“The Rapture”, a strategy for dealing with or speeding up Runaway Abrupt Climate Change?

Evangelical Christians have captured the White House that slaves built and with a steady supply of cheeseburgers and ego-massaging they have control of the “Twitterer in Chief”.
These lunatics believe in “The Rapture” and hastening it’s arrival.
“Just like many other Christian brothers and sisters, I eagerly long for the second coming of the Lord Jesus. We abide by the following passage from the Bible: “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1Ts 4:17). For this reason, we foolishly look up to the skies longing for the day that Jesus will return and take us up into the clouds so that we can be with the Lord.””The Lord is trustworthy. The Lord promised that He would take us into the heavenly kingdom in the last days. The Lord’s promise certainly will be accomplished and fulfilled.”

These psychopaths and sociopaths see climate change as ‘Gods will’ and fossil fuels are his gift to power the rapture. At the time of writing, the momentum to impeach is building relentlessly (so much for the democratic process!!! ),with the fundamentalist Mike Pence ready and waiting to step into the breach the minute the twitter in chief has an ‘accident’.
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“But there may be another secret to Pruitt’s tenacious grip on the agency that he’s busy undermining. Like several other members of the constantly churning Trump Administration who’ve managed to hold fast—Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and Vice-President Mike Pence—Pruitt is an evangelical Christian.” Are Evangelical Leaders Saving Scott Pruit’s Job
Climate Scientist Katharine Heyhoe is another case in point;”She’s an evangelical Christian. Her husband is an evangelical pastor, even, in a faith whose followers are largely skeptical of climate science.” Texas scientist and evangelical takes to the web

How on earth could you trust a scientist who believes in an ‘Immaculate conception’ and creationism??

“Well this is where hope is, right here in this room, ah it’s with us”.
Then we have the erudite Chris Hedges who one day challenges the fact that ‘Hope’ is unimpeachably good, then the next moment opens a presentation with the ridiculous comment above and looks like he is on the brink of crying at the 1m 50s mark! Generally I enjoy Chris Hedges writing and presentations but every analysis from him is clouded by his belief in a (presumably?) white guy on a surf board flying around in the clouds, who is supposedly omni-potent but stands aside watching as the military industrial complex rains bombs down on the people of Yemen, Syria and Gaza and surfs blithely by as we exterminate 150 to 200 species daily.

Discussing her “ministry” to the U.N. last year, Bachmann claimed that “the return of Jesus Christ is imminent,” and noted that “the clock is striking 11:59 on God’s time clock and as history is culminating in as read in Revelation.”

Bachmann explained the supposed importance of her new mission:

I believe that God is starting a new thing, and because the time is short before Christ comes again to this earth, He is giving everyone one more chance.

Evangelical leaders are pushing President Trump to name former congresswoman and Christian extremist Michelle Bachmann next ambassador to the United Nations.

“First thing in the morning on April 5, before a meeting chaired by Representative John Shimkus and another with the Solar Energy Industry Association, Energy Secretary Rick Perry headed to the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a copy of Perry’s schedule obtained by Fusion. There, Perry was scheduled to meet for an hour-long “Cabinet Member Bible Study. He has praised the new administration for its power to “change the course of America in ways that are biblical.”
“It is safe to say that God is a Capitalist,” Drollinger once wrote, “not a Communist.” In a January radio interview, Drollinger praised then-senator Jeff Sessions, who “hungers and thirsts for the Scripture,”
“Vice President Mike Pence, HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, nominee for Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, HHS Secretary Tom Price, and Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, have all sponsored the Capitol Ministries Cabinet Bible study, according to literature put out by Capitol Ministries.”
“Drollinger also argues that climate change is impossible because God promised after The Flood never to do anything like that again. Drollinger preaches against “radical environmentalism” and that to believe that human activity could have devastating impact on the environment is not just mistaken, but the result of godless pride: “To think that man can alter the earth’s ecosystem—when God remains omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent in the current affairs of mankind—is to more than subtly espouse an ultra-hubristic, secular worldview relative to the supremacy and importance of man,” Drollinger wrote recently. “It follows that we can all rest assured and wholly rely on God’s aforementioned promises pertaining to His ability and willingness to sustain our world’s ecosystem.” Many thanks to political analyst John Steppling for the lead to the link; The Trump Cabinet Has It’s Own Weekly Far Right Biblical Study Group

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This is the level of Insanity and Delusion existing in the US administration as we rush headlong towards annihilation.

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I'm an anti-imperialist, environmental activist and blue ocean sailor, who is passionate about the earth and all it's inhabitants without favour. Brace for imminent impact as we bare witness to the non-linear unraveling of the biosphere and habitability disappearing for most if not all complex life on the only habitable planet we know of. To quote President Niinistö in North Russia: ‘If We Lose the Arctic, We Lose the World’. Folks we have lost the Arctic.

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241 comments on ““The Rapture”, a strategy for dealing with or speeding up Runaway Abrupt Climate Change?
  1. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    I keep posting and many never show up afterwards. Something is screwy with this thread.

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  2. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Latest from Betty:

    The Puritans Are Back!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y6ImZhz41g

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  3. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    This is a very good Irish-American comedian I think you’ll enjoy. It’s a series of stories/skits, so break it up since it’s 2 hours long! She just tears Irish-Catholicism into little teeny parts…

    Julia Sweeney – Letting Go of God – Full Stand-Up Comedy Special

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE59PtBGqus

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  4. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    And this crap is growing all over the world. We get Trump, you get this, eh Kevin? Which one of us is more in danger?

    The secretive sect infiltrating NZ and the South Pacific | Part 1

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxD-yn6AEME

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  5. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    A blend of history and hopium in this piece:

    Will This Christmas Hold the Promise of “Light” After “Dark”?

    During these short, dark days let’s remember this ancient Christmas knowledge that illumination always follows darkness & that with love and compassion we will re-light our nations & lives…

    https://hartmannreport.com/p/will-this-christmas-hold-the-promise

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    Putting a made-up pretend holiday that is all about revenue generation for the wealthy corporate owners…and layering more debt and stress on the rest of us that we can ill afford is rather, ummm, pompous in nature don’t you think? The religion that the holiday represents has an incredibly dark and violent history for that matter, too…which is never talked about.

    Big sigh. I never celebrate this ridiculous Catholic event as I am neither Catholic nor Christian, and when I give presents (to the young mostly) it’s for the Winter Solstice which I make a point of explaining that it is our oldest known holiday celebrated by our species because we can SEE the sun start back north. It’s NOT made up, an invented myth, but a real event one can experience for themselves. Participatory science!!

    I’ll send you a picture, Kevin, on how well it turned out this year!

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  6. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    The other reason this crumbling fractured Empire is about to break into Civil War:

    The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows

    originally from the paywall site of Stephanie McCrummen / The Atlantic

    https://www.rsn.org/001/the-army-of-god-comes-out-of-the-shadows.html

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    Christo-Fascist militias are about to be unleashed on a very unsuspecting public by The Dictator after he pardons all of the insurrectionists and they re-arm. Instant Blackshirts or Brownshirts.

    Pinochet-style is what I’m expecting. One of these days you won’t hear from me anymore…most likely.

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  7. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    A GOP-MAGA Senator from Iowa had a town hall meeting with her constituents last week. It didn’t go well when she talked about cutting Medicaid, and said in response to those that were arguing with her after she shrugged her shoulders and said “We are all going to die.”

    https://www.npr.org/2025/05/31/nx-s1-5418932/we-all-are-going-to-die-ernst-joni-town-hall-iowa-senator

    There will NEVER be universal health care, like the rest of the 1st world countries have. Because of people like her that will let the poor, children, old people, workers who are barely surviving paycheck to paycheck, sicken and die…since the billionaires need more money and the US military needs $1.1 TRILLION next year in Trump’s new budget?

    Always more where the poor came from, eh? Replaceable cogs in the machine, and there are states that have just re-written their labor laws to ‘allow’ children to work in slaughterhouses etc etc for low wages on school nights…but since the MAGATS are getting rid of education I guess it doesn’t matter much. Of course her state is one of those that thinks 14 yr olds wielding sawblades on a kill line is a good idea!

    Oh wait! She’s a MAGATS, a ‘make america great again’ trump supporter. She really did switch her pledge to the Orange Prophet of Hate from that Pacifist Palestinian lib-tard from Western Asia but you wouldn’t know it if you listen to how she professes her Christo-Fascist credentials.

    Then she posted a reply on Twitter the next day with this at the end which proves just how much she loves Jesus:

    “But for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ,” she said.

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    If the world she is promoting comes about, The Handmaid’s Tale, she will be regulated to the kitchen and bedroom only. That’s what MAGA wants. Somehow I doubt she’s going to like that.

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  8. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Billionaire South African Fascist and resident of New Zealand Peter Thiel comes up again in Christo-Fascist community building in poverty-stricken extremely right-wing US Slave States:

    Christian Nationalist Tech Bros SURGE Into Spotlight As Tennessee Utopia Plot Revealed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfCXeZKfmQU

    Peter Thiel Goes Full Lizard Person During Live TV Glitch Out

    This is a great example of how a psychopath struggles trying to imagine empathy.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWacA9X9nJA

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    And he has his fingers in the Fascist take-over in the US…owner of Palantir the spy agency scooping up all of our data and selling it…

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  9. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    The MAGA Ideology That Brought Us to This Moment

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIonrnzj_BU

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    three comments:

    1) Religion is what moves us back to that frame of thought. Those who are saved feel superior to those who aren’t. That’s why they have to convince those who aren’t saved to become so. Then they can feel justified in their ego.

    2) The irony is that the poor MAGA voter doesn’t realize they will be thrown under the bus as soon as they have ended their usefulness to Trump and the leaders of MAGA.

    3) My granny, who was born in 1874, used to tell me, “the South was such a poor loser.” She witnessed reconstruction drifting into Jim Crow laws as she grew up. Since 1981, we’ve slowly been drifting back into believing that destructive way of thinking that “some people are better than others” — but also there is a sense of angry revenge that accompanies this terrible regression.

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  10. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Here’s some humor…at least to me it’s seems funny with how convoluted the thought processes and rationalizations of the Christo-cultists.

    I just loved the ‘voice’ of The Serpent in the Garden of Eden. Do they hire psychologists to measure how effective the voice-overs on these computerized robots when they ‘talk’ to visitors? Probably!

    It is, after all, just about marketing to the ignorant and indoctrinated…

    The Good Liars Explore Creationism a 10 minute interview

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHymwGWSfnA

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  11. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    If you haven’t read this about DJT latest signing:

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/28/politics/federal-workers-religious-beliefs-memo
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    But to get the full flavor of this moment, you really should watch this starting at 7:57 to 10:22. Remember, it’s humor from a guy that just had his show canceled as a bribe to DJT by Paramount:

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    A teen nicknamed ‘God’s influencer’ has become the first millennial saint

    https://www.npr.org/2025/09/07/nx-s1-5528970/millennial-saint-carlo-acutis-canonization-catholic-church?utm_

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    Here in the US we call the Orange Menace ‘the king of grifters’ but nobody but nobody can outdo the Catholic Church for selling tacky cheap merchandise I guess… But then they HAVE had over two thousand years of practice fleecing their cult followers and Trump has only had this lifetime, ya know?

    I am surprised, somewhat, that it hasn’t come out with ‘meme’ coins yet! Just imagine having a Saint coin in your pocket! Easier than the Jesus Jammies the mormons wear (though I do understand they’ve changed since I lived in Utah during the 1980s…

    The mom of this ‘saint’ is making some cash, too, it looks like.

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  13. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Just like the Hebrew Zionists of Israel that have become the new Nazis by using the same tactics against the Palestinians…since Jesus was a Palestinian Arab Jew); which anybody that has read about the Warsaw Ghetto can see the striking resemblance with what the Nazis did to those Jews with what they are doing in Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians… we are seeing the so-called US Christo-Fascist wealthy becoming the new Roman overlords of everyone else using very selective quotes from bible to justify their greed and violence.

    This is one hell of a read:

    A Battle for the Bible in Trump’s America

    https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/10/a-battle-for-the-bible-in-trumps-america/

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    And there is billionaire Peter Thiel preaching to the wealthy tech lords of Silicon Valley the gospel…as HE sees it. A puppetmaster indeed…

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  14. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Here’s sort of a humorous snippet from a post on Medium about why religious types make stuff up:

    You have no doubt heard of the Shroud of Turin, the supposed burial shroud in which Jesus was wrapped, which now bears his image.

    For centuries, debate has raged over the origin of the Shroud of Turin, with the earliest mention of the shroud attributed to a document produced in Champagne between 1389 and 1390. Even then, this now-controversial relic was caught up in debate, with both supporters of its authenticity and detractors discussing it.

    However, a recent study has discovered an even older document, the oldest to mention the shroud so far, likely produced between 1370 and 1382 by the scholar and theologian Nicole Oresme.

    The document is not only the earliest to mention the shroud; however, unlike later documents that specifically focus on the legal aspects, it also includes Administrative and devotional aspects of the shroud. Oresme’s treatise focuses explicitly on the Shroud as a scholarly example to illustrate how the clergy would sometimes fabricate lies to generate offerings for their churches.

    from: https://medium.com/the-academic/earliest-mention-of-the-shroud-of-turin-claims-it-was-lies-forged-by-churchmen-58ff8b05a6b2

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    Generate offerings by conning the masses into believing bullshit. Why… imagine that happening now! Oh wait…our new orange jeezuz (as some christo-fascists are calling him) DJT pulls lies out of his butt daily and millions believe them. Crazy, huh? As crazy as this ‘shroud’ I guess.

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    But then the scientists find something extremely odd in the ‘heavens’ blasting through at a never-before-seen speed of 180,000 miles per hour they call 3iATLAS, and some are starting to become quite alarmed at how this visitor to our solar system is behaving. Which is extremely unusual compared to every comet we’ve ever tracked. We’ll know (if it continues as it is) on 24Sept when crosses the orbit of Mars.

    Maybe it’s jesus coming back, or a new leader to wrestle the throne from DJT as leader of the world, eh?

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  15. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Bill Burr’s 26-Minute TAKEDOWN of Christianity

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTfs0qSw2w

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    Here’s a pretty good rant! Made me smile…

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  16. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    This goes right along with the previous post. With the added so-called ‘benefits’ of having a billionaire being a religious zealot:

    The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Laura Bullard / Wired

    https://www.rsn.org/001/the-real-stakes-and-real-story-of-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession.html

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    What’s with these South African white boys who were raised during Apartheid? They seem especially virulent don’t they?

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  17. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Evil Billionaire Peter Thiel Has Completely Lost His Mind

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsJ-dZ2T5G0

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    Wow. This guy is fucking nuts. And he lives in New Zealand in a bunker….

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  18. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    More on this evil psycho Christian shithead:

    The Rise of the Thielverse & the Surveillance State (w/ Whitney Webb) | The Chris Hedges Report

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um-TVmzzK_g

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    You know something? If there actually was a benevolent loving god watching us on this planet, Thiel would have been miscarried before birth because that god would know what kind of evil psycho Christian shithead BEFORE he started to do his evil shit.

    So…Thiel is the best evidence there is no gods…

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  19. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    So now Joe Rogan is being sucked into the religious nuttery of the wealthy tech bros he’s been hanging out with like Peter Thiel, Zuckerberg, etc etc and this is where it leads:

    https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hT4p0aXf9Z0?feature=share

    Does being a billionaire lead to literal psychosis in the primate brain? And it’s contagious to others that hang out with them?

    Whoa. That’s some freaky shit!

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  20. sealintheselkirks's avatar sealintheselkirks says:

    Here is Peter Thiel’s billionaire partner-in-crime and co-founder of Palentier the incredibly evil tech spy company Joe Lonsdale deciding that we need to bring back public hangings:

    Let’s start with him and every other billionaire. I’m sure every single one has been responsible for more than three violent crimes in their lives.

    One comment compares his picture in this looks like ‘Chucky’s’ older brother (horror movie)…

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