If you think that's preposterous, then you don't understand the mindset of a really large fraction of your country. The "Left Behind" series didn't sell 80 million copies because it was written well, as poor @slacktivistfred can attest.
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This is a 2017 article from him that goes to some trouble to explain that world. It's really good!https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2017/08/17/left-behind-trumpism/ …
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Culturally this is the equivalent of seeing Trump attempt a few words in German or something, and having sophisticated people mock him for making a series of incomprehensible noises. It's not that, it's a language that people do understand, however poorly he attempts to speak it
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If the sentiment you’re describing can only be expressed in ridiculous ways (“he will hurt god”), doesn’t that make it a bit... ridiculous?
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and that delusion is worth any life, to them. Pretty wild how we live at their mercy!
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I know a lot of it doesn’t make sense but how can they think God will save them from coronavirus but not a politician?
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Because their view of prophecy is that "things will get worse before they get better" to kind of an extreme degree. In particular, Antichrist (masquerading as a man of peace) will form a one world government. So Trump is a kind of delaying action at best, but a fight worth having
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But what do you do about it even if you do understand?
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I was a super fringe fundamentalist in my teens and have equal difficulty conveying the insanity to others
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