• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2310 months ago

    Dubya also believed in that shit.

    Bush, Gog and Magog

    Just when you thought it couldn’t get crazier, a well-sourced story claims Bush invaded Iraq because of Bible prophecies

    Mon 10 Aug 2009

    Here’s a story we should all be ashamed of missing: George W Bush attempted to sell the invasion of Iraq to Jacques Chirac using biblical prophecy.

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    10 months ago

    My pain belongs to the divine

    Curious if anyone actually gets this reference

  • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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    2310 months ago

    Gog & Magog? hmm nah, I gotta go with

    But seriously, this shit has permeated america since the invasion of Iraq. I remember good little indoctrinated chudlings in like middle school talking about “terrorist countries” representing this prophetic bullshit. The country is truly irredeemable, and it’s undeniable when you get an up close look at how this prophesy driven death cult has willingly made their children yearn for global destruction.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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      610 months ago

      It’s the culmination of their efforts since Reagan. And in combination with that, they’ve made great strides to spread their fundamentalism across the developing world. It’s quite literally a poison.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      1310 months ago

      It’s probably been going on longer than Iraq, too. Christian fundamentalists have been trying to trigger the apocalypse for a long time. It’s sacrilege (God doesn’t need your help deciding when or where he wants to end the world), though that won’t stop reactionaries from getting us all killed.

      • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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        710 months ago

        Oh yeah, I should correct it to “in my lifetime” lol. I think it was just the first time I actually noticed that evangelicals want to kill us all

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    10 months ago

    Similar vibes of Christian fundies:

    dean-frown “But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.”

    dean-malice “If enough atrocities are done, we can forcibly start Revelations and that’d be fucking awesome!”

  • Wertheimer [any]
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    10 months ago

    Here’s yesterday’s article (from their OMG section: “Oh my gosh! News that causes you to pause, express shock, excitement or disbelief - weird news, crazy news, fun news.”) , but it looks like they publish an article every time someone mentions Magog:

    Joel Rosenberg, an end-times author, and editor-in-chief of All Israel News, known for his analyses of Middle Eastern politics and biblical prophecies, speculated that we might be in the early stages of the Gog and Magog war. During November, he outlined scenarios where Israel’s recent military actions could either lead to a period of peace or signal the beginning of this prophesied war. Rosenberg commented, “Scenario two is that we are in the early stages of Gog and Magog. I’m not saying that we are because things that aren’t in the text are happening right now.”

    Oh, okay.