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Originally Posted by Azure
Thats exactly why this 'endtimes' crap has gotten such a foothold on our society.
Especially amongst the older religious people who were brought up in the Baptist theology....and were taught this stuff in Sunday School. Those same people were gullible enough to believe Hal Lindsey when he said the planets aligning in 1986 meant the end of the world was here...and they're STILL gullible enough to believe everything they read on the internet.
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This stuff has been around the beginning. It's something odd within the human genetic makeup that encourages the development of eschatology. I would actually blame it's increase on scientific modernity which challenges the reasoning behind millenarianism but doesn't actually develop anything that replaces the psychological need that humans have when it comes to believing in a new age or end of times.
Secularists have the same need, but put in different terms.