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> Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to
by esalman 7mo ago
> Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth
I lived in Texas for 5 years and I have heard people saying this kind of things first and second hand during his first term and also after his defeat.
- tastyface 7mo ago[flagged]
- red-iron-pine 7mo agomakes a lot of sense now why Thiel is talking a lot about the anti-christ
- NoGravitas 7mo agoThey said it under George W. Bush, too.
- scoofy 7mo agoI always have to remind my mom that she legitimately thought Obama might be the Antichrist… I honestly think the entire premise of the “End of the World” religious beliefs is just pattern recognition instincts being pointed at something entirely random. It looks very, very silly in hindsight, but natural selection actually selects for a nontrivial predisposition to make type 1 errors, so we should expect them to be very common.
- jacquesm 7mo agoThat only works as long as the powers that be don't start quoting this stuff themselves.
- krapp 7mo ago>I honestly think the entire premise of the “End of the World” religious beliefs is just pattern recognition instincts being pointed at something entirely random. It isn't ever entirely random. They thought Obama was the Antichrist because they thought he was a Muslim, and a common interpretation of the Book of Revelations is that the final war of Armageddon will be a nuclear war between Christianity and Islam, after a New World Order/One World Government established by the Antichrist.
- scoofy 7mo agoI've never heard of that interpretation before. My parents did not think he was a Muslim.
- krapp 7mo agoI have heard it, and people thinking he was a Muslim was definitely common, so I don't know what to tell you.
- esalman 7mo agoThis interpretation is a conspiracy theory driven by 9/11. If it was not, Saudis would be America's biggest enemy, not the most trusted ally after Israel.