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My personal pet theory is that these weirdo's are just afraid of dying. Christianity is fundamentally a death cult. Die now and get rewarded in heaven. But these extreme evangelicals found a loophole: the rapture. During the end times god saves all the true believers. Boom, a one way ticket to heaven without having to die. So these lunatics are actively trying to make the end times happen so they don't miss out and they don't have to die.
If I was on the writing team of the next SMT game and made villains like that, I'd be called "an atheistic edgelord", who wrote a cartoonishly evil cult to satisfy my thirst for hatred of religion.
(Not that I'm not an atheistic edgelord with a hatred of organized religion, just that atheism got a bad reputation, due to many taking the "cartoonishly evil" cult's side in the culture wars, because they didn't blew up cars (at that time - see the cybertruck bomber).)
I honestly find it baffling. If you believe in heaven, why would you fear death? Not saying you're wrong, I just cannot comprehend that mindset.
I mean fearing death is human instinct and not really something based in logic.
It makes sense if they think they're going to hell, but that would require having a level of self-awareness I don't believe anyone trying to actively cause the end of times can possess.
That makes even less sense. If you don't think you qualify to get into heaven, why would you desire to speed up the rapture? You'd just get left behind anyway.
Oh, I assumed that the rapture would work in a different way than regular death for some reason so maybe true believers could still go to heaven even if they're sinners. If it's all the same then yeah, I have no idea what their logic is either.
rapture is a evangelical creation, im not surprised. many SHOWS have co-opted this when it includes christian themes.