When Will The End-Times Be And How Will We Know?

There never was a great flood. Doubtless, there were many small local floods, but never a great flood. We are observing it in real time, with COVID-19.

Or you are just repeating standard apologetics nonsense. Atheism doesn't assume anything.By the way, back when I was a Christian, I did not accept the doctrine of original sin. I saw that doctrine as making God out to be evil.

Christianity is supposed to be hard.If you are not finding it hard, then you are not a real Christian. You are not convinced that he is real. If you were really convinced, you would be striving to follow his teachings. Instead, you argue against that.You are a fake Christian. Martin Luther King was a real Christian. He fought hard to do the real stuff, spent time in prison, and was eventually assassinated. But your Christianity is fake. Most of American Christianity is fake.Wake up. Stop trying to fool yourself.

You will have to work that out for yourself.However, "Love thy neighbor" is supposed to apply to everyone. And the parable of the sheep and the goats (Matt 25) is intended for everyone. And those already demonstrate your failings.

Aren't Christians suppose to strive to do better than basic human nature

You are spouting right wing lies.Stop listening to their propaganda. No, you are a fool blinding following what the propagandists are telling you.

No, it is not becoming overarching. You are swallowing the bullshit propaganda that is being fed to you.

Some amount of inflation is unavoidable.

You listen to the conmen. And you are being conned.

Agreed.I was oversimplifying. A perfectly stable currency is impossible, because there will be fluctuations elsewhere in the economy. And economists generally prefer a small amount of inflation to a small amount of deflation.

I don't know that. But there's that old saying "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck." No, there can be honest people selling investments.It is that actions speak louder than words. Their words say to buy gold, but their actions are to sell gold. They stand to profit if you follow their words. They are not disinterested advisors. I don't think I have ever said that all Christian apologists are conmen. I don't doubt that there are some decent respectable Christians, and some of what they do might count as apologetics. However, the apologists that I most frequently encounter are thoroughly dishonest. They are using bad arguments -- lots of circular reasoning, for example -- and they are deliberately misconstruing events to support their causes. What does that even mean?

It's nonsense.Money is a fiction. It is a useful fiction, but still a fiction. It is a proxy for what people value.China cannot wave a magic wand and suddenly make their currency supreme. What makes something a reserve currency is the collective wisdom of the wealthiest nations.The greatest risk to the US dollar is the USA Republican party. They have become a party of thugs, of terrorists, of traitors, of anti-Christians who pretend to be Christian. By virtue of their attacks on democracy, they are undermining confidence in the USA. And once USA loses credibility as a bastion of democracy, the US dollar will lose its potency.You vote for these evil people. You yourself are part of a concerted attack against the US dollar. And all because you are a gullible fool who easily falls prey to conmen.

I'm amending my earlier comment on this.Yes you (not we but you) are in a spiritual war against yourself. And you are losing badly.

I don't actually spend a lot of time listening to what economists say. I have better ways to spend my time than thinking about money.Yes, there are some people who do very well with investing. But they do their own careful research. They don't just buy into what the hucksters are selling. And, even then, they know that they will sometimes lose. They depend on having a good statistical picture so that the gains will exceed the losses. I would find that boring, so I don't get into risky investments.

I agree that there are uncertainties in attempting to set the value of money through common agreement.Attempting to go to a gold standard would be an attempt to set the value through common agreement. Somehow, you are blind to that. I do not see any evidence supporting this.