It's weird being 18 and graduated because I remember me and my cousins all discussing how we didn't think we'd live long enough to graduate cause the Rapture would happen before then and now we've all graduated and no Apocalypse yet, so now I've gotten old enough to have an undying, fiery rage at my past pastors and every sermon that told me It™️ was coming soon. That was such a terrible thing to teach a child. No child should think they're going to die soon in a world-altering event in which they'll be separated from all their non-christian friends for eternity.
NO BUT FOR REAL!
I remember my pastor had This Thingtm that he always ate his dessert before his actual meal just in case the rapture came. He was constantly talking about how the world will be a disaster after the christians leave and how all of your friends and family that you didn't love to Witness to won't go to hell because of Your selfishness. And it. It just.
Same!!
I remember once overhearing some parents talking about how one of their little kids was found just sitting looking out the window and they asked him what he was doing. He said he was waiting for Jesus to come back. And I remember everybody chuckled and one of the parents said, “that’s a good way to spend your time!”
I don’t know how to emphasize enough that it’s really not.