in the end because 'magic man in the sky makes it so', I'd love to do it.
The people expecting or hoping for it in their lifetime should have read their Bibles better. I'm not religious anymore but I still remember one of the last things Jesus said was "You won't know when I'm coming back."
Just throw Matthew 24:36 at them.
Armageddon - the battle on the plains of mageddon - happened like 1950 years ago.
WE ARE the left-behind.
I can't tell anymore if people on the internet are joking or not. :(
Are you talking about Tel Megiddo?
The only battle there in the last two millennia was in 1918AD. Not 70AD.
This is the most dangerous effect of religious indoctrination in my opinion - the "can't wait for the world to end and cause Judgement Day to happen"-mindset. People in power that make decisions that affect millions or even billions of peoples lifes have a hard on for the end of the world. Eventually it can become and probably will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If people wanted to speed it up, a runaway green house effect or runaway snowball earth triggered by a nuclear winter should do it. The first one might even destroy all life on earth as long as the temperature stays above 100 °C long enough. The latter one will not eradicate all the microbes, but it would be very effective against humanity.