The dunce JD Vance is the prototypical American in this endless and futile search for someone or something to help them find solace from the knowledge of our mortality and the purposelessness of our existence. The real world in America, along with its multitudes of so-called "faiths" and cultures, all intertwined and converging on the sordid concept of money as the foundation of happiness, is not sufficient to inculcate in these ignorant peasant-stock immigrants the fact that one carries one's happiness inside oneself, regardless of wealth and regardless of which swindler prophet is promising them happiness.
Thus, once in a very frequent while, some religious or political imbecile, usually from the primitive southern states, decides to gain some fame and perhaps some money by declaring that God spoke to him and told him that the end of the world is near.
The fact is that the "world" will never end. The world exits, has always existed, and will always exist. What I think will happen instead is that we, the human species, will cease to exist at some point. Over the course of several billions of years, life on earth has gone through many extinctions, and 99% of all species that have ever existed have vanished, and that is what will continue to occur.
One day in the very distant future, whatever living organisms will be dominating earth will never know that there were humans before, just as dinosaurs who dominated earth long ago could not know that humans will replace them dozens of billion years later. Maybe our successors will find our fossilized remains and wonder. But our existence as a human species is nothing but a split-second in the history of life. We are not made, either as individuals or as a species, to last forever.
Therefore, idiotic preachers who proclaim the end of the world will only fool those among us who are already fools, tricked by religious garbage from the Stone Age into believing religious magic. Religions have done nothing to change our human condition: We simply mask our innate nature under so-called "culture" and traditions, which include religions, because our cerebral cortex forces us to reject our mortality by inventing "solutions" to it: fame, dreams of being great, immortality, the afterlife, the transmutation of our souls into other forms of life... all of it is pure unadulterated bullshit that sedates us into imagining our non-existent immortality.
We are just like the Egyptian pharaohs who embarked on their journey to the afterlife with material objects. Now, we still embark on that same journey with promises of hovering like albatrosses somewhere above the clouds in a mythical place called heaven, or else be dispatched deep beneath the earth's crust to burn forever - a sort of eternal inexhaustible fuel that would make Donald Dumb more billions if he sends his 82nd airborne division to seize it.
If the moron and Yale-DEI-admitted JD Vance is "speculating" that the Anti-Christ is walking among us, he should not be shocked. He is the Vice-President of the Anti-Christ himself. I think Vance would be more palatable if he had remained an atheist. His constant religious metamorphoses do cast serious doubt on his smarts and his sincerity.
====================================================Recent remarks by US Vice-President JD Vance about the Antichrist and "the end times" are a "very, very common belief", one of his friends says.
Vance recently mused on his religious views while responding to a question on a Christian podcast. He said he would "not [be] shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us" and speculated on whether the end of the world was nigh.
His friend Rod Dreher, a conservative writer, rejected any suggestion that the comments would harm the vice-president. He told the BBC's Today programme: "Most Americans who are inclined to vote Republican already believe this stuff."
In his podcast comments, Vance also clarified that such thoughts did not preoccupy him.
In Christianity, the "end times" phrase refers to theories about what will happen at the end of the world. Many churches believe God has a divine plan for the end of everything.
Meanwhile, the Antichrist is seen as the enemy of God who appears during the final phase of the world's existence and takes it over.
Vance, who became a Catholic as an adult, reflected on these topics during a recent podcast discussion with Bryce Crawford, a US Christian podcaster.
"Do I think that we're in the end times? I don't know," he said in response to a Crawford question on the subject. "And I think that it's probably bad for me spiritually to focus too much on it, because there are, like, things you gotta do.
"I gotta be good to my wife. I gotta be good to my kids. I have to be as good of a leader as I can for the United States of America."
The vice-president continued by saying: "I think that there are, like, things about the world that make me feel, like, not shocked if the Antichrist was walking among us."
But Vance reiterated that he was preoccupied with being vice-president, explaining: "What I'm trying to focus on is doing as much of God's work as possible right now."
Reacting to Vance's comments about the Antichrist, Dreher said: "This might sound bonkers to someone who is outside the Christian religion, but it is a very, very common belief within Christianity."
He said his friend was simply reflecting that the world appeared to be going "crazy" through the rapid development of AI and ongoing conflicts.
Dreher, who was present when Vance was received into the Catholic Church, said Ronald Reagan had made similar comments when he was the US president, and that this was seen as "perfectly normal" by his voters.
Vance converted to Catholicism in 2019, then in his mid-30s, and has described how the Church resonated with his family and social values and his conservative politics.
Since becoming vice-president, he has occasionally tangled with Pope Leo and his papal predecessor Francis, on issues including the Trump administration's immigration policy.
Vance is due to appear behind the lectern on Thursday afternoon to deliver the first White House press briefing since the departure of Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
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