Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.

@mcnado

This is why you don't let people who believe in the biblical rapture into power. They're a death cult, that's it.

@mycotropic @mcnado drinking trump's koolaid harder than the MAGA People.
He wants you to start hating Christianity so he can do things against it.
The Church is one of the final barriers against dictatorship

@jarinks @mcnado

Do you equate folks who believe the rapture is imminent with most Christians?

@mycotropic @mcnado Christ's Return can come at any time.

@jarinks @mcnado

I also read #RaptureReady but I do it for the laughs and to some extent to understand how death cults think and act. I've been an atheist since I was in 6th grade so no, Jesus isn't returning at some point, any point, ever. But you do you my friend!

@mycotropic @mcnado He could return at any point, ever

@jarinks @mcnado

Like I said, I read #RaptureReady.
Have you read anything by the English Franciscan friar #WilliamOfOccam? I have, bright guy!

@jarinks
So you think that tattoo on Hegseths breast and the photos of Trump holding a Bible or praying with lots of holy people in the Oval Office are...?
Part of a plan to do things against Christianity?
@mycotropic @mcnado
@musevg @mycotropic @mcnado Satan masquerades as an Angel of Light, Frater.
@jarinks
Ah… And Hegseth is one of these masquerades, and Thiel, and Trump as well? And all those Christian MAGAists hoping for the Eschaton are being deceived while Trump is going to fight Christians any time now?
@mycotropic @mcnado
@musevg @mycotropic @mcnado indeed. Satan is the father of lies.

@jarinks
Okay. But you're not talking about Trump fighting only those left-leaning Sermon-on-the-hill Christians, those who are worshipping that empathic brown-skinned guy who was preaching about kindness and sharing and solidarity? He'll also fight those very same true Christian believers that are now praying there with him and for him?

Thanks for the information. I'll keep an eye on that.
@mycotropic @mcnado

@musevg @jarinks @mcnado

You know that Norman Vincent Peale was his family pastor and that he learned from Roy Cohn as well, right? He isn't going after Christians, he's using them specifically based on Project 2025, his upbringing and his narcissism. He couldn't care less about them or anyone else but he knows a good, pliant, sycophantic source of storm troopers when he sees one.

@mycotropic
Agreed. I doubt that "fight against Christianity" (as a whole) thing. For that, religion is a far too powerful & divisive tool in US society.
But I can totally see this Trumpy far-right "American Christianity" with its perverted "Prosperity Gospel", its omnipresent self-victimisation & obsession with Israel/Armageddon/Rapture to start acting like a state religion and suppress all other, especially more left-leaning, Christian faiths.
Thus my specific question above.
@jarinks @mcnado