THE TRUE DIGLET
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I guess I should expect the second coming in my life time
Conspiracy Every Christian says these are the end days
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Yeah it’s sort of like that
1Based Frog1
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Every time something goes wrong, it's the end times according to some Christians. The world's been going through turmoil for centuries, and yet, every generation thinks they're the ones who get to see the second coming. Even the ones from Jesus' time thought the end was near.
panchito
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i have a happen-o-meter already installed in my head so i don't bother with any of those nothingburgers
cyber7878
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One truth that Christianity sadly did not uncover is that while history does move in an upwards trajectory (linear historiography comes from them), it also has periodic dips back into chaos and barbarism. There's two cycles, one is secular (every 200-300 years, the last one ending with the french revolution, and the one before with the Reformation), the other civilizational (every 2000 or so years), both ending in crises. Because many christians don't understand this, they freak out whenever there's an end of cycle crisis and think the "End Times" are near. This is partly attributable to the spread of premillennial retardation among christians, even though historically speaking the most correct view seems to be amillennialism (which is basically the "Nothing Ever Happens" Christian Eschatology).
Christianity asserts the exact opposite of this. The Christian narrative is one of mankind's fall from a state of perfection into a state of death and sin. How can any Christian in his right mind assert that history moves in an upward trajectory when the bible says the world is passing away, along with all its desires?
) doesn't want a second cumming, he wants a third, and maybe even a fourth too 
cyber7878
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Our linear historiography comes from the application of Aristotelian Teleology to Christianity by the Scholastics (e.g. Thomas Aquinas). Scholasticism flips many of the assumptions that usually come with Christianity, thereby turning it into the greatest civilization-building force we've ever seen.
We wouldn't be where we currently are if that wasn't the case, because civilization requires either a cyclical historiography or one of linear progress. Christianity's default historiography is one of linear decay, as you pointed out, which is part of the reason why absolutely fuck all happened between 476 and 1000AD, but it doesn't have to be this way, because as the Scholastics have shown us, Christianity CAN be combined with a historiography of linear progress, turning it into the greatest civilization-building force we've ever seen.
Absolutely correct on all points. At least you're honest about the fact that western christianity (both protestantism and catholicism) is no christianity, but rather a corruption of the original faith that changes its core philosophy just for material interests. Nothing new under the sun.
cyber7878
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The material world is just as important as the spiritual for Christianity, the whole purpose of Christianity is to build God's Kingdom on Earth, and the way we achieve that is by co-opting a preexisting civilization-building force and synthesizing it to Christianity.
Some denominations of Christianity did not do this (e.g. orthocucks and evangelikikes), and the result was that their believers built absolutely fuck all, which is why Russia and the american south (with the exception of Texas, which is primarily Baptist and therefore less retarded) are complete shitholes.
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