Milenium Religius Menuju Milenium Improvisasional: Relasi Eskatologi Kristen dan Teori Konspirasi

Endah Christina; Suwarto Adi

doi:10.30648/dun.v11i1.2460

Milenium Religius Menuju Milenium Improvisasional: Relasi Eskatologi Kristen dan Teori Konspirasi

Endah Christina, Suwarto Adi

Abstract

Abstract. The purpose of this research is to prove that a belief to conspiracy narration delivered by short social media clip has been changing religious millennium beliefs into improvisational millennium. In the context of COVID-19 pandemic, some individuals believe that pandemic was triggered by global elite, who are the accomplices to the antichrist, to depopulate the population through the engineering of viruses and vaccines as biological weapons. As the result, those individuals refuse vaccination. Through a phenomenological approach with interviews as a method of data collection, the main argument as well as the conclusions is that conspiracy theories play a significant role in changing the premillennial eschatological belief of dispensational pretribulation (EPPD) into an improvisational millennium.

Abstrak. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah membuktikan bahwa kepercayaan kepada narasi konspirasi di short video media sosial mengubah kepercayaan millenium religius menjadi millenium improvisasional. Dalam konteks pandemi COVID-19, sejumlah individu memercayai bahwa pandemi adalah depopulasi elit global yang adalah kaki tangan antikris (666) melalui rekayasa virus dan vaksin sebagai senjata biologi. Akibatnya individu tersebut tidak bersedia divaksin. Melalui pendekatan fenomenologi dengan wawancara sebagai metode pengumpulan data, argumentasi utama sekaligus kesimpulan adalah teori konspirasi berperan signifikan mengubah kepercayaan Eskatologi Premillenial Prestribulasi Dispensasional (EPPD) menjadi millenium improvisasional.

Keywords

antichrist; antikris; COVID-19; dispensasional; dispensational; premillenial; premillennial; tribulasi; tribulation

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.30648/dun.v11i1.2460