It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.
Now ... I'm aware that there's a Christianity that doesn't ascribe to Rapture Theology and Prosperity Theology—I include myself—but I'm not inclined to make a differentiation betwixt and between, or to "not all Christians" this, for a few reasons:
1) This cult has infiltrated "regular" Christianity
2) regular Christianity accepts the graft, treating the madness as difference of opinion to accept rather than a defining break, because ...
3) This cult represents the more politically activated and influential group
What do they believe?
They believe they and they alone are chosen by God for eternal life.
That everybody else is chosen for eternal punishment.
That nothing they can do can change that.
That the world will be destroyed and God will evacuate them to a gated community afterlife.
Imagine what believing everyone but you and a few select people (who mostly look as you do) does to how you think other people should be treated. Or warnings of mass extinction.
You want the mass-extinction. You want the planet to burn. That's part of the plan.
Mass extinction? The planet destroyed?
That's how you get your gated community. That's how you get a better house.
It's a genocide theology. It's an apocalypse cult. It sold a billion copies of a book series called Left Behind.
It's running our government.
It is logically impossible to believe that you are in God's small select group of chosen beloved and that everyone else is rightfully doomed to eternal torture without on some level not caring what happens to those other people.
It's a genocide theology.
It is logically impossible to believe the end of the world means you're about to be catapulted out of a world of pain into a world of eternal joy without wanting the end of the world to happen.
It's an apocalypse cult.
The theology boils down to "the people who intrinsically matter will be evacuated out while those who intrinsically don't matter are destroyed."
How would one expect a political entity who believed this to react to global challenges? Exactly how the Republican Party is acting.
Horde wealth
Stockpile weapons
Favor the people who look like you (they aren't elect *because* they're white, how dare you suggest it, it's just that God's favored *happen* to be people who look like you, crazy coincidence that)
Demonize the rest
Get the women under control
My point is there may have never existed a greater threat to human life than the Christian-backed Republican Party.
They're an apocalypse cult with nukes and a genocide theology.
We're not going to defeat them with compromise.
Call your Democrats. Demand a fight.
I recommend a "wave" method:
We have to demand Democrats deliver an uncompromising fight.
1) Voter and election protection/gerrymandering reform
2) Green energy/climate plan NOW
3) Then we start working on centering our other priorities on human thriving over corporate profit
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