A tendency that may constitute an existential threat to humanity, if unleashed in a country with a large stockpile of nuclear weapons. Especially given the apocalyptic nature of Abrahamic religions and the prevalence of “rapture” fantasies in said country.
Satirising the propensity of fundamentalists to try and precipitate some apocalypse in order to hasten the “second coming” has been a comedy staple for decades, but the trouble is, many of the unhinged, swivel-eyed loons in question are sufficiently palsied by their infantile attachment to weird interpretations of Bronze Age mythology, to connive and scheme to make that satire a lethal reality.