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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 147 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Not a Christian, but I used to be one, and I've never heard of anyone fitting the criteria for the antichrist better than Donald Trump

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There it is. If you hadn't posted it, I would have.

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yep. Not even Christian and that's some shit....

[–] maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 weeks ago

It just keeps going and going. The dude is so old and decrepit now I feel like he is either going to die soon and we'll breathe a sigh of relief or he's going to rip his skin off and a red devil will pop out. Its gotta happen soon, right?

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Right? I had a grandparent heavy into that part of Christianity before they died. The guys fits. As does the bad weather. I’m a bit surprised the Christian following hasn’t gone there. Granted, there may not be one of any significance given how bot run the internet is these days.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.00381v1

There’s a fun Forbes article voicing concern about wasting ad efforts on bots. If any relief occurs it will be because of this. https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2024/04/16/yes-the-bots-really-are-taking-over-the-internet/

If you ask AI they list the number at 20% not 50%.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m a bit surprised the Christian following hasn’t gone there.

Isn't a big part of it how the Antichrist deceives people into following him who ought to know better?

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

That is the story, yes.

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 15 points 1 month ago (7 children)

. I’m a bit surprised the Christian following hasn’t gone there.

Many Christians are theologically incompetent. They don't know their scripture. They just like feeling good.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

But didn't JD Vance say the pope needs to understand theology more before he starts preaching about what Trump is or isn't doing? /s

Fuck America is so lost.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget there's a fair number of evangelicals who want all this to happen and more so their imaginary friend can come back to life and they themselves can live forever. They actually believe that.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not a religious man but I am a man of faith. I've explained to many people the biggest of the problems to me is accepting that someone can absolve me of all my sins. If I go to hell I go to hell but I own what I've done. That is between me and God and no person regardless of who they are has the right to absolve me of my sins.

It's that fervent lack of accountability it instills in otherwise weak people that really sours me.

Oh, and the general inconsistencies in the rules. Because everyone fails to acknowledge that God may be real but religion is a concept made and evolved by man and man is inherently flawed.

Long story short, my relationship is with God. Not the church. Not the religion. Not Jesus. With whatever I chose to believe is above is all.

Yes I know it's not really responding to what you said but Jesus Christ I have met and dated real Christians and they are so not like these dollartree Christians you have in America.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 3 points 4 weeks ago

As a priest in the Episcopal Church I can say that offering absolution for sins is not about the priest doing that work, but instead declaring that absolution has already happened. If anything, it's a reminder. The Roman Catholic theology might be different on this, though.

I'm the sort of person that benefits from an actual voice telling me things like "your sins are forgiven." I grew up Baptist/Evangelical and was told I did not need a priest or minister to forgive me of my sins, that Jesus was the only one who could do that. Sure. But that was so abstract. Once I first sat in an Episcopal parish and had a priest say "Almighty God have mercy on you and forgive you all your sins through our Lord Jesus Christ..." was powerful. It took the idea of my forgiveness out of the abstract. Like, I knew it was not the priest forgiving me, but was someone openly reminding me that my sins had been forgiven.

I'm now a universalist and I believe that everyone's sins are already forgiven (when Jesus says "father forgive them, they know not what they do" on the cross pretty much covers it), but that we fail to accept that forgiveness and so rob ourselves of the kind of liberation that comes from that knowledge. I need the church to remind me, on a regular basis, that I've been forgiven because it's easy for me to slip into a pattern of beating myself up for my failures and short-comings. But once I remember I'm forgiven by God I feel the grace that empowers me to try to be better.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 4 points 1 month ago

I’m a bit surprised the Christian following hasn’t gone there.

They are really Christians.

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[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Lol, not even really gold, like the rest of his crap:

the president fails to mention the fact that the figure is merely wrapped in gold leaf.

The shiny livery was added to the bronze statue by the sculptor, who told the Daily Beast that it was the easiest mark-up of his life. “They loved the idea, of course. It’s like pitching ice water to a man dying of thirst. It was not a hard sell,” Alan Cottrill said.

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give it a few months and the gold leaf is flaking off, and they start fixing it with spray paint. It's all so poetic.

[–] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Holy shit, your comment made me realize something. Is Trump spraying himself orange because he thinks it makes him look golden?

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 41 points 1 month ago

The artist literally upsold them for no other reason than money, and then bragged about gouging them over making it shiny. There was also something about him holding the statue until they paid in full, before delivering it. He knows what's up with these losers.

[–] Mohamed@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Such a waste. Bronze looks so much better than that gold, especially when it rusts.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder how this will patina with piss. I can't be the only one that really wants to piss on it. I'm sure that will become a thing.

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[–] thefluffiest@feddit.nl 48 points 1 month ago

Then it was a golden calf. Now it’s a golden pig

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The USA is probably the nation furthest from christian values at this moment. Well, aside from the genocide and pedophilia. They got that shit on LOCK.

[–] Flower@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

It's the place where they complain to the pastor he should stop spouting woke bs and just read from the bible.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How can these supposedly knowledgeable Christian "leaders" do this without thinking about Moses destroying the Golden Calf, or even the 10 Commandments' warnings against having no Gods before me, and no graven images, etc.?

I suppose if you're okay with all the other commandments being broken, these ones aren't really so bad. It's not like Killing or Stealing, and they do that shit every day.

And as long as we're on the subject, the 10 Commandments say NOTHING about pedophilia, so GAME ON!

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago

It is also a characteristic of the Anti-Christ being on earth I believe

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Jesus fucking christ

[–] SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] belunos@lemmus.org 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I think this was posted before the pastor at the dedication respond to this this. He posted several paragraphs explaining why this isn't false idolatry, and it kind of came down to 'trust me bro'

[–] Impractical_Island@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Trust me bro, this flesh alchemy gig pays out after four or five years. Sure, at first, every chick runs away from you when you approach them offering the giblets of a jammed duckling, but once you smoke a few pounds of Benadryl, you start pulling it off, in the same way just whipping it out will land you a date 1/10 times, assuming you are fast or can afford the out-of-court settlements for the 3/10 times they threaten to call the cops. But this gets you the really freaky bitches that would also be the ideal mother of your child who will teach them the occult and have them transcend physicality entirely by middle school. I highly recommend, and I don't even miss my one toe. It's like childhood all over again, but with less bleeding on Christmas, at least in my case.

[–] belunos@lemmus.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Bruh that toe was the key factor in the enrichment of your life goals. Think of it as an investment. And listen, don't even worry about the 3/10, you whip out a four toe'd foot, and the jury will be eating out of the palm of your hand. Trust.

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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So I always thought the whole End Times eschatology was just bullshit to scare people and convince them that their religion had it all figured out. But now I've come to realize the metaphorical power of the stories themselves.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

History repeats itself. The bible stories are based on things that had happened before, so with stories they tried to warn people not to fall for it again or the bad times would come back, and now people are falling for it again.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The lack of awareness and intelligence never ceases to cofound me. Following the anti-christ, the person they want to start armageddon, is a one-way ticket to hell for these clowns. And they’re all for it. Yet they think they’re the good guys?

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[–] klu9@piefed.social 10 points 1 month ago

"God?! God's a radical left lunatic, so soft on crime, so soft. What did God do to stop Iran getting nukes? Nothing! Not like me."

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Well, not really the oldest, that would be "hey guys, see that tree? don't eat its fruit. anything else you can eat, just not THAT one. Kay?"

but it's definitely up there in being one of the most well known rules.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

theyve never been christians, but they do love to troll them

[–] Clutter@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 weeks ago

They have become the satire...

[–] beansbeansbeans@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago

Evangelicals aren't Christians and are incapable of critical thought or reflection.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What are the odds it’s stolen Fort Knox gold?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

0%. However that's only because we haven't used Fort Knox to store gold for a few decades now.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

Knowing Trump? It's probably styrofoam spray painted gold.

[–] Elilol@fedinsfw.app 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Could they be more evidently ignorant and oblivious?

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[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.cafe 3 points 1 month ago
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