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[-] Stormy@thelemmy.club 68 points 1 week ago
[-] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

They’re gonna kill a bunch more children so Jesus will come open up the gates of heaven for them. Not for the children, but for the murderers of children.

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

I swear I keep making this joke about "Jesus hates this one neat trick to bring the apocalypse!"

Like wtf is wrong with these fundamentalist assholes thinking they can force a massive bloody war to happen and that will somehow trick Jesus to come because they completed some checklist? Are they playing some kind of card game? "Ha! My conditions have been met, I force Jesus to the field! He casts Absolution! We all go to heaven and collect 23 virgins!"

...ffs

[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 week ago

You don't have to deflect. Christianity gave us the Crusades and Zionism.

[-] inari@piefed.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeehawdists in power

[-] Pirat@lemmy.org 49 points 1 week ago

and who is going to wage war on the U.S. for the misguided religion overtaking it?

[-] tesseract@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago

Themselves. Don't you see the masked goons running around in military gear and shooting up people on a whim?

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unlike your doomsday religion, which believes it is waging an apocalyptic war to immanentize the eschaton. 🤡

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

For anyone else who never heard the term before: In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton is a generally pejorative phrase referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to effectively create heaven on earth. Theologically, the belief is akin to postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the 1880–1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the Second Great Awakening in the 1830s and 1840s such as abolitionism

[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I love how the republican Jesus is okay with blowing up schools and hospitals and parents fishing parts of their children out of rubble, but somehow it’s their religion that’s misguided.

[-] dizzle18@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I bet dads in Iran don’t even check in on their son’s pornhub search history. Fucking heathens.

[-] doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Democrats did all that talk about how troops shouldn't follow "illegal orders," then are totally silent when these brave officers and enlisted follow blatantly illegal orders. But they don't want the president to lose that power for their dream blue maga presidential candidate.

[-] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 week ago

All religions are misguided. People, in this situation, just use them as an excuse to kill each other.

[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Cthulhu is real and it hungers for you very much. Have you accepted Cthulhu into your dreams?

[-] tesseract@beehaw.org 3 points 1 week ago

That's why the US administration is in war with the nation of US.

[-] AlexLost@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Yes, the United States' misguided religion is causing a lot of conflict.

[-] meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

Honestly, just change Iran to USA and Islam to Christianity and it still works, if not better.

If Trump was chosen by God, it's because God hates the United States and the world as a whole.

[-] Penguincoder@beehaw.org 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I cannot believe that was actually said by a United States representative, where it is and has been codified in the nations constitution, that freedom of religion is a right of the people via the first amendment. Freedom of religion means any religion, but also, freedom from religion.

to wit: The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed.

[-] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In the United States, the 13th Amendment (1865) formally abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime for which a person has been duly convicted. Because of this exception clause, forced labor can legally be imposed on incarcerated people within the prison system. Historically, after the amendment was ratified, some states used laws—such as “Black Codes” and vagrancy statutes—to arrest large numbers of people (especially formerly enslaved Black Americans) and then compel them to work through systems like convict leasing and chain gangs. Today, prison labor programs still exist in federal and state facilities, where incarcerated individuals may be required to work.

yeaaa, no one expected at all that a usonian politician would say something like this, they are so wholesome most of the time!11!1!!

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 17 points 1 week ago

I appreciated the ambiguity of the sentence.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Their misguided religion was maybe going to lead them to attack Isreal and the US someday, so Isreal and the US preemptively attacked them unprovoked instead, guided by our superior religions. The hypocrisy is completely lost on me, as well as the irony of, again, justifying their antagonism towards Isreal and the US in the first place for the umpteenth time.

[-] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Yeah... Probably nothing to do with the fact we've been fucking with them since we helped to overthrow their Shah...

[-] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

It was the CIA who put the "Shah" into power in the 1953 coup. Before this Iran had a democratically elected prime minister who nationalised the country's oil, his name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. The USA have never been big fans of middle Eastern countries controlling their own oil.

[-] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Thank you for the correction!

[-] Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

No worries, it's hard to keep track of who America has screwed over and when.

[-] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Indeed. We're the baddies, Hans...

[-] protist@mander.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

What the fuck

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Release the Epstein Files

[-] GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

I am old enough to remember that after September 11, 2001 very similar things were said by all mass media. The didn't even update their rhetoric.

[-] Octagon9561@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The only religion the ghouls in Washington believe in is pedophilia, capitalism and imperialism.

[-] Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Which misguided religion is he referring to? Islam, Judaism, or Christianity? Or is he referring to all three?

[-] arctanthrope@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

this is poor writing, highly ambiguous, there's no way to tell from context which country "its" is supposed to refer to

edit for those apparently not getting it: there is, but only because we know he's a hypocrite

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