Literally trying to bring about the apocalypse.
Not even hyperbole:
"Trump is listening to a voice they were not: evangelical Christians who appear to believe in the “Rapture.” Some, like vice president Mike Pence and secretary of state Mike Pompeo, hold posts inside his cabinet. For Rapture Christians, returning Jerusalem to the Jewish people is a key to the second coming of Christ.
A fundamental part of believing in the Rapture is believing that all of Jerusalem (currently split between Arab and Israeli-held territory) must be returned to the Jewish people, and then the rest of the world must go to war. For Christians awaiting end times, Israel “is at the center of the end of history,” said Greg Carey, a professor of the New Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary. “History will culminate with this great battle” in Israel, Carey said.
Some White House officials and supporters have described the Trump administration’s actions in Israel with similar language. ”When we open the American Embassy in Jerusalem, we will in a very real sense end this historic friction, we’ll embrace reality,” vice president Pence said in an interview with the Christian Broadcast Network on May 3. Trump supporter and Fox News host Jeanine Pirro said Monday that the president had fulfilled a biblical prophesy.
Critics warn that Rapture-believing evangelicals pose a threat to global peace. “They want to bring on the Kingdom of Christ, and their version is weaponized,” said Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a watchdog group that tracks Christian fundamentalism in the military. “They want to do whatever they can do to bring their version of Jesus back.”
Ah yes. The best way to make Christ come back. Destroy the planet 👍
Not only that, but these scum swear they'll be saved and go to heaven. They do things against practically every word Jesus says. Love thy neighbor, thou shall not kill, steal, covet, blah blah. Yet they really believe all will be forgotten and forgiven? That's gold medal mental gymnastics.
“They want to do whatever they can do to bring their version of Jesus back.”
IMO Jesus is going to come back, take one look around, and start flipping tables.
Republicans and Americans, mostly, are so far afield from the teachings of Jesus that J.H.C. will call for another flood. Or asteroids. Or 40 years of volcanos.
Republicans and Americans
No, just the Republican Americans. The ones who say they're Christian but completely ignore how often the Bible outright says to love those around us in favor of hatred because of some irrelevant thing that doesn't affect them in the slightest, like race or sexuality.
The rest of us normal people are capable of acceptance of each other and desire for the greater good.
God help us all... Seriously, the world is literally on fire and these idiots want to throw oil on the fire. In another, more just timeline, they'd hang for crimes against humanity
Wait until society starts disintegrating when the food chain collapses. These fuckers will be hunted down.
Nah, these fuckers will hunt Trans People, Jews and POC
They won't. You are living in your fantasy world.
I mean what the fuck, the world literally just had the hottest month in 120k years. Half the world’s on fire, the other half is in a drought. When does the bullshit end around Climate Change??
In the United States after the boomers die off we will no longer have that barrier to making climate change a major part of our future. Gen X, Millenials, and Zoomers are all on board for that.
It's unfortunate they won't die off sooner so we can actively get to work on fixing their mess. We don't have the time though
Right? I wish COVID had been just a little bit worse.
For the good of literally everything, they need to die way, way faster / sooner.
Yes, this includes people I know. Yeah, it'd be (kinda) sad. But it'd be better for all.
Problem is though, we might not have time enough to wait for that to happen
Twenty years ago I was saying the same thing. Things have got worse. I hope you're right this time.
The people putting forth these suggestions never really leave their airconditioned place of work, cars, homes, and rarely hotels or vacation homes. They are usually unaffected by floods, tornadoes, storms, fires, etc.
And republicans live by the creed that if it's not directly impacting themselves it is either not real, or if it is, it's not that serious.
When we grab pitch forks and torches.
Why anyone would vote for these Republican clowns is beyond my understanding.
Most surprisingly, evangelicals, who are devinely commanded to be good stewards and protectors of creation, seem to completely ignore environmental protection. Extremely unchristian.
The evangelicals seem to be trying to accelerate their end times, which also brings rationalization that present day and future climate conditions are irrelevant because they'll be swept up into the sweet, sweet air conditioned confines of their heavenly city while they laugh at the libtards left behind burning up in the aftermath.
Source: I grew up in this shit.
Conservatives have been programmed to believe that everything the other side says is a lie (it's not) and that they are good people (they are not). They believe in their assumptions rather than facts. They put more faith in heavily edited books from 2000 years ago than modern science.
Correction, they put their faith in what people tell them those books say. They don't actually read or comprehend the books.
For the low low price of a little mea culpa on Sunday you too can be a raging pustule the rest of the week too…
Yes, but if the apocalypse happens, they get Jesus back and the joy of watching all of us sinners burn in a lake of fire.
Pretty much by definition with Christianity, if you'd enjoy seeing others in the lake of fire, you'll be right beside them.
It's weird so many "Christians" don't have any interest in actually being Christian
The conservative commitment to being anti intellectual is the only thing they conserve.
I appreciate them taking the mask off. Hopefully it'll will convince the "both sides are the same" non-voters to show up and help prevent the decent into fascism.
Only if the people we vote in are more interested in stopping fascism than maintaining decorum.
That’s not going to happen until we get the majority of the elected boomers out of the Democratic Party. The boomers in the Democratic Party are the most milquetoast policy makers. They literally will stand up for nothing. They let fake Democrats like Joe Manchin hold them hostage and then ignore all the younger elected officials who want to do anything because they’re worried the policies of the young dems is too “leftist.” They, like all boomers refuse to hand over power to anything while still somehow screaming “It’s the young’s responsibility to save our country! Get out and vote!” Fuck them.
The Republican party is an existential threat to the continued existence of the human species.
They must be stopped at any and all costs.
There was a time when I would have dismissed this as hyperbole, but now I tend to agree.
A bit off topic but I had a thought about this a while back. There are people whose whole income is to write stuff like this. That is their entire contribution to the human race. Get government make work jobs having endless meetings when their party is in power, sit on think tanks when it is not.
No skillet, haven't worked a day in their life, if they were given any power would cause chaos, never struggled over finances, no real opinions except in their own greatness. An entire class of influence peddlers supported by the tax dollars of people who produce.
I have a sad hunch that in a 10~15 years time, right/far-right wind political parties will criticize the left for "not having done enough" and start a propaganda with a hopeful message: "we can fix this!" (when CC really starts hurting the economy)
Most of their voters will forget years of science denial, laws that allowed companies to pollute the world, political malpractice, etc... Those parties (in the US and EU) won't be hurt once they switch their narratives
This is subjective, but I think the vast majority of our system is not only incapable of thinking long-term, but also remembers very little. Humanity's behavior feels similar to an ant on a leaf just flowing down a creek
I used to have hope. I don’t have that anymore.
COVID solidified that for me. The amount of effort and collective sacrifice tackling climate change will take is tenfold what that ever was. I don’t see it happening.
These are the fools that believe power, position and buckets’o’bux will insulate them from the apocalypse.
The irony is those are supposed to be those good, god fearing folks. Pretty sure the Bible tells all kinds of stories about the end of days, and not one listened
Oh they listened, and they're immanentizing it.
The scariest bit is that they know this will appeal to the base to “own the libs”. We are absolutely fucked if Trump wins.
I don’t know how anyone votes for this. It’s insane
What the fuck? Seriously why? I get that they're in corporations' pockets but even then this is too extreme.
Project Kill The Planet By 2025
Welcome to the discussion of US Politics!
Rules:
Links must be to the original source, not an aggregator like Google Amp, MSN, or Yahoo.
Example:
We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.
All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.
That's all the rules!
Civic Links
• Congressional Awards Program
• Library of Congress Legislative Resources
• U.S. House of Representatives
Partnered Communities:
• News