the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) a growing charismatic movement led by a loose network of apostles and prophets who believe Christians are called to take over the government.
That's wonderful. And the article only gets worse from there.
I always thought a theocratic dictatorship sounded “charming”.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.
This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
-C. S. Lewis
Damn that hits hard
It could be slightly worse, though:
"The Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (English: "Armed Revolutionary Nuclei"), abbreviated NAR, was an Italian neo-fascist armed militant organization active during the Years of Lead from 1977 to November 1981. "
eh, scientology already did it better
At this point stuff like this isn't oniony anymore, just trump supporters being trump supporters.
Yeah. It's the kind of headline that I want to shock me, but it's just becoming a dreadful background noise.
Remember when Trump had daily Covid announcements or when he was still on Twitter? Pretty much everything he did or said was so absurd that cracking jokes about it became a serious challenge. How do you come up with a fictional scenario that is more over the top than actual reality.
That's how it works.
The first day you go to work in a sewer the stench is overwhelming. By the sixth week you can eat lunch next to your work station.
The only part that is oniony is that it makes me cry
Irony died circa 2016.
Funny how they don't even see the whole golden calf, false idol aspect of this.
Well I mean, as far as idols go, he's about as false as they come.
He's also an orangery gold color and he loves gold.
Come on if there is a god when will they start the smiting?
Would be nice, they already made the graven image
Hahaha. Flip flops lol
I've seen this several times and never noticed. Holy shit why‽
I'd smash.
Mooby!
E's not the messiah! E's a very naughty boy!
Couldn’t help but think of the Ebeneezer Goode song https://youtu.be/7b2T8K2D-ps
Well they all going to hell
Nah, they've already accepted Jesus Christ as their savior. That's basically their get out of jail free card. It's why a lot of them are horrible vile hateful people.
Some of them are Catholics and Catholics don’t subscribe to sola fide, well, it’s against their stated religion, I’ve met plenty who do
Don't they remember what is said in the Ten Commandments? “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me."
Of course if they are the megachurch type of Christians, their only real god is money.
Oh that's an easy dodge. A lot of these people think Trump is either a prophet of the Lord, a devout agent (think David or Solomon), or Jesus Christ Himself.
Let's go to the part where he gives away everything to those less fortunate please.
There's no easier lie for a politician than piety.
The guy is famous for raping a pornstar while married. It would certainly be easy to not do such a thing and then tell people you're pious. But the guy is practically screaming at his followers that he's satan himself and they still want to believe the lie...
It's a stupid religion and belief system.
This is just another example of why.
It's right there in the ten commandments, which I'd like to remind you has other legit bangers that still work in these modern times like "thou shalt not kill" :
Exodus 20:3-5 King James Version
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
What's funny is the decalogue is likely borrowed from what is commonly called the "ritual commandments" of Exodus 34, which are explicitly stated to be the 10 commandments in the Hebrew Bible (despite tradition calling the decalogue the 10 commandments) and includes such bangers as "sacrifice your firstborn son" and "in fact make lots of sacrifices to me"
It doesn’t matter how awful he is. They only see that he's a great tool for creating a white evangelical theocracy. They’d act this way for Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Dahmer, or (insert awful person here).
How did that whole revelations anti-christ thing go again? /S
I was there.
May you find peace, now that it's over. Thank you for your service.
They need to lose their tax exempt status.
“We are the last bit of a republic, of the free world,”
Worlds a big place, lady.
All the good christians died a long time ago, the ones left are performative.
That is not true. I know some really good people that happen to be Christian as well. It's just that these are two different things and most do either belong to the one or the other group.
They didn’t say “good people”
So weird. Christian nationalism isn't the thing I fear most in American politics, but as a Christian myself I definitely hate it more than anything else in the American political landscape.
Someone once posted that rather than calling it Christian Nationalism, we should call it Nationalist Christianity, because it has a convenient and easy to remember abbreviation: Nat.C.
Nahhhh, cuz Christian Nationalism isn't Christianity. It seeks to worship the state by turning it into something they deem worthy of worship, rather than worshipping God.
They clearly haven't smelled him.
Did he grab the pastor by the cooch?
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