Johnson: US Must Wage War With Iran Because of Its “Misguided Religion”
https://truthout.org/articles/johnson-us-must-wage-war-with-iran-because-of-its-misguided-religion/
https://truthout.org/articles/johnson-us-must-wage-war-with-iran-because-of-its-misguided-religion/
31 Comments
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 66 pts · 163d
It's yallqidas holy war
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 163d
Asafum@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 163d
I swear I keep making this joke about "Jesus hates this one neat trick to bring the apocalypse!"
Like wtf is wrong with these fundamentalist assholes thinking they can force a massive bloody war to happen and that will somehow trick Jesus to come because they completed some checklist? Are they playing some kind of card game? "Ha! My conditions have been met, I force Jesus to the field! He casts Absolution! We all go to heaven and collect 23 virgins!"
...ffs
inari@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 163d
Yeehawdists in power
Pirat@lemmy.org · 46 pts · 163d
and who is going to wage war on the U.S. for the misguided religion overtaking it?
tesseract@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 163d
Themselves. Don't you see the masked goons running around in military gear and shooting up people on a whim?
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 37 pts · 163d
Unlike your doomsday religion, which believes it is waging an apocalyptic war to immanentize the eschaton. 🤡
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 163d
For anyone else who never heard the term before: In political theory and theology, to immanentize the eschaton is a generally pejorative phrase referring to attempts to bring about utopian conditions in the world, and to effectively create heaven on earth. Theologically, the belief is akin to postmillennialism as reflected in the Social Gospel of the 1880–1930 era, as well as Protestant reform movements during the Second Great Awakening in the 1830s and 1840s such as abolitionism
wuffah@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 163d
I love how the republican Jesus is okay with blowing up schools and hospitals and parents fishing parts of their children out of rubble, but somehow it’s their religion that’s misguided.
dizzle18@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 163d
Yeah, I bet dads in Iran don’t even check in on their son’s pornhub search history. Fucking heathens.
RotatingParts@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 163d
All religions are misguided. People, in this situation, just use them as an excuse to kill each other.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 163d
Cthulhu is real and it hungers for you very much. Have you accepted Cthulhu into your dreams?
tesseract@beehaw.org · 3 pts · 163d
That's why the US administration is in war with the nation of US.
doubtingtammy@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 163d
Democrats did all that talk about how troops shouldn't follow "illegal orders," then are totally silent when these brave officers and enlisted follow blatantly illegal orders. But they don't want the president to lose that power for their dream blue maga presidential candidate.
AlexLost@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 162d
Yes, the United States' misguided religion is causing a lot of conflict.
meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 162d
Honestly, just change Iran to USA and Islam to Christianity and it still works, if not better.
If Trump was chosen by God, it's because God hates the United States and the world as a whole.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 17 pts · 163d
I appreciated the ambiguity of the sentence.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 163d
Their misguided religion was maybe going to lead them to attack Isreal and the US someday, so Isreal and the US preemptively attacked them unprovoked instead, guided by our superior religions. The hypocrisy is completely lost on me, as well as the irony of, again, justifying their antagonism towards Isreal and the US in the first place for the umpteenth time.
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 163d
Yeah... Probably nothing to do with the fact we've been fucking with them since we helped to overthrow their Shah...
Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 162d
It was the CIA who put the "Shah" into power in the 1953 coup. Before this Iran had a democratically elected prime minister who nationalised the country's oil, his name was Mohammad Mosaddegh. The USA have never been big fans of middle Eastern countries controlling their own oil.
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 162d
Thank you for the correction!
Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 162d
No worries, it's hard to keep track of who America has screwed over and when.
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 162d
Indeed. We're the baddies, Hans...
protist@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 162d
What the fuck
GiorgioPerlasca@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 162d
I am old enough to remember that after September 11, 2001 very similar things were said by all mass media. The didn't even update their rhetoric.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 162d
Release the Epstein Files
Octagon9561@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 162d
The only religion the ghouls in Washington believe in is pedophilia, capitalism and imperialism.
Uranus_Hz@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 162d
Which misguided religion is he referring to? Islam, Judaism, or Christianity? Or is he referring to all three?
altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 163d
Actually, the spiders around my house believe in 8 different gods. Shall we exterminate those little biches from my house? Daddy long Legs? Buddy, come here!
arctanthrope@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 163d
this is poor writing, highly ambiguous, there's no way to tell from context which country "its" is supposed to refer to
edit for those apparently not getting it: there is, but only because we know he's a hypocrite
Mantzy81@aussie.zone · -4 pts · 163d
orc_princess@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 163d
Maybe the blue team should have stopped the genocide and won their votes??? Not that their votes are necessary to win, but why should they be entitled anyone's votes when they started the open extermination of Palestinians???
RiverRock@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 162d
"I hope the Muslims who didn't vote for the extermination of their friends and relatives learned their lesson"
You are fucking disgusting and depraved