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    US was justifying its genocides in the middle-east by “they are religious extremists.” How much of it was projection?

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    It is so unlike for far-right religious leaders to side with pedophiles, I am very surprised.

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    Religiosity has been in decline in the US, hopefully the ultra performative sect that’s influencing him makes it happen even faster.

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    Further evidence, if any more were needed, that these pig-ignorant sisterfucking hucksters should be taxed for interfering in politics, and better yet, should be institutionalized.

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    I wonder if that’s the key to Trump still being so popular among Protestant Christians after so much proof he’s as evil as it gets? That they see the only way out of the incredible mess the GOP (primarily) has made of the country and world is for the “End Times” to arrive, condemning everyone in the world except themselves and rapturing their gullible asses out of trouble.

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    On the plus side, they can no longer open the Nuclear Football suitcase because it’s been inadvertently sealed shut by Pentagon Pete masturbating furiously and shooting “tributes” on it.

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      Unlikely. Kegsbreath probably has constant brewer’s droop, and that’s one of the reasons for his endless over-compensative macho posturing. That, or he feels attracted to twinks, but thinks that’ll send him to hell if he acts on it. And that’s why he’s so obsessed with the soldiers he surrounds himself with being clean-shaven and not overweight.

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    MAGA and religious zealots are like two peas in a pod, ready to use fear, disinformation and wealth for their purpose of subjugation, oppression and even genocide.

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    ‘the end is near’ is key to the 10% tithe grift. same since i can remember. believer; what need money for, here.

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    Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

    -Edric, Guild Navigator - Dune Messiah

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      The mechanism of religion as a weapon never changes: controlling the public through fear and using said fear to extract power and wealth.

      If you really want to understand power, religion and wealth one need look no further than Henry VIII’s Tudor court and Thomas Cromwell with his scheme to rob all the sacred religious Abbeys of England and take their wealth establishing a brand new made up religion. It’s the point in history where the veneer of religion was stripped away and left in its place were the people who had been using it casting all airs aside and start directly controlling people by simply killing and torturing enough of them.