HA! Meek and forgiving my ass.

Yeah this. Shortly before he left the church, a friend of mine's pastor told him not to recycle because it delays the end times. These people want Armageddon and think they're doing god's work by hurrying it along.

There are doomsday prepper magazines, which seems like it would be a poor business model if they were right, what with it relying on future issues coming out to sell advertising.

God, that pissed me off so much about the "tough as nails" types. They act like they're so self sufficient, but the moment a slight inconvenience happened to their entitled lives, they expected the world to bend over backwards for them. Mean while, when I heard that we could have regular, week long power outages because the pole workers might end up hospitalized, I was setting up my generator with a hundred days of fuel.

It was so disappointing when AvE came out in support of the trucker's protest. Up until that point, he always seemed smarter then that.

To reuse that old joke

"~~Libertarians~~ Doomsday preppers are like house cats: absolutely convinced of their fierce independence while utterly dependent on a system they don't appreciate or understand"

I mean basically this: They expect something like a Movie but when something happens in reality they turn around and are like "nope".

Apocalypticism will always be in fashion.

Mine says the world has already ended, does that count?

The mayan one in 2012 was the best one so far. There was some real hype about it, movies, media, news, everyone was on it.

In the end it turned out that it was the day Gangnam Style became the first youtube video reaching 1 billion views. Some would say it really was the apocalypse.

Christians in the 1st century? So people that followed Paul after he wrote the earliest texts around 50-60AD?

The Muslims have never had a big, convoluted End Times mythos like the Christians, at least not in the Qur'an. At some point in the indefinite future, there will be Judgement Day, and everybody living or dead will get hauled in front of Allah and the recording angel will play back your scorecard. Then it's Jinnah (heaven) or Jehenna (hell).

There are quite a number of hadiths (extra-scriptural reports of things Muhammad said or did) that talk about the end times. Hadiths are assessed by Islamic scholars based on their provenance and general credibility. Those originating from people close to the Prophet are ranked higher; those that contradict the Qur'an are downgraded. Most of the non-Qur'anic end times narratives sound very similar to Christian eschatology, except that the Mahdi, the successor prophet to Muhammad, appears. Jesus (Issa) returns (and maybe he's the same guy as the Mahdi?), there's the Antichrist (the Dajjal) stirring up mischief, there are signs and portents, the giants Gog and Magog running amok, the stars fall from the sky as meteors, etc, etc.

It's not as entertaining as Ragnarök, but it's more coherent than the Christian fundies' fanfic.

As always, Wikipedia is a good resource here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_apocalyptic_events

Incomplete, obviously.

Scientists: Climate Change will lead to everything going to shit if we don’t change our gluttonous ways and become good stewards of Creation.

Supply Side Jesus: HERESY!

You send me looking and at least the JW believe in climate change and argue that it was foretold in the Bible.

Catholics: idk

I loved Pingu. Then they did the 2000s version with the guy who got the voice totally wrong and fuck that.

The prophecy is true:

Taco Bell will win the fast food wars.

Seems awfully close if you ask me, 100 km maybe

What about the way in which Pope Francis touches science?