Recently I was astounded when my partner, who was raised in a strict Christian sect, informed me of a worrisome trend among American Christians: Many fundamentalists and evangelicals want to bring on the ‘end times’ — thus hastening ‘the rapture’ and the glorious return of Christ. They want our society to fail and fall apart. They want our world to be judged and destroyed.
She and I are both horrified by this supposedly ‘devout’ longing. To us, it’s a stark, striking indicator of extreme self-centeredness and arrogance.