• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    Holy shit. The Christian version of the 1979 Iranian Revolutionary Guard has risen. God is not with MAGA.

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    And when St Peter reads Mike Huckabee the chronicle of his pig-ignorant hate-mongering life, Mike will soon become very familiar with Hell.

    Edit: And if Trump hears from Heaven, it’ll be in short installments: first blood, then frogs, then gnats, and so forth. If anyone’s aspiring to be a modern Pharaoh, it’s Trump (though he’s more into his daughter than into siring kids from his sisters).

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    American Christianity is a death cult straight out of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign as the transparently evil bad guys. They should not be allowed to steer modern society in any way.

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    Mr President, God spared you in Butler, PA to be the most consequential President in a century—maybe ever. The decisions on your shoulders I would not want to be made by anyone else. You have many voices speaking to you Sir, but there is only ONE voice that matters. HIS voice. I am your appointed servant in this land and am available for you but I do not try to get in your presence often because I trust your instincts. No President in my lifetime has been in a position like yours. Not since Truman in 1945. I don’t reach out to persuade you. Only to encourage you. I believe you will hear from heaven and that voice is far more important than mine or ANYONE else’s. You sent me to Israel to be your eyes, ears and voice and to make sure our flag flies above our embassy. My job is to be the last one to leave.

    I will not abandon this post. Our flag will NOT come down! You did not seek this moment. This moment sought YOU! It is my honor to serve you!

    That is some weird shit.

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      That’s some hardcore toadying. If it didn’t have such nasty real-worl consequences, it’d also be comical, since Trump clearly regards fundies as suckers.

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      These idiots projecting their religion onto a man who regularly makes fun of their religion is pretty weird by its self but mike is getting extra weird

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        I wonder if he’s one of those believers that the destruction of Israel will usher in the end times and Jesus’ return to earth and has the biggest boner right now over escalating this conflict.

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          I’m pretty sure he is. The weirder thing is I’m pretty sure he knows trying to bring about the rapture of one’s own will is a one way ticket strait down.

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            Those arrogant fucks think they can force God’s hand.

            Incidentally, most of their end-times beliefs were made up in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s all a bunch of shitty fanfic from mentally unstable cultists. As opposed to mainstream Christianity, which is based on fanfic from deranged cultists from the first to fifth centuries AD, plus a bit of window-dressing added in the late Middle Ages.

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            I don’t think they do actually. Most of the super religious people in my family are Southern Baptist, they all firmly believe that they have a duty to spread the word of god because everybody living has to have been given the option to accept Jesus before the rapture can happen.

            They are seriously a death cult who seriously want the rapture to happen and seriously believe they have a part in making it happen.

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              It is not those who hear the law, but those who do the law, who shall be delivered.

              It’s astonishing how many self-professed Christians straight-up ignore Romans 2.

              Epictetus puts it even better though:

              Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don’t talk how persons ought to eat, but eat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation. And when persons came to him and desired to be recommended by him to philosophers, he took and- recommended them, so well did he bear being overlooked. So that if ever any talk should happen among the unlearned concerning philosophic theorems, be you, for the most part, silent. For there is great danger in immediately throwing out what you have not digested. And, if anyone tells you that you know nothing, and you are not nettled at it, then you may be sure that you have begun your business. For sheep don’t throw up the grass to show the shepherds how much they have eaten; but, inwardly digesting their food, they outwardly produce wool and milk. Thus, therefore, do you likewise not show theorems to the unlearned, but the actions produced by them after they have been digested.

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              It’s the act of trying to make it come on your schedule. Doesn’t matter to mcchristians but no one is supposed to know when it would happen. Also runs afowl of putting ones own judgment above god but that’s a borderline scholarly argument these people don’t have the capacity to consider

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                Yeah, they’re an incredible arrogant bunch of racist tent-show snake-juggling hucketers.

                The only Evanglicals I’ve ever met who try to walk the walk are from the Black churches.

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                mcchristians

                Sorry that it makes you uncomfortable, but they are Christians too.

                Your religion is evil and always has been.

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                  I’m not Christian so I don’t really have a skin in the game but insofar as I’m still Lutheran: No, those people aren’t Christian. Well, actual Lutherans would never say it like that but talk about “people regrettably being in grave error” but same difference.

                  Point being is that you can’t profess to follow a religion if you ignore core tenets. You can’t be a dancer if you never dance. And you can’t be a Christian if your creed boils down to “Jesus was too woke”.

                  Your religion is evil and always has been.

                  Christianity has always been self-righteous and arrogant (see the Lutheran “charity” above), but that’s not the same as evil – otherwise the French would also be inherently evil. They can, indeed, be quite rad on occasion.

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                  Not my religion. I just read and don’t paint people with broad brushes. A grand total of 9% of Christians have read the bible; like you, captain armchair, people just don’t like to read.

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      You know, I didn’t think this was WW3 yet. I thought this was going to escalate proxy wars and spread fear across the globe at a scale we haven’t seen since the height of the Cold War, but… the President just quoted an Ambassador in Jerusalem asking for a thermonuclear World War in God’s name.

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        They’re doing some sort of prayer, I’d guess something along the lines of “God let this man be your vessel to help achieve the glory of the kingdom of heaven on earth”

        You know, kind of like asking a wolf to bring about a vegan paradise on earth

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          No, he is exposing America for what it has always been. What he is doing to the interior of the empire is what this country has been doing to the global south for over a century.

          America has never been the “Good Guy”™ willingly.

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            I hope I’ll live long enough to see the world utopia brought about by the self-collapse of the US 😬

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              I will just be happy knowing that the American hegemony is ending even if I never get to see what comes after.

              The old saying “plant trees whose shade you know you’ll never get to sit”

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                Humans have been cutting each others’ trees for millenia, but I like your optimism.

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                  They have for much longer and more consistently shared the fruits of those trees when they aren’t being manipulated by social forces that condition them to compete with each other for readily available resources.

                  Humans are a communal species by nature. We only need to encourage that nature instead of continuing to allow a small subsection of the population to abuse it.

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    Known dominionist doing extremist shit; once all the Muslims are gone the Christians are supposed to kill the Jews. Then Jesus returns. These people actually believe this and will use it as their justification to drag us all down with them.

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      He’s not a professed catholic. I’m sorry, he’s a piece of shit, but Christians don’t know this like Catholics do.

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          Catholicism is derived from one of the few original Christian traditions that survived.

          And the Greek Orthodox church has as much claim to that lineage.

          One could argue that the Nestorians, the Copts and/or the Ethiopian church might be closer to the original.

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        Our father… great guy. The best guy really. And he says the same about me. I hear it from people close to him all the time, he says ‘Donald Trump, great guy, not like Biden’… And he lives in the sky, can you believe that? Right up there, with the planes… The great American planes… Boeing. And you know where they’re made? I’ll tell you where they’re not made… China

        Or something like that anyway

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          Thank you.

          I was going “our father who art… my father’s name wasn’t Art…” and it just wasn’t working.

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        I’d love to see him try. He’d be off script within the first 10 seconds.

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    What about the two democrats who survived being shot half a dozen or more times each by that wannabe preacher in Minnesota (not Michigan). Are they also blessed by God’s divine hands? How does that track to Republicans i wonder.

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      Don’t assume logical coherence matters to those whackjobs.

      Words, to them, are not to convey meaning. They’re like squid ink to obscure that they’re really up to.

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      How does that track to Republicans i wonder.

      That there is that annoying ‘truth’ thing they have done away with. Without it its all ‘just your opinion man’ and the one who shouts their opinion loudest wins.

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    Sometimes I wish Hell actually was real, just so I could see the looks on the faces of all the “Christians” that end up there with me.

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    That sounds like it was written by AI right? I would love to know the what the prompt was.