Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This seems like a pretty straightforward viewpoint to me. Not that there aren't other valid viewpoints on the same topics

Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This seems like a pretty straightforward viewpoint to me. Not that there aren't other valid viewpoints on the same topics, but I totally get where you're coming from. Regarding the long game, it could go longer. You might consider The Great Disappointment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment It was the purest bunk. Sincere bunk, well meaning bunk, but still bunk. It was proven wrong and wrong and wrong again, but not only did some people take their beliefs to their graves, but an offshoot is still going more than 150 years later.