Anyone feeling "Rapture Anxiety"?

[Anonymous]

Apparently this is a real problem in some evangelical communities. What can be done to help?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/27/us/rapture-anxiety-evangelical-exvangelical-christianity-cec/index.htm

[Anonymous]

I mean, that’s what these religions are built on. It’s a feature, not a bug. It’s not fixable.

[Anonymous]

I never really thought I talked about rapture, while it's something I have always believed in. I learned my 30 year old daughter was terrified and still has anxiety from the 2000's when we read Left Behind. While I still think there will be a rapture, I've been especially careful of NOT saying anything about it around my 11 year old. I don't want to cause this type of fear in anyone.

[Anonymous]

Not anxious. I'm Catholic. We don't believe in The Rapture.

[Anonymous]

Most Christians don’t believe in the Rapture as pictured in the Left Behind books.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not anxious. I'm Catholic. We don't believe in The Rapture.

I was Catholic, and I absolutely stayed up at night in fear over what sin I had committed, and how I hadn't been to confession.

Awful. I refuse to partake in any religion and the religious guilt and anxiety is a big reason why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most Christians don’t believe in the Rapture as pictured in the Left Behind books.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not anxious. I'm Catholic. We don't believe in The Rapture.

+1 Plus I've watched Evangelicals do this to themselves once a decade my whole life. I remember a classmate weeping about why wouldn't I just "be saved" so I could avoid burning in a lake of fire for all eternity when the Rapture was sure to come on . . . Y2K. The world is full of people with this dramatic, fatalistic worldview that thrives on the feeling of impending doom, and it's clear by the way they keep falling for it that it's something they don't care to learn from it.

[Anonymous]

Meh. Most of it is Boomer anxiety about their own impending "end times" that they project onto everyone and everything else.

"I'm coming to my end. That MUST mean the world is coming to its end."

[Anonymous]

No. Presbyterian, not worried about "the rapture."

Gave an old evangelical school friend a lot of trauma back in the 80s. She is no longer religious and thinks her lack of faith stems from being haunted by awful films her fundamentalist / evangelical church showed about "the rapture."

It was so pervasive our Presbyterian minister taught our teen Sunday school class about the Book of Revelations and the historical background, because our fundy / baptist/ evangelical friends were freaking everyone else out. Again, back in the 1980s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not anxious. I'm Catholic. We don't believe in The Rapture.

+1 Plus I've watched Evangelicals do this to themselves once a decade my whole life. I remember a classmate weeping about why wouldn't I just "be saved" so I could avoid burning in a lake of fire for all eternity when the Rapture was sure to come on . . . Y2K. The world is full of people with this dramatic, fatalistic worldview that thrives on the feeling of impending doom, and it's clear by the way they keep falling for it that it's something they don't care to learn from it.

Yup, this^.

[Anonymous]

The link doesn't work. Was this a spoof article?

[Anonymous]

I went to a very conservative Christian school. I had rapture anxiety but mine was about hoping I got to have sex before the rapture! Hahahahah! Not even joking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to a very conservative Christian school. I had rapture anxiety but mine was about hoping I got to have sex before the rapture! Hahahahah! Not even joking.

[Anonymous]

There is only one second coming of Christ and nothing in between. Be prepared to withstand the end times because salvation alone, righteous living and a relationship with Christ will be the only thing to save you.