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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You guys have "a Religion"?

[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 year ago (4 children)

American Christianity. It's like Christianity but cutting out all the stuff that Christ guy talked about.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Christ: When someone slaps you turn the other cheek.

Conservative Christians: Instructions unclear, passes stand your ground law and turns their cheek onto iron sights and starts blastin.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Basically they just expect anyone they abuse to turn the other cheek instead of following the example themselves...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Supply Side Jesus

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So like anti-Christians? And him their antichrist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

jesus christ that bible guy was clueless. Its best to just go with baby jesus and leave out that hippie one.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump is the religion. Next move is to deport anybody that doesn’t follow it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then when deportation proves too expensive...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, the teleportation chambers…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

It’s more like a cult

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

American religion is the worship of money. Sometimes it takes the guise of Christianity but eschews any of the real lessons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I know people have said "money," but if there's anything akin to "a Religion," it's American Fundamentalism, the weird amalgamation of white supremacy, conspiracy theories, Christian fundamentalism, apocalypticism, colonialism, constitutional originalism, and American nationalism.

It's festered beneath the surface for decades, and Trump was the first to seize upon the true believers and become their defacto demigod. He even has actual pastors revering him not just for his rhetoric but as an actual messiah figure.