Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that there is no need to stir up fear around nuclear weapons, as Christians are not afraid of the end of the world.
Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church has said that there is no need to stir up fear around nuclear weapons, as Christians are not afraid of the end of the world.
Kirill added that this "does not mean that we should sit by idly".
"On the contrary, our earthly mission is to be the Lord's soldiers ... to resist evil and defend high moral ideals. This is the goal setting in Russia," he said.
You should have the right to believe and worship whatever you want, but this attitude of "oh if the world ends it's God's plan" is so fucking shitty. Maybe try to fix the world and work with what we have instead of putting all your eggs in the basket of "at least we have heaven after". For those who don't subscribe to your particular brand of comforting lies, we want to take care of the world we have, not piss it away thinking it's the free trial edition of life.
Maybe your christians aren't afraid of it. But I'm pretty sure like 5.8 billion people who aren't christian are kind of are and would not like this to fulfill some death cult's prophecy.
I'm not Christian (I'm actually more of a syncretic Luciferian) and I'm not afraid of the "end of the world", because isn't logical to fear something that's certain to happen soon. Actually, the world, as in the Earth, will last for millions of years until the Sun swallows it, but Homo sapiens have not been needed a Sun to swallow them: they're swallowing one another as well as themselves, and that's exactly what are taking humans to the inevitable fate. Humans are destroying the nature. Humans are polluting the Cosmos (thousands of metallic mosquitoes around the Earth, we call them "satellites" and "space debris" from "rockets" and other apparatuses humans took there). There's no savior to come down from the skies. The many prophecies (Kali Yuga, Armageddon, Al-Qiyamah, Ragnarök and so on) are indeed self-fulfilling prophecies, as every form of life that is gifted (or, to use a better adjective, cursed) with the sentience is rendered self-destructive by nature. Like it or not, the "end of the world" has already started, and the very harbingers of doom are ourselves, our very human natures. It's beyond nationalities and religions.
Russia must be close to collapsing for them to be saying this sort of thing. Remember, nukes require all sorts of expensive things to work. Things that get stolen or scammed in a kleptocracy like Russia. Putin cannot depend on real knowledge of his arsenals readiness. Lots if not most all of his nukes won’t work. But almost all of the West’s will. Does even a crazy man risk it under this situation?
Ok, but they should logically be afraid of causing it. The only reason not to be afraid of the end of the world is if you're going to the good afterlife.