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I've often said in the last few years that all of this MAGA, Trump, and far-right bullshit will end up with these so-called "Conservative Christians" worshiping the Devil in abandoned sewers and dark remote forests and places like that.
Why do I say that??
I think it needs to be asked, though, how does that work when it's most often the "Christians" who prefer to be lied to??
I mean, as in literally they simply do not want to hear the Truth.
I personally know people, Christians, who've never heard of or met an obvious False Prophet that they did not like...so long as that False Prophet tickled their ears with whatever kind of bullshit they thought they wanted to hear in any given moment.
They do not want a religion where "Love thy neighbor" and "Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, all thy soul and all thy mind" are even values at all, much less the primary values.
And the reason for this, straight up, is that Love Of Self is what they're all about.
Worse, they don't even care what the consequences are.
And these same fucking people want conflicts and wars based on their lies, and they think they'll win on the strength of a lie that they've basically convinced only themselves of, or perhaps I should say they've managed to cause a lot of people who used to believe in this shit to become unconvinced of it, and that's mostly because of their own behavior and the people they themselves choose to associate with.
In fact, they'd rather lose and/or destroy themselves than admit any (let alone all) of this crap is a lie.
I can remember being taught that Believers had a duty to ascertain what the Truth was in any given situation, especially religiously or theologically...lest they lead themselves or others astray.
Or maybe there was in fact a time when fear of God...or at least fear of Hell...was still a real thing and narcissism hadn't yet consumed the American Church? When I was taught this stuff there was no pervasive idea of "We're right, because we're us." There were only a few people like that.
I'm reminded of an exchange from the movie Crimson Tide between Captain Ramsey (Gene Hackman's character) and Commander Hunter (Denzel Washington's character) where Ramsey says to Hunter "God help you if you're wrong, son." (This regarding the possibility of a nuclear war) and Hunter replies "If I'm wrong, God help us all."
And that, to me, is an example of having an implicit understanding of the immanence of consequences for one's actions and the idea that there's ultimate outcomes one may not control.
Instead, today, too many people believe only in the immanence of their own Empire of lies.
Why else would we be in a situation where every decade or so there's a new False Prophet with a prediction of some event like the Rapture, and for the most part those False Prophets get away with it??
People gave their life savings and shit to Harold Camping, and Camping was never forced to pay that shit back or held responsible, at least not until after he had already died in disgrace.
I used to laugh at a line in the Left Behind series novel "Tribulation Force" where the authors, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins, have some non-Christian religious person saying something to the effect of "God is above us and around us and in us, God is us, We are God." In fact, I think the person they had saying this was supposed to have been a Rastafari and that is not, by any stretch of the imagination, what Rastas believe.
I mean, I guess some of These Fucking People have always been both lying sacks of shit and masters of Projection.
'Cause now it's the Evangelical Christians who think they are God or at least that they can bullshit God into basically being an extension of their own collective or individual will for the sole aim of getting what they think they want.
They don't want the Truth.
They want the lie.
And they don't care what comes of it, even if they go to Hell.
And I'm just sayin' at this point you'd think that would be obvious. If God is who they say he is, then you can't lie your way into Heaven. It's only in this world that those of us who believe in the Truth are going to have to fight for it, not up there.
You cannot escape being Judged.
Remember that, because it's going to be on the test later.
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Hess: So what shall we toast to, boys? I can blather on about “To health” or “To success,” but I’d like to do somethin’ a little less rote. Where you from, Brown Eyes?
Migs Mayfield: How ’bout a toast to Operation Cinder?
Hess: Now there’s a man who knows his history.
Mayfield: No, I don’t just know it. I lived it. I was in Burnin Konn.
Hess: Burnin Konn?
Mayfield: Mmm.
Hess: That was a hard day. I had to make many unpleasant decisions.
Mayfield: Yes, you did. Entire city gone in moments, along with everybody in it. We lost our whole division that day. Man, that was like 5-10,000 people.
Hess: Yep. All heroes of the Empire.
Mayfield: Yeah. And all dead.
Hess: Well, it’s a small sacrifice for the greater good, son.
Mayfield: Depends on who you ask, don’t you think?
Hess: [irritated] What you gettin’ at, trooper?
Mayfield: All those people, the ones who died, was it good for them? Hmm? Their families? The guys I served with? Civilians, those poor mud scuffers, died defending their homes, fighting for freedom. Was it good for them?
Hess: But we’ve outlasted them, son. They’re eating themselves alive. The New Republic is in complete disarray, and we grow stronger. You see, with the rhydonium you’ve delivered, we can create havoc that’s gonna make Burnin Konn pale by comparison. And then they’re gonna turn to us once again. You see, boys, everybody thinks they want freedom, but what they really want is order. And when they realize that, they’re gonna welcome us back with open arms. Ah. To the Empire.
[Mayfield chuckles, then fires a blaster at Hess' chest, killing him instantly. He and Mando then shoot their way out of the mess hall] ~From The Mandalorian, Season 2, Ep. 7 "The Believer"
I guess the question to ask is, what else are these motherfuckers lying to you about??
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