"Fox News characterized Mamdani’s victory as 'the end of the world.'”
~ Oliver Willis
#ZohranMamdani #Islamophobia #media #EconomicElites #apocalypticism #FoxNews
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/11/7/2352655/-Mamdani-win-prompts-bigoted-GOP-freak-out
"For those who are not perennially looking out for signs of Armageddon and awaiting it as a child waits for a father to return, the drama of the Apocalypse looks merely like a collection of people who, in waiting for the world to end, are actively worsening life in the present."
~ Ibid.
#evangelicals #Trump #MAGA #apocalypticism #millennianism
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“In seeking to hasten the end of the world, evangelicals often make it worse for others who do not anticipate being snatched up into the clouds to sit by Christ's side as the seas boil and Satan takes possession of the earth."
~ Talia Lavin, Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America (NY: Legacy, 2024), pp. 95-6
#evangelicals #Trump #MAGA #apocalypticism #millennianism
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https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889832034/The-Missionary-Kids
"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy. ...
This is where the tech bros merge with the TheoBros, a real group of hyper-patriarchal Christian supremacists with ties to Hegseth and others in the Trump administration."
"You don’t need to be a biblical literalist, or even religious, to be an end times fascist. Today, plenty of powerful secular people have embraced a vision of the future that follows a nearly identical script, one in which the world as we know it collapses under its weight and a chosen few survive and thrive in various kinds of arks, bunkers and gated 'freedom cities'."
~ Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
"The danger of the Christian nationalist worldview is that it raises the stakes of political contests exponentially, transposing political opponents into existential enemies. Politics are no longer understood to be disagreements between fellow citizens of goodwill but to be apocalyptic battles over good and evil, fought by agents of God against agents of Satan."
~ Robert P. Jones
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
/6
"Because it is immoral, I believe Christian nationalism is inevitably doomed. But in the meantime, the pain, suffering, and injury it will inflict will be enormous—just consider women facing difficult pregnancies, trans children seeking care, librarians attacked for certain books."
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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"To claim that one political figure uniquely represents God’s will for the body politic is a form of anti-Christian idolatry. To elevate one set of spiritual beliefs above another and do it by force of law removes a nonnegotiable tenet of evangelical faith—free will. We are born again when we choose to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, not when we’re forced to do so."
~Rob Schenck
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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"f you assume all evangelical Christians are motivated by the thought of a coming Rapture today, you may have missed the new end-of-days mood that has taken hold within American evangelicalism. For many Christians on the right, the end times are no longer a source of dread and anxiety so much as an expected and even welcome opportunity for God’s soldiers to conquer the earth."
~Matthew D. Taylor
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-left-behind-got-left-behind
"For Americans unfamiliar with the evangelical world, it can be hard to grasp how rapidly this right-wing movement is changing Christianity in the U.S. and turning politics, in many Christians’ minds, into a zero-sum war between the forces of evil and the armies of God."
~ Molly Olmstead
#Trump #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #apocalypticism #ChurchandState
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I have an essay in the first-ever issue of Symphonies of the Imagination magazine, titled "Imagining Differently In Order to Act, Or Not Another Anti-Apocalypse Speech".
Check it out: http://symphoniesofimagination.com/issue1
#solarpunk #nonfiction #article #magazine #SymphoniesOfImagination #ImaginativeExpansion #Apocalypticism #Apocalypse #doomerism #ClimateHope #HowTo #Eschatology #Expectation #Futurism #ClimateDespair #ClimateAnxiety #FaithInHumanity #writing
"Weber’s lucid and inviting study shows how John Nelson Darby’s dispensational theology, Hal Lindsey’s bestselling prophecy books, Left Behind novels, the rise of the Religious Right, and a cooperative Republican Party have brought about an unquestioned loyalty to Israel despite the mounting international outcry (and genocide allegations) over Israel’s deadly and destructive response, which has killed nearly 25,000 Gazans, most of them women and children."
For those seeking to understand the uncritical pro-Israel, anti-Palestine bias of many US leaders, Steve Rabey points to Timothy P. Weber's On the Road to Armageddon, which tracks the religious beliefs among US Christians feeding this political stance. He writes,
"#Apocalypticism": #Polling #expert reveals the root of "#panic among #conservative #White #Christians".
"That #core belief explains so much of the #extremism and the proclivity toward #violence on the #political #right".
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Racism #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews #ThePartyOfHate
Why Isn't #Christianity a #Doomsday #Cult?
If #Jesus was an #apocalyptic #prophet, then why isn't mainstream, modern Christianity an apocalyptic #religion? Was the move away from #apocalypticism deliberate, and are modern doomsday #preachers actually closer to preaching Jesus' message than other #churches?
getting acquainted with David Flusser’s Jesus
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/17-aug-23-david-flusser-judaism-and-christian-origins-israel-academy-december-2017/
#DavidFlusser #TheSageFromGalilee #Jesus #Judaism #earlyChristianity #secondTemple #ancientNearEast #apocalypticism #PaulaFredriksen #ShaulShaked #blog
Episode 3.4 "#Capitalism, Community, and #Friendship with Joey Ayoub" is publically available now!
Why is it easier to imagine a #zombie apocalypse than it is a #generative, #sustainable future? This question drives Joey Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times: in fact, this season of his #podcast is partially about solarpunk and #generative #futures.
In this episode, @arielkroon speaks with @joey today about the imaginative expansion of #solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and #community building in a #crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation.
#ClimateAnxiety #podcasting #SolarpunkPresents #Patreon #realism #realist #apocalypse #apocalypticism #CapitalistRealism
ETA: a fuller description and some Masto-related flair ;)
http://solarpunkpresents.com/2023/08/07/3-4-capitalism-community-and-friendship-with-joey-ayoub/
Episode 3.4: #Capitalism, #Community, and #Friendship with Joey Ayoub is out now to our Patreon supporters, with a general release coming next Monday.
Why is it easier to imagine a zombie apocalypse than it is a generative, #sustainable future? This question drives Joey Ayoub, host of The Fire These Times: in fact, this season of his #podcast is partially about solarpunk and #generative #futures. Tune in today to listen to @arielkroon and @joey discussing imaginative expansion of solarpunk, the “realist” impulse, climate anxiety and grief, and community building in a #crisis. Also The Office. Trust us, it’s an important part of this whole conversation. Check it out and support us here:
#ClimateAnxiety #podcasting #SolarpunkPresents #Patreon #realism #realist #apocalypse #apocalypticism
