• @iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    well he does also want to become pope. maybe he wants to multi class but what we really wish is if he dual classed.

    • @SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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      The Christian Right wants to make Christianity supreme and use it as the basis to take away rights of minorities including Muslims and LGBT. They want this as cover to take away sex ed and ban pornography and rap music and a long list of other stuff. Project 2025 laid it out pretty explicitly.

    • @Rakonat@lemmy.world
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      GOP politics and agenda are all about control. And religion historically has always been a means of control. Add a more aggressive form of indoctrination instead of education in schools so that you have young people just smart enough to profitable but brainwashed into not being free thinkers who go tribal against anyone against their tribe. Once you have people replacing morality with religion you can alter that religion to match what ever you want as a means of control.

    • @varyingExpertise@feddit.org
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      The point is replacing a somewhat transparent legal system with an arbitrary mess which makes everyone that isn’t exactly on the politically desired line feel uneasy all the time due to uncertainty of state actions.

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        • Cruisin’ down the center of a two way street
        • Wonderin’ who is really in the driver’s seat
        • Mindin’ my business along comes big brother
        • Says, “Son, you better get on one side or the other.
        • I’m out on the border, I’m walkin’ the line
        • Don’t you tell me 'bout your law and order
        • I’m try’n’ to change this water to wine.
        • After a hard day, I’m safe at home
        • Foolin’ with my baby on the telephone
        • Out of nowhere somebody cuts in
        • Says, “Hmm, you in some trouble boy, we know where you’ve been.”
        • I’m out on the border
        • I thought this was a private line
        • Don’t you tell me 'bout your law and order
        • I’m try’n’ to change this water to wine
        • Never mind your name, just give us your number
        • Never mind your face, just show us your card
        • And we wanna know whose wing are you under
        • You better step to the right or we can make it hard
        • I’m stuck on the border
        • All I wanted was some peace of mind
        • Don’t you tell me 'bout your law and order
        • I’m try’n’ to change this water to wine
  • @merdaverse@lemmy.world
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    Maybe if they bring back the church into politics he will learn who this Jesus guy is who everyone is talking about. Might be surprised that he was a “radical leftist”

      • AutistoMephisto
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        There’s a pretty radical idea going on in wiccan circles right now that believes the “Jesus” these Christian Nationalists are worshipping is actually something called an egregore. Now, an egregore is a non-physical entity or “thought form”, created by the shared beliefs, emotions, and intentions of a group. What’s more, I’ve met people who claim to have interacted with this being.They claim that it truly believes it is Christ and wants you to believe it, too. It desperately wants into Heaven, and it is vain, and narcissistic, and ugly. It butters you up with false flattery, empty promises and lies, and, if the true spirit of Christ is with you, it calls that spirit Satan. If you recognize it for what it is, instantly like a toxic person it flips to anger and threats to scare you into getting it to believe.

        • Any god is an egregore, like any other thought or believe is. Santa, the black man, Allah, these are all egregore with more or less power according to the mental strength and energy of the believers which are part of these groups. Of course, as anything created by humans, egregore are fallible and presents various “defects” in their behaviours and actions. The most important thing is to always remember that egregores, being a byproduct of human though, are and always will be much less powerful than any human being. Take Yahweh or Allah and place it in front of an infant, they won’t be able to do shit as the child will be uneffected by the social knowledge about these entities and thus will be receptive to their true form, which is one of ethereal beings having no control on the physical world. Anything they can do they do because we give them the power to do so, once we realise they are no more powerful than a breeze through the leaves their power crumble and they return to be what they truly are, invisible and intangible leeches praying on our mental energy.

          If you believe in spiritual teachings of course, otherwise please continue not believing in such things and cussing against god and/or the modern American Christian nationalist faith, the effect will be the same

        • @Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
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          I’ve always been interested in jungian archetypical symbology. It’s really amazing that these characteristics of humanity show up again and again as if it comes from the same well. I don’t know anything about egregore but I’ll have to certainly look into it. This is an interesting take, thanks.

    • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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      He means American evangelist Christianity. Which is just capitalism with god. They are more interested on social control of masses and collecting tithe than any actual idealism.

      • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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        It’s far bigger than tithe. The article explains that the white house god office is run by someone who will take $1000 payments to send angels to people. They brought on that fucking moron Ben Carson too, which makes me think this is more about persecution if gay and transgender people than anything else. Other than that they’re just making sure all the grifters (religious and MAGA) on the same team.

  • @skisnow@lemmy.ca
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    3118 hours ago

    A common theme of MAGA is inventing problems that they can solve.

    The idea that Christianity in the US is under threat and needs additional protections, is some epic persecution complex.

    • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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      I had an old boss tell me that Christians are the most persecuted people on earth. They truly believe it and get off on it. All while existing in a country where you almost have to be Christian or at least Jewish to be elected to national office. It’s pure mass delusion propaganda.

    • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      A common theme of MAGA is inventing problems that they can solve

      That they can pretend to solve.

  • @Ilixtze@lemm.ee
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    The final form of conservative regimes always resorts to imposing religion and rigid moral codes in order to suffocate any form of dissent. Conservatives have been painting themselves as the “rebels” in their manufactured culture wars and the warriors of freeze peach, but in the end it always funnels back to this: Bible authoritarianism. They will use this argument for push for more censorship, information control, stripping away rights and oppressing every community they deem against their dogmas. The writing has been on the wall for a decade now.

    I am hoping that America’s new implementation of this “Christian state” proves to be grotesque enough to serve as a warning for the rest of the world that even had the fleeting thought of going down this route. And I while am not very hopeful for Americans, I wish they find the strength to resist and revolt against this movement.

    • @kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      1017 hours ago

      Bible authoritarianism.

      Based on one very specific “interpretation” of the Bible that nobody is allowed to argue against.

    • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ
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      314 hours ago

      Meanwhile the vast majority of the leaders don’t give a shit about christianity except when it comes to elections and a means to an end. Anyone who tries to say Donald Fucking Trump is a christian is in a cult.

    • @IMongoose@lemmy.world
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      Only if you care about the constitution, freedom, and/or democracy. It’s very clear MAGA does not care about any of that so here we are.

  • @chrischryse@lemmy.world
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    So I occasionally check the Fox News site just to see what the idiot commenters say because I find it sad yet entertaining…anyway for the article that was posted about htis issue several people were like “this is a good thing, because sepration of church and state isn’t in teh constitution” like bruh have you read the constiutuion? It’s literally stated in teh first amendment xD