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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 2 points 22 minutes ago

Who Believe Trump Was Anointed by Jesus

Why? Did he run out of locusts or something?

[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

Thusly validating everything I've said about religion and the dumbass military. Fuck off with this "thank you for your service" validation.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I want every American to stop and listen.

If you thought that the US military was going to save us at the last minute from this orange pedophile and his pedophile posse, ask yourself this.

Why would military leaders actively break international law on the conduct of military actions, knowing they could be arrested and charged with not just war crimes, but crimes against humanity?

trick question. it doesn't matter what your answer is, they're still not coming to save us.

prepare yourselves.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

All the “good ones” in military brass already resigned anyway. From the first reports of those actions last year, I’ve been saying it’s a mistake to leave things in the hands of sycophants alone, when instead people of decent conscience could be in there sabotaging. But alas, here we are.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 30 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If Jesus came back today maga would re-crucify him for being to woke.

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 17 points 3 hours ago
[–] horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

“Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." - Douglas Adams

Turn back, we all made a horrible mistake.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and is widely regarded as a "bad move."

[–] DGen@piefed.zip 4 points 2 hours ago

And suddenly wars in the name of religion aren't Bad anymore. How the turntables.

[–] DeepThought42@lemmy.world 96 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

I'm not religious, but I'm fairly certain that Trump is the least christian POTUS this country has ever seen.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 48 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 hours ago

You think that makes him more christian or less?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

I agree, but stahp it.

you'll just feed his ego.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 33 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The 'logic' is that God has often used imperfect men to carry out his mission. Noah was a drunk, Lot slept with his daughters, and King David murdered a man so he could have the widow.

No matter what Donnie does, he is anointed because they say so

[–] DeepThought42@lemmy.world 22 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's why I gave up religion years ago.

[–] atropa@piefed.social 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Bless you, my child

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Wonder how many times God tried to convince someone to do a thing and they just kinda… didn’t. Never read the Bible, but I don’t imagine many stories of unredeemed goat fornicators or greedy merchants end up sticking around.

I feel like that was one of the best parts of the Greeks. Their gods fucked up constantly, and everyone knew it. Fate is a flip of a coin, and so were the deities they worshiped

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 7 points 4 hours ago

I think that's why a lot of the pagan religions had trickster gods like Loki.

[–] its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They decided to cut the story of kid Jesus pushing people off roofs then bringing them back to life after people got mad.

[–] GnerphBaht@sopuli.xyz 2 points 57 minutes ago

He liked to play stone the adulturer.

Read "The Gospel According to Biff" by Christopher Moore.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 3 points 4 hours ago

Did him bring the living environment of all 7 deadly sins give it away?

[–] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 50 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The worst people in America are running this country. There needs to be a reckoning for these shit bags.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] voidsignal@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Oh yes. Yes, there will be.

[–] Montagge@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

And who is going to make it happen exactly?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Clearly not you because you have already given up.

how's that dick taste?

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

It trump was anointed by jesus, I feel validated in my past 35 years of being an athiest.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 35 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer. From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF). The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 22 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Trump, the man who literally embodies the 7 deadly sins, is the anointed of God - yea that totally checks out.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

I'm starting to wonder if these Armageddon cultists see Trump as the Antichrist and see that as a good thing.

Anything to bring about the end.

[–] nao@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

It reads like those people are living in a parallel universe. Or are they just memeing?

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 25 points 5 hours ago

And there you have it folks... War is Peace... as decreed by Jebus himself

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 17 points 4 hours ago

Religion is a mix of mass delusion and propaganda, period.

Oh and great look btw, killing the Ayatollah (who, like it or not, is both a political and religious leader to many in Iran and around the world), and then immediately depicting it as a holy war... Great plan, Magastan!

Definitely won't be used to further indoctrinate lost souls with nothing to lose into radical extremist groups all over the world!

[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Any chance on getting these officers named and a date for when they were promoted to their current positions?

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So this is a war between theocracies.

[–] mrmaplebar@fedia.io 8 points 4 hours ago

Yes. A holy war. What better tool to indoctrinate the unwashed masses to fight for the billionaire class?

The world is far less safe because of actions and words like this.

I think we should expect a new wave of Islamist terrorism in the West as a response to the invasion of Iran and the killing of political and religious leaders, because their useful idiots also like to believe in holy wars.

[–] notsle@kzoo.to 12 points 5 hours ago
[–] andyburke@fedia.io 5 points 5 hours ago

“The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works: he will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie.” – 2 Thessalonians 2:9

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

God's plan. Ha ha, tell me another one while you're at it.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

[nasal voice over intercom] Has patient number 13 reveived his sedatives yet?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 hours ago

Worked for ~~Satan~~ Dubya.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago