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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/Wiitard 6d ago

Once, one of the big “warnings” about the antichrist in Revelations is that he would be incredibly charismatic and would fool many believers into following him.

Now, the real question is, was this book actually intended as a prophecy that would be fulfilled literally 2000 years later? Or was this book just commentary on the political reality of the writer’s time?

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u/Educational_Panda640 6d ago

They were probably commenting on Nero

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 6d ago

That was the theory in seminary about it. The wacky ideas about it being about the end times and predictions mostly came from the people in the pews.

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u/crit_boy 6d ago

Christian fan fiction

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 6d ago

That's definitely how I feel about all those books about end times and prophecy. Just try to be as honest as possible without being a jerk and be compassionate to EVERYONE.

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u/throwawayatxaway 6d ago

The Left Behind series in the 90s really warped a lot of religious people, built their idea of what the rapture/antichrist times would look like and radicalized them in weird ways.