Just ask members of the MOVE group in Philly, or the Branch Davidians in Waco, or Randy Weaver, of Ruby Ridge, ID.
I seriously doubt most of us here are anything like those there.
David Koresh of the Branch Davidians was insane.
Those that followed him were
more insane and very, very,
weak minded.
You left out Jim Jones, another insane person with vulnerable weak
minded followers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven's_Gate_(religious_group)
Heavens Gate vulnerable, weak minded, half nuts, people that committed
suicide over a comet event.
Those people were not preppers.
They were ignorant people so full of fear they'd rather die that deal with potentially
adverse circumstances.
I'm not even close to being like them and neither are you.
Do we believe that upon death we will go to heaven or hell?
Is suicide ever an option?
If we have even basic Christian beliefs suicide isn't an option.
The most notable pro-suicide group was the Donatists, who believed that by killing themselves they could attain martyrdom and go to Heaven. They were eventually declared heretics. Most early theologians of the Catholic Church considered suicide as murder and thus a mortal sin in the absence of circumstances that could mitigate the sinfulness of the act.
Being as I have two university degrees, one from a Christian University, I have
a bit of an understanding of suicide with reference Christian values.
That is as far as I go with "religion" on this kind of web site.
Preppers are survivors.
Why we are preppers.
If I'm taken out of this life in a shtf it will be while fighting for MY life
or YOURS.
My ethics, values, won't let me stand by while an innocent suffers.
Been there, done, that, and suffered for it.
I can hold my head up and stand tall despite my many serious injuries that
I suffered in the process.
Values you see.
That might be due in part to having a father and three of his brothers in
WWII.
None of the four wanted to be in any war.
All four fought and came home.
All four shot all to hell.
They survived.
On the other side of my family however..............................
Mothers brothers all claimed
conscientious objector status and
served time in PRISON during WWII.
I think it might have taken more guts to go to prison than serve.
After all only 1 in 10 of the military were in combat.
Dad was in 3rd Armored, Spearhead division. Always out front getting
shot at and shelled.