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I assume this is fine for the rules since punching Nazis is kinda the whole gist of 196. Also there's no real rules to follow 🤷‍♀️

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[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

We are working on drafting a real set of rules right now. There will likely be a post about it later tonight.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was filled with wonder and followed the beast.

Revelation 13:3

[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's another that talks about a beast with 7 heads and 10 horns. There are 7 Trump towers and, from what I'm told, 10 antennae altogether on the buildings.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

Check out this website. They combed through and found a lot of passages about the antichrist. This is where I got the info for the above comment.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

WTF that's a long list my guy

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Sure is... You'd think if a single one of the fundamentalists had actually read their own holy books, at least one of them would notice one of these. But I guess there's only like 200 concrete examples, to be fair.

[–] kmaismith@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

Given the less than subtle use of nazi imagery in the last campaign i wouldn’t be shocked to learn that the parallels were less than accidental on Trump’s part

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oops it's antichrist again

[–] EnIdiot@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Wait til the evangelicals read up on the Lunar Eclipse on Trump’s birthday where (like Revalations notes the Antichrist will be signaled by) the “moon will turn to blood.”

Selective insanity.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

fun fact: June 14th also happens to be my birthday so I might be the antichrist too 😔

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

If you’re going to have that kind of power thrust upon you might as well make good use of it. Be the Antichrist you want to see in the world

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I was born on June 25th, and when I was little my sister tried to convince me it meant I was the antichrist since it's three furtherest day of the year from Christmas.

Truth is, she was annoyed that her December birthday meant family members always gave her a single gift for Christmas and her birthday, and I always ended up with a gift for each.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago

Y'all joke but my conservative christian parents straight up said this exact same thing a couple years ago. They did not like him either.

[–] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The fact that this meme makes sense is so surreal, imagine showing someone from 2012 this meme and telling them this is what we're posting in the future and it's unironic.

Idk I'm high as balls l

[–] nepenthes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

The Antichrist will not act alone in his destruction. Revelation tells us of three figures that will act together. The unholy trinity in the Bible consists of three key figures: Satan (the opposite of God), the Antichrist (the opposite of Jesus the Son of God), and the false prophet (the opposite of the Holy Spirit)

-- christianity.com

K, who's who? We got a lot of Oligarchs to choose from.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Musk is the false Prophet. He promised a Solar-Punk future by combining capitalism with eco friendly technologies. A way out, bridging the generational gap. A true visionary.

Well, all fake, all lies, that guy is a Nazi.

GOD is untouchable, unknown and all mighty. The Satan pendant here would be Putin.

Regarding their control over most nuclear weapons... that's a bingo for Apocalypse. (They could extort countries by threatening nuclear strikes. And no one could do anything about it. Fascists in both countries would support it).

Edit: Made it even darker.

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Trump, Putin, Netanyahu fit the bill pretty good, I'd say.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

I love that this post ends abruptly

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

why would christians even like a persident who took a huge fat piss all over their religion and disrespected all of them during the inagaration?

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Because they're actually fascists masquerading as christians because they can use that as an excuse. Any actual christian believer would probably be compelled by their religion to put them to the sword or crucify them for all their sins.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Christians have been accepting oppressors taking a piss on the teachings of JC since Constantine The (supposedly) "Great" did it all the way back in ancient times.

[–] kmaismith@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was surprised to learn that Constantine is seen by many thought leaders in the protestant christian communities as a corruptor. Opinions of Constantine makes a fascinating litmus to start separating those who see religion as a source of power from those who see it as a calling to better the world. Not that most lay christians have a clue who he is, or his role in standardizing christianity to the Roman system of government, let alone the structural implications of the move

[–] Welt@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A theologian I spoke to pointed out that even Martin Luther didn't revert the changes Constantine wrought, like the holy day being on the sabbath instead of Sunday to commemorate Easter every week. I guess roughly 1200 years of habits are hard to break, when Constantine only had a few hundred years to contend with, and there were so many sects of a very different Christianity even then (Nestorians, Syriacs, Copts etc).

[–] Lennny@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That gnostic shits really cool too and the beliefs were so fucking varied. Even had the "our God is evil for making a physical world in universe made for spirituality" types.

Demiurge intensifies

[–] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

It also states we will only be able to buy and sell if we have a specific number. Is that a crypto wallet?

[–] midnight_puker@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

My Bible thumping mother put her blinders on and voted the antichrist into office. I gotta say, if the Christians were right all along, I'll be laughing in her face as we both burn in hell for eternity.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If heaven exists, I have a feeling it will be full of people that are surprised it exists.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

angels having therapy sessions with atheists, of course being completely understanding of their plight which just makes it even worse

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I just remind them, The Deceiver isn't going to chuckle and taunt with obvious signs and abhorant behaviors....he is going to turn God's most faithful into his tools for manifesting his own desires on Earth....gay dudes fucking in a pool of blood surrounded by burning crosses are just people being trolls...the Christian Nationalists are the work of the devil coming to fruition.

(Not religious myself, but they eat that shit up)

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

If Christians are right no one is burning in hell

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[–] omega_x3@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

The beast also survives a head wound and gets more followers.

[–] TheSaus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

His president photo kinda says it all

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

That he desperately wants to look cool and still can't?

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

That's the look a cat gives you right after shitting on your bed.

[–] w3dd1e@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember all the right-wing crazies that ran around saying Obama was the anti-Christ?

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Chump is never beating the Antichrist allegations.

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[–] Tahl_eN@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)
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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, he held the one at his photoshoot upside down....imagine how quickly the right would be using MSPaint to draw the inverted cross on the cover if a Democrat did that!!

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I literally fail to see why it's so hard to get people to believe me that the end of the world is happening, when it's being this fucking obvious.

[–] SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
  • Covid
  • Ebola
  • 9/11 and the "war on terror"
  • The cold war
  • WW2
  • WW1
  • a whole host of other things before that

The world has felt like it's ending to a lot of people for many generations, yet somehow it never does. I'm not denying that the world is in a pretty awful state right now, but we have to hope things will get better because otherwise they never will.

[–] Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The purpose of the mark The mark is a sign of loyalty and worship to the beast. People who do not have the mark are unable to buy or sell, and may be put to death.

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[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

me, a bible enthusiast, watching people take the piss in these comments

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