If there are other topics on here which aren't about what the US administration is doing, I'll be more than happy to be proven wrong on any of my opinions.
Not sure how relevant it is to "other topics on here which aren't about what the US administration is doing", but there is this that was shared earlier today in a political section of one of the Discord servers I'm in, if you want to fact check it.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202603308240
Even if we looked at it from a religious point of view, that could be considered blasphemous. A person supporting something until they realize it's bad, but instead of doing what they can to correct the problem, they want it to continue as if to force the hand of God. If a God does exist, they wouldn't work that way.
You reap what you sow.
I wouldn't say it would be forcing the hand of God, but more she's convinced it's Gods plan, so she's content with letting the apocalypse happen. So in her mind, there's nothing blasphemous about it.
The idea that she thinks it's God's will means that any position she takes is now moral. 170 kids get bombed in Iran? It's all part of fulfilling the prophecy. I don't have to like it, but it's meant to happen. The rest of humanity is left on hell on earth while I get raptured? Sorry, you had your chance.
It's horribly immoral, but you won't be able to convince them of that.
And the hilarity of all this regarding that woman's (and similar people's) belief in the Rapture and "God's Plan [for the endtimes]" is twofold:
1) It completely ignores one of the lines in the Bible and other sections, specifically Matthew 24:36: "But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only." Even to a non-Christian, this makes it clear that nobody knows when this "Rapture" or the end times will actually happen
if it happens, and the verse implies that even
trying to predict when it will happen is foolish.
2) Some of the people that want the "Rapture" to happen genuinely think
they are among those who will receive salvation. The flaw in this thinking is that not only do they think they're good people (they're not, and they prove such frequently), but they don't even consider the possibility that the "Rapture" might actually be a bad thing. The sad thing is that the "Rapture" believed in our modern day isn't based on what's written in the Bible*, but on concepts popularized by good ol' American evangelicalism. (That last bit is sarcastic - I do not align with that kind of culture whatsoever.)
*(At least not fully. There's, like, only one verse in the Bible that really implies such a concept - 1 Thessalonians 4:17 - but it's not even referred to as the Rapture, and iirc the word doesn't even appear in most interpretations of the Bible at all. So the "Rapture" could end up being a completely different thing that
doesn't end in salvation for those taken.)
