• Admiral Patrick
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      278 months 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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        68 months 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.

  • Cyborganism
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    528 months ago

    Funny how they don’t even see the whole golden calf, false idol aspect of this.

  • Goldholz
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    338 months ago
    1. Law in christianity: “have no god besides me”

    Well they all going to hell

    • @cultsuperstar@lemmy.world
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      128 months 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.

      • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        18 months ago

        Some of them are Catholics and Catholics don’t subscribe to sola fide, well, it’s against their stated religion, I’ve met plenty who do

  • QuentinCallaghan
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    288 months ago

    Don’t they remember what is said in the Ten Commandments? “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me."

    Of course if they are the megachurch type of Christians, their only real god is money.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    218 months ago

    It’s a stupid religion and belief system.

    This is just another example of why.

    • @Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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      158 months ago

      It’s right there in the ten commandments, which I’d like to remind you has other legit bangers that still work in these modern times like “thou shalt not kill” :

      Exodus 20:3-5 King James Version

      3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

      4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

      5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

      • @shylosx@lemmy.world
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        28 months ago

        What’s funny is the decalogue is likely borrowed from what is commonly called the “ritual commandments” of Exodus 34, which are explicitly stated to be the 10 commandments in the Hebrew Bible (despite tradition calling the decalogue the 10 commandments) and includes such bangers as “sacrifice your firstborn son” and “in fact make lots of sacrifices to me”

  • Riskable
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    208 months ago

    There’s no easier lie for a politician than piety.

    • Ephera
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      48 months ago

      The guy is famous for raping a pornstar while married. It would certainly be easy to not do such a thing and then tell people you’re pious. But the guy is practically screaming at his followers that he’s satan himself and they still want to believe the lie…

  • @tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    148 months ago

    It doesn’t matter how awful he is. They only see that he’s a great tool for creating a white evangelical theocracy. They’d act this way for Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Dahmer, or (insert awful person here).

    • @RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com
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      148 months ago

      That is not true. I know some really good people that happen to be Christian as well. It’s just that these are two different things and most do either belong to the one or the other group.

  • @realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
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    78 months 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.

    • @NABDad@lemmy.world
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      88 months 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.

      • @realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
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        28 months 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.