• KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    On the plus side, they can no longer open the Nuclear Football suitcase because it’s been inadvertently sealed shut by Pentagon Pete masturbating furiously and shooting “tributes” on it.

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      6 months ago

      Unlikely. Kegsbreath probably has constant brewer’s droop, and that’s one of the reasons for his endless over-compensative macho posturing. That, or he feels attracted to twinks, but thinks that’ll send him to hell if he acts on it. And that’s why he’s so obsessed with the soldiers he surrounds himself with being clean-shaven and not overweight.

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      6 months ago

      They don’t, or at least the pedo in chief doesn’t. He just knows that he can sell it to his base. Plus he has stacked the cabinet with true believers and those that stand to profit from all this shit. Just more grift enablement, then again, most religion is.

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      6 months ago

      Say what you want about the crusades, but at least the king and his knights all rode off to war personally.

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        6 months ago

        My favorite story from the Crusades.

        The Europeans landed and a huge mob of locals came running at them. Naturally the knights killed all the ‘infidels.’

        Later, they learned that the ‘infidels’ were local Christians who were coming to greet them and offer support.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is why learning about religions is important…

      Not so much to “learn” from the religion, but to learn how that religions follows tend to think.

      For this brand of Christian extremism, they’re trying to make the rapture happen. Because that happens at the start of Armageddon, they’re trying to start Armageddon.

      To do so:

      1. The area that is modern day Israel needs to be ethnostate controlled by the Jewish faith.

      2. They need to enter a religious war against all their neighbors, none of which can be Jewish nations.

      3. The Jewish nation gets wiped off the map by “heatens”, meaning not Jews or Christians.

      4. Everyone the right specific flavor of Christian (extremists Protestants) gets called up to heaven, and it’s heavily implied they will get to watch everyone else suffer for enterity on “hell on earth” like some fucked version of Squid Game.

      That’s why I fully believe trump was manipulated into starting this, everyone in on this scheme told him it would be an easy win and to kick up shit, knowing it won’t.

      And once it’s “hot” enough over there, they’re gonna get trump to do a full withdraw with no notice to cause chaos. It’s likely what happened with Afghanistan too.

      The end goal is Israel being wiped out, they just had to make Israel feel like they had enough back up to start wars with all their neighbors at once.

      Like, their “Armageddon clock” is seconds to midnight, and I wouldn’t put it best them to have trump toss a nuke on his way out to ensure Israel gets fully wiped to fufil the prophecy.

      But back to the beginning:

      We desperately need to solve the religious extremist issue, and just getting rid of trump wot solve shit. Everyone will just go back to ignoring the real shit till they try again.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

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

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    6 months ago

    I wonder if that’s the key to Trump still being so popular among Protestant Christians after so much proof he’s as evil as it gets? That they see the only way out of the incredible mess the GOP (primarily) has made of the country and world is for the “End Times” to arrive, condemning everyone in the world except themselves and rapturing their gullible asses out of trouble.

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    6 months ago

    Religiosity has been in decline in the US, hopefully the ultra performative sect that’s influencing him makes it happen even faster.

  • GutterRat42@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I should have paid more attention and been more vocal. Every time those people came to my door telling me how everything was better when “god chose kings and leaders”, I should have had facts to refute them. Hopefully I will be able to in the future.

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      6 months ago

      If you invite them in and have an honest conversation with them they leave and never come back.

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        A few years ago, I lived in a grand old house in a nice bit of California and we’d occasionally get Mormon missionaries knocking on our door. One time, a couple of them caught me while I was off work and relaxing. It was a boiling hot day, they looked like they were suffering, so I invited them in and offered them some herbal iced tea and homemade fig bars (my wife’s a bit of a hippie, what can I say?). We talked a fair bit about religion, but I’m a non-believer, so that could only go so far. I have a policy of not trying to convince people to become an atheist, but if they ask what I believe, I’ll tell them. These young guys were recruited in Provo, suited up and sent off to Sodom-by-the-Bay to have doors slammed in their faces. They were naive and were very polite, nice guys.

        To their credit, when I’d be in town after that, if I saw one ride by on his bike, he’d always wave and say hi, despite the fact that I’m an evil infidel.

        Pro tip: don’t try that with Jehova’s Witnesses, they’re paranoid, hyper-aggressive and, in my experience, devoid of manners.

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      6 months ago

      I don’t think facts would have helped you. This isn’t something they reasoned their way into. You’re not going to reason them out.

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          In my experience, no. But by all means try. Maybe you can plant a seed of doubt that grows.

          Be Socratic though. Fewer facts, more questions.

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    6 months ago

    Well if Iran has nothing to lose and the US thinks it’s the end times this is going to end so well…

    so…. The Crusades 2: Electric Boogaloo

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      6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure there already was a second crusade between 1147–1149. If we’re counting, we’re up to the 9th or 10th crusade, depending on how you group the last of the crusades.

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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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    Is this modern crusade three or four? I am losing track

    The next logical step is obviously to kill their leadership, this worked very well in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia. Bastions of peace to this very day

    Oops I have had a stroke

    p.s. free one-way ticket for every Abrahamic faithful to the holy land, includes AR-15 and jug of gatorade.

    Best money ever spent I tell you what