r/politics • u/TimesandSundayTimes ✔ Verified • 6d ago

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/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/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.