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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 days ago

Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War

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Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Holy War

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vegeta@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 7 days ago
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By making the case that the war with Iran is a holy crusade, the evangelicals around the president are making it impossible to end.
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    People like this used to be institutionalized

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    US was justifying its genocides in the middle-east by “they are religious extremists.” How much of it was projection?

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      All

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    It is so unlike for far-right religious leaders to side with pedophiles, I am very surprised.

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      The world’s religions see no problem with sticking their dicks into children.

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    Doesn’t that story also include the Antichrist who’s “charismatic” and fools them all into fealty to him?

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      They believe they’re too faithful to fall for that of course. It’s the empathetic who are antichrists.

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        yup its all signs of devil influence. not accumulating wealth and being against people who do. feeding the poor. helping those in need. these people need to find jesus.

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      They collectively believed in it so much that they manifested him into reality without realizing

      • Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        Like the orcs from 40k hahaha 😂

        But I honestly have way more respect for the orcs. They at least got creative with their collective psychic abilities.

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      An immutable property of marks is that they don’t know they’re being conned.

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      shutuuuup, your sounding like my elderly grandma and is weirding me out.

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      Yes. Also, giant man-faced scorpions wearing solid gold hats will climb out of the Earth to eat the unfaithful.

      UNCANNY FORESIGHT

      (not a joke, really says that. tax free. They don’t have to pay taxes for this shit)

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        Everybody’s gotta go somehow. Being chomped down by a gold-hatted man-faced scorpion is better than lots of other ways of leaving this world.

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      yes, they think he is it, and that’s why they support him.

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    Imagine believing that your all powerful god is so weak that he has to wait on you to start the end of the world. Pathetic.

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      It’s even more comical than that. Their own scriptures say that nobody will know the time of the end of the world. “I will come as a thief in the night.” But in their arrogance, they think they can force God’s hand.

      Fundies never fail to escalate the stupidity and to stir up shit for the rest of us.

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    Religion is the greatest threat to peace and human well-being.

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      Always has been.

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    These people are a danger to the rest of us. They are mentally unfit and lack basic decency.

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    Far right leaders want to see trump ignite armageddon, making him the antichrist.

    If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he will be tormented with fire and sulfur." Revelations 14:9-11

    The mark on the forehead says “MAGA”

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      nice. hats on forehead and signs in the hand.

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        Here’s your hand sign.

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      It’s kind of amazing, but these religious whackjobs may have a point. Current events are following the Armageddon myth almost perfectly:

      Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions:

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        What this shows me is that the fascist playbook has been the same for literally thousands of years. Descriptions of ancient despots apply equally to the modern-day ones.

        That, and numerology is completely bankrupt. You can manipulate almost anything to fit a specific numeric scheme if you want to.

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        They’re idiots. They don’t even realize that it’s impossible to immanentize the eschaton, according to their own holy books and most of the better related fanfic.

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      Which everyone else reads as an “L”.

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    If they are so desperate to die, they can do it by themselves and leave the rest of us out of it.

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      If they all Raptured themselves, the remaining world would be much better off.

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      If you lived the miserable, joyless, superstitious, sexually dysfunctional, paranoid, clueless life that one of them lives, you’d probably want to join a death cult too.

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    These dipshits always see everything in such stupid terms.

    I imagine a future where such people are sentenced to be put into VR where they could live out their sick eschatological fantasies. That’s unless some kind of therapy doesn’t come online for such people, as I think they have a (probably as of yet named or recognized) mental disorder

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      Blind faith is a mental illness as far as I’m concerned.

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    They said the exact same thing about Iraq.

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush

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      Yep. Because the crazies are gagging for Christ to return.
      Their whole grift, their raison d’etre is “god is coming, pray harder, and give me your money “

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        It’s almost like it’s a suicidal death-cult.

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        Ultimate fucking daddy fantasy with this lot.

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    We’re fucked.

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      Maybe. If Jesus comes out of his cave tomorrow and sees his shadow it’s only six more weeks of Armageddon.

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        Hey, leave my lord and savior Punxsutawney Phil out of this.

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    MAGA is a pedofascist death cult.

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    I’m pretty sure that’s how they justified the Crusades.

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    Make sure their children and/or grandchildren serve in the US infantry. Frontline duty only.

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      These types, in general, don’t really care about their own children.

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