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(DIR) Post #AbCTcqAX2XmW0vm3Wa by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-10-27T15:58:42Z
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Way too many people don't get that christian dominionism is an apocalyptic accelerationist doctrine VERY LITERALLY SEEKING to hasten their vision of the Biblical end of the world.That is not hyperbole or misinterpretation or a joke.And they have VERY CAREFULLY worked their way into the halls of U.S. power.Mike Johnson as speaker in THIS moment is almost everything these "End Times" cheerleaders could have wanted, and I genuinely believe that there needs to be an internal audit and then reinforcement and potential reorganization of the president and vice president's secret service details.¯\_(ツ)_/¯🎶🎶I'm not kidding!🎶🎶
(DIR) Post #AbCU0wAsMZlVadQQTo by ricardoharvin@mstdn.social
2023-10-27T16:03:01Z
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@Wolven You're not wrong, or even exaggerating in the least.This is real, immediate, and ongoing.
(DIR) Post #AbCUGByrsUFyxL5C6K by PeoriaBummer@infosec.exchange
2023-10-27T16:05:36Z
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@Wolven I was raised in a church with these beliefs. You couldn’t be more right about the accelerationism aspect. “Make Israel whole so Jesus comes back” is an explicit teaching.
(DIR) Post #AbCVSD99T8Bc08Bhk8 by ShinyAmygdala@neurodifferent.me
2023-10-27T16:19:08Z
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@Wolven One of these people is the landlord of the complex we rent from. He's a missionary that regulalry goes to Guatemala meddling with impoverished families there. He owns multiple properties that are managed by his management company. He also pays off section 8 inspectors, local mold inspectors, and he has paid off city hall. He has increased harrassment of my family and made it clear he is watching my [trans and disabled] children. He forced his way into our unit twice, under false pretext. I have filed a civil rights complaint against him, and the first time we were coerced into settling by a dept of civil rights investigator who mysteriously chose the landlord's side toward the end, once she discovered that we are trans and have mental illness. We are now on civil rights complaint number 2. I just got off a 2 hr call with a free legal aid lawyer with a mid Michigan renter's rights office. This landlord is protected in multiple ways, and acts with impunity, because he is supported by a system that shares in his goals. I read rumor about a "2024 project" in which GOP will fire all current federal offices/social services employees, and install their own, selected far-right replacements into all the "vacant" positions. I'm too disabled to fight this on my own. What is crushing me will crush everyone else, rest assured. Daily I plead with the void to just look at all the evidence I have documented, but, even in the presence of the videos and audio and emails, nobody cares.
(DIR) Post #AbCVlcKQ4H07bRiBpA by Mickrob9777@sfba.social
2023-10-27T16:22:42Z
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@Wolven Makes you wonder who started the proper movement
(DIR) Post #AbCVuxakNf5q9knu9w by theogrin@chaosfem.tw
2023-10-27T16:24:20Z
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@Wolven The phrase I've heard, and of which I'm inordinately fond, is 'to immanentize the eschaton', mostly because I first found it in Robert Anton Wilson's fantastic Illuminatus!. It basically means hastening the apocalypse for one's own personal gain.And it sounds ridiculous! Who would want to destroy this world in hopes of an eternal reward in the next?Well, quite a lot of folks, it seems...
(DIR) Post #AbCXA4OJTyvxXgkz32 by BillySmith@social.coop
2023-10-27T16:38:15Z
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@Wolven It's the same as the early 90's, when George Bush was POTUS.Also, don't forget the Christian Dominionist infiltration of the USAF nuclear launch facilities. :DAs Bill Hicks said, "Tell me when, Lord! Tell me when!" :D
(DIR) Post #AbCZGuPXBfv2WZiVBA by Alienated53@mastodon.online
2023-10-27T17:01:55Z
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@Wolven This includes substantial infiltration of the various military branches.
(DIR) Post #AbCaMVbUQshXHIXjAe by MelodyWainscott@zirk.us
2023-10-27T17:14:09Z
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@Wolven So blind they cannot see that they are literally the “WHITEd sepulchers full of dead men’s bones.”
(DIR) Post #AbCeXN2h0FUnjBhZEO by BadWoof@sfba.social
2023-10-27T18:00:56Z
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@Wolven #This
(DIR) Post #AbClxihdn9oU7BMm2a by CassandraZeroCovid@mastodon.social
2023-10-27T19:24:05Z
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@Wolven ☝️"I genuinely believe that there needs to be an internal audit and then reinforcement and potential reorganization of the president and vice president's secret service details."Amen.
(DIR) Post #AbCmclZ83MCOrlxPbk by Itchy@mastodon.sdf.org
2023-10-27T19:31:35Z
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@Wolven And if nothing else to hold any edge of superior privilege.
(DIR) Post #AbCo8mYI1M1999OY4G by TCatInReality@mastodon.social
2023-10-27T19:48:32Z
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@Wolven Seems paranoid, but #MAGAMikeJohnson is only two seats away from the Resolute Desk
(DIR) Post #AbCqc60Gyp6dmQaboG by Mikal@sfba.social
2023-10-27T20:16:16Z
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@Wolven In the '80s, Regan's secretary of interior James Watt openly espoused these views. Imagine having a secretary of interior who basically said god would be mad at us if we didn't dam every river, mine every block of coal and cut down every tree. They are scary and in positions of power.
(DIR) Post #AbCtDKBvONsIPEv3lQ by TransitBiker@urbanists.social
2023-10-27T20:45:26Z
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@Wolven yep.
(DIR) Post #AbCy9gyDG6P3fLap3g by prettyhuman@piipitin.fi
2023-10-27T21:40:45Z
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@Wolven The good old days when cultists just isolated themselves to a compound for a final koolaid party… Like if they wanna go, just go. No reason to take the rest of us with them.
(DIR) Post #AbCyeHZfjIw9sZhVg0 by panamared27401@mstdn.social
2023-10-27T21:46:19Z
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@Wolven The problem is that the Constitution forbids any "religious test" for public office. Justice Robert H. Jackson, the lead prosecutor at the Nuremberg war-crimes trials, famously observed that the Constitution is not a suicide pact, but in this case it quite literally is.
(DIR) Post #AbCzWdSmYzoxP6OaoK by nancyann@universeodon.com
2023-10-27T21:55:56Z
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@Wolven You are not overreacting.
(DIR) Post #AbD1bAjf03MVf8a5zc by aarpar@mastodon.social
2023-10-27T22:19:24Z
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@Wolven And if "the end" doesn't happen as a result of the current war in Israel and Gaza, they’re going to execute Project 2025 via The Heritage Foundation.
(DIR) Post #AbD1nL6mG9rpJBCChs by duanallen@toad.social
2023-10-27T22:21:34Z
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@Wolven we have seen they are not above deadly violence
(DIR) Post #AbDGecWFeiM20tPa1A by dexiheart@laserdisc.party
2023-10-28T01:08:04Z
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@Wolven i am anti-christian because i grew up in a fundamentalist cult and i strongly believe that christianity is the OG cult
(DIR) Post #AbDMl0WluCI9w85FtQ by autolycos@med-mastodon.com
2023-10-28T02:15:34Z
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@Wolven it's ok to read Towing Jehovah
(DIR) Post #AbDQ2usrvVcfVZePU8 by IntentionallyBLANK@universeodon.com
2023-10-28T02:53:13Z
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@Wolven 💯 accurate. That's who these people are. They want to hurry up the second coming by blowing up the world. It's not a joke. It's not a drill. It sounds crazy because it is, but these death cult members really believe it.I still have some extended family that is quite keen to see the "end of days" and have been for decades. They're nuts. I had one say to me the other night that Mike Johnson seems like a "nice, clean cut man". No. No to the nth degree. He looks like he buries escorts in his flower bed.
(DIR) Post #AbDQk1emcZbaxwcP8S by Lesliesez@union.place
2023-10-28T03:00:38Z
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@Wolven it's pretty cynical that's the ONLY reason they "support" Israel. 🙄
(DIR) Post #AbDRXpS8GmJzawRu8e by AustinB@esq.social
2023-10-28T03:07:48Z
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@Wolven I have a friend who wrote a whole PhD thesis about that. He grew up in central PA and did his field research in Ohio. It’s real.
(DIR) Post #AbDZJluHSL0iAzQIOe by TedLong@mstdn.social
2023-10-28T04:37:05Z
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@Wolven You are absolutely right. 'The extremists chanting is coming from inside the house', literally. 🤮
(DIR) Post #AbDZxHhv9is468U1HE by mrcompletely@heads.social
2023-10-28T04:44:19Z
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@Wolven yup.
(DIR) Post #AbDbVCnY0xyWfjqzCK by JenWojcik@mastodon.social
2023-10-28T05:01:38Z
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@Wolven I grew up in that crap and yes, it's very real, they very much believe it, and will literally move heaven and earth to make their fairy tales come to life.
(DIR) Post #AbEFADPuW0XOg0LMTA by serpentroots@hachyderm.io
2023-10-28T12:26:05Z
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@Wolven oh we know as Australians. We spent the last couple of years before our current government with a weirdo doomsday evangelical as our prime minister. They have infiltrated government with no plan on governing, just siphoning cash from the public purse and ignoring every problem in front of them.
(DIR) Post #AbES4bE0Nqj8BMQYS0 by Jorsh@beige.party
2023-10-28T14:50:45Z
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@Wolven I'm absolutely terrified of this. I don't think people realize the depths of this insanity.
(DIR) Post #AbEs0HLWwoTuBCY0g4 by Woodswalked@mstdn.party
2023-10-28T19:41:20Z
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@Wolven Where I live, these views are dominant.This is not hyperbole.
(DIR) Post #AbEudYRvUZVUQUOYZU by JoeQuinlan@mastodon.social
2023-10-28T20:10:33Z
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@Wolven The obscure little nazi from Louisiana, Mike Johnson, is America's first openly Christofascist Speaker of the House.Will he be the last? Or will he be the first of many?
(DIR) Post #AbEvXM5ucBlkKAhpcu by enmodo@mastodon.social
2023-10-28T20:20:25Z
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@Wolven and how do they predict end times will start? With war in the holy land as they call it, or the unholy land as I call it. Yup, a gawdforsaken hell hole.
(DIR) Post #AbEvpUmJ4FXeT9BYky by Ulzana@mastodon.social
2023-10-28T20:23:55Z
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@Wolven Biden has already congratulated him, so what's the problem? ☹️
(DIR) Post #AbFG8694sEbEeoz5Rg by andrewpazniewski@mastodon.social
2023-10-29T00:11:33Z
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@Wolven The Four Pillars of evangelical faith include the responsibility to evangelise.1) the bible is the infallible truth;2) adherence to the letter of the bible is imperative;3] you need to be born again to get to heaven; and4] activism or aggressive proselytism.
(DIR) Post #AbIQ0vOVOYUAgnqTBo by ReverendMoose@mas.to
2023-10-30T12:46:30Z
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@Wolven they've been consistently trying to push acceleration for decades, and they certainly seem to think things are going to plan.
(DIR) Post #AbIQRw8SkNuOo6DoES by Itty53@mstdn.social
2023-10-30T12:51:20Z
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@Wolven If you believe the folks who fund the GOP actually believe in heaven, hell, or any single paragraph of any holy book, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in buying.I promise you, with all the confidence in the world, that they don't. Those are propaganda ideas for the masses to get them okay with going to war. That's all religion ever was and all it ever will be.If Jesus returned they would just crucify him again. Stop it with this fantastical propaganda.
(DIR) Post #AbIVcCvxe5afZa5i5Y by BlueWaver22@genomic.social
2023-10-30T13:49:14Z
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@Wolven Same thing I've been saying...I believe Biden/Harris are in real danger.
(DIR) Post #AbIVoQTT81Bp2iaeum by nancyann@universeodon.com
2023-10-30T13:51:19Z
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@Wolven There are more. Johnson’s ascension to the speakership has shone a light on them sooner than they have planned. Perhaps this is what’s necessary for people to see what their plans are and how deeply they’re dug into our government.
(DIR) Post #AbIXZGdjbswe6fI8m0 by kirch@tilde.zone
2023-10-30T14:11:04Z
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@Wolven they're literally trying to immanentize the eschaton.
(DIR) Post #AbIYqOgB4ZxTuwAMhk by KatLS@ohai.social
2023-10-30T14:25:23Z
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@Wolven you are correct
(DIR) Post #AbIaWmDw1cur3WjCDo by 1dalm@deacon.social
2023-10-30T14:44:14Z
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@Wolven This is true and actually pretty fascinating trip, sociologically and historically speaking. (If it didn't have such serious consequences.)There was actually a Christian prophesy made in the 1800, during the American second great awakening that Israel would be a nation again. If wasn't really very widely recognized, until it happened. This was in no small part something of a self-fulfilling prophesy, where a group of Jewish people were happy to at the time to work with and collect donations from Christians to make the prophesy happen. And then it happened.That would be notable enough, but it also happened to happen just with the advent of mass media and the birth of the babyboomer generation. Mass media would repeatedly reinforce that the babyboomers were really something special (in order to sell them things), and the creation of the nation of Israel definitely reinforced that. AND the Evangelical movement was able to capitalize on a new generation's self centered mentality with a theology of personal salvation. Evangelical babyboomers really believed they really were a special generation, and honestly if you are told something enough you will believe it.Then 9-11 happened. And we just happened to have a babyboomer Evangelical in the White House that appeared to be put there by God himself. This was the end times battle they were prophesied.But it wasn't. It was a quagmire. It was a disaster. Their holy war has been a failure.And then a Black man with a Muslim name was elected president and the lost their f***ing minds.And then came a man promising to Make America Great Again. It didn't matter how corrupt he was, he was God's chosen, he spoke their truth that they believed, and he going to set things right. And from their perspective, he did. He formed an unimpeachable conservative super majority in the SCOTUS. Judges (think about that word biblically) that are now bringing the nation back to God.He'll or high water, they will bring about their end times they were promised.
(DIR) Post #AbIbaurNxQcYxAiaw4 by artemis@dice.camp
2023-10-30T14:56:15Z
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@WolvenTo be, um, "fair", some Christian dominionists (such as the sect I was raised in), don't believe in the "end of the world," and actually believe they are building a global kingdom of God on Earth that will last forever/until Jesus comes back and goes "wow. Great work taking over the entire world, fellas."So...those folks don't want the end of the world. Just unlimited theocratic rule for the rest of eternity.
(DIR) Post #AbIeCiwCvrJitE86F6 by souvlaki@ni.hil.ist
2023-10-30T15:25:28Z
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@Wolven I mean, that's quite literally the agenda of CUFI, escalate the conflict in the Middle East to bring about Armageddon. Scary that it's such a huge org and so intimately tied in with the GOP
(DIR) Post #AbIeTB0kKB0uag67vc by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-10-30T15:28:22Z
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@Itty53 I'm a) a comparative religious studies scholar who has researched various mismatches in belief and practice and the shifts in belief in religious denominations which have occurred over decades and centuries; and b) someone who was raised in and around those very people.Accept and believe that people know more and different things than you do.
(DIR) Post #AbIecs2HjELedURLGa by lin11c@toad.social
2023-10-30T15:30:05Z
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@Wolven I totally agree with you. These lunatics will do anything to advance the end of the world. They are insane.
(DIR) Post #AbIeoiWou2u4ckN5lY by Itty53@mstdn.social
2023-10-30T15:32:19Z
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@Wolven Sounds like you've got biases. Wanna know why court reporters aren't allowed on juries? Same thing. You were inundated. And you're not even allowing the possibility of bias.I also don't believe you were raised around literally any single person who holds a position of power and authority, and not just the believers I mentioned already. How many congresspeople did you attend primary school with? What a terrible look this is for you right now.
(DIR) Post #AbIeublex4eNOT7b4S by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-10-30T15:33:23Z
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@artemis Exactly right; but the processes they believe they have to follow to get there are largely the same. Still have to provoke global war starting in the holy land, still have to push survival of that war by the chosen faithful, still have to fulfill the command to populate the earth WITH the chosen faithful, and then they "win."
(DIR) Post #AbIeyHuOjH76xaxnLU by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-10-30T15:34:03Z
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@Itty53 Okay, bye.
(DIR) Post #AbIf4jc8dMBGcnUrQ0 by _otter_@mastodon.social
2023-10-30T15:35:12Z
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@Wolven 100%. I'm very concerned for the safety of Biden and Harris rn.
(DIR) Post #AbIfKMnJFFsaU3AxrU by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-10-30T15:38:04Z
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@Itty53 I went to public and private school in DC. I went to school with several congressional staffers' kids, as well as the kids of lobbyists and defense contractors. I spent time in their houses, at their dinner tables, and in their conversations. You don't know me, you don't know my life, and you're honestly really quite snide and dismissive of shit you have zero idea about, seemingly as a means to fit your complete unwillingness to understand or belief that religious values and beliefs actually matter a lot in today's political context.So bye.
(DIR) Post #AbIfW05JVLgdWg91Wa by SteveThompson@mastodon.social
2023-10-30T15:39:57Z
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@Wolven All three Abrahamic religions are actively working to usher in their respective messiahs at this time in history, not just dominionists.
(DIR) Post #AbIfxSXrnTpDc6arKK by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-10-30T15:45:05Z
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I'm a) a comparative religious studies scholar who has researched various mismatches in belief and practice and the shifts in belief in religious denominations which have occurred over decades and centuries; and b) someone who was raised in and around those very people.I went to public and private school in DC. I went to school with several congressional staffers' kids, as well as the kids of lobbyists and defense contractors. I spent time in their houses, at their dinner tables, and in their conversations. Thankfully more of these families were NOT Dominionist or -adjacent than were, but the knowledge of these beliefs as something sincerely held by several people in power was present and real, and it is something that has been studied and charted for decades.Are some people in power cynically using these beliefs to dupe and wield the people who sincerely believe, to get the true believers to help them gather power? Absolutely. That's The Trump Family, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, and many others, up and down. But some of the people in power ARE THEMSELVES the true believers. Accept and believe that people know more and different things than you do.And I'm muting this thread.
(DIR) Post #AbIg7JMemmu62H32BM by SteveThompson@mastodon.social
2023-10-30T15:46:47Z
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@Wolven Members of all three Abrahamic religions are actively working to usher in their respective messiahs at this time in history, not just dominionists. The current phenomenon has been going on for over a decade. What is most disconcerting is the extremism that seeks to expedite the event through global violence initiatives. Not all three fully subscribe to such techniques.
(DIR) Post #AbIh01ERu3nzj5INJg by woodrat@sfba.social
2023-10-30T15:56:44Z
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@Wolven Glad to see our forefather's vision of religious freedom working out smoothly; just like guns
(DIR) Post #AbIh7RkFj8ZLyviGki by FinchHaven@sfba.social
2023-10-30T15:58:09Z
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@Wolven Posting into your muted thread for everyone else:"People had better damn well start listening to this, and start paying attentionWe are approaching the culmination of a decades-old, explicit, deliberate, fundamentalist #Christian agendaI first heard of this from my far-right Orange County CA aunt and uncle in the mid-1950sGet the school boards; get the local judges; get the state judges; get the Supreme CourtThese religious fanatics are 95% of the way home -- and y'all have given them a free ride because "Well we can't really talk about *that* -- that's their --> religion <-- don't cha know..."YeahAnd they're right on the edge of stuffing their religion down your throats and up all your 4ss3sBend over and grab your ankles, #America#MikeJohnson #Theocracy #ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism
(DIR) Post #AbIl1uU4MYyBC2l78C by fkaOctaviaKeats@wandering.shop
2023-10-30T16:41:56Z
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@Wolven TFW politicians read/watch The Handmaids Tale + C.S.A.then write fanfic/s☣🔥:thisisfine: 🔥☣https://letterboxd.com/film/csa-the-confederate-states-of-america/
(DIR) Post #AbIn0BHn7ee6dIJr04 by radicalbyte@mastodon.social
2023-10-30T17:04:03Z
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@Wolven I was just explaining this to a friend today w.r.t. Israel.The politically active crackpot Christians have amassed a lot of political power in the US and the results have been seen in foreign policy for decades..
(DIR) Post #AbIrdzAK0NGORS3qj2 by funcrunch@me.dm
2023-10-30T17:56:06Z
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@Wolven I was just reading about this today:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/us-evangelical-christians-israel-hamas-war
(DIR) Post #AbJG2vemaL8VhPjgBc by roman@ruby.social
2023-10-30T22:29:29Z
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@Wolven Finally! I’ve been waiting to read this forever. Having grown up in a fundamentalist Christian church with my parents praying for the wars to engulf Israel so that it will usher in the second coming of Christ🙄 You present it in a much better fashion than I ever have.
(DIR) Post #AbqUtwinUdNKOCjgtk by Wolven@ourislandgeorgia.net
2023-11-15T23:21:26Z
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Wow. NPR covered Mike Johnson and Dominionism in clear, unvarnished terms. Granted, it was on one of their podcasts, rather than directly on-air, but it still surprised me to hear them out-and-out say the word:https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1197956540/mike-johnson-christian-nationalism