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Wow. America really is fucked.
I'm not very Jesusy but if he existed I doubt he'd annoint that sad old bag of hamburgers.
I guess the billionaires finished their bunkers…
So the Epstein distraction became an Epstein connection. They pretty much believe they're the descendants of archons ready to bring yaldabaoth here through the end of world scenarios
I kept reading and reading hoping there was a punchline somewhere.
The punchline was all of us that knew this was happening and got called crazy.
Well now we know what the new Nazi ideology is. I guess it is different than making a blue eyed blonde haired race but I think that was possible with inbreeding.
All powerful deity exists outside of space and time
Needs Donald J Trump
Got it
I've been saying for a while now that the biggest threat facing humanity isn't climate change but religion. By far.
Climate change is a real threat that will affect the lives of billions of people. The only difference is that it doesn't happen overnight and people are normalizing its effects.
I do agree with you that western religions seem to be another dividing factor and are used by certain individuals to control their own populations with populist bullshit.
The problem is not the religion per se, but the people who are using it to control the population. And this comes from an atheist.
I'm a Christian, have been all my life and am proud of it and what I believe. Whatever the F the US is doing is insane, unbiblical, and wildly dangerous.
I've said for years that religious power is appealing to narcissists because it is the most absolute form of power you can wield over a person. There will always be someone trying to wield it, because convincing someone your will is God's will, divine and unquestionable, is power more absolute than any other. Combining that power with the power of government is psychotic. It's why I'll always advocate for the absolute separation of church and state.
If you're a religious person, please be extremely cautious with who you let influence you, and everyone else? Absolutely keep fighting to get religion out of politics and keep it out. It has no business there. Get it out of schools, get it out of laws, get it out of political campaigns. It doesn't belong there, and having it there is corrosive to both State and Church.
The Bible warns against exactly this sort of thing too, but that's not the part of the book they like.
Capitalism is the sword, religion is the shield. Climate change is the consequence.
Greed is the fuel
When you can justify your actions due to a fuzzy theological belief it's quite silly. I am an atheist but if there is a god, he gave us the power of reasoning and logic. Then if there is that, why is there any logic to disobey one of ten major rules for humans to live by? He put them in a rock according to the story, wasn't like hidden words needed to be seen by lemon juice or something. They are quite pronounced in the Bible, so why can thry think don't kill people doesn't apply to them?
God sent one kid, why not another if an amendment was needed in the killing but?
Hitchens had a book(2007) religion poisons everything. every few years they whip the faithful into a frenzy hoping to make their delusions real. 'if we don't reach our money goals, god will take me home' said another faith leader. this seems like successful Russian propaganda, today anyway. obscure blogger fans flames. army guys don't go to church a lot.
Hitch was awesome. Thanks for bringing this back to my mind.
The scary thing is not just that commanders may be saying this, but what an extreme outlier the citizens of the USA are when it comes to not being able to differentiate between reality and fairy-tales: https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/USA-Update/2015/0316/Do-countries-become-less-religious-as-they-get-richer
Even when the specific fairy-tales oppose these actions: quotes from Jesus according to the gospels:
"If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:39
"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you," Luke 6:27
what the actual fuck?
This is what Evangelicals actually believe.
Trump's been groomed by the Heritage Foundation to be America's perfect president, the Antichrist. He followed orders and fulfilled all the prophecies so we should all believe in Jesus Christ's return, in the form of AI.
This is what the billionaires are doing with their money. No doubt the revolutionary AI religious emperor of the world won't be AGI but something convincing enough and controlled by them.
The fucking MAGA clowns, their Jewish allies and their Islamic opponents share a lot in fucking common. All of them are religious nutters and should NOT be involved in politics and the military.
Religious people are so easy to manipulate lol
How they don't see it, when their "pastors" are driving Porsches and living in manions while telling you if you don't skip a meal so that you can donate to the church you're gonna go to hell... it's beyond me.
We had a babysitter whose husband was a pastor and would always talk about being scared for our souls. In her eyes, being a good person and having a private relationship with God was inadequate to avoid going to hell. She truly felt that church attendance and renouncing other religions was the only path to salvation - belief, prayer, and following the teachings of Jesus would be inadequate.
Now I can’t claim to know what God wants. But I can’t see how paying the church and excluding people with different belief systems outweighs kindness.
God has a tendency to want whatever the politically powerful people in whatever religion do, for some reason.
We had a babysitter whose husband was a pastor and would always talk about being scared for our souls. In her eyes, being a good person and having a private relationship with God was inadequate to avoid going to hell. She truly felt that church attendance and renouncing other religions was the only path to salvation - belief, prayer, and following the teachings of Jesus would be inadequate.
It's hilarious that these offshoots of Protestantism basically went so deep into the sauce that they became Catholics again. Martin Luther spinning in his grave.
I've dated non American Christians. When I tell them I'm agnostic they more than understand my relationship with God is personal but I do have one. I wish Americans could understand this
What the actual fuck?
If god is all powerful, why does he need any amount of humans to do shit for him? Do it yourself, you omnilazy bastard.
American Djihad
What the akshuall phuk
And they are definitely not on the side of god.
Surely I just ate the onion, yes?
No, but you'll wish you had.
Ah great just another so-called holy war
I wonder if the first one were fought for the pedophiles as well
what the actual fuck
Really wish these death cults would get on with it and leave the rest of us the fuck out of it.
Jesus take the STRATCOM
So about that authoritarian religious regime...
Can we just launch all the nukes and get it over with already? That’s how this all ends, we already know that, we aren’t going to become better at being people, things are not going to improve. It would be the path of least suffering, at this point.