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Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion (www.wired.com)
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“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

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[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 8 points 16 hours ago

The rise of the American clergy will usher in the American dark ages, where capital feudal lords will work in tandem with clerics and morals police to subvert the American people.

The north and south of the USA will sequester the country in fear of militants trying to capture more land to perform settler colonialism so they can take over through dominionist dogma.

In the end the nation will either fall apart or end up in revolution, after much horrible atrocity has been committed.

This is a prophecy of a bad timeline, one where they get absolute control. Don't let them do that, yankies.

Give them hell.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 93 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Most importantly, christian religion. I can only imagine the hysteria if some department head sent an agency wide Ramadan message or something.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The xtians are known for have fainting spells not only over a message from a competing Abrahamic religion, but they are known for getting the vapors over what this country was actually founded on: freedom not only of religion, but FROM religion.

This type of xtian seems to think that we only have freedom "of" to pick among several pre-approved Protestant strains. Catholics might be begrudgingly tolerated....for now.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Kinda funny because Hebrew is pretty similar to Arabic.

[–] hopesdead@startrek.website 43 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There are unconfirmed reports that soldiers were being told the war with Iran was being justified with the Second Coming of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Apparently there are evangelical sects that believe the only way Jesus will appear is by forcing Iran and Russia to attack Israel.

[–] Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Evangelicals took Christianity and circles back around to pagan idea. They literally think they can summon their god.

It's also evident when they talk about how weather events are linked to sinful behavior. Their idea of god is something that can be controlled through gay sex.

They are of course incapable of the logical thinking to understand how blasemous their own behavior is towards the Christian god.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 1 points 15 hours ago

I wish it were real just so I could see the looks on their faces when he rejects them

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The Bible I read definitely had something to say about nobody except god knowing when jesus was supposed to come back.

Certainly never said you could summon God with a blood sacrifice.

Then again, most Christians have never read the Bible. If they had, they would probably be like me and no longer believe.

[–] Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 18 hours ago

Its mostly coming from Revelation. If the signs are fulfilled then the second coming is now a possibility whereas before that it's not. I remember growing up in the cult there was news about a dam being built in the middle east which got everyone hyped because that could be the catalyst for one of the signs since in theory it could change the flow of a river...

One of the other things called out is Israel being beset from all sides by the world or something then the 40k elect will show up and you get the second kingdom or something. Idk been a while since I read Revelation much longer since I took it literally

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I remember getting in an argument with a rather strident xtian and he questioned where I got my "information" from. I said: from your Bible [1], and pointed him in the direction of skeptic's annotated bible.

His reply: "of course you'd use a resource like this". Did it matter to him that it is annotating phrases from his supposedly revealed text? No, it did not. Having the word "skeptic" in there put him off of it and so, therefore, he just declared victory, I guess, LOL. A whole lot of xtians seem to think that "skeptic" is the same as "cynic" as a term.

[1] He was one of those annoying xtians - and probably everyone has run into them, because they seem to be everywhere - they often resort to one of the most presumptuous phrases in the English language and it's: "read your Bible".

It's presumptuous as fuck to assume I own a Bible. It's also presumptuous as fuck to assume that there is only one version of "the" bible - because there is not. And lastly, it's especially presumptuous because it seems to take as evident that the person saying it has read a version of "the" Bible, when odds are quite high that if they read it at all, it was select passages in a study group or something like that.

In his case it was especially ridiculous since he refused to even read his Bible at the prompting of something with the term "skeptic" in it, LOL.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly I wouldn't even bother saying it's an annotated Bible, as long as it's pulling from a translation of the Bible that a church would use, it's the same Bible.

I love when someone tries calling me out on not using "the right" translation, because depending on how the conversation has gone up to then, I will either pull out a king James edition, or start listing any of the dozens upon dozens of English translations available, asking if this one or that one was valid enough, until I've made my point.

My Bible when I first read all the way through was a new living translation children's adventure Bible. It had a few illustrations in the family-friendly well-covered areas, mostly new testament. I thought it was pretty fucked up in some parts already, and they did kind of change the phrasing and language to be less obvious to children what is being said.

The one I usually use for reference now is a new international version with no annotations or additional context that was gifted to me when I graduated highschool.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Honestly I wouldn’t even bother saying it’s an annotated Bible, as long as it’s pulling from a translation of the Bible that a church would use, it’s the same Bible.

Yeah agreed, but the site is called "Skeptic's annotated Bible" so they are going to notice. :)

https://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/bible.php

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That shit was going on in the 80s back when I was on active duty.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

The military has long had some of it at particular facilities — the Air Force academy is notorious. But it's long been illegal, and was quite rare outside the military.

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 7 points 1 day ago

I thought there were multiple confirmations on that

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its christofascism

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

Definitely christian nationalism

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 1 day ago

Or pagan or Satanist.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Shout out for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. There are worse ways of spending your spare change than a donation to this organization.

https://www.au.org/

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

“Hamanda acka acka racka deda backa sanda acka ambo osa cacka reeté eké banda acka riki dibi asha daaah”

  • Paula White Cain, Senior Advisor to the White House Faith Office
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In a sermon delivered before Christmas, Franklin Graham told members of the military that “God is also a god of war.” On Good Friday, the DOD hosted a prayer service only for Protestants. A Pentagon spokesperson later told HuffPo that the “Pentagon Chaplain Office’s priest is not in town.” Hegseth has repeatedly framed the US war in Iran as a “holy war,” calling Iranians “barbaric savages” and called on Americans to pray for victory “in the name of Jesus Christ.”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lGCqv37O2Dg

[–] mysteriousknife@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

"Jesus Christ"...as in the Prophet Jesus of the Quran, like Prophet Mohammad?

[–] hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

jfc The Boys was an actual documentary.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's pretty wild. You can find copies of the Ethiopian Bible in English, which is the most complete Bible, to date, although mistranslations are certainly in there as well, and it doesn't contain the Book of Adam and Eve, and perhaps another book or two. It's kind of difficult to properly translate without reading ancient Aramaic, as well. I had to give myself a hiatus from studying it because I don't know Aramaic of any sort, and it's a long, slow, tedious process. If time, money, and proper education aren't factors, and one is interested, it's worth the time, as it's extremely fascinating.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

Back when I was a clinic escort, we had a group of fundamentalist catholics we had to deal with. One of our escorts was a retired college professor who was fond of reading the early greek versions of the bible. Needless to say, there have been quite a few changes since then, and she always had fun with one of the picketers who liked to spout off bible verses, and she'd say, “Well, but it didn’t originally say that…”

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

God is also a god of war

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

C'mon! Why won't you repent!