Would God intervene?

depends on ur definition of god

The world is meant to end by blaming fire.

*flaming fire

You're getting me moist.

I don't see why God would stop it, unless it was not time.

F I R E A N D F U R Y

Realistically speaking, the anti-Christ is either already in power or gaining power

I doubt that.

The end is coming faster, faster every day. So, world is fuck

~~Donald Trump~~

People have been talking about the End Times for 2000 years, as if it was just around the corner. It is not going to be now.

🤔

Maybe you're right

nothing we can really do if it does come

it's God's will.

blaming donald trump?

I was joking that he was the anti-Christ

ah i see

excuse my autism

The thing with End Times though, is that they always have prophecies to go with it. If they story does not fit the reality, what did the story really predict? Anyone can see that one day the world would end. But what does religious mythology contribute?

What does it? It helps us draw the paterns that are very real.

>A so-and-so bad person will rise to power and destroy as all.
That's pretty generic.

There's much more then that.

He will *decieve* us.

This is going to get nuts.

Said the leaing Christian deist

Not really.

I'm thinking about the implications, right now.

**Shrug**

I want to believe in God, but its just so nuts, intellectually.

Religious mythology guards against the nihilism that the recognition that there is an end causes

@bread#0708 I agree with this.

But it's really hard to guard against something that you know is rational.

Aquinas tried his best to salvage the rational aspect of religion, but his arguments are based on Aristolean logic. Not the most empirical methodology.

well that presumes that there is only value in what you do that is everlasting

the finite effect of something shouldn't impact if it has any value or meaning

im not sure if nihilism is rational

Value and meaning is a separate thing to the material universe. It's a subjective reflection, a physiological response. Nihilism is rational in an objective way, but not intuitively or experientially.

These things can misfire. Like when you think God did something, but it is demonstrated and explained materially by mundane physical processes, like the Sun rising and setting in the sky.

Religion has never providing more explanatory power than science, for instance.