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.
Think about it: these folks want to hasten ‘the end of the world’ — the complete collapse of the world as we know it — so that they can be wafted up to Heaven, while all the ‘sinners’ and non-Christians are cast down into Hell. These folks believe in their own total ‘righteousness’ and are happy to condemn everyone else to eternal misery and damnation.