"Jesus would make them stand up on their own two feet and take care of their own problems!"
Lazarus: "Oh shit."
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Jesus: "Your love for others is how the world will know you follow me"
NatCs: "no! our hatred for minorities and golden crosses is how we will show our faith" 🤦🏼
Well lot of good old Christian’s voted for Cheeto ass.
Nazi fembots
Im not a religious person, I dont really believe in deities, gods, etc.
but if theres ever been an argument for there being an antichrist, I think between the Right wing fascists calling themselves christians in America, and the genocidal warmongering fascists in Russia calling themselves gods warriors, I think they've got it locked up.
if theres ever been an argument for there being an antichrist
The AntiChrist isn't an real person but it is a real idea. Demagogues come and go, often rising and falling in similar conditions and circumstances. The mythology of AntiChrist (and Christ) signals real patterns in human social behavior that generations of people have come to interpret as divine prophecy rather than intrinsic human failing.
Because the modern era grants us so much more direct and easy access to historical events, to mass communication, and to diverse perspectives, its easy to find guys like Trump scattered all through the modern historical moment. From the Park/Yoon government in S. Korea to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Modi's India and Orban's Hungary, we have reactionary, self-destructive leadership echoing through the modern political landscape. Go back a generation or two and you'll find the Reagans and Nixons, the Idi Amins and Hendrik Verwoerds, the Nicolae Ceaușescus and Fulgencio Batistas everywhere.
This is a good point, and also explains why the allegory would fit so many times/places in history going back all the way to Nero or Nimrod as well as having common attributes like the 'mark of the beast', they're all symptoms of fascist type leanings. Fascinating how the bible can be a guide to identifying it while still being a tool for it.
The magic of the written word.
I have an easier time agreeing with this argument.
Stereotypes be real lol
I mean, it's a self-fulfilling consequence of a society that explicitly dictates every woman look like a potential 3rd wife / step-daughter the aging patriarch wants to fuck.
We're all just living in Roman Polanski's Chinatown
As a non-religious person, this type of behavior annoys me.
Once again, the "The harder people are trying to tell/display to others that they have a certain quality, the less they have it" rule applies.
Nazi fembots
Christians having to defend themselves explaining these are not real Christians. Is the same as Muslims explaining they are not radicals. To some extend Jews having to explain they don't endorse the actions of the state of Israel.
Atheists: "Look, when you compare China to religious countries..."
Well they're wearing pictures of the weapon used to kill Jesus. Pretty obvious they'd want to kill him again if he showed up now. Plus he's black.
Jesus was brown, not black.
Oh wow a christian community where the members are actually christians and not just racists hiding behind a bible and cross. All power to yall!
It's sad that they seem to be the exception (on social media)
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