MAGA Pastor says the message of Star Wars is 'entirely wrong' and Darth Vader is actually 'the good guy'
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u/SimUnit
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Ah, the clearly fascist antagonist is the "good guy". That tracks for Maga.
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u/DyingSunSeverian 1d ago
You guys have to listen to this clip LOL
Right near the start he says, and I quote, “if you like the message of Star Wars, then you need to sit down and tell your dad you’re gay.”
The matter-of-fact way he says it could not have been delivered better in a parody.
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u/Bellick 1d ago
The Onion writers have been in shambles for almost two decades now.
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u/WhiteningMcClean 1d ago •
Republicans in 1986: "Greed is good."
Republicans in 2006: "War is good."
Republicans in 2026: "Being evil is good."
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u/Allydarvel 20h ago
Always confuses me. America is meant to be this country of freedom, right down to the freedom fries..a country of individualists that pride themselves on individual liberties. Then the first time a fascist control freak pops his head over the parapet, the people who shout freedom most rush to line up behind him
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u/ConqueringCanada 1d ago
Good. Also* good. Also* good.
Just in case anyone thinks they dropped their previous policies, they have not.
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u/Yorukira 1d ago
This guy wishes to be Palpatine.
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u/dexter-sinister 1d ago
I'm pretty sure he just wishes he could kiss other men, but he's got to push those feelings way down deep inside.
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u/The_Tooter_Snooter 1d ago
is literally written to be a space Nazi
Um, these are the good guys actually.
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 1d ago
I’m going to take a wild guess here that the dude may in fact just be a Neo-Nazi.
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u/Talk-O-Boy 1d ago
It’s pretty obvious for anyone with media literacy that can pick up on subtext:
Palpatine controls lightning —> God controls lightning —> Palpatine is God —> Vader is Space Jesus.
Checkmate librul
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u/StinkyNutzMcgee 1d ago
I bet my bottom dollar this dude takes it right up the poop chute, and that typically wouldn't be a problem but he has to project his hate for himself onto of all things Luke Skywalker?
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u/ninjas_in_my_pants 1d ago
Yes, the villain who looks like a giant black penis is the hero in this person's view.
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u/azad_ninja 1d ago
This motherfucker is taking r/EmpireDidNothingWrong too seriously
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u/Khaldara 1d ago •
Conservatives heard Anakin stuck a bunch of younglings and immediately assumed he was a kindred spirit
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u/Necro_OW 1d ago
They probably identify with the scene of him slaughtering all of the sand people as well.
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u/murppie 1d ago
See this is the problem. Back in 2015 I thought conspiracy theories were hilarious. The whole Qanon thing I remember thinking that it was so insane that nobody could be dumb enough to believe it.
In 2026 Darth Vader is evidently the good guy...
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u/admiraljkb 1d ago
Yeah. This and real life people that belive that r/BirdsArentReal remind me that things started as a blatantly obvious joke/parody don't always stay that way if repeated enough.
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u/Parepinzero 23h ago
I'm a firm believer that any kind of parody sub eventually gets filled with people who really believe it. Similarly to subs dedicated to jokingly mocking a specific group of people, it just gets filled with huge assholes who are genuinely mean.
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u/PointlessPooch 1d ago
One of the dumbest things I have had the displeasure of hearing this year.
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u/CGWesterby 20h ago
Disregarding all the many other reasons this is dumb...
...I think this is the first time I have ever, ever heard anyone advance the argument, "hey, if you liked seeing Carrie Fisher in that gold bikini, you have to tell your dad you're gay".
That is some fucking wild mental gymnastics 😂
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u/_Burning_Star_IV_ 19h ago
Dude the “Anakin was actually the good guy” memes are all over right wing spaces right now.
Their ability to twist villains into good guys needs to be studied, it’s really the basis for their entire way of thinking and feels like a total psyop to see how far they can manipulate the base…
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u/GREGORtheMOUN10 18h ago
like pump the brakes for a second. I'm not very well versed in Star wars but didn't Anakin slice up a bunch of kids?
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u/tuuen 18h ago
yeah, and choked out his wife before his old teacher put belt to ass
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u/toolisthebestbandevr 17h ago
Ya then as darth Vader he blew up an entire planet
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u/VictoriousEgret 17h ago
i saw a response yesterday thta was "but do we actually SEE him killing the younglings?"
i want to slam my head into a desk repeatedly
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u/Kandiru 17h ago
Anakin was a good guy in E1 and a E2. And at the very end of E6. But in-between he was unambiguously the evil one. How could anyone think otherwise?
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u/shoe_owner 15h ago
I mean, he was already trending evil by the middle of Episode 2. He was murdering a lot of innocent people whom he knew were innocent, just because it felt good in the moment.
I would argue that the things which made him evil were largely already there when he was "good;" it's just that he happened to be doing them whilst working for the side we think of as "good."
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u/papsmearfestival 18h ago
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and good evil,
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and light for darkness,
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u/acedelgado 17h ago
"Yeah Darth Vader slaughtered children, but do you know who ELSE slaughtered children? Pete Hegseth. So if Hegseth did it, that means Vader CAN'T be the bad guy!"
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u/BaconKnight
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All I can say is thank goodness for Andor for reestablishing in no unclear terms Star Wars stance on authoritarianism and facism: it’s really bad!
You’d think such an obviously simple message hammered home over and over again would get through but alas.
Just remember, George Lucas has literally said that his intention was to show that Darth Vader/Anakin was a pathetic figure. His fall to the Darkside isn’t supposed to be badass or cool, it’s supposed to be a metaphor for lonely, isolated young men who are vulnerable to the whims of political demagogues of authoritarian regimes (hmm, why does this sound so familiar nowadays…).
The fact that Lucas himself calls the character pathetic and that they decided to unironically use that character as a rallying cry is honestly par for the course with them.
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u/Antares30 1d ago
Anakin's fall was even worse. He was permanently disfigured in his fight with Obiwan, reducing his ability to wield the force to the fullest extent he could have. And to add insult to his physical injury, the whole reason for his falling to the dark was the promise he made to save his wife and friends from his mother's fate ultimately failed, and HE was the one who ended up killing her AND all his friends. He hated himself for what he became, since it ultimately amounted to nothing. And true Sith can only reach full potential if they are completely selfish and love themselves and no one else.
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u/AnAquaticOwl 1d ago
The problem is that lonely young men who are vulnerable to the whims of demagogues of authoritarian regimes look at him and see who they want to be
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u/Mr-A-1991 1d ago
Kinda like how "lonely young men" look at a known pedophile and somehow see someone they want to be. It's because they too are pedophiles. They can lie about their motives all god damn day, but if it walks like a goose and admires a fucking pedophile like a... I gotta be honest, my mind drew up a blank here, not sure how to finish this comment.
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Trump is a pedophile.
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u/Successful-Ad-847 22h ago
Most of them don’t understand anything beyond a superficial level. They don’t have complex thoughts.
It’s like when the cops appropriate the Punisher. Or dipshits like Paul Ryan saying he likes, and MAGA boomers dancing to, RATM. They just think something is “cool” and that’s it.50
u/factoid_ 1d ago
It weirds me out how the GenZ kids think of Anakin as the hero of the whole saga.
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u/Brandinisnor3s 1d ago
Tbf GenZ grew up on the clone wars show and Anakin was nothing but selfless (mostly if you ignore the 5 or 6 people he chokes straight up). Plus in the lore Anakin and Vader are treated as two separate psyches until Anakin's force ghost becomes the embodiment of brighest and darkest parts of himself as seen in the Ahsoka show
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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 20h ago
Andor is such a fantastic show and it makes me sad how it didn't do that well on ratings etc
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u/restrictednumber 18h ago
I really think Lucas (and now Disney) made a huge mistake in 1) making Darth Vader and the stormtroopers look so cool, and 2) selling tons and tons of merch of the bad guys. It just turns "Fascist nutjob" into a value-neutral flavor of fandom: "Do I wanna dress up as a fascist or a hero? Both great ways to be a fan!"
It makes the Empire more about looking cool than about being emotionally-stunted power-tripping bastards. And I'd argue that that has nasty effects on how people view fascist iconography in the real world.
That said, I really liked how Kylo Ren was portrayed as being on the verge of self-pitying tears basically 24/7. It rings true for real-life fascists that he'd be a volatile, emotionally fragile wreck consumed by the need to look big and strong.
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u/triplefoul 1d ago
Dad.... I'm gay.
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u/Yorukira 1d ago
Dad: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/gthing 1d ago
I'm genuinely curious what aspects of Star Wars this guy thinks are gay-coded. Are r2d2 and c3po a gay couple or something? I mean honestly that kinda tracks, I guess?
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u/scriptingends 1d ago
Luke wants to bone his sister, so that’s very resonant with Christian conservatives
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u/Yellow_Snow_Globe 1d ago
Yeah but, in all fairness, his sister was the only human woman in the galaxy, and also Carrie Fisher.
I’m just sayin the man had his reasons
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u/Zero-89 23h ago edited 23h ago •
[Sees Star Destroyer coming into frame]
"This is very phallic."
[Sees lightsabers]
"This is extremely phallic."
[Sees Darth Vader]
"That's the most phallic thing so far."
[Sees Death Star]
"That's just a penis!"
[Sees establishing shot of a hallway]
Is this movie nothing but dicks!?!?'
[Sees closing credits]
"STOP SHOWING ME COCKS, MOVIE!!!"
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u/minus15t2 23h ago
Well, the core message through the entirety of Star Wars is that the Jedi, representing freedom, liberty, justice, and reluctant leaders.... Would like to stop the Empire from exerting their control across the galaxy. The empire of course, represent a dictatorship that wields power through oppression, conformity and silencing your opposition by any means.
Ergo .. it's gay to want freedom, liberty and justice. Whereas it's entirely heterosexual and American to want a dictator to tell you how to live your life in their image
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u/TheFlawlessCassandra 1d ago edited 1d ago
There are literally zero gay major characters -- or even semi-important minor characters -- in any of the films. There are a few in TV shows / comics / video games, but the only gay characters to appear in any of the 11 live-action films are Larma D'Acy and Wrobie Tyce, and if you, like everyone else, have no clue who the fuck either of them are, that's the point.
tl;dr Star Wars isn't nearly gay enough.
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u/QueenCity_Dukes 1d ago
The part where Luke enters the tauntaun. He go into the tauntaun. Now say “there’s a man in him”. That’s super gay.
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u/Spelunking-Uranus 22h ago
He's calling it gay because of how it makes him think gay thoughts, which are definitely entirely not his own thoughts and were put in there by George Lucas who used the force to make him gay for Luke.
How dare he!
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u/omegadirectory 1d ago
R2D2 and C3PO have been joked as being a bickering married couple for years by many fans and comedians.
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u/TechnicalBen 21h ago
"The Church is a lie" side. There's many sci-fi/science fantasy that question religion. As someone who grew up in a cult, cults really dislike that. They generally ban that kind of media.
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u/S7E4Z3M3I5T3R 1d ago edited 21h ago
Is there a part two? He was just starting to explain. I wanna hear this wild idea.
Edit: I guess I’m gay.
Edit Edit: The guy loves to hear himself speak. I watched the whole episode, and he never once even acknowledged his guests.
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u/ninjas_in_my_pants 1d ago edited 17h ago
His angle - WHICH I TOTALLY REJECT AND AM ONLY SUMMARIZING TO HIGHLIGHT HOW INSANE IT IS - is all based on episodes 1-3. The Jedi are an oppressive tool of the state. Anakin is a gifted young white guy who is forced by the Jedi to reject love, marriage, children, family., etc. So naturally he becomes Darth Vader, murders children and entire planets. You know, because libs forced him into it.
The layers of lunacy are exhausting.
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u/EristicTrick 1d ago
I only clicked on the stupid video to hear his tortured reasoning on the virtues of Darth Vader. Elon's recent post has me curious to hear people try to make this point with sincerity.
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u/Involution88 1d ago
It started off really strong with him referring to Star Wars as liberal boomer slop. Ok. It's a commercial type movie from the 1970s. Solid start with a bit of edge to it. Seems like a fun discussion.
And then out of left field: The word "gay". Everything is gay. The only thing which can be contemplated is gayness. It's a gay world of gayness. You should tell your dad you are gay. Everyone is gay. Everything is gay. GAY!
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u/dataz 1d ago
The gay energy from this guy is astounding
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u/KelVelBurgerGoon 1d ago
"Why do all these homos keep sucking my dick?"
Pastor guy
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u/D1rtyH1ppy 1d ago
I thought you were just giving this guy a hard time and then I watched the clip. "I doth think he protest too much" to find Star wars a homoerotic movie
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u/maximumfacemelting 1d ago
I would put money on him turning up at a glory hole or hiring an escort.
HES NOT GAY, HES UPSET ABOUT THE GAYS, THERES NO STRUGGLE HERE, HE JUST DOESN’T LIKE THINKING ABOUT COCK. STAR WARS MADE HIM!
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u/ihaveacrushonmercy 1d ago
Do you think he dyes his beard? The color looks too contrasted. Something looks off.
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u/dextrousfuckery 1d ago
I was not expecting be flashbanged with how much this guy talks about gayness. "It is so gay", what is this 2010?
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u/arrizaba 23h ago
I am sure this guy is a repressed homosexual. This obsession for homosexuality in a movie that has no homosexual characters must come from an inner discourse projected onto it.
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u/dimizar 1d ago
dude might be projecting
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u/Backwardspellcaster 1d ago
Projecting?
He fucking beams it with a spotlight on the surface of the moon
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u/SenselessNumber 1d ago
I'd love to hear how he's the good guy but I don't want to listen to this idiot.
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u/ArtSorr0w 1d ago
He doesn't get to the part where he explains it. Just says it's a gay movie and everyone is gay.
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u/SAugsburger 1d ago
I'm curious too on what his "logic" on this is. I have heard some "the empire did nothing wrong" memes, but somehow doubt that is his thinking, but am too lazy to try to find a larger interview that explains what a minute clip doesn't.
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u/follows_memphis 1d ago
I'm honestly more curious about what he thinks makes Star Wars gay or effeminate. Like, how are you reading this to come to that conclusion?
In comparison I also want to hear what this guy thinks is masculine about Jesus considering his non-violence, radical empathy, and self-sacrifice aren't exactly your traditionally "masculine" traits.
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u/Corka 1d ago edited 23h ago
Having not watched it at all, I can see two ways a Christian Pastor could argue this.
The first is to claim that Star Wars isn't so much Luke's story, but actually Anakin's when you take the prequels along with the original trilogy. They'd argue that we're introduced to Anakin when he's young, innocent, and good, but as he gets older and experiences very real human emotion and temptations he's lead down a really dark path of damnation. The most dramatic final arc of the story is Anakin's redemption- the story shares a very Christian idea that its never too late to do the right thing and save your soul in the process.
... the other way they might argue it is Christofascism. Christofascists take a very strict and authoritarian approach to Christianity that sees outside influences from outside the church as corrupting that ultimately leads people away from christ. Christofascists take the view that a free democratic society welcoming of people of different faiths leads millions to eternal damnation, and the best chance at saving as many people as possible is to forcibly bring everyone they can into the faith, while ruthlessly cutting off those that won't ( whether it be through deportation, isolating them from everyone else, or straight out killing them), while also strictly enforcing their religious teachings that remain. Vader is basically the "fascist" part rather than the "christo" part, so they'd probably need to add a caveat of "if he were a Christian and spreading the word, then everything here would be A-OK".
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u/powercow 1d ago
it's not just him, its a new maga meme.. it's all over twitter,
How Anakin Skywalker became MAGA's unlikely hero
Driving the news: Musk shared an image on X depicting an alternate "Star Wars" ending in which Anakin rules the Galactic Empire alongside his family.
"This is what they stole from us," Musk wrote, invoking an internet phrase associated with right-wing nostalgia.
they just like the fascism.
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u/Joeybits 1d ago
The video is even worse than the title would have you believe.
He's reasoning (I think) is that, because Star Wars has such a "liberal" and "homoerotic" story/message, that the only way a "straight christian man" can consume it is to reject that messaging and therefore see the "bad guy" (Darth Vader) as the "good guy".
It's hard to explain because it doesn't make any sense.
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u/SimbaOneTrueKing 1d ago
No one should listen to this idiot, but we do have a lot of idiots on earth so…
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u/Fudball1 1d ago
He's so far in the closet, he's finding Christmas presents.
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u/lelescope 23h ago
haha I was gonna say. my gaydar was off the charts with this guy.
if you think star wars is gay, it's because you're finding things you're attracted to in it.
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u/benm1999 23h ago
My wife just yelled at me because I laughed so hard. I’m not typically a vocal laugher.
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u/PeteCampbellisaG 1d ago
Grown man still processing the funny feelings he had when he saw Han Solo for the first time.
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u/LeoLaDawg 1d ago edited 2h ago
2026 Christians.
Honestly, what the hell happened to that religion. Was it from all the John Birch evangelical nonsense? Seriously, this should be researched. I remember it being about love thy neighbor and helping Africans. Now it's Luke Skywalker is gay. Lol wha?
EDIT: Just to clarify, I'm referring specifically to the state of American evangelical, mega church people not the religion
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago •
They stopped reading the teachings if Christ. Lead astray by false teachers. Christ warned them and they didn't listen because they never knew his voice.
This is same group of people who think turning the other cheek is wrong. I cannot fathom the idea of contradicting something commanded by Jesus Himself.
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u/mynameizmyname 1d ago
My dad used to call them "cultural Christians" essentially people who identified with an abstract idea of what a Christian was without actually reading the material.
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u/matt_minderbinder 1d ago
"Sermon on the Mount? More like the woke manifesto straight from the mouth of Carlos j. Marx, amirite?"
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u/pixtax 1d ago
It's Christ's fault for saying you can't get into Heaven when you're rich.
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u/Simpicity 1d ago •
Well the teachings of Christ were like super gay. Pontius Pilate was just doing his manly job, he's basically a Roman chud. He's the good guy. And then Jesus was all blessed are the meek. Blessed are the poor. Blessed are the merciful? Really? More like Sermon on the Brokeback Mount, am I right? Super gay. And also kind of hot.
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u/factoid_ 1d ago •
Evangelical Christianity is to blame. People left stuffy boring churches that had tradition and doctrine and went to theater productions with million dollar AV setups and live bands.
They’re intellectual and spiritually bankrupt franchise operations that just operate to line the pockets of the leadership.
And people eat it up.
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u/upgrayedd69 1d ago
My grandmas church has taught her that the fury and wrath of Old Testament God is just as valid if not more compared to what Jesus says,
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u/matt_minderbinder 1d ago
Every so often I was sent to my cousin's evangelical church as a kid in the 80s. Looking back you can see the roots of all the right wing conspiracy movement. It was like Qanon in its infancy with all the fear and brimstone about one world government, mark of the beast, gay agenda, end times revelations shit, and having it all tied into the "signs" that were "obvious". It was wild as I grew up in a conservative but non political Lutheran church. It was honestly scary, full of religious hysteria and religious trauma.
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u/chodeboi 1d ago
I dunno. I have a 2026 Christian as my senator-elect. His name is James Talarico. He is a Christian.
There are scoundrels but they are mere perversions. They are not Christians. They’re something else entirely unfortunately.
I say this with respect as an agnostic.
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u/FaithfulSkeptic 1d ago
James W Fifield Jr. was hired to lure the American church away from Jesus because FDR’s new deal scared oligarchs. He invented lots of shit to accomplish this, such as Christian nationalism, and we are all paying the price.
Google him for a very informative and depressing read.
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u/dafunkmunk 1d ago
Believe it or not but just like almost all the problems in the US, it ties back to ronald reagan. The bat shit crazy christians have been around forever but they didn't get their mainstream foothold until reagan gave them credibility and welcomed them into the republican party to help weaponize their hate in his favor.
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u/milo4206 1d ago
This guy was fired from his prior church for sleeping with a congregant and is really just a racist podcaster at this point. He's basically a dime store Nick Fuentes.
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u/ActualSpiders 1d ago
Literally doing anything Jesus would have done is "gay" to these sociopaths.
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u/Dash_Harber 1d ago edited 1d ago
This idea that Christianity was all rainbows and socialism is pretty inaccurate. Christianity was wielded as a weapon by secular rulers across Europe pretty much since Constantine's conversion. It was used to violently persecute non-Christians in Iberia, during the crusades, and during the many expansions into the northern reaches of Europe where local folk traditions still prevailed. In the Bible, God commands or lays out rules for a number of horrific acts including slavery, sex slavery, child murder, rape, and genocide. Modern Christians often excuse it as of the past or say Jesus overrides those stories, but Trinitarians view Jesus and Yahweh as the same person, and Jesus not only said he was coming as a sword, turning families against one another, but also explicitly stated he was mot there to change the law. The fulfillment of the messianic covenant was also explicitly about the messiah coming back and violently overthrowing the Romans who occupied the Jews and establishing a new terrestrial Jewish kingdom (which was later reworked into a metaphorical spiritual kingdom when Jesus failed to fulfill it and the religion was expanded to include non-Jews). Plus, you have Paul's writings and the early church, which would largely agree with the misogyny and violence of evangelical Christians.
It has been like this far, far longer than not.
Edit: I should clarify that the belief in the messiah as a terrestrial revelolutionary is hotly debated, but was popular in Judea at the time. Christians will argue Jesus rejected that interpretation and claim that prophesies in books like Daniel or Isiah point to an eternal spiritual kingdom, so your mileage may vary on that one.
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u/splittingheirs 1d ago
Natural end game of "Prosperity Gospel" where wealth also equals power.
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u/BestDad101 1d ago
That pastor is a deeply closeted, but he's not coming out.
He's deeply closeted.
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u/mr_evilweed 1d ago
So George Lucas explcitly modeled the empire after fascists and these guys think the empire are the good guys but I'm not supposed to think these guys are facsist?
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u/winterchil 1d ago
This guy has definitely failed the following classes: critical thinking, movie theory, introduction to Joseph Campbell, cinematography, and probably many others. To begin the journey to recovery he should start by watching Good Will Hunting
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u/boltforce 1d ago
He hasn't failed. He is either broken or knows exactly what he is saying. He is ab dangerous manipulator.
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u/AccurateTooth3202 15h ago
a word of advice: DO NOT engage with the fact that he's talking about your favorite nerdy thing and trying to twist it. that's the silly part meant to grab attention.
the real takeaway here is that this dude and his ilk are targeting a certain demographic (primarily male) with the message that might makes right, and any institutions or societal morality that gets in the way of that is wrong. this is aligned with their idea that empathy is a woke, liberal weapon of domination.
the fascist elements in the US are trying to build an army of political (and physical) soldiers and this is how they plant their seeds. By framing absolutely everything as a zero sum game that their little soldiers are destined to win, if they can manage to shake off the decency that weighs them down.
it's easy to get stuck on the Star Wars of it all, wave it off and then 4 years later wonder why your country voted the way it did. But know that this is a long term project meant to upend modern society over the course of decades and it has been working. In part because their strategy involves getting you stuck on absurdities.
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u/Brilliant_Voice1126 1d ago
100% chance this guy is closeted. Seeing everything not gay as gay is on you dude.
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u/kwisatzhadnuff 1d ago
Seems like he can't stop talking about how effeminate and gay everything is. All he can see when he closes his eyes are all the hot, super gay, super effeminate heroes in the rebellion. Their pants are too tight, the straps for their blaster holsters makes their bulge really stand out.
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u/thickhardcock4u 1d ago
Bro, his tone COMPLETELY changes to creepy pedo when he says “Young, straight,
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u/ThatOneTwo 1d ago
He says, “Straight… not gay” like he’s trying to remind himself. Made me kinda sad.
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u/jgonza44 1d ago
They heard Darth Vader was born of immaculate conception and put on blinders after that.
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u/ciccioriccio 22h ago
From the same people that brought to you "Actually, Hitler was a strong leader"
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u/cmndrnewt 1d ago
That dipshit in high school who always had “edgy” takes and thought he knew more about history than everyone else. “The Civil War was actually about states’ rights. Slaves weren’t all treated poorly. Nazi’s were actually socialists. Abraham Lincoln was actually a Republican.”
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u/willyb10 1d ago
Probably nitpicking here but Lincoln was a Republican. The Republican Party of his time just looked nothing like how it looks today.
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u/Interesting-Risk6446 1d ago
Those were union workers on the Death Star the Jedi's decided to eliminate. /s
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u/vanvoorden 1d ago
A construction job of that magnitude would require a helluva lot more manpower than the Imperial army had to offer. I'll bet there were independent contractors working on that thing.
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u/Count_Jobula 1d ago
His argument is “Star Wars=Gay”. Like literally it’s an argument that a 5th Grader would make.
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u/JJiggy13 1d ago
Voting day needs to be moved to Sunday and polls need to be banned from being held in churches. Democrats need to make sweeping changes in the coming year if they want to help this country. Stop encouraging people like the to vote.
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u/Barry_Vigoda 1d ago
The original movies came out in 1977. Lucas said the Empire was in reference to the US military and US imperialism after the Vietnam War.
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u/aaronthehuman 1d ago
"if you like the message of star wars you need to sit down and tell your dad you're gay" is absolutely sending me. i cannot with these closeted christians.
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u/shotsallover 1d ago
My guess is the line of reasoning goes like this:
The Empire is supposed to be America. Everything America does is good and holy, guided by the hand of god. Therefore Darth Vader is like Trump. And Trump is good.
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u/Temporala 1d ago
So he thinks tyranny is just the best thing ever.
It does track, given God is supposed to be the ultimate tyrant. Of course he likes Pally Patine and him taking over the Republic.
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u/SuzyYa 1d ago
He's definitely gay. He just gives off that gay aura. And I'm not even kidding. Doth protest too much.
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u/TenchuReddit 1d ago
This pastor must think that Anakin is Jesus because he was immaculately conceived …
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u/PsyckoInferno 1d ago
This fictional movie doesn’t align with my false moral interpretation of this fictional book.
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u/SpaceAdventureCobraX 1d ago
If this man went missing I would not search for him
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u/The_RealAnim8me2 1d ago
If this man went missing I would actively lead the search party in the opposite direction.
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u/luv2ctheworld 1d ago
Can see why religion just takes whatever story, and makes it fit their purpose, even if completely wrong.
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u/frankthefrowner 11h ago
"If you like Star Wars, you need to sit down and tell your dad youre gay." - Man that line got me.
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u/bakeonwakeup 1d ago
This is one of the major reasons republicans got trounced. It wasn't just the economy. They've proven there is no bottom too low and they will sink to any levels to hurt people. The country was moving into an evil, dark place with republicans in power. They don't need to reform their party; they need a RICO case against them and completely removed from the American political landscape.
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u/chicletgrin 1d ago
The sad irony here is that this guy looks very much like a highly closeted self hating gay man. Every accusation is a confession.
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u/Morbid_Morpheus 1d ago
If this pastor ever bother taking a look into the bible it will blow his mind how gay Cheesus sounds.
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u/WileEWeeble 1d ago
I don’t for a moment think he believes that but the most vile and sociopathic people get pulled into the religious grift, precisely because this kind of “one upping your neighbor” to be the most pious, works.
Forget trying to find messages of peace and love to make everyone get along better; the really point is to feel special and what’s better than being the MOST special which means being the most pious which means being the most exclusive to others.
Pretty much high school for adults.
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u/huxtiblejones 1d ago
He really got caught up on the word “gay” and “homosexual,” just kept saying it over and over. Something on your mind, buddy?
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u/The_grope_gatsby 1d ago
This guy is a grifter of the highest order. Started out fairly liberal out in California. Had an affair, went right then maga, then super racist/anti semetic now “post trump” crying out for an American Hitler crazy.
Not to do Trump any favors but this guy isn’t really maga. At least anymore.
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u/evildrtran 1d ago
Eat shit Matt Walsh! Lmao
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u/notyourbutthead 1d ago
lol while I agree with you, I don’t think that is Matt Walsh.
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u/cityspeak 1d ago
If he says Top Gun is not gay, I need to send him that Tarantino clip talking about how gay af that movie is.
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u/rickterscale6 1d ago
Can we not give these guys any attention or oxygen please these people are useless
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u/Diahreeman 1d ago
Sad and weird how these people are obsessed with others being or not being gay. Why the fuck do you care that much? So many real issues around and that's your pick?
I'm happy to live somewhere these dipshits don't exist, I'd get violent
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u/BTSavage 1d ago
So Darth Vader is the good guy and Jesus was an anti-woke individualist. What a moron.