Read this today in the Bible

Isaiah 24:1-3 NIV See, the Lord is going to lay waste the earth and devastate it; he will ruin its face and scatter its inhabitants— it will be the same for priest as for people, for the master as for his servant, for the mistress as for her servant, for seller as for buyer, for borrower as for lender, for debtor as for creditor. The earth will be completely laid waste and totally plundered. The Lord has spoken this word.

Global warming, MAD, political polarization, overdue caldera, plastics, rise of the oligarchy, loss of personal property rights, solar flares, extraterrestrial objects, I’m tired of listing but I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch.

Perhaps it’s meant to be. Maybe the scale has tipped too far in the wrong direction. Humans haven’t existed very long on a global scale, but already we’ve left scars.

The Bible went on and said,

Isaiah 24:5-6 NIV The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt.

SIDE NOTE: If a post on “unpopular opinions” gets 87% downvotes, does that mean it’s truly unpopular, and therefore successful?

Or does that mean it’s being downvoted because it’s actually a popular opinion?

      • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        15 hours ago

        People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years, they’ve been wrong every time. This causes me to take further predictions with a pinch of salt.

        • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          7 hours ago

          I’m not making a theological prediction based on the Bible. I’m parroting what I read here on Lemmy everyday about global warming, political inequality and despotism, the rise of the oligarchy, plastic poisoning of the environment, the constant (mostly ignored) threat of nuclear weapons, and many other very tangible scientifically verifiable problems.

          Humans had few tools capable of destroying the earth in the 10th century. Now we have many.

          You know when the nights get longer that Winter is coming. Read the signs. What do you see happening?

          • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            I’m not talking about religious predictions exclusively, I’m saying that every single “end of the world” prediction so far has been wrong.

            I don’t doubt that the planet is in a pretty dire state, but resilience is one of humanities strongest traits and short of meteor strike or all out nuclear war, there’s a good chance that at least some of us will survive.

            I am intrigued by what you think 10th century humans had that could destroy the world though.

            • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
              1·
              5 hours ago

              Slash and burn would probably be it. With enough humans though, the possibilities increase even with lesser technologies.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    3 days ago

    I hate to break this to you, but christianity is a massive religion, and the opinion you’ve expressed here is common as hell among its followers. So, definitely not an unpopular opinion in general.

    Yeah, it’s unpopular on lemmy, but I don’t think that counts for something like this.

    • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      15 hours ago

      To be fair, most Christians aren’t “end of the world” doomers. Just the more extreme ones like Jehovah witnesses.

      I think overall, this is an unpopular opinion.

  • Diplomjodler@feddit.orgEnglish
    101·
    3 days ago

    Or maybe an ancient book of myths isn’t what you should base your world view on. Those people didn’t know anything we don’t know today. And doomsday prophecies are a dime a dozen and probably as old as humanity.

    • Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      12·
      3 days ago

      I’m not a pre-millennial dispensationalist. I’m don’t think about the book of Revelation as other than a general apocalyptic book way. Which means pretty much everything is not literal and very little is what it is described as.

      I’m not predicting apocalyptic events per se. I’m certainly not putting dates on them. I’m looking at the world, thinking about a way out of the situations we’re in, recognizing that things are not becoming simpler - they’re becoming more complex daily. New problems are being generated faster than we’re solving old problems, and I’m genuinely stymied.

  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    The Bible is a work of fiction written and perpetuated by charlatans fooling idiots out of their money and agency. That anyone believes this garbage is truly mind-boggling.