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It's not outdated at all, Trump's presidency was a direct throw-back to Dubya times [0] that whole thing with Muslim bans and getting treated like some kind of
by freeflight 5y ago
It's not outdated at all, Trump's presidency was a direct throw-back to Dubya times [0] that whole thing with Muslim bans and getting treated like some kind of Messiah by evangelicals [1].
These very same US evangelical currents are also super tight with Israel, because they think Armageddon is gonna happen there and that needs to happen for Christ's return and heaven on earth [2].
These people are a end-world cult, one that has by now had direct influence on at least two US presidents in recent history. One of which they pushed into declaring a literal "crusade" [3] complete with "holy warriors" [4].
In the early 2000s there were a bunch of "scandals" about them infiltrating the US military to further Christianize it [5], even in the 2010s there's been incidents with US government acquired rifle sights featuring secret bibles codes [6].
[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa
[1] https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2017_28/2070346/170712-trump-praying-twitter-ew-331p.jpg https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/newscms/2017...
[2] https://youtu.be/Fo77sTGpngQ https://youtu.be/Fo77sTGpngQ
[3] https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html https://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0919/p12s2-woeu.html
[4] http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/16/opinion/oe-arkin16 http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/16/opinion/oe-arkin16
[5] https://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/jesus-killed-mohammed/ https://harpers.org/archive/2009/05/jesus-killed-mohammed/
[6] https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-military-weapons-inscribed-secret-jesus-bible-codes/story?id=9575794 https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-military-weapons-inscribed...