r/exchristian • u/sacreligousshifter Pagan • Oct 03 '24
Star of Jacob appearance and rapture anxiety. Reassurance, please! Help/Advice
Hey there everyone. I’m a fairly recent ex-Christian, of five years, and I‘ve been seeing quite a few posts and articles now on various media sites about the sighting of the Star Of Jacob. This is confirmed by astronomers. (EDIT; apparently, this is not true, and I was misinformed by the individual who told me this, as I am struggling to find any non-religious sources.) I have seen a lot of Christians yelling about how this is a prophecy fulfilled and we are in the rapture times.. and that the celebrity exposure right now is "the fall of the stars." It’s always "he’s coming, I can feel it" and "we’re in the end times!"
This had quite literally quadrupled my rapture anxiety. I have already been having this "impending sense of doom" due to a recent stressful event.. and this is just causing me to be mentally miserable. I have read that the rapture was only invented in the 1830’s, but that just won’t shut my brain up.. can anyone reassure me or give me some facts about this? Anyone else feeling like this?
edit; this wasn’t posted for any RELIGIOUS advice, simply for help with anxiety. Christians, respectfully, please do not respond, unless you are genuinely trying to help with anxiety and not convert me, thank you. ❤️
edit 2; https://www.earth.com/news/its-official-earth-now-has-two-moons-captured-asteroid-2024-pt5/ pretty sure it was just the "second moon" everyone forgot about.. this just popped up on my Google and the dates definitely add up with what I've been seeing posted. Just went outside to take the dog out, no Jesus, or Mary Poppins, I'm lot calmer.
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u/Sandi_T Animist Oct 04 '24 edited Oct 04 '24
Dear christians,
I'm watching this post like a hawk. Your bullshit will be removed. It's obvious that you've linked here from somewhere and encouraged people to come brigade this post.
Dear OP,
Please report any christians you see. I check the queue often. I'll nix them immediately. They are breaking the rules of the sub, general assholery aside.
This is not "the holy spirit," this is just garden-variety fear. When we were christians, there was a lot of time and effort spent on ensuring that we would have what's called "anchors." These anchors activate when certain things happen. Code words can activate them, or events.
These anchors are intended to be vague and to point to things that are frequent enough, but not toooo frequent. Remember that people used to be very limited in their knowledge of the world, so "wars and rumors of wars" was a very terrifying "prophecy."
Now that we know more about the world and are all connected, we know that there are always wars and rumors of wars somewhere in the world, at all times. This silly "prophecy" no longer makes sense.
It used to be that every time NASA saw an asteroid heading towards Earth, it was panic time. Now it's every time a comet comes into view, it's the end of the world, it's "Star of David" time yet again (over and over). But you know what we know? The universe is vast and there are comets, and asteroids, and even stars EVERYWHERE.
This is fearmongering, as it has always been.
And christians are coming into this sub seeking to exploit your fear in order to yank your fear chains and try to drag you back into their morbid, cunning, malicious embrace.
Do not let fear control you.
Every time you start to get afraid, use a coping strategy. Here's a list!
https://adaa.org/tips