• Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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      11 days ago

      Yeah. It’s the kind of headline that I want to shock me, but it’s just becoming a dreadful background noise.

      • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip
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        10 days ago

        Remember when Trump had daily Covid announcements or when he was still on Twitter? Pretty much everything he did or said was so absurd that cracking jokes about it became a serious challenge. How do you come up with a fictional scenario that is more over the top than actual reality.

    • cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
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      10 days ago

      Nah, they’ve already accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. That’s basically their get out of jail free card. It’s why a lot of them are horrible vile hateful people.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) a growing charismatic movement led by a loose network of apostles and prophets who believe Christians are called to take over the government.

    That’s wonderful. And the article only gets worse from there.

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      10 days ago

      Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.

      This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.

      -C. S. Lewis

  • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
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    10 days ago

    So weird. Christian nationalism isn’t the thing I fear most in American politics, but as a Christian myself I definitely hate it more than anything else in the American political landscape.

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      10 days ago

      Someone once posted that rather than calling it Christian Nationalism, we should call it Nationalist Christianity, because it has a convenient and easy to remember abbreviation: Nat.C.

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        10 days ago

        Nahhhh, cuz Christian Nationalism isn’t Christianity. It seeks to worship the state by turning it into something they deem worthy of worship, rather than worshipping God.