Wtf was even the idea behind even making the source picture??? Fucking bizarre
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The people inside the house look like they all have dark hair. Maybe in the original it's angels guiding and protecting righteous immigration cops while they're arresting dangerous illegal immigrants (ie flashbanging toddlers)?
edit: nope lol it's jehova's witnesses: "During the great tribulation, Gog of Magog’s forces may try to assault us in our homes. But we can take comfort in knowing that Jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us"
she gog on magog until I tribulate
That name and your meme makes the angle looks like the audience of some reality show lol.
it's jehova
All I did was say to my wife, "that piece of halibut was good enough for Jehova!"
You're only making it worse for yourself!
Wild. Thanks for the follow up
Jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us" lmao, they gonna het flashbanged so hard
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Persecution fetish.
Some religious folks believe that at the “end of days” everyone who doesn’t follow the NWO religion or doesn’t have the mark of the beast will be persecuted. If you look very closely you can see the family in the house if praying with their heads down…. meanwhile these are the same people attempting to self fulfill their own prophecy by integrating religion into government
Also these people, who are so adamant in their beliefs that the State is out to get them (or will be in the near future) are almost always in favor of militarizing police and giving them more power in general, if not straight up pushing for it.
Persecution fetish indeed.
It seems that they like it like that...
...revelation wasn't a prediction. Apparently it was a fetish.
Fuck I never looked at it that way before. To think they fear this future, yet they are the potential cause of this distopian future
Some religious folks believe that at the “end of days”
I've legit heard arguments along the lines of "you shouldn't care about climate change because the rapture's going to be any day now. The fact that scientists are still advocating for bullshit like eliminating fossil fuels instead of repenting shows that they're working for the devil trying to drag you to hell with them."
Looks like Jehovah Witness Doomsday persecution propaganda
JW love rapture porn
Maybe canned tuna is the answer.
They probably meant that angels are judging the cops actions? Idk
I did an image search and you were right, it's jehova's witnesses: https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2022240
"During the great tribulation, Gog of Magog’s forces may try to assault us in our homes. But we can take comfort in knowing that Jesus and his angels are aware of what is happening and will defend us"
Allrighty then.
Ex JW here. This is depicting one of the steps in their equivalent to the Rapture. It goes something like this:
- The UN activates as a full world government, and decides to destroy all religion (if you know the slightest bit about the UN, you can see how absurd this is before we get to anything else)
- After clearing out everything else, the UN suddenly realizes that Jehovah's Witnesses are still around
- They attack JWs (what OP's picture depicts), but God intervenes to protect them supernaturally
- Jehovah wins and tosses Satan in a deep pit
- Earth is transformed over 1000 years into a paradise. Nobody dies, and previous righteous people are resurrected.
- At the end of that, Satan is let out again for a final judgment of humanity
- Satan is killed off for good. Any human survivors live forever on a paradise Earth.
Gog of Magog comes from Ezekiel 38. From the New World Translation: "The word of Jehovah again came to me, saying: 2 “Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Maʹgog, the head chieftain of Meʹshech and Tuʹbal, and prophesy against him. 3 Say, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord Jehovah says: “Here I am against you, O Gog, head chieftain of Meʹshech and Tuʹbal. "
Then, the term pops up again in Revelation 20: "7 Now as soon as the 1,000 years have ended, Satan will be released from his prison, 8 and he will go out to mislead those nations in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Maʹgog, to gather them together for the war. The number of these is as the sand of the sea."
So Gog is basically another term for Satan in this reading. Though Ezekiel seems to be talking about a people from a specific place.
As a side note, "But we can take comfort in knowing..." is a common phrase in their writing, and I get a little twitch every time I read it.
Wait, wait, wait: is this seriously what JWs believe? I honestly don't know much about them except that they're somehow weird.
Also fun (???) tidbit, that "But we can take comfort in knowing" phrase.
Yes 100%. Born and raised. You grow up your entire life thinking the world is going to end in a few years. Why goto college if the world will end and it won't serve you in the new system? We grow up in terror, see a storm out the window... Is it Armageddon? Constant fear.
Not to mention the fear of being exiled from your friends and family if you "sin". My childhood was lost because I didn't get to celebrate Christmas or Halloween, or goto my friends house from school, or watch Harry Potter or play Pokemon. Instead we went to church twice a week, went knocking door to door at least once a week in the heat and humidity, and did book study once a week where we read their literature and answer simple minded questions about it. Sundays were non-existent because we spent the entire day partaking in those activities.
Shit, I had no idea. That sounds like a fairly anxiety-inducing way to live.
Around the Cretaceous period when I was in elementary school, I had a classmate who was in the JW and their life did sort of seem pretty drab compared to the rest of us, at least based on what they talked about, but I guess it's no surprise that they didn't much venture into the whole Armageddon thing for example, being 7–9yo at the time.
It is anxiety inducing, it's hard to even realize it because they always keep you busy. And they discourage you from having friends outside the religion and teach you that people outside have miserable lives, they only do drugs, drink alcohol and have sex. Anyone outside is only nice to you because they want to take advantage of you.
Youre taught to be scared of the outside world so you never explore it and realize that normal people really are just normal and most people are actually very friendly and want to help each other, and are a million times less judgemental than other JWs.
In other words, it's a cult.
I'm still disappointed in the relative lack of orgies since getting out. I WAS PROMISED ORGIES, DAMMIT!
It's like the "anti drug education" a lot of us had to sit through as a kid. WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE FREE DRUGS I WAS PROMISED DEALERS WERE HANDING OUT????
Yup, that's their whole outline of the end days. Supposed to happen in the lifetime of people alive in 1914, and there's a whole thing about how they've managed to extend that deadline.
Well, the oldest person currently alive was born in 1907, so there's still time!
Good job on getting out of the JW. I heard it is damned difficult.
Takes me back to those Annoying Jesus memes
I think you misspelled Awesome Jesus Memes
That crazy Jesus is always stealing my heroin!
The actual truth if you believe Christian theology. Angels AND God are fully capable of changing things, but free will is sort of like the Prime Directive in Star Trek if you want to be charitable. Uncharitably, we're God's play things and only a tiny fraction of the most loyal will see true reward.
The vast field of ambiguity between those two points is ... kinda' the point in why there has been so much quarrel even between Christian sects.
free will is sort of like the Prime Directive in Star Trek
That's a really apt comparison because they play fast and loose with the prime directive all the time, using it as an excuse for inaction while flagrantly disregarding it whenever it suits them
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No, the christian god its not just capable of changing things, it is omnipotent. That means it could change things without interfering with the free will.
The point about being omnipotent vs free will is... if he does ANYTHING to change our fate, he's corrupting free will, which is supposed to be our greatest gift.
The entire concept of an omniprescient and all powerful being is nonsensical as described by Christians. A being LITERALLY CANNOT be all knowing, all kind, and omnipotent. Not if our reality is involved.
That is why there is so much debate over the nature of god and "good". As described, it is literally impossible, so it becomes increadibly subjective.
Morals are subjective, and so is God.
Strictly talking the logic of it, if you're omnipotent, then you have the power do do anything, and that includes the power to do flagrantly self contradictory things, defy logic and still be logically consistent.
The "if you're omnipotent" part is a pretty big "if", but it's not inconsistent to say that "anything" includes the ridiculous.
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Yep, omnipotence is logically impossible. But try tell that a christian. That's my point, the christian god is logically impossible.
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free will is sort of like the Prime Directive in Star Trek if you want to be charitable
This is a hilarious way of putting it, and as someone who hasn't been all that steeped in christianity to be very familiar with it, that actually told me a lot 😄
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Humanity: suffers endlessly
"God:" eating popcorn lol you guys suck at this.
Humanity: suffers endlessly
“God,” who supposedly created all aspects about humans, their nature and the world and already knew in advance everything that would happen including humans eating from the tree of knowledge: and who's fault is that?
It's like writing a bad computer program and then being mad at it when it crashes.
God just like me fr fr
Getting XCom flashbacks. I'd set up a breach team on the door, and send the rest of the squad round and up that drainpipe so they can drop down from the roof. But best go around the back of the cars so as not to activate through the window.
Getting XCom flashbacks
XCom allows you to flashbang toddlers‽
There might be a mod that adds in toddler aliens or something like that.
No. That sort of extreme content is prohibited to play on computers, we only allow that sort of shit in real life
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