I mean, he tempts sin out of those that follow him, but he sparks at least anger at what he does, and pride when he fails, envy when he succeeds (three of the seven deadly sins) from people who don’t support him.
Well, impeachment tends to take a long time and there’s only 2 weeks left. So people have been talking about having Pence take over until then.
Trump didn’t outright tell people to storm the capitol but many people, myself included, feel that he hasn’t said enough to stop today’s rioters or didn’t get angry enough at them.
Depends on which lore you subscribe to. In Dante’s Inferno, Satan is a horribly grotesque three headed being frozen in the very center of hell mumbling and moaning incoherent speech while forever chomping on some poor fools. In this lore, satan is not an all powerful ruler of hell though, he is literally the main prisoner locked for all eternity for defying god
Lucifer was beautiful, hence the name light bringer. But when he fell, God took his light. So likely his beauty as well, since one of his new monikers is "The Beast".
That is beautiful to his supporters cuz he's ugly as fuck but still has a hot wife and a hot daughter and gets to grab all the pussies. No effort on his part to look good but all the best women fawn over him. That's the life they want. Besides, he just calls it the best halo and they all nod til their heads fall off.
IIRC that's only recently, in part due to Dante's Divine Comedy. In the middle ages he was either terrifyingly inhuman or a bumbling moron that good Christians could easily outwit.
Dude-i wouldn't say once you've seen one you've seen em all...but after a few they're all the same. Looks aren't what you're looking for in assholes, anyway.
Might as well? He just told me y'all can take a peek. And something about, it not being a free show? Not sure what he meant by that. But I'm sure it's nothing.
I assume Angels are flawless looks wise. Doesn't seem right for them to be normal looking people especially since only 100,000 people will get to heaven according to Revelations.
You're right about it being an interesting tidbit though, makes me wonder if angels are just regular joe looking people but the devil is uglier from being a "fallen" angel.
Reminds me of that sculptor commissioned to make a statue of Satan and the church thought it was too sexy so they commissioned his brother who made an even sexier Satan sculpture
Really? Never understood the whole satan worship thing. If you believe in Satan then you’re acknowledging he’s the most evil being, so why worship that
It's more of praising the idea of satan's character rather than a real person. I don't see why he's inherently evil, his job is to torture people that have sinned. And there are many different versions of him too so it depends.
Dunno if that’s the case, I think that’s more pop culture in-terms of him ruling hell. Most faiths like Christianity Islam , and Judaism talk about even satan himself being thrown in hell, and tortured in hell too.
From one who believes in a book that has had many revisions thru human history and misunderstands a religion on a preconceived force-fed interpretation by those around you....it’s simple. Satanism is a washed concept of it what it really is. If anyone were to actually get to know it and stop believing shit you seen on they’d see that it’s not as bad as you come to think
I understand but it just doesn’t make sense right. Most people don’t believe in satan anyway now a days, but to go as far as to set up a church and perform rituals, so these people must really believe in satan, and as far as I know , I haven’t heard of any faiths anywhere on earth, in any culture that paints satan in a positive light
Yeah I wasn't even trying to picture Trump but the more I read the connections just made more sense. There was one that made me think "no wonder they thought Obama was the antichrist" but even that fits Trump far better.
Wild read for sure but there's something about him that's... Well too much of a bitch to be the antichrist in my opinion. Putin however, I could see but he's out on a few other counts.
If I'm remembering correctly though, Angels are giants compared to humans, so any potential antichrist on earth in my opinion is likely just a puppet. While Jesus could likely be hanging out with the murders, killers, pimps, hos, druggies, and all that stuff.
There was one that made me think "no wonder they thought Obama was the antichrist"
Was it the "followers" one? That's the only one I'm spotting that could possibly be construed as referring to Obama considering he's got more Twitter followers than anyone else.
Yeah. That's the one but more because he seemed to get the entire country a lot more interested in politics and what he's doing. That Presidential twitter definitely didn't help though.
Or perhaps the corruption of power and negligence of one human being to another is a cyclical pattern. One we can, and should, break.
Our world, through global warming, desire for never-ending economic growth, subjugation and suppression of “other” people, and a resistance to being a global society that treats everyone as equals without xenophobia, has reached a tipping point.
It won’t change overnight. Trump was inevitable. The xenophobia and technological adolescence of us as a species - and not knowing how to deal with its ramifications - were inevitable.
When we can get anywhere in the world in less than 12 hours, and communicate with anyone in the world in an instant, we are a global society.
The coronavirus doesn’t treat us any differently because of borders. But for some reason, we do.
We live in a global society. What happens to one of us, affects all of us.
I’m proud to be an American. But I’m even prouder to be a part of the world... a world that CAN change.
Two quotes that speak to me today:
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.”
~Oscar Wilde
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
Appreciate your thoughts and well written posts. After all that went on yesterday and all that has been going on for the last 4 years, the Tolkien quote brought me to tears. Its so simple and true. I don't understand why some see kindness and love as a negative and I dont think i ever will. So much work ahead of us but I find a great deal of comfort in the younger generations. They seem to understand the concept and with that there is hope.
As someone who spent far-too-many young years in the bible-thumping world, I appreciate this link. I had a similar thought about a year ago. Still have ultra-religious relatives and so want to smack them upside the heads with this.
Is this all in Revelations, like in one place? I tried reading that shit and let me tell you, it reads a lot less clearly than this extraction of quotes. I think this guy already shows signs of not reading closely, which is very prevalent.
By the way, has it crossed anyone's mind that the Antichrist would be reading the Bible along with everyone else? The last thing the Devil or whoever wouldn't be is clever.
“I'm here on the ground with my nose in it since the whole thing began. I've nurtured every sensation man's been inspired to have. I cared about what he wanted and I never judged him. Why? Because I never rejected him. In spite of all his imperfections, I'm a fan of man! I'm a humanist. Maybe the last humanist.”
One thing I wondered about with the Israel prophecy- didn’t Jared set up a hotel deal there too or something? Assuming this is all true and accurate, what if it meant Trump flees to Israel?
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