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Evangelicals decided to influence politics via the Republican Party, now to have the politics they helped create undermine their religion. Perfection. Edit: It was not the evangelicals that initiated, ‘‘twas the Republicans as pointed out below.
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No, the Republican party co-opted evangelicals to win votes. Abortion wasn't a major issue for evals until conservatives started pumping it in the 70s (I think that's the timeline?). Both are abhorrent, but we should be accurate about who tantalized who. Now, evals are in control of the Repubs.
There was actually a study that compared Donald Trump to the biblical Antichrist and the similarities were startling. One of the ones that really fucked with me was how it said that when he shows up, the antichrist, the rivers will be joined to the Lakes, Mar-A-Lago literally means River to Lake.
Imagine you are an ancient prophet writing about the end times, and you go to describe the actual damn antichrist, and the best you can come up with is a translation of what the antichrist's property name meant with zero context lmao.
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"No, no, you're supposed to show you believe they're weak in what you do, but claim you believe otherwise! Do you even cognitive dissonance, bro?"
You're Christian, right? You're supposed to follow the teachings of Christ! It's literally in the name!
Christ means “messiah/anointed one” these people are following, in their eyes, the new one and he ain’t called Jesus. Seriously these fucking people are literally worshipping mr Orange.
Your 2000 year old cult that you say if full of love and forgiveness but has generally been used to stir hatred, abuse kids, and hoard incalculable amounts of money has been replaced with a new up-and-coming cult that skips the obligation to forgive and replaces it with hatred and retribution and even more grift. Congratulations.
Doubt. I doubt these stories are being reported to him. He has been a Cassandra for years to the point that he lost his job and now he presents a bunch of anecdotal stories that can't be verified.
Sure Christianity hasn't exactly needed Christ since the beginning but the specific claims in this article I do not believe.
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So Nazis now call trump their Führer?
"all my patriot friends know christianity is about burning crosses, duh!"
![i normally wouldn't but i made this in high school (20+ years ago on whatthedilly dot com. before you lecture me [that] i'm uncritically insulting a religion out of nowhere: i practiced as an acolyte for 6 years in my church, and i've been baptized. twice. i'm black. what i believe does not matter. what anybody thinks i believe is all that matters.](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d951172f-714b-4ce8-a4c5-d256cfd88062.jpeg)
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