• @[email protected]
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    5210 months ago

    I was raised religious and boy oh boy, let me tell ya, this guy ticks off so many checkboxes is not even a competition. Peak false prophet/antichrist criteria.

  • pubquiz
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    910 months ago

    If flying sky-daddy existed the orange gibbon would not. Ergo, in place of a Supreme being we get Mr. Cheeto.

  • @[email protected]
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    3710 months ago

    I can’t think of a time in my Internet life when “Well, duh” was so often the most appropriate response to so many posts.

  • @[email protected]
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    610 months ago

    It’s a good thing I guess but a ‘prophet’? Is that what these people believe? He’s a dangerous, sleazy grifter. Always has been, always will be.

    • Dr. Bluefall
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      1310 months ago

      The point of a “false prophet” is that they claim to speak for/act in the name of God for their own (evil) ends. False prophets are the highest tier of grifter in a religious context.

      • @[email protected]
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        310 months ago

        I know what you’re saying but I truly can’t truly understand their way of thinking. I guess it’s the brainwashing they get starting at like age 1.

        • @[email protected]
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          610 months ago

          We are all the products of the universe that created us. To understand them you have to first understand yourself, why you believe what you believe, and then understand that they lived a life that furnished them with their beliefs. But that will only get you halfway, as you will begin to understand them but that does not extend both ways; they will still not understand you. That will take considerably more effort.

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    Biblically, there isn’t an antichrist. It’s not a proper noun, there’s not just one. Most Americans’ understanding of eschatology comes straight from Left Behind (and further back, Scofield), which has little connection to the actual text. (The number of Christians who refer to RevelationS, when the tittle of the text has no “s”….)

    And I’d say Trump is definitely “anti-Christ.”

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      1 John 2:18 uses it both as a proper noun and as a generic noun, and nowadays “Antichrist” is more a colloquial name for the first beast of Revelation 13 even if that’s not directly what the text clearly calls him.

      Regardless, I agree Trump is very anti-Christ. Hard to read 1 John 4 and not see almost the opposite of him.

      • @[email protected]
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        As someone who was traumatized by reading the entire Left Behind series at roughly 8, it’s very upsetting to see how happy the evangelical Christian’s that have spent the last attacking LGBT people based on faith have fallen behind a serial philanderer who has very likely raped children. They threat him like a golden calf.

        Then again, I don’t know how one could read things like “when I was hungry you fed me” and vote against free school lunches or cutting EBT. I don’t believe in the divinity of Christ or any supernatural powers, but I don’t see how they don’t understand that they are acting like the “chaff.”

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    6810 months ago

    I’ve been waiting for some big Christian group to come out against him for years and I’m thrilled it’s finally happening.

    Unfortunately the ad itself was a bit disappointing…not quite as brutal as the title would have you believe

    • @[email protected]
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      510 months ago

      Yeah, nothing brutal about Trump being Trump and then some Bible quote. Every single quote in the good book is against someone like Trump.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        They should have put the relevant quotes about the antichrist under each video of him exhibiting said characteristic

    • @[email protected]
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      1310 months ago

      He doesn’t fulfill all the requirements. He’s just one of many false prophets, there are many antichrists.

      • jackeryjoo
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        He fulfills the fake requirements anyone else does, because it’s all made up.

        It’s like that old saying: how do you Kill a vampire?

        Your could use garlic, or wooden stake, or…

        But, it doesn’t matter. You can use anything your want, because they’re not real. We made them up. Including the ways to kill them that fit the contemporary times.

        Edit: Downvoting me does not make your anti-christ, or your christ, a real thing.

        • @[email protected]
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          610 months ago

          It also doesn’t make it not a real thing. There’s no point in wasting your time arguing it, or mine for that matter. We won’t agree.

          • jackeryjoo
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            You could make the same argument to support anything anyone wanted. The Easter Bunny. Santa Clause. Et. al.

            If you assert a thing without evidence, then it can always be dismissed without evidence.

            But ultimately, it doesn’t matter what someone makes up or believes in, as long as they don’t use those beliefs to hurt or oppress other people.

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              You’re just speaking the truth

              Imagine if you were at work, let’s say at an engineering company, and you had a guy who really believe that tiny fairies are actually what lift planes.

              They are invisible and seem to function exactly like the science of how lift works.

              Imagine this coworker and how ridiculous it would be to tolerate such fantasies.

              That’s what religious people are doing and expecting is to take seriously. Literally they are talking about super fairy tales all of which has no data, nothing backing it but their unreliable personal experience and just “knowing”.

  • tate
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    Link directly to the ad please. Mediaite is a piece of shite.

    • Flying Squid
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      The ad is on Twitter and Mediaite embeds the tweet, so it’s not like that would be any better.