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[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 54 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

I've never been a religious man but the fact that the sitting president closely matches the description of the antichrist and Mamdani showing up has got me asking some questions.

[–] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 41 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

One of the biggest online personalities is literally "Mr Beast"

[–] Tabitha@hexbear.net 3 points 7 hours ago

Honestly my first thought first time I found out he existed, I'm surprised I've never heard a 2nd person say this until today.

[–] Beaver@hexbear.net 18 points 18 hours ago

It's so fucking on the nose. I was so morbidly curious to watch Beast Games, and it honestly felt like setup to a horror movie where all the contestants were gonna get fed into a jigsaw murder machine at the end.

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly shocked there isn't an evangelical movement calling Mr. Beast the great Satan

[–] prole@hexbear.net 5 points 15 hours ago

There probably is. A couple of years ago there were tons of videos and memes and stuff about him being the antichrist. Anything that gets that much attention is gonna end up being at least a TikTok cult or something

[–] tocopherol@hexbear.net 23 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

It would be funny to see this idea spread and evangelic liberals start literally worshipping Mamdani and the virtues of socialism

[–] HamManBad@hexbear.net 13 points 19 hours ago

They already light pelosi candles

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 21 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

2,025 years later and the new roman empire (usa) is still doing violence on Palestinians and persecuting leaders who rise up and speak out for the oppressed. The more things change.

[–] LoveWitch@hexbear.net 19 points 19 hours ago

Well well well would you look at the time (trump declares himself a sun god and demands a third part of all grain)

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 26 points 18 hours ago

What age was Christ when he was whipping land lords? Did we miss our chance?

[–] DelgadoSlims@hexbear.net 28 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Christ-like

33 years old

Uh oh

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 25 points 17 hours ago

someone's going to betray him for 30 trumpcoins

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

It's a good bit, I admit.

I do want to note that in the Gospels and really basically everything remotely intended to portray "eye witness" events of regarding Jesus (still stories that copy heavily from one another, hardly multiple accounts), the main message is, over and over again, "Jesus is special, you must believe in him over everything else". Reading these texts, the message is not, "love each other and live in community", it is, "eschew all else if that is what it takes to believe in me, even if that means being kind to your enemies". Just about every parable is just iterations on the theme of, "Jesus is special, he does miracles, you need to believe over all else". The Gospels are written with the exoectation that this would all be wrapped up during their lifetimes, as in Jesus was coming back on Thursday so you better start believing and stop focusing on worldly things.

Which is to say, the figure of Jesus is not exactly socialist, as socialists focus on the material, on community, of creating a better world through the destruction of capitalism. The figure of Jesus is more like a hippie that says, "screw all of that, join my cult, nothing else matters".

Anyways do with this what you will. The "Jesus was socialist" angle is still decent agitprop because most self-proclaimed Christians haven't read The Gospels. Very few people are really engaging with the figure or reading critically, they just learn parables in isolation and a local religious figure tells them what to believe about it.

[–] lapis@hexbear.net 27 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Very few people are really engaging with the figure or reading critically

well yeah, that's because those of us who did have largely either left the religion entirely or reworked a sort of extremely personalized variant of it.

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 11 points 18 hours ago

Yes or become more abstract about it, accepting the many faults to try and recover a consistent thread tying it all together. Many modern sects are basically variants on these kinds of attempts trying to square scripture and modern culture and society. There are also many people in that quasi-Christian space between being a hardcore believer and an atheist with Christian biases, especially liberals in the imperial core. Like folks that go to a Unitarian church and identify as Christian and think Jesus did some of that stuff and pray to him but done think about it too much because church is a place for community more than being a cloistering nerd.

[–] Crucible@hexbear.net 21 points 18 hours ago

“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn

“ ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Whoever does not take up their cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it."

Matthew 10:35-39

Not a lot of love and unity from this fella if you don't like him the most. As you say, it's valuable agitprop but damn if it doesn't drive a bit of me nuts

[–] Des@hexbear.net 24 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

yeah shit is getting weird.

my former co-worker was a devout christian with lefty tendencies and strongly believed Revelations would be entirely driven by "inspired" humans and totally non-supernatural. he was leaning on his own hypothesis that god's influence is entirely through the collective totality of humanity, within physical laws. he thought the prophecies were just perceived as such by minds incapable of grasping the modern world.

so yeah. maybe he was onto something

hopefully the earthly paradise is just world communism

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 12 points 18 hours ago

hopefully the earthly paradise is just world communism

I mean it's definitelysame-picture

[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 35 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Bruh, we're the same age? I thought he was 10 years or so older

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Guy's about to be mayor of New York and I'm over here having microwave nuggets and a Monster for lunch every day

[–] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 27 points 20 hours ago

We are too used to politicians being older than 45 (or even 60)

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Feeling old yet? I know I do. chomsky-yes-honey

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wanna know when it really hits home that you're now officially old? When you start noticing that the doctors you see are younger than you are.

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 4 points 16 hours ago

Just wait until professional athletes retire at your age.

[–] prole@hexbear.net 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him shall have basic human rights

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Matthew 25:42-45 (NIV)

42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink,

43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’

44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’

45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’

Reminder that at one point in time in the US, there were actually Chistian (proto) socialists and abolitionists, not all these rabid and hateful, death cultist, supply-side Jesusfreaks.

(There were of course a lot of rather hateful Christians as well, but at least some of them used to seem to actually mean well)

[–] prole@hexbear.net 3 points 15 hours ago

The pledge of allegiance was even written by a Christian socialist of some sort

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 20 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Didn't they post similarly about Bernie 😔

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 22 points 21 hours ago

we should have known him for a judas when he worked with the Italians rather than against their oppression

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 16 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] kristina@hexbear.net 19 points 20 hours ago

Waiting for the inevitable betrayal

[–] Tormato@hexbear.net 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Bernie was St John The Baptist .

I dig this Zohran meme.

Hey Seuss Christ…we really do have an incredibly great opportunity in NYC to put socialism on the map. It’s gonna take us all to be involved. But it’s already changed the mood entirely.