How do you talk about climate change to people who are more worried about the rapture?

[AZ Progressive]

After all, why would they care about climate change and preserving the future of life on earth and the human race if they care more about going to heaven?

[hobbit709]

1. Trying to have rational discussions with irrational people never gets far.

"Belief gets in the way of thinking"

[Bradical79]

2. I used to be one of them

but I really don't know. It's a 2 step process of first convincing them it's real, then convincing them it's important.

[Kip Humphrey]

6. I would reverse that order. What is real is less of a priority for Rapturists. Tell them

the devil will win Armageddon if it gets too hot!

x + =

[Scootaloo]

3. It's not just "going to heaven..."

They actually believe the destruction of the world is a GOOD THING, a sign of the coming of Jesus.

[reddread]

4. why would you?

its bad enough that reasonable citizens have no clue how long GREENHOUSE GASES have been understood to have their effects.
Thirty years ago the problems were well understood and being taught in my college courses.
What happened then is what happened across the board- Reagan/Bush and their enablers shut down science, education and media
with hooks and crooks.
the utter disaster we face today is because of this, and nothing else.
We should all hope for the Rapture, because what we have been stuck with
is the end of life as we knew it.

[HERVEPA]

5. You don't

[Ron Obvious]

7. You can't reason with them

You can't reason people out of positions they haven't reasoned themselves into in the first place.

[Bonx]

10. Yep. Reason vs faith = even more entrenched faith

[Segami]

8. Sell it to them

as an undiscovered, prime beach front property opportunity off the coast of California that will become available sooner than expected.

[pipi_k]

9. You'd have better luck

teaching rocket science to a barnyard full of swine.

[jwirr]

11. And that is a big part of our economic problems. Not just the rapture but the end times. They see

no reason to fix anything because it will all be a waste of time. Imagine the world if the early church had that idea.

They have forgotten to read the part of the Bible that tells them they are not supposed to set and wait. They are to get to work making the world a better place. Instead they have joined the evil in making it worse.

[raouldukelives]

12. Well, any of the sincere ones welcome it.

The only way I generally address it is that the world is God's creation. And not just the world, everything we know and don't know.
Every plant, every creature, every bit of stardust, all created by God.

They are all important to the creator. When we despoil & destroy what was created, we are destroying the work of God. Destroying Eden. Being the worst kind of shepherds imaginable to what were entrusted with.

If it were me, and I came back and saw this, I'd be pissed too. Especially at the ones who did it.

[Dirty Socialist]

14. Sounds like a plan

That is a good argument.

[Sunlei]

13. imo that 'rapture' and most of the 'jehadists' are similar in they are suicidal, not self-suicide.

They want to take others with them.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

15. Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. Thomas Paine

i.e. "God is the author of everything and it's His plan to kill everybody for their own good."

[DawgHouse]

16. After they are raptured

there will be a new heaven and earth so there's no reason to preserve the current life on earth.

In other words, you can't talk them about climate change.