A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.
From Saturday morning through Monday night, more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).
The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.
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People like this are literally going to cause the end of the human race with their “beliefs”. We have a bunch of religious fanatics killing at the behest of a demented pedophile and his genocidal buddy.
Religion is a cancer.
Religion can certainly be problematic but I think its worth bringing up how monotheism specifically acts as a mind virus at its worst. It’s inherently exclusivist and closed minded, priming people to see those that don’t believe in their god as not human and can even act as justification to bring pain, suffering and death upon nonbelievers. It’s also inherently centralized and authoritarian which is why it to works synergistically with oppressive forms of governence.
Polytheism is riddled with mystical thinking but, generally, beleiving in more than one god makes it more difficult to use it as a justification to hurt people that don’t believe in your god. By having a wide variety of divinities it is naturally decentralized.
Christianity wiped out Roman polytheism with relative ease and ushered in a millenia long dark age. Politicians/Rulers of long past and even today recognize the coercive and unifying power of monotheism and are often keen to wield it to stamp out dissent and concentrate power.
Monotheism is also effective at priming people to accept autocracy. If you believe in one supreme all knowing deterministic god then it’s not that hard to believe in a human ruler wield absolute power as god’s chosen one.
Democracy and monotheism in many way incompatible phiosophies. It’s why the Greeks, South Asian and indigineous confederacies were able to arrive at democractic systems at various periods in history (they were not monotheist) and also why the West had to institute seperation of church and state to become democratic.
I say this not to disparage spirituality as a whole. I personally have been made better by it and believe that it’s core to the human experience but acknowledge that some do not feel a need for it. What we need to be wary of is monotheism. It has brought great civilizations to ruin and promotes conformity of thought which stifles human ingenuity.
America is cancer
At what point does it become socially acceptable to say to these people, “Fuck your god”?
I’m not sure when that point was but it’s solidly in the past.
Someone needs to interrupt these fucking monsters and tell them nobody cares about their imaginary friends
Since the creation of the “God hates gays” picket signs. Probably before then.
A little before that, i think? Maybe since The Crusades?
They are not religious people. Unless you take paedophillia as a form of religion. I mean, they seem to have been in some crazy paedocult.
Of Catholicism isn’t a pedocult idk what is
I would never conclude something as reductive as this, but certainly, the Catholic church won’t get any apologetic comment from me.
There was a really interesting article posted the other day about the Antichrist. Religious folks are really wacky.
That’s a very interesting article but does 2019 qualify as “the other day”?
They probably meant it was posted on lemmy the other day, not that the article was released the other day.
These people are mentally ill
And they hold power.
Religion literally is a set of persistent delusions, if you go by psychological definitions, that do not have a specific carve out for religious beliefs.
All religions are cults that just got really popular and/or lasted for a long time.
Neurotypicals will blame anything on illness rather than admit they too are capable of systemic evil.
Trump is mentally ill.
And liberals will blame everything on the figurehead rather than admit the system is what the system does.
Is this dude on substack a legitimate source? Honest question. We live in the times of lies
I have similar concerns.
According to the authors profile he’s worked at a bunch of known places in the past
I’ve heard of a bunch of known places…
“I’m an independent journalist whose reporting is made possible by reader support. As a former executive producer at MSNBC, I helped create Up w/ Chris Hayes and previously was a senior producer on Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann.”
Jesus fuck can these arseholes just get raptured already …
They’re trying to, and they want to take us all with them.
MAGA seem to be on a one way ticket to Jonestown and they are happy to take all of us with them.
The rapture already happened, that’s why people are calling themselves Christians but never actually following Christ’s teachings. The actual believers are long gone.
It turns out that Harambe is the only who got raptured.
The actual believers are long gone.
All three of them!
It was a very small event on November 3, 1973. Interestingly one of the three raptured made big news, but it was covered up. He was a pilot.
I don’t know if you hinted on this, but the story is wild:
A passenger on National Airlines Flight 27 was blown out of the window of an airplane at an altitude of 39,000 feet (12,000 m) over the U.S. state of New Mexico, after the number 3 engine on the Douglas DC-10-10, exploded and fragments penetrated the fuselage. The jet had been en route from Houston to Las Vegas when the accident happened at 4:40 in the afternoon, and made a safe emergency landing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to the subsequent NTSB investigation, the cockpit voice recorder showed that the engine explosion happened immediately after the first officer asked the captain “Wonder— wonder if you pull the N1 tach will that— autothrottle respond to N1?” and the captain replied, “Gee, I don’t know.” The first officer then said “You want to try it and see?” Thirty-four seconds later, the explosion happened. An extensive search was unable to locate the passenger, machinist George F. Gardner of Beaumont, Texas, who had been sitting by the window in seat 17F.
I read the Wikipedia article and it looks like the NTSB concluded that conversation and the subsequent “test” they did were inconclusive as the root cause of the engine failure. That specific engine had numerous problems reported prior to the flight and had been taken off and replaced before having even more reported after. It seems to be just coincidental. What’s just as wild to me is that the passenger that was ejected from the plane was even wearing his seatbelt. Explosive decompression still said nuh uh and ripped him out the window.
At least these psychopathic Christian evangelical Zionists are being honest about their goals. They want the Rapture or end of the world because they think that forcing ww3 will make Jesus return. This is why Christian evangelicals support Israel no matter how depraved their policies because they believe they will start ww3 and that’s what they want. Christian nationalism is dangerous. It’s been bad for a long time and people like Mike Huckabee have been working towards this goal for decades. We used to regard these people as crazy but now we put all the crazies and narcissists in charge and that’s why everyone sane is depressed with crippling anxiety.
This is what cultists do when they see their reckoning coming. Rev Jones made his followers drink Kool aid (flavor aid actually) when US Senators visited and found he was keeping people against their will. Trump and his crazies will do the same. Remember … Trump could have just been impeached, or not elected in the first place.
So they admit that Trump is the Antichrist?
Yeah they are literally trying to speed run the end so they can be mindless automotons in heaven. It’s real fucked up.
These stupid fuckers really think they can bring Armageddon fourth and still get an easy pass to heaven…goddamned morons
Religious fundamentalists in a death cult vs Religious fundamentalists in a death cult
The common people should just send all these lunatics to Mars.
Sending thlose lunatics to Mars costs resources we don’t have and cause pollution. IMO, running them through with a machinegun is easier.
So wasteful. Feed them into a mulcher and use them to reseed the rainforests.
I think studies from almost a hundred years ago show that the people with the guns do not fare well gunning down large numbers of people and it’s inefficient. I think they came up with some higher efficiency methods…
They might actually be closing to getting it. Maybe.
Maybe they should read this: https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/
On the other hand… “Those kids would be quite upset if they could read!”
This was even written before he got “shot”
If god is all powerful, why does he need any amount of humans to do shit for him? Do it yourself, you omnilazy bastard.
God is all powerful. Also, God needs you to commit war crimes to win this illegal war that he really wants to win. Like, you’re the only way he can win this war. Do it for our all powerful God.
I’d like this “god” to come down and say it themselves. Thanks.
Best I could find:
https://theonion.com/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-kill-rule-1819566178/
Why does God need a starship?
Really wish these death cults would get on with it and leave the rest of us the fuck out of it.
I’d be happy to make them some Kool-Aid
“No one knows the day or the hour except for my Father. And this orange pedophile who shits himself. That’s gonna make sense in a few thousand years.” - Jesus, probably.
What could be worse than incompetent, racist lunatics? Incompetent, racist lunatics that are also religious fanatics.
All religious fanatics are incompetent, racist lunatics.
You forgot to mention the whole dictator plans, that’s the pressing concern here.
The fascism almost means less when you acknowledge that they are literally trying to destroy the world, well, other than that’s how they plan to do it. But that’s what they’re trying to do, destroy the world with fire like “god” said “he” would do. They are trying to force “god’s” hand by lining up all the prerequisites from their fucking fairytale. Religion is the worst cancer on the planet.
