• 520@kbin.social
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    Are you…are you fucking serious?

    Jesus was literally all about that peace stuff. What fucking Bible is he reading from exactly?!

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      Fundamentalists and Evangelicals try to interpret the book of Revelation “literally.” Most scholars think it was code-speak to give hope to contemporaries being oppressed by the Roman Empire, but these people think it’s prophecy that will be fulfilled at the apocalypse.

      Revelation, as they read it, describes an anti-Christ figure, who is a Jewish man, who will unite the world under one government and broker peace for a short time before a period of unimaginable suffering and destruction. Conveniently, they read between the lines and have convinced themselves that “real Christians” will be swept away in the clouds and spared from all that suffering.

      Jesus eventually ends up flying down on a white horse with all the real Christians and angels and skewers the anti-Christ, his followers, and non-Christians with swords that shoot out of his mouth and casts them into a bottomless pit.

      I mean, it’s really wild stuff. And apparently it’s informing US policy. They want all of this to happen, but they just want to be on the “right” side of it. This pastor isn’t saying they shouldn’t try for peace - just that Christians should furrow their brows about it so God won’t leave them behind.

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      His Jesus is “Do onto others as they would do onto you, except that fucker over there. Shoot him with a howitzer.”

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        Damn, the person who did unto him that much pain, misery and hatred probably needs to be jailed for war crimes.

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    Religious leader advocating for mass murder of innocent women and children so that his religion’s Armageddon can come to pass.

    How is this not classified as a cult and squashed?

    Also, does he really think that supporting genocide is buying him a ticket to heaven? Really?

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    Someone should report him to the College of Pastors and Preachers, and get them to review his license to preach.

    Just kidding. There are no qualifications, and there’s no regulatory body.

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    Right, someone who encourages neighbors to love each other like themselves will be the anti- Christ.

    I’d kind of be curious to have some prominent ‘Christians’ rewrite the New Testament without being able to look anything up.

    Just WTF do they think is actually in there?

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      Genuinely? They believe that when peace happens there it is the final sign of the end times and the second coming is literally happening. And yes… It will be the work of the anti-christ because he is supposed to be some great world leader.

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        It will be the work of the anti-christ because he is supposed to be some great world leader.

        Which again really isn’t in there. The figure is mostly characterized as a religious figure.

        In fact, the descriptions in 2 Thess 2 pretty accurately describes Paul himself (which was effectively narcissist projection), who literally was going around telling people not to listen to other versions of Jesus from the one he was telling them about, and there’s even a decent argument the version he’s combatting in Corinth was better tied to a historical a Jesus than the canonical one.

        They’ve so heavily fanfictioned their own beliefs it’s become utter nonsense even relative to the source materials.

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        Honestly, I think that’s meant to be a figure of speech.

        Keep in mind that I am not religious, but I do have extensive knowledge of the bible, revelations comes of as either a fever dream or a really heated analogy.

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      ngl, we just threw in a couple of chapter of Narnia into this thing and called it a day… - Bible Revisionists probably

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      “Just say you believe that Jesus died for you and you get into heaven regardless of how you act or do”.

      That’s the entire book.

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      Sucks that this raging asscunt won’t realize that his worldview is a fucking moronic lie that he bought.

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        When he dies, some other opportunistic bastard will step into his hate mongering shoes and continue the gift.

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    If Israeli invaders and Hamas terrorists murdering civilians is what Jesus would want, then I’m on the antichrist’s side.

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      Burying your head in the sand doesn’t stop these people from getting their message to their supporters.

      Stop acting like ignoring the problem gives you some high ground over them. You need to know what they’re saying in order to counteract.

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    Wow, I did not realize this piece of shit was still alive. Unlike some of the others, I think he actually believes the bullshit he spews, and I think that might be worse.