Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
-Edric, Guild Navigator - Dune Messiah
The mechanism of religion as a weapon never changes: controlling the public through fear and using said fear to extract power and wealth.
If you really want to understand power, religion and wealth one need look no further than Henry VIII’s Tudor court and Thomas Cromwell with his scheme to rob all the sacred religious Abbeys of England and take their wealth establishing a brand new made up religion. It’s the point in history where the veneer of religion was stripped away and left in its place were the people who had been using it casting all airs aside and start directly controlling people by simply killing and torturing enough of them.
send these bible-thumping chucklefucks to the front
Doesn’t that story also include the Antichrist who’s “charismatic” and fools them all into fealty to him?
They believe they’re too faithful to fall for that of course. It’s the empathetic who are antichrists.
yup its all signs of devil influence. not accumulating wealth and being against people who do. feeding the poor. helping those in need. these people need to find jesus.
They collectively believed in it so much that they manifested him into reality without realizing
Like the orcs from 40k hahaha 😂
But I honestly have way more respect for the orcs. They at least got creative with their collective psychic abilities.
shutuuuup, your sounding like my elderly grandma and is weirding me out.
yes, they think he is it, and that’s why they support him.
Yes. Also, giant man-faced scorpions wearing solid gold hats will climb out of the Earth to eat the unfaithful.
UNCANNY FORESIGHT
(not a joke, really says that. tax free. They don’t have to pay taxes for this shit)
Everybody’s gotta go somehow. Being chomped down by a gold-hatted man-faced scorpion is better than lots of other ways of leaving this world.
An immutable property of marks is that they don’t know they’re being conned.
If they really think this is the End Of Time, why aren’t they out there on the front lines?
Because they are War Pigs.
“Why should they go out to fight? They leave that all to the poor”
They want to get Raptured not Martyred.
If they want to be raptured, rapture them on the frontline.
They don’t, or at least the pedo in chief doesn’t. He just knows that he can sell it to his base. Plus he has stacked the cabinet with true believers and those that stand to profit from all this shit. Just more grift enablement, then again, most religion is.
Say what you want about the crusades, but at least the king and his knights all rode off to war personally.
My favorite story from the Crusades.
The Europeans landed and a huge mob of locals came running at them. Naturally the knights killed all the ‘infidels.’
Later, they learned that the ‘infidels’ were local Christians who were coming to greet them and offer support.
These people are a danger to the rest of us. They are mentally unfit and lack basic decency.
Far right leaders want to see trump ignite armageddon, making him the antichrist.
If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he will be tormented with fire and sulfur." Revelations 14:9-11
The mark on the forehead says “MAGA”
nice. hats on forehead and signs in the hand.
Here’s your hand sign.
It’s kind of amazing, but these religious whackjobs may have a point. Current events are following the Armageddon myth almost perfectly:
Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? Here Are the Biblical Predictions:
What this shows me is that the fascist playbook has been the same for literally thousands of years. Descriptions of ancient despots apply equally to the modern-day ones.
That, and numerology is completely bankrupt. You can manipulate almost anything to fit a specific numeric scheme if you want to.
They’re idiots. They don’t even realize that it’s impossible to immanentize the eschaton, according to their own holy books and most of the better related fanfic.
Which everyone else reads as an “L”.
Hegseth already thought this when he got the job.
He’s insane and in charge enough without religious leaders anyway.
He’s a cynical piece of shit, he doesn’t believe in anything.
No, that’s Vance. Hegseth is the one with the christofascist tattoos; you don’t have those carved onto you out of cynicism.
Yeah, I have a feeling Hegseth is either a true believer, or state mandated rehab brainwashed him into it.
Or drunk visions talk to him.
I don’t think Vance believes anything he says past what will keep him in power.
I think it is mostly cynicsm, that he doesn’t actually believe that nonsense, and that he’s playing those that do, and tattoos are a part of that. Guy was a fox news host, no way he’s a true believer.
We’re fucked.
Maybe. If Jesus comes out of his cave tomorrow and sees his shadow it’s only six more weeks of Armageddon.
Hey, leave my lord and savior Punxsutawney Phil out of this.
Christian Zionism is out of control, and a thread to modern society.
Israel is the devil.
Imagine believing that your all powerful god is so weak that he has to wait on you to start the end of the world. Pathetic.
It’s even more comical than that. Their own scriptures say that nobody will know the time of the end of the world. “I will come as a thief in the night.” But in their arrogance, they think they can force God’s hand.
Fundies never fail to escalate the stupidity and to stir up shit for the rest of us.
Religion is the greatest threat to peace and human well-being.
Always has been.
US was justifying its genocides in the middle-east by “they are religious extremists.” How much of it was projection?
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These dipshits always see everything in such stupid terms.
I imagine a future where such people are sentenced to be put into VR where they could live out their sick eschatological fantasies. That’s unless some kind of therapy doesn’t come online for such people, as I think they have a (probably as of yet named or recognized) mental disorder
Blind faith is a mental illness as far as I’m concerned.
Make sure their children and/or grandchildren serve in the US infantry. Frontline duty only.
These types, in general, don’t really care about their own children.
The crusades. But with nukes.
