The Iran War Is God’s Plan, Say U.S. Military Leaders (Who Believe Trump Was Anointed by Jesus)
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70590863/jesus-trump-military-iran-war/
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a70590863/jesus-trump-military-iran-war/
69 Comments
DeepThought42@lemmy.world · 143 pts · 155d
I'm not religious, but I'm fairly certain that Trump is the least christian POTUS this country has ever seen.
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 155d
Trump is the antichrist.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 155d
You think that makes him more christian or less?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
I agree, but stahp it.
you'll just feed his ego.
radioactivefunguy@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 155d
Actually
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 45 pts · 155d
The 'logic' is that God has often used imperfect men to carry out his mission. Noah was a drunk, Lot slept with his daughters, and King David murdered a man so he could have the widow.
No matter what Donnie does, he is anointed because they say so
DeepThought42@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 155d
Yeah, that's why I gave up religion years ago.
atropa@piefed.social · 18 pts · 155d
kamenlady@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 155d
Bless you, my child
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 155d
Wonder how many times God tried to convince someone to do a thing and they just kinda… didn’t. Never read the Bible, but I don’t imagine many stories of unredeemed goat fornicators or greedy merchants end up sticking around.
I feel like that was one of the best parts of the Greeks. Their gods fucked up constantly, and everyone knew it. Fate is a flip of a coin, and so were the deities they worshiped
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 9 pts · 155d
I think that's why a lot of the pagan religions had trickster gods like Loki.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 155d
They decided to cut the story of kid Jesus pushing people off roofs then bringing them back to life after people got mad.
GnerphBaht@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 155d
He liked to play stone the adulturer.
Read "The Gospel According to Biff" by Christopher Moore.
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
So we’ve got Noah as Secretary of Defense and Lot as President. I’m guessing King David’s job is whatever Stephen Miller does.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 4 pts · 155d
Did him bring the living environment of all 7 deadly sins give it away?
MyOpinion@lemmy.today · 69 pts · 155d
The worst people in America are running this country. There needs to be a reckoning for these shit bags.
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 155d
There will not be
voidsignal@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 155d
Oh yes. Yes, there will be.
Montagge@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 155d
And who is going to make it happen exactly?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 155d
If Jesus came back today maga would re-crucify him for being to woke.
daannii@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 155d
And brown
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 155d
He might already be here... And in an ICE holding cell
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 154d
Jesus? Go back to mexico, that carpenter job is for Americans only!
dermanus@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 155d
Some brown guy talking about loving your neighbour and caring for the less fortunate? It's downright unamerican!
Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 155d
That’s why I don’t believe Jesus will come back, he must be afraid of to be crucified again.
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 155d
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 155d
Trump, the man who literally embodies the 7 deadly sins, is the anointed of God - yea that totally checks out.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 155d
I'm starting to wonder if these Armageddon cultists see Trump as the Antichrist and see that as a good thing.
Anything to bring about the end.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 155d
It's a super common trope in Mormon offshoot cults at least, to believe you've been put here by god to bring about the end times. Of course those people always believe they're "one of the good ones" that will be let into heaven when it's all said and done. It's honestly frightening how common this line on thinking is among Christians, how normalized it's become.
nao@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 155d
It reads like those people are living in a parallel universe. Or are they just memeing?
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 33 pts · 155d
Turn back, we all made a horrible mistake.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 21 pts · 155d
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and is widely regarded as a "bad move."
Jhex@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 155d
And there you have it folks... War is Peace... as decreed by Jebus himself
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 155d
I want every American to stop and listen.
If you thought that the US military was going to save us at the last minute from this orange pedophile and his pedophile posse, ask yourself this.
trick question. it doesn't matter what your answer is, they're still not coming to save us.
prepare yourselves.
crusa187@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 155d
All the “good ones” in military brass already resigned anyway. From the first reports of those actions last year, I’ve been saying it’s a mistake to leave things in the hands of sycophants alone, when instead people of decent conscience could be in there sabotaging. But alas, here we are.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 155d
I wonder what all those "retired" moral, knowledgeable, competent, experienced officers are doing? Are they just sipping margaritas on the veranda, not worried about the fate of the nation they carefully protected for decades? Or are they in touch with each other?
I wouldn't know, I haven't heard a thing. Nothing. Nada. It's almost like NOBODY is talking about that 800 pound gorilla in the room.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 154d
Maybe they were secretly assassinated. Or it's my nation right or wrong, only legal means kind of people.
Or they are preparing a coup.
Grabs popcorn
Zirconium@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
I always took it as, even if half the military quit, choosing their own conscience over this BS, there's still half the military left to follow orders even if it means killing children
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 21 pts · 155d
Religion is a mix of mass delusion and propaganda, period.
Oh and great look btw, killing the Ayatollah (who, like it or not, is both a political and religious leader to many in Iran and around the world), and then immediately depicting it as a holy war... Great plan, Magastan!
Definitely won't be used to further indoctrinate lost souls with nothing to lose into radical extremist groups all over the world!
NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 155d
So this is a war between theocracies.
mrmaplebar@fedia.io · 12 pts · 155d
Yes. A holy war. What better tool to indoctrinate the unwashed masses to fight for the billionaire class?
The world is far less safe because of actions and words like this.
I think we should expect a new wave of Islamist terrorism in the West as a response to the invasion of Iran and the killing of political and religious leaders, because their useful idiots also like to believe in holy wars.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 155d
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d
You might be thinking of Jesus' abusive dad
moondoggie@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
Well to be fair, he was also his dad. And a ghost. And wine. And… crackers? Regardless, being both his dad and a ghost meant that any time Jesus jacked it, he was committing incestuous necrophilia. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
ipd@universeodon.com · 3 pts · 155d
@Sterile_Technique @return2ozma
Plague, posh... Melania and Milller.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
So you are saying he cheated
notsle@kzoo.to · 14 pts · 155d
@return2ozma
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 155d
You can imagine the Hollywood style promo. "First we had the Crusades for the Holy Land. Now Trump seeks to return the holy oil to the home of Christ. The U-S-A"
DGen@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 155d
And suddenly wars in the name of religion aren't Bad anymore. How the turntables.
EndOfLine@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 155d
Any chance on getting these officers named and a date for when they were promoted to their current positions?
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 7 pts · 154d
I'm an atheist, but I would be willing to start believing if those assholes were cooked in hell for all eternity in return.
andyburke@fedia.io · 7 pts · 155d
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 155d
I’d say it will be fun to point and laugh at them when they are proven to be stupidly wrong, just like every other end of days bullshit, but sadly when it doesn’t work out like they are psychotically convinced it will, you know the whole easter bunny coming back and bringing the righteous armageddon thing, they will just throw the nuclear football and pretend it was all par for the course. We all get to die for their selfish and idiotic faith, neat, huh?
Remember, don’t bother hiding when you hear that the bombs are coming, nothing can save you from the white hot atonement, you’ll have just enough time to make a coffee, pet the cat, and maybe watch an episode of your favorite show. It won’t hurt.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 155d
It trump was anointed by jesus, I feel validated in my past 35 years of being an athiest.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 4 pts · 155d
I mean if it is I don't expect to ascend into heaven or anything but jeez I sorta feel I deserve a quick, clean, painless death. I mean common.
notsosure@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 155d
[nasal voice over intercom] Has patient number 13 reveived his sedatives yet?
RotatingParts@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 155d
God's plan. Ha ha, tell me another one while you're at it.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d
Thusly validating everything I've said about religion and the dumbass military. Fuck off with this "thank you for your service" validation.
inimzi@piefed.social · 4 pts · 155d
And Rabbi Kaduri predicted Netanyahu would be the last Prime Minister and instructed him to fulfill the prophecy by defeating Persia/Iran to bring the Messiah: 'Behold, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; it does not lie down until it consumes prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.' Crazies running the world
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
That’s also not how lions work.
null@lemmy.org · 3 pts · 155d
Woo! Christian holy war!
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
Paywall removed https://archive.is/YiXWo
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d
return2ozma@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d
Bigly!
baronvonj@piefed.social · 1 pts · 155d
yes, that's why evangelical leaders like Trump. They believe him to be the antichrist who bring about the rapture.
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
TwilitSky@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
We can't seriously put people who believe in this nonsense in charge of real world things.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 155d
Divine right to land is an Israelite and other Levant tribes religious tradition. Christ had different philosophies, but at the same time, that Divine right to land applies only to Levant.
The only possible source of Noah's flood, also the only possible location of Atlantis, was in 6200bc where a potentially advanced (relatively) civilization lived on a dry Persian Gulf. Ice age glacier recession flooded this area but somewhat slowly. For one side, Sumeria (which advanced in this period) was closest high ground, and "Shem"ite population grew from there and moved down to Levant over 4000 year span. The Persian/Zoroastrian side has a more accurate hard winter and melting ice "flooding myth" that is also a less cruel God in a "survival of the fittest" migration from the Gulf Oasis.
Even Greater Israel "theory" stops at Iran border with Iraq, and there exists no possible twisting of Christianity's pure devoted love for Israel, that can place a signal fire in Iran.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d
Evangelicals have pretty much owned the military, at least since the 80s. It's particularly bad in the Air Farce.
XTL@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 155d
Worked for
SatanDubya.ipd@universeodon.com · 1 pts · 155d
@return2ozma
He never listens...
He wasn't anouted, he was annoyed.
altphoto@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 155d
Annoying Ted! He's famous now!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-lCVFeII-o
gergolippai@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 155d
Insofar as everything is god's plan if you believe that. Just like AIDS in newborns, children with leukemia, or Iran having a fundamentalist ruling class.