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In Christianity the end of the world is meant to ultimately be a good thing, like a thousand years of peace once the antichrist is defeated and then people go to heaven. In their view I guess they see it as doing God's will. Plus Christians having been itching for the world to end since they became a thing. It's like if the heaven's gate people just waited 2000 years.
Though at the same time, if I remember my book of revelations stuff, "no one will know the time or the place" and it seems like any sort of attempt to "decode" the end of the world and make it happen would be at best futile and at worst actively going against any of God's plans.
Though these sorts of people do happen to "hear the voice of god" in such a way that tells them to do whatever reprehensible thing they want and it is ok because "it is god's will."
Yeah there's not a lot of coherence to their beliefs. There's also a lot of predestination and Calvinist stuff. So if they try to make the apocalypse happen and succeed that was god working through them all along etc
Yeah the Catholics have had to keep hammering down this nail every time it pops up. The logical conclusion of their religion is that the apocalypse is good, so the church had to forbid the concept as a form of heresy just to stop people from doing death cult shit.
In particular the Catholic church hated you trying to predict when the apocalypse was happening. It was fine to do art about it or philosophize about it. The minute you start to predict it they came down like a hammer. Which for at least pragmatic reasons, you make the church looks silly if you're wrong.
Christianity originally was apocalyptic cult and it raise its head every time shit's going down the drain or calendar show particularly round number like 1000 CE. Church even forbid suicide, because there are a huge logical holes between "apocalypse is good", "next life will be better" and "the all-loving merciful Christ require you to suffer before that"