Anonymous wrote: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

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Anonymous wrote: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. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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.

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Anonymous wrote: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. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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.

Hugs. I also grew up in the 70s and 80s. Freewill Baptist so just bring saved and baptized didn’t mean you’d go to heaven if you were a backslider. I was at church camp one summer and they did a rapture “enactment” where someone played a trumpet in the distance and certain people in the congregation stood up and walked out.

OK I don't get it- maybe because I'm not a freewill baptist - what was the meaning of the trumpet and the people walking out?

A trumpet shall sound —this is in Revelations—signaling the beginning of the rapture.

So the people who walked out were acting as if they'd been raptured up?

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Anonymous wrote: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. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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.

Hugs. I also grew up in the 70s and 80s. Freewill Baptist so just bring saved and baptized didn’t mean you’d go to heaven if you were a backslider. I was at church camp one summer and they did a rapture “enactment” where someone played a trumpet in the distance and certain people in the congregation stood up and walked out.

OK I don't get it- maybe because I'm not a freewill baptist - what was the meaning of the trumpet and the people walking out?

A trumpet shall sound —this is in Revelations—signaling the beginning of the rapture.

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Anonymous wrote: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. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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.

Hugs. I also grew up in the 70s and 80s. Freewill Baptist so just bring saved and baptized didn’t mean you’d go to heaven if you were a backslider. I was at church camp one summer and they did a rapture “enactment” where someone played a trumpet in the distance and certain people in the congregation stood up and walked out.

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Anonymous wrote: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. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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.

Hugs. I also grew up in the 70s and 80s. Freewill Baptist so just bring saved and baptized didn’t mean you’d go to heaven if you were a backslider. I was at church camp one summer and they did a rapture “enactment” where someone played a trumpet in the distance and certain people in the congregation stood up and walked out.

OK I don't get it- maybe because I'm not a freewill baptist - what was the meaning of the trumpet and the people walking out?

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Anonymous wrote: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. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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.

Hugs. I also grew up in the 70s and 80s. Freewill Baptist so just bring saved and baptized didn’t mean you’d go to heaven if you were a backslider. I was at church camp one summer and they did a rapture “enactment” where someone played a trumpet in the distance and certain people in the congregation stood up and walked out.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent the majority of my teen years afraid of being left behind. Couldn’t even bring myself to read the books or watch the movies.

I was told that if you were really saved that you’d have peace, but never did. Even got saved and baptised, rededicated my life. It was that doubt that led to my deconstruction.

Are you saying that you don't believe anymore?

Read up about the #Exvangelicals movement— so much trauma and abuse in their lives, and they’re here to tell you from experience how dangerous religious trauma is. The most dedicated and serious about it were also the ones to realize it didn’t make sense.

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Anonymous wrote: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. I think it's a tiny fraction of people.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:I spent the majority of my teen years afraid of being left behind. Couldn’t even bring myself to read the books or watch the movies.

I was told that if you were really saved that you’d have peace, but never did. Even got saved and baptised, rededicated my life. It was that doubt that led to my deconstruction.

Are you saying that you don't believe anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:My mom has hit 80, and I think she is disappointed that the rapture isn't going to happen in her lifetime. I guess that is her own version of rapture anxiety!

Yikes. So she wants it to happen?

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Anonymous wrote:My mom has hit 80, and I think she is disappointed that the rapture isn't going to happen in her lifetime. I guess that is her own version of rapture anxiety!

Yikes. So she wants it to happen?

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

Anonymous wrote:My mom has hit 80, and I think she is disappointed that the rapture isn't going to happen in her lifetime. I guess that is her own version of rapture anxiety!