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[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 61 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

if this ritual isn't performed, the monument goes flaccid and results in a dangerous hazard if it bends over far enough for the tip to touch the ground

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[-] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

American civil religion really be looking like all other religions.

[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It would not surprise me if in a couple of centuries they start putting little notes to George Washington through the cracks in the masonry. Then it would be a true Americanist religion in the style of the CK2 mod.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

CK2 After the End, if anyone is curious

[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

It should be an Americanist pilgrimage event.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

michael-laugh imagine the amount of frothingfash trampling each other if their was an American Haaj

[-] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

We all know an American haaj would not involve that much walking, it would be somehow truck-based

[-] Red_Sunshine_Over_Florida@hexbear.net 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Now I'm just picturing honking trucks all around the Kaaba, like one of those Covid-era Biden rallies. Circumambulation in an F150 sounds nuts.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago
[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 11 months ago

They even somewhat parroted mihrab inside it, but of course facing west and with idol inside:

[-] chicory@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

I was disgusted by this photo at first, but imagining a January 6 style christofascist stampede chefs-kiss

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 49 points 11 months ago

I didn’t know what to think about this image, but as my eyes were scanning the photo I came across the American flag and realized this is the Washington monument and not Israel, and I fucking lost it

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

The wailing phallus

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago

Can we please make idolatry a sin again

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

i dont know what bible these peope are reading but i think they managed to defy everything jesus said about how to pray

[-] Barabas@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

In order to fight american evangelicals, we need to revive John Knox to tear down the Washington Monument.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Hi I'm Johnny Knoxville and this is Jackass

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago

I'm really feeling down on myself, but the bright side I could be looking for today is thinking about all the dumb shit I've avoided thinking and doing by just having a little bit of materialist philosophy and care for others in my back pocket.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

are they groping washington's penis?

[-] LeopardShepherd@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Common misconception, this was originally called "the Presidential Glory Hole" and the intention was to erect a monument sized depiction of a penis sticking out of it of whoever held office at the time. However, this idea was a bit ambitious so they had to settle for a more metophorical phallic structure.

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

What is the context for this?

[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 59 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just some evangelicals praying on the Washington monument like it's the Western Wall.

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

as a christian i am flabbergasted at this behaviour. how does this even happen??

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 50 points 11 months ago

The leaders of the American Christian movement are all very rich, fascist, and most importantly, rich

[-] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

but still, i presume these people can read the bible for themselves right?

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

actually reading the bible is a great way to make atheists, so presumably the church discourages it

[-] axont@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

please don't be disrespectful like that, although I get it. I know people here have had a lot of sour experiences with Christianity in the west, but spirituality is a normal thing. Personally I'm an atheist too, but come on. Your username references John Brown, who did read the Bible and it made him into a militant abolitionist.

[-] Saeculum@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Is it disrespectful if it's true? My personal experience is that reading the bible after being raised in a religious environment made me into an atheist, and I personally know a good number of people who went through the same thing.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

they don't, and that's presumably what made protestants seem more progressive and such. but turns out you can tell people what to think about the book-club book pretty well with appropriate theatrics.

bonus points if you control which 'translation' of the book you deem permitted

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

There's an issue of Captain America where a dude parachutes onto the washington monument and tries to detonate a nuke.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

do not sound with a nuclear bomb

[-] axont@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Images like this make me realize maybe the Mormons were onto something by making Jesus a white American. They really have their shit together. Mormons are gonna outlast evangelicals and it's not even a close contest. Evangelicals are tearing themselves apart from what I understand.

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[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

Protestants reinvented Medieval Catholicism

[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

in the shower like

[-] Yurt_Owl@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

Me when the poop is extra spicy

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Just being a good Christian and idolizing a graven image.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 17 points 11 months ago

Fucking cancer of the world

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Wtf are those freaks doing?

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

Praying to George Washington's penis

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[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Why are you posting Bioshock Infinite screenshots

[-] Elon_Musk@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Is that....

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