Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
-Edric, Guild Navigator - Dune Messiah
The mechanism of religion as a weapon never changes: controlling the public through fear and using said fear to extract power and wealth.
If you really want to understand power, religion and wealth one need look no further than Henry VIII's Tudor court and Thomas Cromwell with his scheme to rob all the sacred religious Abbeys of England and take their wealth establishing a brand new made up religion. It's the point in history where the veneer of religion was stripped away and left in its place were the people who had been using it casting all airs aside and start directly controlling people by simply killing and torturing enough of them.
send these bible-thumping chucklefucks to the front
Doesn’t that story also include the Antichrist who’s “charismatic” and fools them all into fealty to him?
They believe they're too faithful to fall for that of course. It's the empathetic who are antichrists.
They collectively believed in it so much that they manifested him into reality without realizing
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.
shutuuuup, your sounding like my elderly grandma and is weirding me out.
yes, they think he is it, and that's why they support him.
If they really think this is the End Of Time, why aren't they out there on the front lines?
Because they are War Pigs.
"Why should they go out to fight? They leave that all to the poor"
They want to get Raptured not Martyred.
If they want to be raptured, rapture them on the frontline.
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”
They said the exact same thing about Iraq.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/aug/10/religion-george-bush
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 “
It's almost like it's a suicidal death-cult.
Ultimate fucking daddy fantasy with this lot.
Hegseth already thought this when he got the job.
He’s insane and in charge enough without religious leaders anyway.
He's a cynical piece of shit, he doesn't believe in anything.
No, that's Vance. Hegseth is the one with the christofascist tattoos; you don't have those carved onto you out of cynicism.
Yeah, I have a feeling Hegseth is either a true believer, or state mandated rehab brainwashed him into it.
Or drunk visions talk to him.
I don’t think Vance believes anything he says past what will keep him in power.
We're fucked.
Maybe. If Jesus comes out of his cave tomorrow and sees his shadow it’s only six more weeks of Armageddon.
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.
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.
Religion is the greatest threat to peace and human well-being.
The crusades. But with nukes.
US was justifying its genocides in the middle-east by "they are religious extremists." How much of it was projection?
All
Make sure their children and/or grandchildren serve in the US infantry. Frontline duty only.
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
“It’ll happen this time, I’m sure of if guys.”
People like this used to be institutionalized
If they are so desperate to die, they can do it by themselves and leave the rest of us out of it.
It is so unlike for far-right religious leaders to side with pedophiles, I am very surprised.
… And it gives them all raging hard-ons.
Religiosity has been in decline in the US, hopefully the ultra performative sect that's influencing him makes it happen even faster.
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
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.
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.
If you invite them in and have an honest conversation with them they leave and never come back.
I'm pretty sure that's how they justified the Crusades.
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
End Times, yes. But for the "US Empire".
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