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[–] 115 points 7 months ago (11 children)

We can just throw them in fire if they want.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 7 months ago (10 children)
  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    No no no. That's not the right response! What you should be doing, is burning a fascist.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't that literally what they're suggesting?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (3 children)

    Do there exist christians who arent?

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  • [–] 85 points 7 months ago* (10 children)

    This is part of JD Vance and Peter Thiel's theological beliefs. They're "Rad Trads" - as is Steve Bannon. A radical group of extremist Catholics who are trying to destroy the world as they believe only if there's an apocalypse will Jesus return.

    They should be treated as Religious Extremists, and terrorists, and everyone including the Pope should vocally condemn them.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder if they are actually believers. Or if they just recognize how to perpetuate and foment belief in the public.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    isn't Theil gay and going to hell already?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    He is going to hell because he is a greedy money hoarder/billionaire. If he gave away all his money to the poor and devoted his life to the works of Christ (Beatitudes-serving the poor, clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, welcoming the stranger, comforting the imprisoned, caring for the sick) he might have a chance.

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  • [–] 77 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    My dad is (was?) one of these. The dissonance was one of the reasons I rejected religion - their Bible tells them to be good stewards, but when asked why he supports stuff that harms the environment my dad's excuse was that the world was ending soon and only those who didn't get raptured would even be impacted by it.

    I checked, the Bible doesn't contain some "shit on the environment if the world is ending soon" clause or exception.

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  • [–] 62 points 7 months ago
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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    They've been saying it pretty much since about 30 seconds after Christ died, and I'm sure they're all just a reskinning of even older apocalypse myths.

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    "You will know not the day nor the hour," says this instruction manual to life they keep referencing when questioned about their weird behavior.

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  • [+] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    What's worse are the rich, out-of-touch fucks who should know better, are so narcissistic and so afraid of death. What they fear about it, is that the world will continue on without them. They'd rather the world end when they end. As far as they're concerned:

    • The world as we know it did not exist prior to their being born into it.
    • The world was made for them and their descendants to enjoy. All others are expendable tokens to spend as they please.
    • If they are mortal, then the world should not continue to exist after their deaths.
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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, like Peter Thiel and his little plasma addiction and preoccupation with the antichrist ? Like that dude didn't make his deal with the devil. He has as much chance as going to heaven as a camel walking through the eye of a needle. No wonder he is trying to live forever.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Metaphysics notwithstanding, he's narcissistic to the point of believing that he's "one order of magnitude above human". The rest of us? We're the first stage on the rocket. He not only wants to live forever, he wants to live above we mere mortals, free of all our petty needs and desires. This world is his playground, his toy; created for him and other billionaires like him. And if he and they can't have it, then, they've ultimately decided nobody can.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Dumbasses. Everyone knows the spell for kickstarting the Apocalypse is found in the Book of Vile Darkness, not Exalted Deeds.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    But they've never been this close to the nuclear football.

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  • [+] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    They been saying it a lot longer than that. The 7th Day Adventists, who own all the hospitals in my area, are a Mormon splinter group who followed a guy who had calculated the exact date of the end of the Earth, and that was way back in the late 19th century. He kept re-calculating and moving the date.

    End of the world predictors have been around far longer than that.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    They're a Millerite splinter not Mormon when the Millerites imploded after multiple failed predictions it created several new religions, the biggest two being being Jehovah's witnesses and Seventh day advenentists. They came out of the same religious spring as the Mormons and Christian scientists for example but are more or less unrelated outside of being nominally Christian. There used to be more groups from that era but most of them were Christian socialists and were more or less all killed off by the 1950s.

    Sorry about the pedantry but my kin have been fueding with the fucken Seventh Day Adventists since they moved into what is now Loma Linda California back in the early 1900s.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There was big end-of-the-world hysteria when the year 1000 was coming up. And dozens of dates after that.

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 7 months ago

    Last time the rapture was no fun...it is only fun if they fuck shit up and take everyone with them...

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    People who believe in prophesied apocalyptic events should not be in positions of power, because they have a tendency to try to make those prophesies self-fulfilling.

    We need separation of church and state, but we also need ways to establish an expectation that religious institutions will at least not promote beliefs that directly go against established science and reason.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Agreed. Now how do we go about achieving that when a good chunk of the country thinks not Christian=evil Christian killer?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    I think that things like this can really only be approached with a long view in mind. Progressions and regressions are always happening. We're going through a rather massive regression currently, but any belief system that refuses to change according to actual facts is basically at war with reality itself, and doomed to failure by their own inability to adapt.

    As far as an actual approach, it should be social allelopathy. There's a good reason this christofascist regime is so bent on attacking education - it's because their crazy beliefs have a tendency to dissolve under any scrutiny. The more we can provide robust, truthful education to all, the more it buffers people, if not necessarily to atheism, at least to religion that can coexist with common sense.

    And that goes for religious institutions to. Support what you believe. If you're atheist, there are groups who organize around that.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago

    This guy literally can't do anything wrong

    Makes everything great -> obviously amazing leader

    Fucks everything up -> this guy will save us from the fucked up world

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  • [–] 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Because they're a death cult.

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Religion is a mental illness. Not adjacent, similar to, nearby, but full-on delusion.

    And also by far the greatest threat humanity is facing.

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Do these clowns not understand that by wishing trump start their armageddon that it makes him the antichrist?

    They are following and encouraging the antichrist?

    So yeah, y’all talibangelicals going to your hell.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I never watched parks and rec but didn't that end before Trump's run, and wasn't that character like a big-L libertarian?

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Can we rapture them all up so I can get some peace and quiet?

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I love running into these people. Hell isn’t scriptural and it’s easy to bring the receipts. They are cultists, so you won’t change their mind, but they will never forget you or how you knew their fake religion better than they did. I always hope that a seed planted in their diseased minds eventually sprouts, but it’s still fun to give them a solid intellectual wallop.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Hell is scriptural, according to the scriptures...

    Unless you're referring to the name "Hell" of course, which is not in the Bible.

    A place of burning and suffering for all time? Definitely scriptural. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, where the worm dyeth not.

    I'm not a Christian, but I do have years upon years upon years upon years of Bible studies.

    Bring those receipts! The garbage dump explanation will not suffice (Gehenna)

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    There is no god. Also, no devil. No heaven, no hell, no angels, no demons.

    You can also have years of flat Earth studies, and every other religion that will claim anything as well.

    It's you who have to provide the receipts.

    Can your god regrow a single fingertip? Deflect a single .22LR round? Just by 0.5mm?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago*

    You misunderstand, it's not my God, I don't have one at the moment, but I am accepting applications.

    My "receipts" are their claims, collected in the King James Bible (one of many interpretations; not even a complete collection of claims really). I'm able to show what they claim to be true, not the actual truth itself.

    I was responding to someone who said they had receipts for their claims (that Hell isn't scriptural), why would I need to provide any? My receipt is the KJV, which is scriptural.

    I'm not making the assertion, friend, but I am responding to an assertion.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago

    Well, I would not object to those assholes getting raptured any minute now. Less mess and more housing available.

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I mean... Trump kind of fits the bill as the false prophet

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Fetishizing mythology as national policy.

    Yeah. Great. Sure.

    Fucking kill us all because school teachers are secretly centaurs in disguise and the Ark of the Covenant contains a coupon for a free Lexus, and if you're special enough to believe in White Jesus then heaven is a gated community, and they have the best HOA ever.

    Like, maybe it's just better if Homo Sapiens doesn't survive?

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Of course they are... Again.

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    We voted for Trump to DESTROY the WORLD!

    -Republicans LITERALLY!

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  • Funny thing is I grew up evangelical and Trump fits their description of the anti christ down to the letter. Maybe that’s why they love him? A masochistic religious love for the one they know is evil

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

    My personal favourite is the woman whose chicken laid eggs with "Christ is coming" etched on them. Turned out she was writing on the eggs herself and pushing them back up the chicken's bottom.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Really have to wonder why these people can't just you know go find a compound somewhere and make some special Kool-Aid or something. Why do they got to drag the rest of us into it?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    The way the religion is presented to them ties it very purposefully with actual history which, for many of them, gives it all the authenticity needed to believe the crazy shit.

    That fact is important because it’s also why they won’t leave us alone, they think the entirety of mankinds existence revolves around these end times ideas and indeed their beliefs REQUIRE there to be non-believers that suffer for rejecting it.

    It’s really dumb and upsetting

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Those were revolutionary communists. The left.

    These christian folks are the right. They prefer to murder brown people than kill themselves to bring about awareness to class struggle.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    It's not that simple, a substantial amount of Christians are "left".

    Jonestown is the most infamous example.

    In short, Christian preachers will gladly take ANYONE'S money, regardless of their political persuasion.

    Why not? It's tax free!

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    May 21, 2011 was supposed to be the rapture or end of the world or whatever. I remember this because it was also my wedding day. Lived outside DC at the time and there were all these people holding signs and wearing shirts about it. We joked about getting a few for my bachelor party ("ha ha the world is ending on that day ... FOR HIM!"). Never did it. But I had a great wedding.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    Goddamn. Can't this cult just Jonestown themselves already? Seems like the best case scenario for all parties involved.

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