• Zacryon@feddit.org
    119·
    4 months ago

    There are way too many people who are deeply convinced that Trump is sent from the christian God and will save the US-american people from evil.

        • ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world
          30·
          4 months ago

          That’s the part that I’m actually worried about, Christians who are actively seeking to end the fucking world. They want political violence, civil unrest and war in the middle east. It’s so fucked.

          • Perry@lemy.lol
            5·
            4 months ago

            They want political violence, civil unrest and war in the middle east.

            Correct me if I’m wrong, wasn’t Jesus born somewhere in West Asia?

            • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              4 months ago

              depends on who you ask.

              there’s solid reason to doubt the biblical narrative, though. the simple answer is “we don’t know, precisely”.

              • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
                5·
                4 months ago

                There is more evidence to support the physical person of Gilgamesh (the epic of whom was stolen almost word for word to create the Torah) than that of a man called Jesus the Christ. Ie contemporary references, records, documents. Not written 30 -400 years after death.

                • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  4·
                  4 months ago

                  There’s really no historical proof, outside biblical accounts.

                  But that doesn’t really mean there’s a need to dismiss it out of hand. There probably was a Jewish mystic faith healer named Jesus (or whatever,); who was executed by the Roman’s for stirring the shit.

                  There were in fact, a lot of them. (John the Baptist comes to mind,)

                  Further, his name (and his father’s,) were. Both extremely common. it’s reasonable to assume at least a few were in fact named Jesus, son of Joseph, and apparently from Nazareth.

                  Together it’s actually not that unlikely. Though he would have had more in common with the sleaziest televangelist faithhealer you can imagine. Joel Osteen, perhaps.

          • Omega_Man@lemmy.world
            2·
            4 months ago

            Wouldn’t it be funny if they end up being right. They destroy the world. Jesus returns. All the left wing/libs go to hell and the conservatives/maga go to heaven. Like you get to intentionally fuck everything up and then enjoy eternal bliss while the people trying to improve the world burn in hell.

        • glitches_brew@lemmy.world
          8·
          4 months ago

          Reminds me of a time I had dinner at a girl’s house and she insisted on only using Styrofoam plates because the faster we destroy the planet the faster Jesus will come back to save us. I was speechless.

          • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
            4·
            4 months ago

            I have to believe she just didn’t want to wash any dishes and, like most Christians, was using religion as an excuse to be a bad person.

        • BossDj@lemm.ee
          7·
          4 months ago

          I, for one, will be voting Trump to hasten the apocalypse. Anything is better than this shit.

          Edit: Belated /s

          By “this shit” I mean everything stupid since 2016 that feels like it can’t possibly be real life and by “the apocalypse” I meant the actual literal coming of hell on Earth where Trump reveals himself as Damien (to no one’s surprise) and Satan appears with him condemning all these fake Christians-in-name-only

          • Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world
            8·
            4 months ago

            I, for one, hope that you step in something wet every time you’re walking around in socks. Anything is better that your comfort.

              • Veneroso@lemmy.world
                2·
                4 months ago

                Step on a cactus with needles you can’t see to remove.

                They burn for several days until your body pushes them out.

                And may you wash your socks, only to wear them next week, and suffer again.

          • BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world
            1·
            4 months ago

            Fortunately whether you vote for the Toupee or the Toupee’s generic opposition, we’re doomed either way! One option does delay the doom for a maximum of four years though, so take that into account.

        • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          the only people who are ‘okay with it’ are the overly-optimstic pre-tribs. The post-tribs believe they have to go through the suck too, so, there’s that.

          Yes. There’s a shit load of arguments about whether the rapture happens before, after, or during the tribulations. My favorite position is any-trib. mostly because… wtf?

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        4 months ago

        contemporary readers would have understood every anti-christ reference to have meant somebody they’d know and hate.

        The antichrist of revelation was understood to be Nero, for example, where Daniel would have been talking about babylon. Remember: we’re not the target audience. The target audience was the original audience contemporary to the author. the eschatology of Revelation has already been seen to happen. The world didn’t end. the book is wrong. (Insert “it was all allegory anyway” here.)

    • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
      30·
      4 months ago

      And others who firmly believe he IS the Antichrist and want to get him in power to hasten the return of Christ.

      America is a lunatic asylum.

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.world
      58·
      4 months ago

      3 One of its heads seemed to have received a death blow, but its fatal wound had been healed. In amazement the whole earth followed the beast.

      • Kiernian@lemmy.world
        6·
        4 months ago

        Well, that should be reassuring to those who need it, then. The wound was neither fatal nor healed.

        Not that a candidate bearing multiple points of uncanny RESEMBLANCE to what the Bible says the Church should WATCH OUT FOR in the personage of the antichrist so that they don’t accidentally end up following him because they were among the deceived has managed to stop many of them so far, but hey, if it avoids water like a duck with late stage rabies, we should put it on the lifeguard stand.

      • FrowingFostek@lemmy.world
        3·
        4 months ago

        I followed that rabbit-trail because, why the fuck not.

        Imma agree with that one person, it was kinda aneurism posting. Maybe it was just the structure of the post felt unhinged.

        Anyways imma also agree with the underlying idea that, yes, theocratic fascism loves that kinda shit. Solidarity.

    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world
      3·
      4 months ago

      Prophecy is intentionally vague and the reason it endures so well is because it can apply to such a broad amount of topics…

      HOWEVER, we’ve had a shit load of things that match up with prophecies too fucking close in the past few years. There’s a part of my brain that was joking at first, but now is wondering if this really is the end times.

      • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        4 months ago

        How cod it be the end times, the harkening events of Ragnarok havent happened yet. Also why resist it, if the world is to end thwn it is to end betted to embrace it and go out with it in madness and glory.

      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
        1·
        4 months ago

        Well, like Luke 2:10, Be not afraid, I come with good news of a great joy. God isn’t real. No one can see the future. All of this is bullshit, and the only thing that matters is what you do about it. We all have personal responsibility, and no one should be putting that on the shoulders of their sky-daddy and saying, “It’s all part of his plan.”