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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe in "the rapture" if that's what you call the events in the Book of Revelation.  Most WILL be left behind.  But no, I don't experience anxiety about it, and I never knew anyone who did.  [b]I think it's a tiny fraction of people.  [/quote][/b]

I don't think so. Most of my peers felt this way. This fear is what drove us to heed the countless altar calls and "re-dedications". These legalistic, fear-based Protestant denominations absolutely pedal this stuff. IDK about anymore, but they definitely did back in the 1970s and 80s when I was growing up.  [/quote]

I never knew anyone in one of those churches.  It's not many people.  At least not in the DC area. [/quote]

I don’t know about English, American churches but this is extremely common with Hispanic churches. In my experience with a few of those churches is that they are very much fear-based teachings. It is fear of heaven and hell, the rapture and tithing. Those were the main and frequent preachings. Most every Sunday even after a feel good preaching, there would be a good 20 minutes about accepting Jesus or going to hell. Every week.

Mini buddies preachers never went to seminary school. They were just men who felt “the calling” To preach. There was a main pastor but our church had a lot of guest preachers who would take up an offering on top of the tithes.

In the 80s I remember a guest preacher, who was there for a few months, who claimed to know the exact date of the second coming. He had mathematical Equations and dates based off random passages in the Bible. He convinced many people to turn over their savings to him to so that the people who were left behind had money to live off.   Of course it was a con and I don’t remember what happened to him after the supposed date.

Of course, now we would call the police and report these people but back then a lot of the parishioners were scared to call the police because of immigration status and they didn’t realize that the police could help. [b]There was a lot of blind faith, there was a lot of fear and trust[/b].[/quote]

And a lot of cons.  There still are, but many are not so flagrant about it.[/quote]

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