Evangelicals aren't Christians and are incapable of critical thought or reflection.
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'
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.
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.
Listen, I got plenty of toes. I have my sister's feet, afterall. They're in a glass jar on my desk.
They have become the satire...
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
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?
There it is. If you hadn't posted it, I would have.
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%.
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?
One of the few prophecies related to an antichrist figure that comes directly from Jesus, in fact. "For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect." (Matthew 24:24 ESV).
Not sure that Agent Orange has done anything that resembles "great signs and wonders" but I suppose his followers believe he has the ability to dodge bullets like he's Neo or something.
That is the story, yes.
. 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.
My boss said it best. "My faith requires that I ignore everything I learned. I grew up believing in science but to follow my faith I must believe in the Bible."
This was his response to me asking him how he thought carbon dating was fake.
Im not religious and I talk circles around him about the Bible endlessly. He's so stubborn about it that I can basically shut him up about anything but simple quoting the Bible at him and then spinning and s twisting it to fit anything I want.
I'll even point out to him that I'm doing it and how it's manipulative. But he just says if you can make the argument from the Bible then no matter what it must be true.
He's explained he's so scared of going to hell he's willing to "unlearn anything" if it means he will be saved
Its baffling.
Wow. I grew up in a similar environment, but am now an Episcopal priest and I guess I just sometimes forget how much proudly willful ignorance exists in the Evangelical world.
I was a pretty staunch Creationist until I went to a program offered by the science department at my university. I went to an Evangelical school, but the head of the science department was a pretty devout Catholic. So he and the Catholic student's club invited Fr. Coyen (I think that's how it's spelled), the former director of the Vatican's observatory in Arizona (he was still director when he came; he died some years back). He was a Jesuit, wearing his black shirt and clerical collar, and he used images taken from the observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope to basically demonstrate to all of us how we know the Big Bang is real and the age of the universe, etc. He spoke deeply of his faith while talking about all of this and it was then that I realized science and Christianity did not have to be in opposition to each other (I know that there will plenty here who will disagree).
The irony is that my Christian faith was enriched by a science talk given by a Catholic Jesuit at an Evangelical University. Not sure the administrators at the school would have wanted that, but here we are.
But he just says if you can make the argument from the Bible then no matter what it must be true.
What about the part where the devil cites scripture to tempt Jesus? Does he think the devil was correct? Or Jesus? They can't both be.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Holy shit, your comment made me realize something. Is Trump spraying himself orange because he thinks it makes him look golden?
Yes
When the drawing looks more like real gold than the photograph...
Such a waste. Bronze looks so much better than that gold, especially when it rusts.
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!
Then it was a golden calf. Now it’s a golden pig
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.
And then god said, take its nails for they're like penies but worth at least a laptop. Take its fingers if you have no home. Take its arms to pay for a freeway or feet to build a financial building. Blessed is that chunk of gold sitting right there.
theyve never been christians, but they do love to troll them
It is also a characteristic of the Anti-Christ being on earth I believe
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?
No it's a one way ticket to heaven. They get to go to heaven when everything ends. Thats why they want things to end.
Ending is rewarded to them. Its a pretty classic example of the problem with positive enforcement. If misapplied it causes more problems
That’s not how it works, unless the “/s” fell out of your pocket on the way to posting that.
Thessalonians:
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Point being, they get an antichrist, believe in said person, and are sent to eternal torment for a thousand years.
They might think they’re going to heaven, but in their magical world they quite clearly will not. They’ll just accelerate the destruction of the planet and take us down with them.
Right but that's not what American Christians are told, I think they mean. These supporters think that they are saved because they are Christian and therefore if they die it is immediate heaven. Even though I would think committing genocide or Armageddon would guaruntee hell but what do I know.
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.
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.
Jesus fucking christ
"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."
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