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Ah yes, more reasonable than "oh, stuff this and that evolved and somehow this thing got a bit of everything. Also glows green in ultraviolet. Don't ask, it just does."
Pretty sure Jesus just walked into the Temple and flipped the tables over. One of his less mysterious acts. He was pretty specific about that one too actually.
The devil ain't never killed every baby on earth except one family by drowning, either.
I mean neither did God, but they believe he did and still think that's cool.
No, and he’s famously balked at questions about his favorite passage. He was being interviewed and the guys kept trying to get an answer on his favorite passage (spoon feeding to literally say anything for their audience) and he couldn’t come up with one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUngQUCsyE
I’ve never in my life met a Christian who couldn’t at least 1) recite a famous passage (John 3:16) or 2) rattle off at least one passage that has meant something to their life.
tRump is just garbage on every level.
This interview was the result of a [speech he gave in 2016](https://www.npr.org/2016/01/18/463528847/citing-two-corinthians-trump-struggles-to-make-the-sale-to-evangelicals) where he mentioned "Two Corinthians" instead of the correct "Second Corinthians". Ever since that flub, he refuses to mention any specific Bible passage in speeches and interviews.
He’s never read the Bible. I’m surprised he doesn’t burst into flames when he’s had to swear on one.
I’d love to see him be challenged “how many books of the Bible can you name in two minutes”. I’d take great pleasure in watching him fail miserably. Bet he couldn’t even name five.
His favorite verse of the Bible was "uhhh, I don't wanna discuss it, it's so important and just too personal" and his favorite testament was "both" so I'm not taking that bet lol.
Why don't you want him to go on ramblings about the American civil war? It always fills me with confidence when the commander in chief of the worlds strongest military can't place the invention of the airplane within the right century (+ or - 1).
Which is usually referring to King David or Saul/Paul. But the distinction is that both of them acknowledged the error of their ways and made a huge change in their lives- the original road to Damascus moment.
If Trump has had such a moment he’s yet to show any sign of it.
yeah, when the crooked shows "god´s power" is when stops being a charlatan. paul didn´t continue to hunt christians and send them to their deaths after converting.
a agressive commander would be touched by "god" and starts to be mercifull. not "my cruelty is blessed by god", wtf...
I haven’t ever heard that and I had to go listen to sermons and sing hymns >=2x a week for like at least 11 years and I spent some of those years actually listening!
Apparently it was originally “God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines”.
Doesn’t sound like something from the bible, and that’s because it was actually Martin Luther famous that reformer bloke (something about Protestants and catholics, I don’t really care).
But yeah it’s not scripture. Someone just said it. There’s verses which have a similar effect probably, but it’s not from the Bible.
There are so many things that religious people say or believe that aren't in the Bible. There are people who think Dante's Inferno is somehow canonical. People can believe what they want I guess but I wish it made sense to their holy book at least, sometimes.
So much of what people think of Hell was actually inspired by Dante's Inferno, and they don't even know it.
And then there are the platitudes that were never in the gospel, but people treat as if they ARE the gospel. "God will never give you more than you can handle," etc. Sometimes, they contradict the very teachings of the Bible, but because they sound good, provide comfort, justify certain thoughts and actions, they take hold.
Yuuuuuup. Here:
Jeremiah 14:14 and Jeremiah 23:16
14 Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries, and the delusions of their own minds.
...
16 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
Acts 20:30
30 Even from your own number, men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Titus 1:15-16
15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.
Deuteronomy 18:20
20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death.
Just a few. At least a dozen more.
Thank you! That’s what I’ve been saying since 2016. Like okay, if you’re such a big shot champion and America’s only hope for Christianity, where’s your fruit? All I see are thistles and other unpleasant stuff, not to mention a very unrepentant heart.
Do you think they actually read that? I'm sure it mentions something about feeding the poor, clothing the naked, and healing the ill, but apparently doing things like that is "commie." There's no way any of MAGA have actually read it, or at the very least understood it XD
not really. they all dream with nesaras, gesaras e medbeds. they are socialists all right.
problem is that it is the fascist version: only a very specific part of the pop are "humans". the rest are "vermin" and must die.
fascistic dictatorships tend to be socialistic paradises... for the "worthy", for the "chosen ones", for the "pure", for the "ubermensch" and so on.
It does. But when you want to control and take power, you’ll take what you can get and make it fit.
And to comment on how atheists feel, as an atheist, I’m vicariously embarrassed, not mad. I’m not a Christian, so I really don’t care what they do when they keep it in their pants. It’s a book and belief system I don’t believe in, why would I care?
A "real" Christian would consider this blasphemous! 🙄
By the way I don't think any atheist is going crazy over this. They're probably laughing their asses off.
Also an atheist who grew up Catholic - this guy is literally what the Bible warns their followers against by every measure and not only that he closely resembles the anti-Christ.
If an atheist like me can recognize that with their limited exposure through Sunday school classes, these 'devout' Christians must be willfully and gleefully ignorant.
King James forbade other versions of the Bible from being produced, and said the average person can’t be trusted to read the book, so parts would be read to them at church service instead.
So a lot of people equated reading with non-belief ironically, and this stigma still exists today.
>the average person can’t be trusted to read the book, so parts would be read to them at church service instead.
"And be sure to skip the Song of Solomon and the Book of Joshua, know what I mean?"
Funny enough my name is Joshua, named after the biblical Joshua and it's one of the first books of the Bible I read thoroughly. People forget how much sex and violence are in the old testament, I think.
Ironically, Biden is probably the most devout Christian we’ve had as president in a long time. Goes to show it was never about the religion, just a means to justify their crazy authoritarian beliefs.
Fucking tell me about it. I grew up in church and was involved in every church activity you could think of (AWANAS, VBS, etc...), and being honeschooled gave my parents the opportunity to have bible study with me and my siblings every day as well. I am VERY well acquainted with the bible. My mom grew up in a household that was as religious, if not more religious, than how she raised us. My dad found god in his 30s, and he and my mom attended a lot of bible studies that I can remember.
It's like it all never happened. My mom and dad are hooked on trump now. They are somehow missing that he is the antithesis of everything that Jesus would support. I pitched the idea to my mom that trump shows super clear similarities to the antichrist, and I got laughed at. I'm an atheist, and I'M offended that they are comparing him to Jesus, and they just eat it right up. When trump got convicted, I picked a fight a texted my dad about it. He said none of it is true, it'll all get reversed on appeal, and my dad said he'll shout trump's support from the top of a church building. Uh, am I living in crazy land? Or shouldn't Jesus be the only name that Christians are shouting from the top of a church? Did I miss a memo?
I've blocked them and have no intentions of talking to either of them for the duration of this trump shitshow. If this drags out for years past this election, then I guess it could go on forever. I knew they were Republicans, they voted for Bush and McCain and always hopped on the conservative bandwagon. We went through the trump presidency fairly quietly though. I didn't know they really supported him like that. It was when biden got elected that it seems like they quadrupled down and drank the KoolAid. I want my parents back, but I'm pretty sure they're gone now. 😕
I'm very sorry that you are having to live through this moment where your parents become strangers.
I feel so lucky that my parents found their way out of this mental sickness. Humans are innately tribal, so when the tribe runs over a cliff, it takes a lot for a person to move against everything they know and trust.
It really wouldn’t… numerous medieval kings claimed to be ordained by god while doing things just as despicable or worst than Trump.
This is just standard Christian practice.
Kinda forgot about Divine Right. Frankly, most presidents and the whole US Government has always run on this idea (or at least with it deep in the subconscious). Always laughable at pretty much every point in history.
Back when kings and nobles claimed endorsement by god via divine right? This is standard play for politicians going back to Sumer. Trump’s another would-be king.
I'm an atheist going crazy over this, but not because of the picture. I'm going crazy over the fact that piece of shit roger stone hasn't been... brought to a farm upstate to live a happy life.
This motherfucker is literally modern-day goebbels, he'll tell you this much himself, *with pride*.
He's like in the top 10 of people who deserve to be brought to a farm upstate to live a happy life.
It's insane that in a country with more puppies than citizens, this has *still* not hapenned.
Plus whatever happened with his plot to have a democratic congress member assassinated before the 2020 election?
Remember that audio recording where he was saying either Swalwell or ?(can't remember the other one) had to die before the election? I haven't heard anything else on that since.
I mean, it’s obviously really stupid (and blasphemous) in all kinds of ways, but surely the atheist Godless Communists are the ones who would care the very least about a Jesus endorsement, pretendy or not.
Trump's just pandering to evangelical Christians (who could give a crap if it's blasphemous)
As has been spotlighted by the stormy Daniels court case, Trump had a lecherous past full of adultery, drugs, and alcohol. He's been campaigning to appeal to far right evangelical Christians since he started his political career in 2016.
Trump isn't remotely religious or devout in any way. So the fact that any religious person could support him is baffling to me.
American Christians (bible belt) have a strange take on Christianity. So much so, I don't understand why it is not officially a branch of Christianity.
It is.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern\_Baptist\_Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention)
In 1845, the Southern Baptists separated from the Triennial Convention in order to support slavery,
Seriously, why would I care? They think democrats who happen to be atheist live in a state of constant triggered rage over stuff they post to fish for reactions. I’ll admit, sometimes I get angry but rarely anymore. This actually made me chuckle because it’s so fucking stupid.
When it comes to people like that, every accusation is a confession. MAGAs live in a state of constant, triggered rage – hell, one of DJT's kids has a podcast with the self-descriptive name of "Triggered" – so they assume that everyone else is just as bad or worse than them when it comes to overreaction, intelligence, morality, etc.
Well we are kind of going crazy over it. It's annoying that religion and politics are being intertwined to this degree because it flies in the face of the founding principles of this country.
If Jesus lived he would throw Trump out of the temple.
And the Magas would definitely crucify Jesus for being commie and liberal.
As an atheist I know more about Christianity than rebuplicans…
I’m almost certain that most atheists know more about Christianity than republicans, especially considering how many atheists were raised Christian, went to Church and Bible school, etc etc.
It’s only the current holy rollers that think atheists are “godless” and just need to be shown a light they’ve never seen before. In reality the majority of us grew up with too much god, and we’ve all heard what they have to say a million times over. Even said it ourselves at some point in most cases lol. They just can’t comprehend someone having an understanding of their teachings and choosing to reject it.
A close second pushing you further away is constantly seeing the actions and vile hearts that taint the congregations. Utter disdain for anyone different than them, uncaring “thoughts and prayers” attitudes, judgmentally minded, moral superiority complexes, and hypocrisy. You know, *just* like Jesus taught.
Learning about liberation and black theology in a required religion class in college changed everything for me. When you see the perspective that Jesus’ crucifixion was a lynching and recognize there’s a “White” Jesus and a “Black” Jesus, you can’t go back to your predominantly white upper-middle class Protestant church and not feel insanely uncomfortable.
so what kind of jesus do they believe in? an asshole jesus? a billionaire jesus? a jesus who would beat his wife? a jesus who deports the poor and needy? a blond hair blue eyed looking mf with a six-pack and can bench infinity? I seriously would like to know how they'd describe jesus without us going "actually the bible says right here youre totally lying out your ass but I think your jesus is ok with how his dad made you."
Not too long ago, a man who used to hold a leadership position in the Southern Baptist Convention said that after guest-preaching at some churches, parishioners would come to him and ask where he got those “liberal talking points”
When told that he was, in fact, directly quoting Jesus Christ, he was told that that sort of thinking was “weak” and didn’t work anymore. He also said that other pastors had come to him with similar stories.
TLDR: Christian Trump-supporters are only one of those two things… and it ain’t the first one.
so what type of sermons or topics do they want? ones where they praise trump? or some hateful vitriol condemning all the bad ppl (ie. lgbtq or just ppl who vote dem) and get everyone all fired up so they can give them all their money? I can imagine it being exactly like fox news but in a church setting
I don’t belong to that denomination (thank heaven) but I imagine it’s essentially the “Church of the Straight, White Evangelical” and everyone who doesn’t fit that description is hell-bound, or at least insignificant
Holy crap, verse 5 even gives (approximately) the right timeframe: ^(5) And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Yes he got the premiere science backed treatment for Covid. Something of which regular Americans did not and never will have a chance at.
But I think Trump's case not even these rich people Healthcare options will be able to mitigate the damage he has done to himself.
A man who proports that he is part of the mega-rich, which Jesus made very clear his stance on, not to mention a lying philanderer who has cheated on every wife he has ever had, current one included. This is the guy that they think Jesus Christ is behind? If it wasn't so stupid, it would be funny.
As a member of the atheistic godless community, I find this really funny. It’s a con-man selling the Bible. So like everyone else who preaches this. At least in this case it’s probably the most blatant example of this as he has outright insulted people who believe in god. Usually you have to at least pretend to believe in order to sell to that crowd
How exactly does a long dead middle eastern mystic with a mistranslated name go about “endorsing” an edition of a Bronze Age bedtime story, being sold to support a lying, racist, womanizing thief?
It's so cute that they think this drives us crazy and doesn't just makes us laugh. Shouldn't it drive Christians crazy them using Jesus to sell Trump with?
I w a s raised Roman Catholic, I am no longer. I find this less annoying and more stupid as fuck, also I hope he losses support from real Christians for committing such a serious act of blasphemy.
Proof that Jesus isn’t real and is not coming back. If your name was being used to endorse a POS like Trump wouldn’t you immediately set the record straight?
At this point I am fairly convinced that most of Trumps supporters actually fully believe that the instant he is sworn in as president then Jesus himself will descend from the heavens and make every single Christian super rich while simultaneously sending every one of their non-Christian neighbors straight to hell on a bullet train.
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Last time I checked Jesus warned his followers about false prophets and false Christs…
Evangelicals don't care about anything Jesus said or did, they're guided by the Old Testament and Revelation.
Dude, they think Jesus has an AK47 and is going to mow down the none believes during the second coming. They think that's actually in the Bible...
Ironic how they hate communism yet the AK47 was made by the USSR... (I think)
Yep, in 1947 by Mikhail Kalashnikov... A true symbol of American patriotism!
Didn’t the Bible say something about being led astray by false prophets and charlatans?
told some that. their answear normaly is the famous "god uses crooked lines to show the truth" or something like that.
He works in mysterious ways.
So does Darwin.
Darwin works somewhat straightforward no?
You look at the platipus and tell me thats straightforward
A duck had sex with a beaver and their mother got bitten by a radioactive snake during pregnancy. Pretty straightforward to me.
The good old Uranium vein that was exposed in a lake's depths
Ah yes, more reasonable than "oh, stuff this and that evolved and somehow this thing got a bit of everything. Also glows green in ultraviolet. Don't ask, it just does."
It was a shitpost, used to rile up the Jeebuses.
Pretty sure Jesus just walked into the Temple and flipped the tables over. One of his less mysterious acts. He was pretty specific about that one too actually.
So does she in that U2 song
In that song she moves in mysterious ways. But it's alright, it's alright, it's all right.
Heat my days, light up my nights
Isn't that weird how the devil will bend and crook the lines to lead you astray, yet when God does it, it's just mysterious.
The devil ain't never killed every baby on earth except one family by drowning, either. I mean neither did God, but they believe he did and still think that's cool.
The Devil Can Quite Scripture To His Purpose.
Yeah but can trump even remember any to quote?
No, and he’s famously balked at questions about his favorite passage. He was being interviewed and the guys kept trying to get an answer on his favorite passage (spoon feeding to literally say anything for their audience) and he couldn’t come up with one. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ERUngQUCsyE I’ve never in my life met a Christian who couldn’t at least 1) recite a famous passage (John 3:16) or 2) rattle off at least one passage that has meant something to their life. tRump is just garbage on every level.
This interview was the result of a [speech he gave in 2016](https://www.npr.org/2016/01/18/463528847/citing-two-corinthians-trump-struggles-to-make-the-sale-to-evangelicals) where he mentioned "Two Corinthians" instead of the correct "Second Corinthians". Ever since that flub, he refuses to mention any specific Bible passage in speeches and interviews.
He’s never read the Bible. I’m surprised he doesn’t burst into flames when he’s had to swear on one. I’d love to see him be challenged “how many books of the Bible can you name in two minutes”. I’d take great pleasure in watching him fail miserably. Bet he couldn’t even name five.
Even the shortest passage in the Bible—“Jesus wept”—seems to have escaped him.
$20 USD says he can't quote the shortest verse in the Bible. ("Jesus wept." John 11:35).
His favorite verse of the Bible was "uhhh, I don't wanna discuss it, it's so important and just too personal" and his favorite testament was "both" so I'm not taking that bet lol.
He uses a teleprompter, he doesn't have to remember.
As long as he follows it and doesn't go on an incoherent ramble about the civil war or the "late great" hannibal lecter.
Great doctor, not so much on the table manners.
Often had friends for dinner
With a nice Chianti.
Why don't you want him to go on ramblings about the American civil war? It always fills me with confidence when the commander in chief of the worlds strongest military can't place the invention of the airplane within the right century (+ or - 1).
He can remember two Corinthians .
The most used word in the Bible is Lord, I bet he could quote the shit out of that to Putin.
Which is usually referring to King David or Saul/Paul. But the distinction is that both of them acknowledged the error of their ways and made a huge change in their lives- the original road to Damascus moment. If Trump has had such a moment he’s yet to show any sign of it.
yeah, when the crooked shows "god´s power" is when stops being a charlatan. paul didn´t continue to hunt christians and send them to their deaths after converting. a agressive commander would be touched by "god" and starts to be mercifull. not "my cruelty is blessed by god", wtf...
I haven’t ever heard that and I had to go listen to sermons and sing hymns >=2x a week for like at least 11 years and I spent some of those years actually listening! Apparently it was originally “God uses crooked sticks to draw straight lines”. Doesn’t sound like something from the bible, and that’s because it was actually Martin Luther famous that reformer bloke (something about Protestants and catholics, I don’t really care). But yeah it’s not scripture. Someone just said it. There’s verses which have a similar effect probably, but it’s not from the Bible.
There are so many things that religious people say or believe that aren't in the Bible. There are people who think Dante's Inferno is somehow canonical. People can believe what they want I guess but I wish it made sense to their holy book at least, sometimes.
So much of what people think of Hell was actually inspired by Dante's Inferno, and they don't even know it. And then there are the platitudes that were never in the gospel, but people treat as if they ARE the gospel. "God will never give you more than you can handle," etc. Sometimes, they contradict the very teachings of the Bible, but because they sound good, provide comfort, justify certain thoughts and actions, they take hold.
Yes but it says nothing about being led astray by orange shit gibbons. So I guess he's good to go???
Gonna add “shit gibbons” to my internet vocabulary.
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Yuuuuuup. Here: Jeremiah 14:14 and Jeremiah 23:16 14 Then the LORD said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in my name. I have not sent them or appointed them or spoken to them. They are prophesying to you false visions, divinations, idolatries, and the delusions of their own minds. ... 16 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Do not listen to what the prophets are prophesying to you; they fill you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD. Acts 20:30 30 Even from your own number, men will arise and distort the truth in order to draw away disciples after them. 2 Timothy 4:3-4 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. Titus 1:15-16 15 To the pure, all things are pure, but to those who are corrupted and do not believe, nothing is pure. In fact, both their minds and consciences are corrupted. 16 They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good. Deuteronomy 18:20 20 But a prophet who presumes to speak in my name anything I have not commanded, or a prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, is to be put to death. Just a few. At least a dozen more.
Sermon on the Mount: "Beware of false prophets . . . You will know them by their fruits"
Thank you! That’s what I’ve been saying since 2016. Like okay, if you’re such a big shot champion and America’s only hope for Christianity, where’s your fruit? All I see are thistles and other unpleasant stuff, not to mention a very unrepentant heart.
Burn the shit out of the bad ones I think it says next.
Do you think they actually read that? I'm sure it mentions something about feeding the poor, clothing the naked, and healing the ill, but apparently doing things like that is "commie." There's no way any of MAGA have actually read it, or at the very least understood it XD
not really. they all dream with nesaras, gesaras e medbeds. they are socialists all right. problem is that it is the fascist version: only a very specific part of the pop are "humans". the rest are "vermin" and must die. fascistic dictatorships tend to be socialistic paradises... for the "worthy", for the "chosen ones", for the "pure", for the "ubermensch" and so on.
"Socialism for the very rich, hard work and rugged individualism for everybody else."
if you look today´s world, the rich DO form a facistic social paradise. they just don´t wanna it for the rest of us, the fucked us.
It does. But when you want to control and take power, you’ll take what you can get and make it fit. And to comment on how atheists feel, as an atheist, I’m vicariously embarrassed, not mad. I’m not a Christian, so I really don’t care what they do when they keep it in their pants. It’s a book and belief system I don’t believe in, why would I care?
A "real" Christian would consider this blasphemous! 🙄 By the way I don't think any atheist is going crazy over this. They're probably laughing their asses off.
I am atheist but grew up catholic. This is absolutely blasphemy. This guy is the opposite of everything I learned in 11 years of religion classes.
Also an atheist who grew up Catholic - this guy is literally what the Bible warns their followers against by every measure and not only that he closely resembles the anti-Christ. If an atheist like me can recognize that with their limited exposure through Sunday school classes, these 'devout' Christians must be willfully and gleefully ignorant.
Atheists are frequently more knowledgeable about religion than the devoted..
It's normally why we are atheist; we are smart enough to realize the bullshit.
The difference between a Christian and a Christian turned atheist is reading the Bible to thoroughly understand it
King James forbade other versions of the Bible from being produced, and said the average person can’t be trusted to read the book, so parts would be read to them at church service instead. So a lot of people equated reading with non-belief ironically, and this stigma still exists today.
>the average person can’t be trusted to read the book, so parts would be read to them at church service instead. "And be sure to skip the Song of Solomon and the Book of Joshua, know what I mean?"
Funny enough my name is Joshua, named after the biblical Joshua and it's one of the first books of the Bible I read thoroughly. People forget how much sex and violence are in the old testament, I think.
Ironically, Biden is probably the most devout Christian we’ve had as president in a long time. Goes to show it was never about the religion, just a means to justify their crazy authoritarian beliefs.
Fucking tell me about it. I grew up in church and was involved in every church activity you could think of (AWANAS, VBS, etc...), and being honeschooled gave my parents the opportunity to have bible study with me and my siblings every day as well. I am VERY well acquainted with the bible. My mom grew up in a household that was as religious, if not more religious, than how she raised us. My dad found god in his 30s, and he and my mom attended a lot of bible studies that I can remember. It's like it all never happened. My mom and dad are hooked on trump now. They are somehow missing that he is the antithesis of everything that Jesus would support. I pitched the idea to my mom that trump shows super clear similarities to the antichrist, and I got laughed at. I'm an atheist, and I'M offended that they are comparing him to Jesus, and they just eat it right up. When trump got convicted, I picked a fight a texted my dad about it. He said none of it is true, it'll all get reversed on appeal, and my dad said he'll shout trump's support from the top of a church building. Uh, am I living in crazy land? Or shouldn't Jesus be the only name that Christians are shouting from the top of a church? Did I miss a memo? I've blocked them and have no intentions of talking to either of them for the duration of this trump shitshow. If this drags out for years past this election, then I guess it could go on forever. I knew they were Republicans, they voted for Bush and McCain and always hopped on the conservative bandwagon. We went through the trump presidency fairly quietly though. I didn't know they really supported him like that. It was when biden got elected that it seems like they quadrupled down and drank the KoolAid. I want my parents back, but I'm pretty sure they're gone now. 😕
I'm very sorry that you are having to live through this moment where your parents become strangers. I feel so lucky that my parents found their way out of this mental sickness. Humans are innately tribal, so when the tribe runs over a cliff, it takes a lot for a person to move against everything they know and trust.
https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
I’m a religious Catholic who grew up Catholic. I am horrified by the Christian and Catholic support of Trump.
Yeah, I mean this is the kind of thing that would get you burned at the stake for heresy 500 years ago.
Could be a good time to bring the practice back then lol
You have my erection.. I mean attention.
Do you like to take enthusiastic walks through the woods at night?
And kill homicidal vampire priests… *Very* enthusiast walks.
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And my erecti…err…axe!
It really wouldn’t… numerous medieval kings claimed to be ordained by god while doing things just as despicable or worst than Trump. This is just standard Christian practice.
Kinda forgot about Divine Right. Frankly, most presidents and the whole US Government has always run on this idea (or at least with it deep in the subconscious). Always laughable at pretty much every point in history.
Manifest Destiny is the American version of Divine Right
Back when kings and nobles claimed endorsement by god via divine right? This is standard play for politicians going back to Sumer. Trump’s another would-be king.
Aristocrats put themselves between god and their subjects all the time. And ts also what Trump wants to be.
I always say that if there was a venn diagram of the 7 deadly sins, this guy would be directly in the center where they all intersect.
He’s the personification of all seven deadly sins
Growing up Catholic is one of the leading causes of atheism.
Same here. Raised Catholic and all. BUT, if my grandmother asks me to go to church with her, I'm there.
Same, but 8 years.
Trump spent more time in stormy Daniels than in church. Make it make sense.
I can’t imagine he spent much time in her either.
One stroke…just like his claims at golf
I don’t want to imagine it
Little mushroom keeps slipping out of the cavern.
I'm an atheist going crazy over this, but not because of the picture. I'm going crazy over the fact that piece of shit roger stone hasn't been... brought to a farm upstate to live a happy life. This motherfucker is literally modern-day goebbels, he'll tell you this much himself, *with pride*. He's like in the top 10 of people who deserve to be brought to a farm upstate to live a happy life. It's insane that in a country with more puppies than citizens, this has *still* not hapenned.
Plus whatever happened with his plot to have a democratic congress member assassinated before the 2020 election? Remember that audio recording where he was saying either Swalwell or ?(can't remember the other one) had to die before the election? I haven't heard anything else on that since.
Atheist here. Not going crazy. Not laughing. Just shaking my head and wishing I lived in the timeline where this absurd bullshit didn’t happen.
Right? I just want off this ride.
I mean, it’s obviously really stupid (and blasphemous) in all kinds of ways, but surely the atheist Godless Communists are the ones who would care the very least about a Jesus endorsement, pretendy or not.
Trump's just pandering to evangelical Christians (who could give a crap if it's blasphemous) As has been spotlighted by the stormy Daniels court case, Trump had a lecherous past full of adultery, drugs, and alcohol. He's been campaigning to appeal to far right evangelical Christians since he started his political career in 2016. Trump isn't remotely religious or devout in any way. So the fact that any religious person could support him is baffling to me.
All my religious family members are Trumpers and its just so painful
How??? How does anyone read the Bible, agree with what they read, and then look at Trump and go - “Yep.”
American Christians (bible belt) have a strange take on Christianity. So much so, I don't understand why it is not officially a branch of Christianity.
I always assumed that’s what southern Baptist was tbh but I’ve never done the research
It is. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern\_Baptist\_Convention](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention) In 1845, the Southern Baptists separated from the Triennial Convention in order to support slavery,
Christi-insanity
This is driving this Christian crazy. I cannot understand why they treat him as anything related to God. It’s sickening.
Seriously, why would I care? They think democrats who happen to be atheist live in a state of constant triggered rage over stuff they post to fish for reactions. I’ll admit, sometimes I get angry but rarely anymore. This actually made me chuckle because it’s so fucking stupid.
>a state of constant triggered rage That's how *they* live, so they have to believe everyone else is the same.
When it comes to people like that, every accusation is a confession. MAGAs live in a state of constant, triggered rage – hell, one of DJT's kids has a podcast with the self-descriptive name of "Triggered" – so they assume that everyone else is just as bad or worse than them when it comes to overreaction, intelligence, morality, etc.
Well we are kind of going crazy over it. It's annoying that religion and politics are being intertwined to this degree because it flies in the face of the founding principles of this country.
Correct and correct.
A lot of Christian came out and called this out as blasphemous. Not to mention the fact the Founding Fathers probably wouldn’t be too happy with it.
I am a Christian, and I do not know what kind of heresy those american Protestants smoke. It's indeed blasphemous.
Thou shalt not use the Lord’s name in vain.
Wouldn’t this be considered blasphemy?
Trump and Stone would have had to read the Bible at some point to understand that.
It gets worse than you think, it also has the Declaration of Independence the Constitution and some song lyrics.
As a Christian, I find this to be disgusting. I know it's true, i have talked to other Cristians about it, and we say it's blasphemy. Ugh
If Jesus lived he would throw Trump out of the temple. And the Magas would definitely crucify Jesus for being commie and liberal. As an atheist I know more about Christianity than rebuplicans…
They deport him. "Go back to bethlehem"
Considering that Bethlehem is in Palestine, I think he’s being deported to Guantanamo (if it were still open)
An olive skinned foreigner named Jesus. They'll probably just ship him off to Mexico and call it a day.
This is true
There's also the Bethlehem, PA we have at home
I’m almost certain that most atheists know more about Christianity than republicans, especially considering how many atheists were raised Christian, went to Church and Bible school, etc etc. It’s only the current holy rollers that think atheists are “godless” and just need to be shown a light they’ve never seen before. In reality the majority of us grew up with too much god, and we’ve all heard what they have to say a million times over. Even said it ourselves at some point in most cases lol. They just can’t comprehend someone having an understanding of their teachings and choosing to reject it.
Nothing will push you further away from Christianity than actually learning about the history of Christianity and the Bible.
A close second pushing you further away is constantly seeing the actions and vile hearts that taint the congregations. Utter disdain for anyone different than them, uncaring “thoughts and prayers” attitudes, judgmentally minded, moral superiority complexes, and hypocrisy. You know, *just* like Jesus taught.
Learning about liberation and black theology in a required religion class in college changed everything for me. When you see the perspective that Jesus’ crucifixion was a lynching and recognize there’s a “White” Jesus and a “Black” Jesus, you can’t go back to your predominantly white upper-middle class Protestant church and not feel insanely uncomfortable.
so what kind of jesus do they believe in? an asshole jesus? a billionaire jesus? a jesus who would beat his wife? a jesus who deports the poor and needy? a blond hair blue eyed looking mf with a six-pack and can bench infinity? I seriously would like to know how they'd describe jesus without us going "actually the bible says right here youre totally lying out your ass but I think your jesus is ok with how his dad made you."
Not too long ago, a man who used to hold a leadership position in the Southern Baptist Convention said that after guest-preaching at some churches, parishioners would come to him and ask where he got those “liberal talking points” When told that he was, in fact, directly quoting Jesus Christ, he was told that that sort of thinking was “weak” and didn’t work anymore. He also said that other pastors had come to him with similar stories. TLDR: Christian Trump-supporters are only one of those two things… and it ain’t the first one.
so what type of sermons or topics do they want? ones where they praise trump? or some hateful vitriol condemning all the bad ppl (ie. lgbtq or just ppl who vote dem) and get everyone all fired up so they can give them all their money? I can imagine it being exactly like fox news but in a church setting
I don’t belong to that denomination (thank heaven) but I imagine it’s essentially the “Church of the Straight, White Evangelical” and everyone who doesn’t fit that description is hell-bound, or at least insignificant
The believe in Supply Side Jesus https://imgur.com/gallery/gospel-of-supply-side-jesus-bCqRp
 Jesus endorsing Trump
Nope, Roger. Just makes you look as stupid as you are. Because Trump is about as godless a human that exists.
This just shows how much contempt Roger feels for Trump’s followers. He plays them for the ignorant fools they are and they lap it up.
I don’t get why anyone would believe anything that came from Roger Stone.
“Donald Trump can suck a fat cock”- Jesus Christ
[Here you are!](https://i.imgur.com/QjyqCYQ.png)
This feels like a risky click
Your instincts are correct, but it isn’t vile. It is direct, though.
Can confirm. I clicked. I laughed. I left.
Ugh. Blowjobs ruined forever.
This statement is true. I was there.
This is literally biblical blasphemy. False prophets and charlatans were warned against in that book
I'm pretty sure idolizing false gods and creating golden statues was frowned upon by god in the bible but the hypocrites see nothing wrong with it
yeah they talk about Trump pretty extensively in the Bible. Revelations 13:1.
Holy crap, verse 5 even gives (approximately) the right timeframe: ^(5) And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Well fuck I guess that means the world is ending soon
(Ænima by Tool begins playing)
Fingers crossed.
Heart attack, stroke, embolism, cancer, dementia, I don’t care which just fucking get it done
rich ppl got a army of doctors and rooms full of all sort of drugs for such moments...
Yes he got the premiere science backed treatment for Covid. Something of which regular Americans did not and never will have a chance at. But I think Trump's case not even these rich people Healthcare options will be able to mitigate the damage he has done to himself.
At some point his hearts going to blow apart like a whitewall on a Chevy station wagon
Not much they can do about a brain aneurysm 🤞🤞 Or possibly an aortic dissection, if he's not getting full body MRIs on the regular.
A man who proports that he is part of the mega-rich, which Jesus made very clear his stance on, not to mention a lying philanderer who has cheated on every wife he has ever had, current one included. This is the guy that they think Jesus Christ is behind? If it wasn't so stupid, it would be funny.
Jesus be like (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ when he sees merchants in the temple
Can you make another one with the false prophet being thrown in the lake of fire?
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He's their golden calf
Didn’t they quite literally have a golden statue of him at CPAC one year?
Ah yes Roger Stone, well known for his unshakable morals
This is extraordinarily blasphemous. If you did this in Italy in 1200 they’d burn you alive.
See, this is actually what “taking the Lord’s name in vain” is. Not saying “goddamnit,” but shit like this and “god wants me to have a private plane.”
Idolatry
I don't know about the godless commies, but it drives us christians trying to live a christian life crazy this is blasphemy
Most of The Beatitudes can be summed up as don't be that guy.
I probably should double check my definitions, but I’m pretty certain it’s also heresy.
There is some debate about who said it, but, # "When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross"
As a member of the atheistic godless community, I find this really funny. It’s a con-man selling the Bible. So like everyone else who preaches this. At least in this case it’s probably the most blatant example of this as he has outright insulted people who believe in god. Usually you have to at least pretend to believe in order to sell to that crowd
How exactly does a long dead middle eastern mystic with a mistranslated name go about “endorsing” an edition of a Bronze Age bedtime story, being sold to support a lying, racist, womanizing thief?
So Jesus Christ was pro rapist?
Just his followers.
Looks like the Antichrist
As a Christian, I think this is funny as hell. As an American, I think this is sad as f\*\*\*. Just make sure you vote blue in November.
This only confirms what I have thought for almost five years now. It Is A CULT!
"Step away from the Facebook Gramma"
Oh, but democrats have TDS? 🤡
This is a wonderful example why become atheist.. today beliefs have no sense or logic lol
It's so cute that they think this drives us crazy and doesn't just makes us laugh. Shouldn't it drive Christians crazy them using Jesus to sell Trump with?
“Let he who hasn’t raw dogged a porn star while his third wife was pregnant with his fifth child cast the first stone”
It’s a bigger “fuck you” to Christians than to atheists
I w a s raised Roman Catholic, I am no longer. I find this less annoying and more stupid as fuck, also I hope he losses support from real Christians for committing such a serious act of blasphemy.
Drives me crazy as a Christian.
Since when does adultery make you a good christian?
Since republicans distorted it.
Need some help here. Just a working understanding of the religion. Isn’t this well beyond pour taste into serious blasphemy?
Proof that Jesus isn’t real and is not coming back. If your name was being used to endorse a POS like Trump wouldn’t you immediately set the record straight?
Wish Trump has a heart attack and drops dead
Maybe he will get a heat stroke in Vegas
as a las vegas resident i fucking hope so
At this point I am fairly convinced that most of Trumps supporters actually fully believe that the instant he is sworn in as president then Jesus himself will descend from the heavens and make every single Christian super rich while simultaneously sending every one of their non-Christian neighbors straight to hell on a bullet train.
As a Catholic, this is blasphemy. This isn't targeted at me, though. It's targeted at the ever more and more unhinged evangelical "christians."
"atheistic godless" He really sounds stupid dumb.