• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world
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    This kinda shit is at least part of the reason the fastest growing religion in America is “none.”

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    If there’s one thing Jesus was consistent about, it’s that poor refugees seeking shelter should be ruthlessly murdered by drowning in a river tangled in razor wire.

    Pretty sure that’s in the gospels.

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    Most likely scenario is that they drive around in their trucks waving both flags of the US and flags of traitors to the US, block traffic, and post to Facebook.

    Worst case scenario, there is a wave a of hate crimes as these hyped up fascists try to “defend America” by picking fights with any random brown person they see.

    Best case scenario, they try messing with federal agents, get arrested, and wont be voting in November.

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        most this stuff comes out of nutters like Alex Jones that think they get secret info from god and profess to fighting a war with satan while they do coke every night.

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      Oh all this s*** absolutely stinks of interference. They want to start riots. Half this f****** governors are probably on the Russian payroll.

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    There’s so much fucking crazy in just the first two paragraphs of that article:

    A trucker convoy of “patriots” is heading to the U.S. border with Mexico next week, as the standoff between Texas and the federal government intensifies. The organizers of the “Take Our Border Back” convoy have called themselves “God’s army” and say they’re on a mission to stand up against the “globalists” who they claim are conspiring to keep U.S. borders open and destroy the country.

    “This is a biblical, monumental moment that’s been put together by God,” one convoy organizer said on a recent planning call. “We are besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil,” said another. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. It is time for the remnant to rise.” (The remnant, from the Book of Revelation, are the ones who remain faithful to Jesus Christ in times of crisis).

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      Fucking brain dead morons sacrificing their livelihoods for the party that is actively blocking any action on securing the border.

      That’s the whole game, create problems and stop progress so you can claim that you are the only group capable of solving it. This is just an op to try and smear the Ds

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      I’m a pagan so maybe I’m misinterpreting but I did read the Bible in catholic school and I’m pretty sure Jesus said to do the opposite of this. I’m pretty sure he’d be saying that we should see each family as though they were Jose, Maria, and their baby Jesus as no different than Yusef, Miriam, and Ieshiua 2000 years ago. I’m pretty certain that was in fact his entire point though he’d also be saying that single 20 year old men also should be welcomed because they’re either good or lost and able to be redeemed.

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        The thing is…what may Christians believe is based less on what Jesus said and more on what suit-wearing, vitriol-spewing grifters tell them.

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      Why on earth would “peacemakers” need the probably mobile armories those idiots are carrying?

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      A lot of untreated mental health issues making themselves visible in those two paragraphs. If only their parents hugged them once in awhile when they were kids maybe they’d be productive members of society instead.

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    Ffs can you lot just have your civil war already so the rest of us can deal with the fall out

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      Wont even be a civil war. National guard will fall in line and in the event of Texas actually seceding from the Union, they will find out exactly how much money the US sinks into their state to keep it afloat while their own elected officials flee the first power grid failure

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        Honestly as a non yank I’m bored just do the fucking thing and let the world get on with it.

        Deal with your fuckwits or let them roll over you (and yhe rest of us)

        I’m just sick of the will the won’t they and I say that as someone who has to deal with Boris Johnsons ilk

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      Huh? Or are you implicitly referring to the belief that Jesus was God and thus in turn his alleged flight to Egypt?

      Because if referring to the concept of a generalized monotheistic deity/creator, this comment makes zero sense.

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          Ok, so more “the God they believe in was an immigrant.”

          There’s so many different conceptions of God as a concept/proper noun that it’s otherwise a bit ambiguous.

          But indeed, Matthew’s Moses-ification of Jesus would have made him an immigrant.

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    Republicans saw the Taliban still in power after being fully occupied by the US for how long and decided “that’s who we’re going to model ourselves after”