• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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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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    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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      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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    Further evidence, if any more were needed, that these pig-ignorant sisterfucking hucksters should be taxed for interfering in politics, and better yet, should be institutionalized.

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      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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        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.

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      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.

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      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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    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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    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