Part of it is there's at least two competing factions of crazy-talkers. One is the Book of Revelations types, I don't know exactly how its supposed to work, but they want the second coming, and it's supposed to happen over there and be ushered in by chaos.

Other is Jewish conspiracy theory types, who just like seeing what they perceive as the ultimate "ruling class" brought low. They don't really need any holy book-type religions, their actual religion is just worldly power in all its forms--a depressing confluence of ignorance of what actually makes people strong, and pragmatism towards what it seems like makes people strong to them.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm Jewish and the first ones, from two who talked to me years ago, either goes

"All jews must return to Isreal so the end times can happen" (she then got worse and rude when I said no thanks, so I don't know more than that) and the second was

"The end times will only happen when jews have a kingdom in Isreal and most jews return to the holy land for the last war"

They both claimed to like me being Jewish because there needed to be jews in order for the end times to happen and I just went back to stocking groceries and ignoring them mostly

[–] Jamie@jamie.moe 2 points 1 year ago

I always think the revelation types that think they're definitely getting saved before the apocalypse is funny. The Bible says 144,000 will be saved, but the current estimate of Christians on earth is about 2.2 billion from what I can find. So you just gotta hit that 0.006545% chance.

While they're at it, they can go to the casino, bet their entire life savings on a single number on the roulette wheel, do that twice in a row, and their odds of winning that are 11x higher than being picked for rapture.