For those with religious connections, this is a season of celebration of rebirth, with festivals including Eid, Passover, and Easter falling around the same time. For Christians, today is Easter Sunday.
But celebration and hope are difficult to sustain right now, due to the world situation indicated by the Guardian headline this morning — see the screenshot below.
"Before getting into the rest of the updates, I know many of you reached out about Trump’s Easter post this morning. I saw it, and I also saw how parts of the media covered it. In my view, there is a tendency to downplay or normalize behavior that is not normal. If any other president posted something like that, it would be treated very differently."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/major-good-news-update-and-calling
Good morning, everyone.
"This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now."
~ Steven Beschloss
"Trump’s glorification of the destruction of civilian infrastructure—in Iran and Washington DC—is emblematic of those who seek to sabotage civilization because it threatens their unfair advantage over the population."
~ Jim Stewartson
#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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https://www.mind-war.com/p/back-to-the-stone-age-the-iran-war
"Donald Trump wants to reverse the polarity of civilization. In a civilized country, the military exists to protect civilians. But in Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s America, civilians only exist to provide resources—and bodies—to the military."
"Civilization is not the accumulation of power, or the building of grand monuments to a leader or a nation. It is not creating the greatest capacity for violence, posting the highest number in a stock market’s history, or adding chatbots to the kill chain. To the contrary, it is the ability of a population to constrain those very powers that defines whether it is truly civilized, or merely a sacrificial battleground."
"It’s entirely possible that basically by this time Tuesday, America will have established itself as one of the world’s great villains. I don’t want to be here, but, you know, be warned. This is happening. This is real.
It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things."
~ Paul Krugman
War crimes coming: A horrifying update
Noting that "we are much closer to nuclear war today than we were six weeks ago, Julie Roginsky says,
"There is a quiet, unsettling clarity settling over the world right now that has announced itself with a stark pattern. Watch closely, and you will see it.
It spans Ukraine, Iran, and most tellingly, the Korean peninsula."
#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-most-dangerous-thing-about-the
"I’m going to choose to step away from my initial reaction — We have elected an actual madman.
We are in deep, deep shit. —
breathe, and focus instead on the also true that lunatic man knows he’s in big big trouble. Of course, that doesn’t mean the rest of us aren’t.
HAPPY EASTER EVERYBODY!"
~ Rebecca Schoenkopf
#Trump #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/jesus-fcking-christ-is-fckin-risen
"On Easter Sunday, the president posted profanity and skipped church. The pope asked him to stop the war. …
The theological divergence between the two most prominent American Christians on the world stage is complete."
~ Rudy Martinez
#Trump #PopeLeo #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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https://www.chicanoinparis.com/p/the-rest-of-the-world-report-april-a42
"Pete Hegseth, the Secretary of Defense, asked Pentagon officials in March to pray for soldiers to wage 'overwhelming violence' in 'the name of Jesus Christ.' Leo responded from the pulpit the following Sunday: 'This is our God: Jesus, King of Peace, who rejects war, whom no one can use to justify war.'"
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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"'He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them.' Archbishop Timothy Broglio — head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, one of the most conservative voices in the American Catholic hierarchy — told CBS that under just war theory, the war on Iran is not justified, and aligned himself explicitly with the pope."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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"The juxtaposition of Trump’s Easter Truth Social post and Pope Leo’s Urbi et Orbi message has dominated international coverage of Day 37, confirmed this session via Reuters, NBC News, Al-Monitor, and The National. The contrast between the two is being reported not as political commentary but as a documented factual record:"
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
/15
"one man posted profanity threatening to bomb civilian infrastructure on the holiest morning of the Christian calendar; another man, also American, also Christian, speaking from the world’s most prominent religious platform, asked him to stop."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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"WHAT AMERICAN READERS NEED TO KNOW: On Easter Sunday morning, while the world’s Catholics were gathering in Rome to hear the first American pope call for an end to the Iran war, the President of the United States was posting profanity on social media threatening to bomb Iran’s power plants and water infrastructure on Tuesday."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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"He called Iran’s leaders 'crazy bastards.' He signed off with a sarcastic invocation of Allah. He skipped church. The deadline is tomorrow. International law experts say the threatened strikes would constitute war crimes. The pope — an American, a Christian, the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics — has now directly appealed to Trump twice. The rest of the world is watching to see what Tuesday brings."
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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"Trump calls reporters from his Virginia golf course all day, telling multiple outlets he’s ready to 'blow up the whole country' [i.e., Iran] with 'very little' off the table."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #PopeLeo #Hegseth #Iran #war #Easter #death #violence #destruction
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https://www.meidasplus.com/p/trumps-psychotic-easter-sunday-threats
I follow you for a long time and I know you mean well, but it is ONLY the western (european/Rome based ) split of X-ianity that celebrates Easter April 6th 26
Basically it was a split of command and political influence between clergy in Rome and Konstantinople (Istanbul) which then caused the crusades and the destruction of the Roman empire, the rise of Ottoman/Turkish empire in the East, medieval dark ages West. Sole responsibility of the Vatican and the grand central commanders of all evil the Earthlings have experienced.
#Russia #Serbia #Armenia #Ethiopia #Palestine #Bulgaria #Romania #Syria #Lebanon #Egypt #Yugoslavia
@wdlindsy I have lots of bones to pick with other actual Christians, including the pope. But Trump is a not a Christian. One of these men leads a church. The other can destroy humanity by force and destroy life on earth. This is not a mere philosophical divergence of views. The Christian thing to do is to remove Trump from power
He is an unrepentant rapist, felon and war criminal. He can change his ways, but he needs to do that work on himself away from weapons of mass destruction.
@wdlindsy because if you are allowed to openly threaten a people with genocide or control the fate of the world with nuclear annihilation while living from an ethic of hate and your church has not disowned or excommunicated you, then you might be in a cult. Jim Jones was a Christian too.
I’m no evangelist, but I am also going to be loud and clear in my view that Donald Trump is not a Christian and his views need to be condemned by those of that are.
@ChrisCorrigan @wdlindsy Trump "identifies as Christian" in his own speech. However, he redefines the term "Christian" to suit his ends. Which is common in cults, I think: twisting language, cherry-picking scripture, gaslighting & brainwashing until followers happily agree "black is white".
Where is the Church that reclaims the language of the Gospel and stands for what is morally right, and against what is wrong?
His anger at the pope is a good indicator.
But American churches seem MIA so far.
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