People are really underestimating how many accelerationist dominionists are now at high levels of the US government.

The Heritage Foundation, authors of Project 2025, is chock full of them, and their aim is to bring on the rapture and apocalypse.

Several of them were in Israel recently for a practice run of the red cow sacrifice that’s meant to bring Jesus back. The Jews and evangelicals want this for different reasons, but this is why US evangelicals are supporting Israel. Because in order to summon Jesus, evangelicals believe Palestine must be destroyed, the mosque at the temple mount must be razed (part of why they’re also hot for muslim skin), and the original temple rebuilt.

This is not fringe conspiracy bullshit – they’re serious enough that several senators have been funding the breeding programme for a perfect red cow, and some (including Mike Johnson IIRC) were in Israel for their practice run last year.

It all sounds insane, but they’re serious about this. It’s also why they don’t care about climate change. It’s not that they don’t think it’s real, but that they think it’s one of the signs zombie Jesus is coming back to give them a paradise from which they can watch the rest of us burn. This is all very, deadly serious to them. It’s a death cult, and they’ve been given the means to kill us all for their apocalyptic fantasies.

e: and to put a finer point on it, from that first article:

The arrival of the five heifers in Israel may have played a role in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that began the Israel-Hamas war. In a speech listing motives for the attack on Israel, one of the leaders of Hamas accused Israelis of bringing five cows into the Holy Land, CBS News reported. The Temple Mount is the current site of the Dome of the Rock, part of the al-Aqsa Mosque, an Islamic sacred site.

e2: look into what Peter Thiel believes, too. The most powerful and rich people on earth believe this nonsense, and are amassing the resources to realise their bullshit. They’re openly talking about their apocalyptic antichrist fantasies now.

If this was the fate of humanity there was no need for the whole Jesus arc. He could have just said holy fuck you people are corrupt and ended the whole planet at once but didn't, and the end times crap was not endorsed by his teachings. Not that I expect internal consistency in Christianity but I like to bring it up when they start ranting about Revelations like it's a policy position.

Damn it's almost like we should separate religion from politics.

We need to stop making excuses for harmful mentalities like this

perhaps a hotter take for lemmy: this goes for "humans are a plague" rhetoric too

https://lemmy.world/post/51478810

When you're an edge lord that fantasizes about being the bad guy in the bible and lord of the rings, it tends to warp your world view into desiring scifi dystopian survival horror.

The worst part is that we're rewarding them to work against all of us.

I don't know about all religions, but I do know about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and each of their holy books are full of horrors that no civilized society today can tolerate; and each of these faiths have millions of fundamentalists that see these texts as their moral imperative.

I encourage everyone to read the Tanakh, Bible, and Koran and see for yourself; and to watch their own propaganda (straight from the horse's mouth), which is shockingly backwards and eager to kill all that they deem unworthy (i.e. you).

Are all believers like this? No, the vast majority are not. However, they all provide a mask of normalcy for the fundamentalists that are "True Believers". This veneer of respectability prevents society as a whole from ever questioning the Abrahamic faiths, the instructions that they are given, and their motivations.

Islam wants to murder or convert you (or force you to pay a tax for their "protection"... from them). Christianity wants to convert you or prays for Jesus to return and save them (and murder you). Judaism isn't interested in converting you, but they see themselves as The Chosen People as ordained by God, superior to gentiles (you) in every possible way. All Abrahamic faiths have proven to be ruthless and bloodthirsty when they rule.

All of them want to control you, no exceptions. All have rules that they want you to follow; even the nice ones that don't want to slaughter you think that you should live by their rules out of "respect", but they have absolutely no respect for you.

Don't believe me, if you are unfamiliar with these religions my claims will seem extraordinary and crazy. Read the Tanakh, Bible, and Koran yourself. Listen to what their fundamentalist rabbis, priests, and imam's say (thousands of videos on Youtube to choose from).

Yes, I know that each holy book has beauty and wisdom within for all to learn from. But, unfortunately, they are also full of incredible evil and incompatible with any modern society. That is the concern, the evil.

The fact that they are tax free is ridiculous and obscene. I don't think that these religions should be illegal, because that just fuels the fundamentalists (they all want to be martyrs); but governments should stop forcing secular taxpayers to enable these archaic and frankly loathsome belief systems.

(extensively edited because I'm on a roll, I apologize)

Also crime and punishment

seems very Christiany type of explanation.

Religion is a mental illness and should disqualify people from anything higher than a garbageman.

We call it the bloody death cult for a reason.

I'm not sure how they justify getting on the wrong side of humanity. It strikes me as an explain this to St Peter type of thing.

Im not even religious and i believe all that shit just from observing humans for 40 years.

To be fair, when I'm my most cynical, I see human beings as intrinsically flawed, in that we're trying to develop into a space-faring global society, but still have instincts that only function for tiny bands of hunter-gatherers.

And that would be fine if we were all on the same page, pursuing an all-inclusive pluralistic liberal democracy. (Or, really, any social system that allows us to massively organize. Those tend to be pretty egalitarian.) But there's a small faction of us who got lucky and got the sweet drops early or hacked themselves into wealth and power, and they want to keep their (ill-gotten) gains. And they hate the rest of us. (They might hate each other. J.P. Morgan did.)

And they are willing to exploit human instincts in the rest of us to keep us from seizing their sweet drops and wealth and power. And in the meantime, they don't listen to experts who can advise them how to not ruin the world for human life, while trying to accumulate everything at the expense of what's necessary to sustain them.

So we're likely going to die out soon, or go through a millennia-long low population phase where we try desperately not to get eaten by new-world screwworm.

I can't say we don't deserve better, but our history teems with atrocity done to gain power or keep power or stay adjacent to power. We are a writhing knot of violence who can't seem to break free of our madness, even to save our lives. We a seem unable to create better for ourselves.

I don't think it's sin because there's nothing else that really cares what we do, or how we conduct ourselves. We do what we are going to do, and reap the consequences.

Nah always believe that every human inherently good, there will be always hope, do not despair, sun will always rise, don't worry be happy.

live, laugh and love.