People like this used to be institutionalized
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US was justifying its genocides in the middle-east by "they are religious extremists." How much of it was projection?
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It is so unlike for far-right religious leaders to side with pedophiles, I am very surprised.
The world's religions see no problem with sticking their dicks into children.
Imagine believing that your all powerful god is so weak that he has to wait on you to start the end of the world. Pathetic.
It's even more comical than that. Their own scriptures say that nobody will know the time of the end of the world. "I will come as a thief in the night." But in their arrogance, they think they can force God's hand.
Fundies never fail to escalate the stupidity and to stir up shit for the rest of us.
Religion is the greatest threat to peace and human well-being.
Always has been.
If they are so desperate to die, they can do it by themselves and leave the rest of us out of it.
If they all Raptured themselves, the remaining world would be much better off.
If you lived the miserable, joyless, superstitious, sexually dysfunctional, paranoid, clueless life that one of them lives, you'd probably want to join a death cult too.
These dipshits always see everything in such stupid terms.
I imagine a future where such people are sentenced to be put into VR where they could live out their sick eschatological fantasies. That's unless some kind of therapy doesn't come online for such people, as I think they have a (probably as of yet named or recognized) mental disorder
Blind faith is a mental illness as far as I'm concerned.
MAGA is a pedofascist death cult.
I'm pretty sure that's how they justified the Crusades.
Religiosity has been in decline in the US, hopefully the ultra performative sect that's influencing him makes it happen even faster.
Further evidence, if any more were needed, that these pig-ignorant sisterfucking hucksters should be taxed for interfering in politics, and better yet, should be institutionalized.
I should have paid more attention and been more vocal. Every time those people came to my door telling me how everything was better when "god chose kings and leaders", I should have had facts to refute them. Hopefully I will be able to in the future.
I don't think facts would have helped you. This isn't something they reasoned their way into. You're not going to reason them out.
Can I make them question their reality?
In my experience, no. But by all means try. Maybe you can plant a seed of doubt that grows.
Be Socratic though. Fewer facts, more questions.
Yes, by utterly and totally defeating them.
If you invite them in and have an honest conversation with them they leave and never come back.
A few years ago, I lived in a grand old house in a nice bit of California and we'd occasionally get Mormon missionaries knocking on our door. One time, a couple of them caught me while I was off work and relaxing. It was a boiling hot day, they looked like they were suffering, so I invited them in and offered them some herbal iced tea and homemade fig bars (my wife's a bit of a hippie, what can I say?). We talked a fair bit about religion, but I'm a non-believer, so that could only go so far. I have a policy of not trying to convince people to become an atheist, but if they ask what I believe, I'll tell them. These young guys were recruited in Provo, suited up and sent off to Sodom-by-the-Bay to have doors slammed in their faces. They were naive and were very polite, nice guys.
To their credit, when I'd be in town after that, if I saw one ride by on his bike, he'd always wave and say hi, despite the fact that I'm an evil infidel.
Pro tip: don't try that with Jehova's Witnesses, they're paranoid, hyper-aggressive and, in my experience, devoid of manners.
Well if Iran has nothing to lose and the US thinks it’s the end times this is going to end so well…
so…. The Crusades 2: Electric Boogaloo
I'm pretty sure there already was a second crusade between 1147–1149. If we're counting, we're up to the 9th or 10th crusade, depending on how you group the last of the crusades.
There's a name badge in that picture so I looked it up. Apparently Alveda King, MLK's niece, is on the board of "Black Voices for Trump". MLK must be rolling in his grave.
I wonder if that's the key to Trump still being so popular among Protestant Christians after so much proof he's as evil as it gets? That they see the only way out of the incredible mess the GOP (primarily) has made of the country and world is for the "End Times" to arrive, condemning everyone in the world except themselves and rapturing their gullible asses out of trouble.
They really believe that Jesus is going to beam their fat asses up to the mother ship. These people are scary.
On the plus side, they can no longer open the Nuclear Football suitcase because it's been inadvertently sealed shut by Pentagon Pete masturbating furiously and shooting "tributes" on it.
Unlikely. Kegsbreath probably has constant brewer's droop, and that's one of the reasons for his endless over-compensative macho posturing. That, or he feels attracted to twinks, but thinks that'll send him to hell if he acts on it. And that's why he's so obsessed with the soldiers he surrounds himself with being clean-shaven and not overweight.
Is this modern crusade three or four? I am losing track
The next logical step is obviously to kill their leadership, this worked very well in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Yugoslavia. Bastions of peace to this very day
Oops I have had a stroke
p.s. free one-way ticket for every Abrahamic faithful to the holy land, includes AR-15 and jug of gatorade.
Best money ever spent I tell you what
Far-right religious leaders should all be used for chum
And he's just the addled shitbag to make it happen.
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