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so who is this guy; i looked him up as much as i could, hard to dig, but - he's another apocalyptic.
https://www.raptureready.com/2023/07/18/the-rapture-is-imminent-by-rick-segoine/ , signed, from the same site, this year.
so. from the article i dug up.
like, i could just have gathered it from "RaptureReady.com", but i wanted to give it the benefit of the doubt.
so here's the issue. i looked over another of his articles, but religious imagery like this, speculations about the apocalypse & a want for destruction - while the subject of the beast's assault on humanity isn't explicit, i caution and become
very careful with that source. again, there's a question of actual scholarship, but let's put that aside. expectations of rapture are usually connected with the silent implication of
which actual sins that one wants to do away with, which is usually stuff like homosexuality, promiscuity, liberalism, etc. and by that i mean big L liberalism, y'know, democracy. that the site is connected to the cavalry chapel (
whose founder was a real piece of work) means that i am simply not gonna take "RaptureReady" as a something that reads the bible scholarly; there's recognizing ultraconservative violence in the bible, which quite a few christian scholars (ie scholars that are christian) do, and then there's embracing that while claiming the apocalypse is around to soon cleanse us of vice. i simply can't tell if he's the latter. the language is particularly unspecific, which in these contexts usually means that it's careful dogwhistling. sorry for that assumption, but in his environment, he's well aware of the implications and would word it otherwise to avoid it.
like, for a concrete example to the contrary; i like
apocalyptic imagery as much as the next guy; i wrote a book founded in it. but like, if you're gonna do it, it's probably a good idea to explain exactly what vices that cause the world to end. GYBE (the link) are very explicit in their apocalyptic imagery, and what is causing the end of the world. you can use this imagery without covering up what vices you want to cover.
i very much caution any biblical scholarship that aims to describe a soon apocalypse, because it's
not particularly biblical as to why it was written as it was (they
did expect the end of the world right around the corner); embracing dreams of rapture is usually people hopeful to be able to enforce some pretty gruesome politics. :l and it's not exclusionary to the us.
for
@Edmund Ironside , i appreciate the input, but - i don't mean to assume - when i speak to theologians, there's usually a distinction between biblical
intention and the religious
application of biblical truths. if that makes sense. the bible as an editorial monster, and then how we apply it in life. if you are going to be a christian today, you may indeed want to re-interpret biblical writings to mean a particular festival, but you can still recognize why it's originally written if you want to know what it
said. you can be a christian and understand that the bible is an incomplete and untruthful document, y'know; but it can still speak, poetically, about the world, even if it gets facts wrong.