that's my stance also! i'm questioning (why bother) to go into student loan debt, spend time away from my toddler & family to get a degree when we could be raptured at any moment...? i can't get back the time that i spend on school work.
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I'll have mine with extra cheese, mustard, onions, and no tomato. And yes I'll take fries with that. Oh! and a soda.
"My reason for laziness? Well, God might or might not poof me away to somewhere that might or might not exist, so I don't HAVE to!"
It sounds like something out of a bloody Calvin and Hobbes comic. Except Calvin and Hobbes was intentionally funny.
Bee-tee-dubya, that's sloth, and it's a deadly sin. :O Not only just being a layabout, but failing to pursue virtue in one's life for any reason. Gasp!
Live in poverty, die ignorant.
That's your fate, if you don't smarten up.
but if you're raptured soon you get bliss, and paradise, and al the nice things that will MAKE you forget (or else) regrets about your toddler frying for not having accepted Jesus as personal lord and saviour, and the time away from him or her while trying to better yourself
From the same thread:
My view is that the rapture will happen in the very near future. My 17 year old son had been a brilliant student in elementary and middle school, however, I convinced him of my rapture understanding. Suddenly, his grades plummeted. He lost all interest in doing his school work. Basically, his attitude is...why bother. I've been working for months to correct his understanding, but to no avail.
This demonstrates one of the real effects of their delusion.
"I can't learn because there are other things I should be doing before I go to heaven"
Wow... That explains so, so much...
Apparently it should read "The Rapture is coming! (weather permitting)"
To date, this fucking rapture has been predicted for several hundred different datelines over the last 500 years - 103 of the in this century. Of course ALL of them are right, and ALL of them were delayed because some imaginary invisible god thing heard thier prayers.
Then why the fuck do anything? If you're going to get raptured, what was the point of getting married and having a family in the first place?
Not the way I'd really want to live my life.
Kill yourself, now. I mean, if you're so glad to leave this world anyways, you could always get a bunch of your friends and go out Heaven's Gate style.
You have a toddler? Why did you bother to procreate if the world is going to end? Or, were you taught abstinence and it simply failed and you "accidentally" found yourself pregnant?
My student loan debt, while an irritating pain in the ass that takes up a butt load of my monthly income, is the best debt I have ever incurred. It reminds me every time I make a payment that the money educated me, opened my mind, taught me not only skills for my field but how to think critically and analytically. How to question crap.
You should try it sometime; the education thing.
Why did you have the kid to begin with? If what you say is true, your family line ends here, so, why bother? In fact, since sex is ONLY for procreation and according to you there's no need for further procreation since the rapture is only nanoseconds away, I think you better just stop having sex altogether. Right...now.
"i can't get back the time that i spend on school work."
Then do something else. Nobody says you have to go to school. Almost everyone would tell you not to sit around waiting for a Rapture that isn't going to happen.
Well, you are all set if you have a firm date. If it doesn't happen until you are 90 (or during your lifetime), you probably could set a few precious minutes aside to, I don't know, learn something?
"You shall know not the time" == "Yeah, could be sooner, so why worry about if it's later? Yeah, definitely sooner."
:-P
And this is why Rapture belief is so detrimental in Africa, where Africans who believe this crap have the same mentality and have even kept their children out of schools, because they think it's "a waste of time."
A fundie "church" got it's claws into the son of some friends of mine and told him not to study medicine as the rapture was certain within two or three years. The parents told them to back off or there would be legal trouble. He got through first year well.
Second year they pushed him into being president of the "Christian" student club. They then hauled him around the city to their footling meetings a couple of times a week as their "tame scientist". He scraped through second year and in the third year dropped out.
Before the "church" got hold of him he was probably the smartest kid I'd ever known. After that he didn't want to know anyone outside the "church" and gave his mother trouble for wearing jeans or slacks - that was a sin. He would do no work inside the house, that was for women and for men or boys to do any of it was a sin. But he would push a lawnmower around, paint the house with his father, fix the car, anything like that.
That was about 30 years ago. I have hated the fundies ever since.
Slimy, fraudulent bastards.
@Osiris: Point. :P
Though, the way I look at it, "anything that's fun and worthwhile" seems to be a sin. Science and book-learnin' is a sin, being gay is a sin, sex for some other purpose than procreation is a sin...
@old viking:
no, it says: "If you can read this, you're to smart."
yes, i know they follow a book, but they don't read it anyway.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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