@Strandjunker I grew up with Christians constantly talking about the end times and how the antichrist will be a figure who fake Christians in name only will hail and worship. There were flyers and meetings.

Now, the most unChrist like figure in US history, a known rapist and bigot, who used our tax dollars to pay for holding refugees in foreign prisons - those public Christians are completely silent on how much Trump fits their narrative. Because they are silent bigots themselves.

@Urban_Hermit @Strandjunker Back in 2016, the evangelicals who used to be in my circle (before I left Facebook) proclaimed a commonly held evangelical belief about Trump.

That he's like David.

And that "God uses sinful man to accomplish his will."

That's where the endless forgiveness for his transgressions comes from.

@oli @Urban_Hermit @Strandjunker They're right and if you read 2 Thesselonians 2 you kinda come to understand exactly what it is Trump is being used for and yeah...

He's a honeypot for the damned. He's a good one, being completely damned himself.

It's too bad that doesn't dawn on them.

It's right there in the Bible though. The goal is continued delusion so that they continue to harden their hearts and walk straight into the fire. Because they delight in wickedness and will choose hell.

@crazyeddie @oli @Urban_Hermit @Strandjunker

It's like they read the words (presumably), but can't comprehend what they're reading.

@MissGayle @oli @Urban_Hermit @Strandjunker They don't read the words. Christians are generally really impressed by my knowledge of the Bible, like it's not sitting right there for them to read themselves.

I've actually only read half of it. Tops. Contrary to those who've never read it I actually don't believe it's the only, or best, or even a good source of spiritual truth.

The single greatest source of spiritual truth, the only way to salvation, and they won't read it.

Yeah. Sure.

@crazyeddie @oli @Urban_Hermit @Strandjunker

It is a mythology for its time & place, perhaps.

But it's info is scientifically & historically inaccurate, not to mention ethically & morally lacking in many ways.

It certainly should not be taken literally - especially in English translations, which are more like interpretations in numerous places, and certainly not either the letter, context, or the spirit of the text.

They've imposed external ideologies (while claiming only others are).

@MissGayle @crazyeddie @oli @Strandjunker
The 10 Commandments mentions human slaves (don't covet your neighbor's slaves) while NOT including slavery on a top 10 list of things God doesn't want you to do.

But that concept of God is so insecure and jealous that a belief in any other God is #1 on the list of prohibited things.

The 10 Commandments is not even morally solid enough to be posted in a public school, unless it is in a lesson on hypocrisy, propaganda, and psychological manipulation.