The president added that he has “instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”

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    If Israel becomes a smoking crater and there’s no rapture, will the evangelicals finally come to the realization they’ve been living in a fairy tale?

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      trump already has a weird insistince they all wear the same shoes…

      I’m just saying, there’s a very real chance if they’re not “called to heaven” that they take the initiative to ringing the doorbell on a mass scale.

      Like, I don’t know how far you’ve looked into their rabbit hole, but there’s lots of wriggle room around “suicides don’t go to heaven”. Something like going 150 on the interstate and letting go of the wheel could easily be rationalized as “this was always God’s plan”. Or just some version of Russian roulette, any random chance can be seen as God’s hand.

      This isn’t the first time a doomsday prophecy falls thru, it’s gonna go like it always does.

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        This isn’t the first time a doomsday prophecy falls thru, it’s gonna go like it always does.

        Yeah but I feel like the scale of this one might be a smidge bigger than the others. Combined.

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          Only because you’re living thru this one, which is the same logical fallacy as when 2,000 years of Christians have all been convinced Jesus is coming back in their lifetime, and so will the next 2,000 years of Christians.

          Shit that’s happening around us currently always seem like a bigger deal, because to us it is, because it’s happening to us right now.

          Zoom out and start thinking as “humanity” and not “I” and none of this shit is really that new.