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[–] 167 points 1 month ago (10 children)

This reads like some very iffy fan fiction.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    NO WEIRDOS, BEARDOES, OR WOMEN, ONLY STRONG, HOT, MUSCULAR, DTF MEN.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)
  • [–] 37 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Right? Apparently hallucinating in a coma that Jesus's manly body is the only reality will get you on Fix News.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    only if it's the right jesus. my sil hallucinated a different jesus and never got a book written about her. was pissed off about it until the day she died. i kept telling her she needed to write it herself, but nope! too much work.

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  • [–] 66 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Fox News interviews brain damaged man suffering from delusions

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  • [–] 55 points 1 month ago (6 children)

    The bigger story is that Fox put this guy on air and acted like there was some legitimacy to it. The guy himself at least has an excuse for acting brain dead. What's the excuse for the viewers?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Gabe added that ‘in America, Jesus has been misrepresented. And there are so many cultural things that present him as if he’s some tolerant guy.’

    There is your answer right there. They know their credulous audience and they have their message to push.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Yep there's a deliberate effort to train people into hateful Nazi fucks and get them to accept violence and cruelty. And it needs to be treated like the terrorist movement it is.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Specifically evangelical Christians. It’s a very tricky thing to navigate because on the one hand we are taught absolute biblical inerrancy, but it’s crucial to redefine a lot of Christ’s message that gets leveraged by people with actual humanity, because a lot of it can be made to sound, well, awfully socialist.

    So I think there is a deliberate, if not coordinated and conspiratorial, effort to thread that needle. AI is also a really potent vector for this. Evangelical Christians are simultaneously 3 things:

    1. Completely devoted to scripture as the perfect and inerrant word of god
    2. largely unfamiliar with scripture itself - the bible is perfect but it’s more of a cookbook than a manual, much less a library.
    3. Weirdly open to God speaking and working in all kinds of ineffable ways, even if the resulting doctrines contradict the scripture they aren’t familiar with anyway - such as God “clarifying misinterpretation“ through AI, or through the ramblings of someone with a traumatic brain injury.

    Here is the trick - I remember understanding the rhetorical genius of it when I first heard it, even before I deconstructed:

    God’s word is inerrant - our understanding of it is not.

    It might sound tinfoil hatted, but I think this is a lever actively being pulled by the Epstein class.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Was probably a distraction day.

    Like the time Paul Manafort was indicted and Faux News suddenly decided that the cheese placement on Google's hamburger emoji was the biggest and most important thing happening that day.

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  • [–] 119 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Gabe Poirot was riding an electric skateboard at around 30 miles per hour without a helmet in October 2021 when he hit a small bump in the road and flipped backwards, landing directly on his head.

    The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury.

    It's kind of tragic how badly a TBI can mess up someone's life, especially at such a young age.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago*

    With the increase of cheap ebikes this is becoming more and more common. Saw a CBC Marketplace investigation recently where most Toronto stores they visited advertised those vehicles to the under 16, against the law. They also offered to remove limiters to make the bikes go considerably faster.

    They interviewed a teenager who now is missing chunks of his skull and cant form memories anymore.

    Or a young child who got hit and run by an ebike and looked like he was in a car accident.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    Huh, guess the Koreans are the ones with the correct depiction then. Go figure.

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  • [–] 60 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Ah, if Jesus was born in the stable, makes sense he grew up as a horse. Or perhaps as a camel, trying to go through the eye of a needle.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Or perhaps as a camel, trying to go through the eye of a needle.

    Context for the uninitiated:

    Matthew 19:24:

    Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Good thing he took a picture...

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Well somebody is suppressing their sexuality.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Gabe added that ‘in America, Jesus has been misrepresented. And there are so many cultural things that present him as if he’s some tolerant guy.’

    🤦

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  • [–] 130 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Religion is a mental illness

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I'd say it's a reaction to mental illness. An attempt by people to try to get a handle on something. If you look at religious people, they tend to all be a little off.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    It’s a broad range of problems they try to fill.

    Alcoholism, various mental illnesses, loneliness, and desperation get new ones in. But I think the most problematic are the ones there for life and because the whole community is there. Or for political reasons.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago*

    You don't have to be mentally ill to be religious. Some people just grew up with it and see it as their reality, and some people adopted it. Most religious people are not more or less mentally ill than the average religious none or atheist.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago

    Erm, what the yaoi fanfic?

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    Hats off to the headline writer. I lol’d

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    Sounds homoerotic, but OK.

    Maybe "heaven" was spending 18 days with a Latin American lover called Jesus.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 month ago

    The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury

    Sounds about right

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    My mom for a while believed a TV evangelist for a while, I'll always remember his shit name. Jesse Duplanis. Told everyone he went to heaven and met Jesus on a deathbed experience before being "sent back to preach the good book". Of course it was the abundance gospel of he just happened to have a private jet and multiple mansions.

    My gullible naive mother sent him money when she was most destitute thinking he knew how to make things better. At one point it was a full tithe, 10% of her income. I hope he rots in the ground.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Apparently he's still around.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Duplantis

    In May 2018, national news media outlets reported that Duplantis had asked his followers to donate money to him so that he could buy a Dassault Falcon 7X, valued at $54 million.[4][5][6] Duplantis said that his organization, Jesse Duplantis Ministries, had already paid for three private jets by 2006, and that he had been using them by "just burning them up for the Lord Jesus Christ." Duplantis defended his choice by saying: "I really believe that if Jesus was physically on the earth today he wouldn't be riding a donkey. Think about that for a minute. He'd be in an airplane preaching the gospel all over the world."[7] In response to a wave of criticism, Duplantis stated on his ministry website, "I'm not asking you to pay for my plane, I'm asking you to pray for my plane."[8]

    In 2016, Duplantis and fellow televangelist Kenneth Copeland defended their use of private jets with the claim that commercial planes were full of "demons".[9]

    A few weeks later, Duplantis claimed the Second Coming was held up by a lack of donations, while touting his multi-millionaire status.[13]

    In February 2024, Duplantis was named as a defendant in an amended civil securities fraud complaint filed by Colorado regulators concerning the promotion of the cryptocurrency INDXcoin. The complaint alleges that Duplantis was among individuals recruited by Denver pastor Eli Regalado to help sell unlicensed securities within Christian communities and that certain recruits received commission payments. The broader case claims INDXcoin raised more than $3 million from over 300 investors between 2022 and 2023 through promises of guaranteed returns based on divine guidance.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    Goddamn even The Onion can't do shit this stupid, and they're actively trying. Fox News is like a well funded version of those little magazines at the checkout line that talk about aliens and the anti-aging miracles of an uncooked eggyolk and beef tallow only diet.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    If I tell anyone that I spent time with Jesus they wouldn't believe me.

    Why do they believe this guy??? What's he got??? Souvenirs?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Jules: You read the Bible, Brett?

    Brett: Yes.

    Jules: Well, there's this passage I got memorized, sorta fits the occasion. Ezekiel 23:20:

    There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    This was eye opening. I mean, it didn't hurt. It did go in my eye but that's how I read. I mean to say that everything went into my right eye, the donkey cock, the emissions. But not like that.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Mentally ill man says gay shit on fox news. Just another day at fox.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Then jesus put his 2ft horse cock in his mouth so he could swallow the sins of man.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    “Liar claims lies”

    Fixed the headline, it’s no longer news

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  • [–] 27 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury.

    Fox News is like, "brain damage?! Bring him on!!"

    Seriously, how dumb are Americans? It astounds me daily for some reason. How convenient that "heaven" is just like that fantasy novel that you've internalized and convinced yourself is actual history? I'll file this with the people that have conversations with god

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Then he woke up on sticky sheets.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Was never much of a Ford fan, so…. This is disappointing. Was really hoping he would be a Camaro, or even an import.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    He must be Dothraki. He met "the stallion who mounts the world".

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Why did he get a platform lol

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    When I went to heaven it was all hookers and blacjack

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    I bet he can also describe in detail how hung the Mustang was.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    How much cum would he need to swallow to taste the testosterone?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Unironically this account makes just as much sense as every stupid religion on this planet.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    And this is what happens when you give a platform to idiots, brain damage or not.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Will you guys just admit you wanna get railed by white Jesus? It's fine. He's a very attractive if historically inaccurate man.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    This is not meant to be criticism, but I think this guy has been repressing something for a long time...

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    I think the brain injury has him a little confused. He spent 18 days with a 6ft Mustang full of testosterone called Jesús, and it was heavenly.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    USA?

    guy with mental illness having hallucinations is taken seriously

    USA

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    These kind of hallucinations are not uncommon for a near death experience.

    An existing theory is that its caused by your brain releasing naturaly produced dmt when its senses its about to die.

    Thats pretty interesting, but doesnt explain why where giving this guy a stage and actively make them dangerously mentally ill by feeding into the delusions they experienced.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Cf. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez:

    Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism, or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.”

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    "When you have to fill a 24h news day you can literally drag up brain injured crazy people and just let them talk! "

    -giggling ceo

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago*

    Man wakes up from coma, figures out how to make bank on it.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    if christianity rebranded jesus to be an extremely male and extremely verile free-roaming horse I would have to seriously rethink my atheism.

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