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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

ONLY the TRUE Chosen One Of God would DO something like THAT! Now I'm even MORE CONVINCED Convicted Fraudster and Rapist and Thrice Married Billionaire Donald John Trump is GODS SON!

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is a flex. It means “watch me insult the largest Christian organization on earth with literally no consequences. My base’s support won’t budge and the rest of you cowards will continue to take it.” Has nothing to do with the pope or being the pope- it’s just another demoralization tactic.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This guy is so crass and so gormless he doesn't hesitate for one second to spit in the face of 1.5bn Catholics in the world.

Having said that, I wouldn't mind a picture of Trump as a dead Pope...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Catholics (in America at least) would happily let him spit in their faces, as long as he continues to make abortions harder to get. Never mind the fact that the Church is equally against the death penalty, or treating migrants like cattle....

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Retweeted by the official White House account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

This is so insane

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I wonder what all of his Protestant Evangelical backers think of this.

My eschatology is a bit rusty, but I think this is the type of thing that they thought the Antichrist would do. But maybe that's why the evangelicals back him, thinking the rapture is just around the corner....

(Or maybe, the "rapture" is happening right now, except instead of the chosen, worthy people being disappeared to Heaven, they're all being disappeared to El Salvador. The joke's on all those evangelicals, I guess. Ha.)

Edited to add: Doesn't "El Salvador" literally translate to "The Savior"? Kidnapping the innocent and whisking them to "The Savior", never to be seen again, definitely tracks.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Just to note: these books are heavily based on dispensationalist pseudo-theology.

But I agree that trump is an Antichrist

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

100% agreed on the pseudo-theology. Left Behind is a terrible series.

I just find it funny, because he acts like Carpathia. Like, Carpathia is characterized as smart and charismatic, but nothing in the writing backs that up - it relies heavily on some sort of magical attraction. Which is got to be the only way that you can explain how conservative Christians who have spent the last 50 years shrieking about sexual morality have latched onto this guy like he’s the Second Coming if you believe any of this shit. (The real answer of course, is that opposition to LGBT people was on the whole not religiously motivated, just “we don’t like the icky people.”)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's all from those books, right? I haven't read them.

But I do know that Trump likes Golden Toilets, and has made his own crypto shitcoin. So maybe he is the Shitty Antichrist?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The Left Behind books? Sounds like it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

He’s already got a few golden statues.

It’s not like he’s shared AI videos of his imagined Gaza resort.

Can’t wait until he and Bibi team up to build the new Temple, and freedom loving patriots sign up to get their Neurolink chip in their right hand or forehead…

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