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RE: Damned Christians
July 13, 2021 at 11:54 pm
You mean like "Touchdown Jesus"? During a storm on June 14, 2010, the giant "King of Kings" styrofoam and fiberglass Jesus statue was struck by lightning and burst into flames and burned to the waterline.
https://www.google.com/search?q=touchdow...e&ie=UTF-8
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RE: Damned Christians
July 14, 2021 at 3:54 am
(July 13, 2021 at 11:54 pm)Fireball Wrote: You mean like "Touchdown Jesus"? During a storm on June 14, 2010, the giant "King of Kings" styrofoam and fiberglass Jesus statue was struck by lightning and burst into flames and burned to the waterline.
https://www.google.com/search?q=touchdow...e&ie=UTF-8
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RE: Damned Christians
July 28, 2021 at 1:42 pm
According to a new survey, Americans who attend church at least once a month are more likely to have a positive view of QAnon nonsense, and those who never go to church are the least likely.
https://theweek.com/qanon/1003082/americ...rably-poll
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Christians
July 28, 2021 at 2:02 pm
I think they confused region with religion in that article. There are no numbers in the 247 page report citing religious affiliation, attendance or preference. Pretty chards and fox news isn't a good place to go for answers. Just because you're white and from the south doesn't make you an evangelical Christian. But please continue...
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RE: Damned Christians
July 28, 2021 at 2:06 pm
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Qanon was dominionist ip from the getgo, tac. Quoting magic book from the start, appealing to that base.
Yet another symptom of the growing wedge between American evangelicalism and sanity. The very thing wiping out American evangelical demographics in this country, adding a palpability to their fears of being replaced in their own land, not to mention their own children’s hearts.
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RE: Damned Christians
July 28, 2021 at 4:35 pm
Pizzagate started as antisemetic and white supremacist. Or are you talking about the russian based twitter grass roots on 4chan? Just because someone claiming to be Qanon can quote scripture doesn't make them Christian, anymore than it makes you one. I guess it does appeal to a certain demographic if you quote the Bible though, propaganda and marketing at it's finest.
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RE: Damned Christians
July 28, 2021 at 5:12 pm
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The theory is about its audience, not it’s originator. It’s been a known known that white evangelicals are the qanon demographic. It’s not surprising, given that the narrative pandered to the demo from the start.
Guess who else just happens to show up on a venn diagram of anti semitism and white supremacy?
White evangelicals. I’d say they need to find Jesus….but…..seems they already have…and it’s awfully weird how he chose to present himself this time….
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RE: Damned Christians
July 29, 2021 at 9:35 am
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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RE: Damned Christians
July 29, 2021 at 10:10 am
Wow, this sounds bad. The Grand Rapids Police Department has announced a program in which clergy will ride along with the police as part of a mission called “Clergy on Patrol.” Isn’t that what the Inquisition was?
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2021...y-members/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Damned Christians
July 29, 2021 at 10:15 am
oh my.... inquisition...... everyone get their pitchforks....
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