The internet and social media plays a role in the dissemination but it’s being integrated into talking points and theories of far right groups there as well.

Crazy.

that with the climate crisis our days are numbered.

Sorry.

When you teach people to accept nonsense, they learn to accept nonsense. I keep remembering Cartman saying he really only needs to read one book and not all those other books, meaning his actual schoolbooks.

I will always thank the Sagan’s, Dawkins’s, Roddenberry’s and Stan Lee’s of the world for helping educate me around these worries.

A lot of Evangelicals buy into a futurist interpretation of the Bible's eschatology, or end times scenarios. Yhey tie the apocalyptic language of the book of Revelation to Jesus' words about the "last days" and to the prophesies of Daniel to come up with end-times predictions Conspiracy theories and the language they use plays right into that and it also makes it possible for some to claim that since the "dispensation" is changing, the concept of loving your neighbor turns into your neighbor is going to hell because he didn't believe right. And there are those who see all this conspiracy theory stuff as being prophetic. So they are ready to help it become self-fulfilling if they have to.