Mastodawn

DB Mar 3

@BrianJopek That NCO is well trained and did the right thing. So the US has undertaken a Jihad? That *is* FUBAR

Joe Heafner Mar 3

@lawyersgunsnmoney @BrianJopek Sounds like some members of the military finally see what they will need to do to save this country even if it means sacrificing themselves.

samiamsam Mar 3

if jesus does come back he will kick maga/christian nationalist/fascist ass

SearingTruth Mar 3

@samiamsam @BrianJopek

"If Jesus reappeared today he would immediately cast Donald Trump into hell.

For standing against everything he ever stood for."
SearingTruth

gam3 Mar 3

@SearingTruth @samiamsam @BrianJopek He would at the very least be very disappointed.

M Schommer Mar 3

@samiamsam @BrianJopek
Nope.
ICE will kick HIS ass.

Nick Mar 3

@BrianJopek We live in hell and whoever said that is fucking insane.

Army Girl Mar 3

@BrianJopek well the Fox host SecDef is a white Christian Nationalist, so that tracks

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/defense-sec-hegseth-draws-outrage-130225630.html

SouprMatt Mar 3

@ArmyGirl @BrianJopek He recently hosted a Christian religious service in the Pentagon with a white nationalist pastor.

Defense Sec. Hegseth draws outrage for inviting Christian nationalist pastor who justified slavery to preach at Pentagon

Pastor Doug Wilson, a self-described “paleo-Confederate,” has argued that Christian enslavers were on “firm scriptural grounds.” Defense Secretary Pete...

Yahoo News

@mls14 @ArmyGirl @BrianJopek

oldguycrusty Mar 3

"Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war.
With the cross of Jesus, going on before.."

Fucking idiots are still fighting the crusades .....

Gerard Mar 3

@oldguycrusty @mls14 @ArmyGirl @BrianJopek I remember that being used as a punchline in a satirical sketch about Tony Blair "singing from the same hymn sheet" as George W Bush while they were attempting to make their case during the run up to the invasion of Iraq.

Back then, Blair was seen as being dragged into it by Bush, and didn't want there to be any perception of it being a 'religious war'. It's scary but unsurprising that they're willing to use that language now, although I doubt that the motivation really is that for everyone involved.

(There might not be much in it, but do I wonder about the sequencing of Venezuelan oil tanker captures not long before a SMO pushes oil prices way up.)

Nomdeb Mar 3

@BrianJopek religion needs to die in a fire. I understand there are excellent human beings who are religious, but IMHO, pussyfooting around and being polite about “faith without evidence” is a slippery slope to this kind of batshit insanity. Where does one draw the line about mystical belief?

Ricker M Mar 3

@nomdeb @BrianJopek I don't really care if people have mystical beliefs. Just leave me and the rest of the world out of it. If their mystical belief tells them to kill or even to legislate away other peoples' freedoms, then they can get fucked.

Jim Hubbell Mar 3

@BrianJopek
Pretty bold of these people to think they can order Jesus around.

Miranda Mar 3

@Dougfir And that's exactly why they are the opposite of being his follower.

Reay Mar 3

@BrianJopek Be really curious to hear what they say when that doesn’t happen.

The military didn’t light the signal fire right?
Not enough soldiers believed it hard enough?

Gerard Mar 3

@reay @BrianJopek They'll double down, come up with some story like "you've shown that the world is worthy so it's been given a stay of execution" and it'll strengthen rather than weaken their delusion, exactly the same as you see apocalyptic cults.

I should say I'm saying this as someone with a faith of my own. I think this is a distinguishing sign between honest religious belief and a dangerous cult: one is willing to live with doubt and question everything, the other is afraid of ever giving any impression of doubt or uncertainty, so always has to go further in the face of contrary evidence.

I don't think anyone unafraid to acknowledge they might be wrong would come out with that speech. These people are fanatics, but sadly, they get seen as representative and thus give all religion a bad name.

Diane Mar 3

@reay @BrianJopek

Christians have been saying Christ will be coming back any day now since the founding of Christianity.

After ~1,800 years, they've gotten really good at making up excuses.

Stargeezer Smith Mar 3

@BrianJopek
I was in service 4 years, worked for dod another 30. I never heard anything like that either.

Frieke Mar 3

@BrianJopek it's a cult

MegatronicThronBanks Mar 3

@BrianJopek Good that it was a complaint

bk Mar 3

@BrianJopek
#ModestProposal : Put soldiers back in charge of the military…

@knutson_brain @BrianJopek
The current setup is still the less bad one, even a quick glance into a history book should be enough to see how bad it was with soldiers in charge.

(I'm from a country that already had 2 military dictatorships)

schamspeare Mar 3

@BrianJopek Is this legitimate news? That is Dr Strangelove-level insanity. Actually, the closest real-life parallel is stuff that came out of the Third Reich.

Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️Mar 3

@BrianJopek @KrissyKat
Sweet Monkey Jesus

🎹 Your Masto in April 🎹Mar 3

@[email protected]

TLDR: This war/genocide and the pitiful excuse for it are NOT Christian, biblically accurate or "of God".

I fucking knew these fake ass non-Jesus Old Testes-ment """"""""Christians""""""""" would use Trump to accelerate biblical armageddon as how they interpreted Revelations.

Fucking hell, every single damn apocalyptic cult that preached "ZEE END TYMES" took themselves out. Remember Jonestown? Except Jonestown had the fucking decency to keep their deaths within the cult itself as far as I remember.

Here? These people literally want to watch to world burn because they believe destroying the planet and its inhabitants will bring down the "Kingdom of God" and make "Heaven on Earth". Tell me, does causing and perpetuating a genocide sound like preparing the Earth and its people for God? No! Christians are called as according to the Bible, to "Love the Lord your God" and "Love Thy Neighbor."

Unfortunately these racist ethnocleansing cis het white male fucksticks have propped up Trump as their literal golden calf, thus putting him before God, which breaks the utmost important commandment. Then they, to borrow a phrase from said gold-colored turd, "bomb the shit out of" countries because they hate brown, black, red, and yellow people.

I recall a Sunday School song I used to sing when I was young:

🎶 Jesus loves the little children.
All the children of the world!
Red and yellow, black and white.
They are precious in his sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world! 🎶

This includes those who are red, yellow, black, white, brown, straight, cisgendered, 2SLGBTQIA+, athiest, agnostic, religious Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Shintoist, Monotheistic, Polytheistic, non-denominational, homeless, sick, disabled, poor, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, anyone you call friend or family! Jesus loves EVERYONE!!!

These murderers, who claim to follow God, don't at all follow Jesus, who's part of the Holy Trinity. The Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. To disobey or ignore one is to ignore it all. Thus they do NOT love their neighbors.

So the next time some Bible-thumping, pearl-clutching, war-mongering, rich, sadistic, psychopathic, right-wing, grifting, inbred, pedophilic, monstrous creature fired from the depths of some guy's nutsack tells you that "war is good", "war is biblically accurate", "this is what God wants", "Trump is the savior sent by God/Jesus himself", ask them when the last time Trump openly said and demonstrated that he "loves God" and "loves his neighbor". Because I assure you you'll have every single piece of evidence starting from even before Trump "descended" from that damn elevator "like he was sent from the Heavens above" that he has always been, is, and will continue to be the VERY ANTITHESIS to God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and everything actual Christ-followers stand for.

Hmmm, I think we do have a word for one who is the antithesis of Christ. I just can't for the life of me remember what that word is...

RANT. FUCKING. OVER!

Andi89S4051 Mar 3

@BrianJopek So, the US christo fascism is not a myth? 🖤♥️

Pete Prodoehl 🍕Mar 3

@BrianJopek Just when you think it can't get any more bonkers! I'm glad I didn't take my meds yet or I'd have assumed I hallucinated this.

Sashin Mar 3

@BrianJopek Didn't Bush believe there was a biblically prophesized demon in Iraq or Afghanistan?

Giliell Mar 3

@BrianJopek Armageddon like in "end of the world"? Sounds about it.

Sören Mar 3

@BrianJopek This is so blasphemic.

@iveyline Mar 3

@BrianJopek Another reason I am not religious. It is used to excuse so much death and destruction.

@Iveyline
Any ideology with enough power always starts behaving like this, the nominally atheist Soviet Union and China also murdered millions.

J. R. DePriest

:EA DATA. SF:Mar 3

I was taught this was the end goal almost 50 years ago. I'm not surprised they finally feel like they can say it out loud.

America's brand is Christianity is a death cult.

Bernie Luckily Does It Mar 3

@BrianJopek You can't even have a passing acquaintance with the Bible and think that would work.

Giordano Mar 3

@BrianJopek the religion of love and peace

luca Mar 3

@giordy @BrianJopek Wait, we're still at the Old Testament, you're running to the New one.

@luc0x61 @giordy @BrianJopek
Even the Old Testament didn't work like that.
Old Testament law is that foreigners must be treated the same and with same rights as citizens; and it also forbid running national census to make it impossible for the king to build a large military.

luca Mar 3

@blaue_Fledermaus @giordy @BrianJopek I'm sorry if my oversimplified irony did offend you in any way.

@luc0x61 @giordy
It did not offend me, I'm well aware these people love to take parts of the Old Testament and use it to hurt people. (And I used to be one of them)

luca Mar 3

@blaue_Fledermaus @giordy They do it with anything and anyone, unfortunately. My /supposed/ irony tries only to ridicule the little persons that they are.
(I'm sorry)

OCTADE Mar 3

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@[email protected] @[email protected]

The Old Testament is prophecy about the eventual destruction of Christian imperialism. Jehovah is going to wipe the Christian religion off the face of the earth, along with all its cults and splinter sects.

The Old Testament is not a history book. It is a PROPHECY book. Elements of ancient history were poetically joined to tell the FUTURE, not to educate us about the past.

Isaiah 46:10 Jehovah says this plainly.

@BrianJopek @Anark 🤔

@BrianJopek Jesus Fucking Christ!

lobster Mar 3

I will be praying to Jesus and the new incarnation of the Pope/Dalai Lama that this is not rue or true.

BUT
it probably is. The lunatics are ruining the asylum for the rest of us crazies...

wall-e Mar 3

@BrianJopek evangelicals will be our undoing 😵‍💫

xs4me2 Mar 3

The US are taken over by a bunch of madmen and the voter allowed it…

The rest of the world still cannot believe it.

#FUBAR

Frank Bennett 🇯🇵Mar 3

@BrianJopek My late father had rough-and-tumble hill-country habits, flew the B26 in WWII, qualified as a professional on the GI Bill, and was a staunch Republican all his life. He wasn't a fan of the Birchers, but took his views from conservative media, and I've often wondered what he would make of the Trump circus. I honestly haven't been sure. Could have gone either way.

This would have broken him. He'd say these people were crazy and that Trumpism was a criminal con.

ΞVΞ🦋Mar 3

This is such a stupid timeline

Hachyderm.io

Newde Mar 3

@BrianJopek It's 2003 all over again

boggo Mar 3

@BrianJopek That IS fucked up, but I've been trying to find any source for this other than this one random blog and there doesn't seem to be one other than sites citing this blog...

Noel Kelly Mar 3

Dog is going to smite them so hard, the Devil will need to dig down to find 'em.

Moonlight_Crazy Mar 3

Fuck. So they are trying to make it a 'Holy War' ?!?

IbRaen Mar 3

@BrianJopek This is the stupidest timeline ever.

Ändy Mar 3

@BrianJopek I've had bibles waved during commander's calls, been released from duty for Christian holidays, opened mandatory fun with a 'non-denominational' (yet somehow always Christian) invocations, and been reminded at every turn that gawd is on our side.

While the force writ large is increasingly No Pref, the officer corps remains in the grip of a persistent fundie infestation.

Good luck making your accession numbers when women, Black, Latinx, LGBTQ, and No Prefs stop showing up.

Edelruth, PBS Passport Holder Mar 3

Marvelous! Hegseth is all in for his invisible friend in the sky.

Rastal Mar 3

@BrianJopek The reason why the Israelis target children and babies in war is biblical:

> Now go, attack Amolek, and proscribe, kill and dedicate to YHWH, all that belongs to him. Spare no one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses

As Netanyahu stated at the beginning of Israel's genocide on #palestine their objective was killing Amolek. Now they attack #iran in the hope of creating Greater Israel and the third temple for their Messiah, literally!

@BrianJopek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8TKiRo-W4U

strangetown Mar 3

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