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In 2017, Rod of Iron Ministries splintered from the Unification Church, a Korean cult founded by Sean Moon’s father, Sun Myung Moon. Adherents are called Moonies and believe that Sun Myung Moon is the messiah. Two of Sun Myung Moon’s sons, Sean and Kook-jin, or Justin, founded Rod of Iron Ministries. The church has many of the same core beliefs as the Unification Church—but it claims that AR-15s are the “rod of iron” that Jesus wields in the Book of Revelation. Perhaps not coincidentally, Justin Moon founded Kahr Arms, a firearms manufacturer that produces a commemorative Donald Trump AR-15.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Your trolling is tiresome. I'm done pretending you're discussing anything with any integrity.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Biden is the one deciding US policy, and the responsibility for our foreign policy failures rest with him. There are two viable candidates running to replace him. One candidate promises a less conciliatory approach with Netanyahu, the other promises to help escalate the atrocities.

Which do you think will get you closer to your stated goals?

When you start engaging in good faith, you will get good faith in return.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

No, your second point doesn't make your case. Biden isn't running now, or did you forget? Not to mention, it doesn't change anything about what the author has to say about the political goals of evangelicals and how Trump would deliver for them, which is the topic of the article.

I hear Putin calling. You better check and see what he wants.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nevermind that. He said he wanted to call out the military on anyone who didn't vote for him on live television. Why isn't the NYT reporting on that?

Oh, it's just Trump!

At this point, I'm fairly convinced that the people trying to argue that we shouldn't support Democrats because of a single issue, no matter how important that issue, are Russian assets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You still haven't explained how the author is wrong here. All you've told me is why you think the author is icky.

My point stands.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

...I'm not seeing anything explaining how the author is wrong. Ad hominem is not an argument.

 

From a former pastor who knows what the insiders talk about: a warning we would be foolish to ignore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

He said more than that, though. They're probably following the other Jesus who called a foreign woman a dog, along other things. Let's take a closer look.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Do you have evidence to the contrary?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hope you checked again and made sure you're still registered this weekend.

 

Sick and tired of all the political content in forums like this? The authoritarians and theocrats are hoping you won't pay attention to how they're organizing to steal the next election.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

Right. I don't believe is my position as an atheist. I don't know is why.

How is this so difficult for you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's pretty weak tea, especially considering how so many Christians (but not all, I know) insist that Jesus and Yahweh are the same person, just different aspects.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You're using the modified definition of "agnostic" that believers favor. We have no reason to accept that.

"Agnostic" literally means "I don't know." "Atheist" means "I don't believe." I don't know that gods are real, and I have no reason to believe they do.

No faith required.

 

For the first time since people started looking at demographics, more young women are leaving churches than young men. Naturally, the people most responsible for this trend have no idea what to make of it.

 

Since the advent of the Trump era, the evangelical landscape has undergone rapid shifts, often in turbulent and dangerous directions. To be sure, there are still plenty of evangelical premillennialists out there faithfully waiting on the Rapture. But their sequestering, defensive posture is becoming outmoded. Remarkably, the most prominent and powerful new leaders—the ones dedicated to fully recentering evangelical politics on Donald Trump, and who have grown their power and influence through their association with him—are overwhelmingly anti-Rapture. They believe Christians have a more active and forceful role to play in the end of the world.

 

This is a repost from 2009.

 

Kristi Burke is doing an excellent series of videos on Christian deconstruction. Here's her latest, posted yesterday.

 

The march to theocracy continues.

 

As if MAGA wasn't already motivated by theocratic urges, here comes the "post-liberal" movement driven by Catholic men to end democracy and promote the Vatican as the moral center of the universe in spite of the fact that Catholics aren't in the majority in the US.

 

Few people have an easy time escaping Christianity, because it's ubiquitous in Western society. But it can be done.

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