‘Evangelicals For Harris’ Drops Brutal Ad Questioning If Trump is a ‘False Prophet’
‘Evangelicals For Harris’ Drops Brutal Ad Questioning If Trump is a ‘False Prophet’
"Maybe we shouldn't be worshipping this golden calf..."
That is such a good analogy, how did I never hear of that against "prophet Trump"?
how did you miss this?
I thought it was a golden toilet...
He might just be the antichrist...
I'm gonna leave this here.
I've been waiting for some big Christian group to come out against him for years and I'm thrilled it's finally happening.
Unfortunately the ad itself was a bit disappointing...not quite as brutal as the title would have you believe
Yeah, nothing brutal about Trump being Trump and then some Bible quote. Every single quote in the good book is against someone like Trump.
They should have put the relevant quotes about the antichrist under each video of him exhibiting said characteristic
This is more on the right track for how to de-cult people like Trump. Need more anti-Trump conspiracy theories and weirdo prophecies to get through to the crazies.
Every country has their 10% crazies. You don't need their votes to govern. Please focus on the 90% with good policy instead of normalizing idiot conspiracy theories.
I'm an atheist but if anybody got the bill for anti-christ it's this guy.
He is literally the Seven Deadly Sins mooshed into a fat suit.
Having been raised in a Catholic country and a fairly conservative parish, I truly don't understand the Christian votes for Trump
America has two christianities. And not in the normal “Protestants and Catholics are on the verge of another 30 years war at each other” way. But regardless of denomination we have groups of Christian’s who see Christianity not as a set of beliefs and duties but as an in group and tool to persecute those they don’t like. Trump is the guy who tells them that the reason things are bad is those dirty non Christians (which many American Protestants include Catholics in for some gods forsaken reason). He offers them power in exchange for looking the other way from his sins
As long time atheist and anti-theist, they love Trump because he's fulfilling a role of messiah (lowercase), an anointed one. You probably already know this, but it basically means that Trump is a king to them, that's what the anointed part is about. They're traditionalists (monarchists).
If you want to get how monarchism works in this context, try Wilhoit's Law: https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.
For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.
As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.
So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
Then the appearance arises that the task is to map “liberalism”, or “progressivism”, or “socialism”, or whateverthefuckkindofstupidnoise-ism, onto the core proposition of anti-conservatism.
No, it a’n’t. The task is to throw all those things on the exact same burn pile as the collected works of all the apologists for conservatism, and start fresh. The core proposition of anti-conservatism requires no supplementation and no exegesis. It is as sufficient as it is necessary. What you see is what you get:
The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288
And the Catholics in the US are likely to get in on the action, as evidenced by the Supreme Court and the people who made that happen. There's also a bunch of drama going on between them and the Pope.
I was raised religious and boy oh boy, let me tell ya, this guy ticks off so many checkboxes is not even a competition. Peak false prophet/antichrist criteria.
The only thing more convincing would be if his name was Mark Ofdabeest.
Nice.
You know it's serious when even the cults change prophets.
Biblically, there isn’t an antichrist. It’s not a proper noun, there’s not just one. Most Americans’ understanding of eschatology comes straight from Left Behind (and further back, Scofield), which has little connection to the actual text. (The number of Christians who refer to RevelationS, when the tittle of the text has no “s”….)
And I’d say Trump is definitely “anti-Christ.”
1 John 2:18 uses it both as a proper noun and as a generic noun, and nowadays "Antichrist" is more a colloquial name for the first beast of Revelation 13 even if that's not directly what the text clearly calls him.
Regardless, I agree Trump is very anti-Christ. Hard to read 1 John 4 and not see almost the opposite of him.
As someone who was traumatized by reading the entire Left Behind series at roughly 8, it’s very upsetting to see how happy the evangelical Christian’s that have spent the last attacking LGBT people based on faith have fallen behind a serial philanderer who has very likely raped children. They threat him like a golden calf.
Then again, I don’t know how one could read things like “when I was hungry you fed me” and vote against free school lunches or cutting EBT. I don’t believe in the divinity of Christ or any supernatural powers, but I don’t see how they don’t understand that they are acting like the “chaff.”
I can't think of a time in my Internet life when "Well, duh" was so often the most appropriate response to so many posts.
There was an article a while a go where someone looked into how the bible describes the anti-christ and while they initially did it just for fun, it became a bit more eerie, when Trump started hitting checkbox after checkbox after checkbox, leaving out pretty much none of them…
It's almost as if vague ramblings of a first century commoner (who was likely tripping balls) could be applied to any and every megalomaniacal tyrant we've ever had.
It was originally written about Nero.
Yes, that looks like it!
if? lol
Everyone running for president today is some combination of Hitler, Jesus, Lincoln, or Pol Pot.
"is that your bible?"
"IT'S A BIBLE"
Ok well better late than never, I guess, that Christians start pointing out how un-christian Trump is. But I doubt they'll connect the rest of the dots and reject the cruelty of conservatism altogether
He’s a convicted felon, rapist, and con man.
My evangelical family members seem to be as enthusiastic about Trump as ever. What has changed over the past weeks is that they are no longer sure he's going to win.
Dude is a spot on representation of their antichrist. Not that trump is anything other than a pathetic dipshit.
I have family that believe trump is necessary for Christianity to win and that I and my step-siblings are only safe because they are intervening for us. This is in central Ohio from evangelicals.
Now ask them if Christianity winning means purposefully bringing upon the end times.
The thought previously crossed my mind, but I don't think that's what they're going for and don't want to put any more strain on that relationship (people are more likely to be un-radicalized when family don't just pretend they no longer exist and I'd rather not create more conflict without a clear purpose and push them further into extremism).
On the one hand I really don't want their support or misguided views and priorities distracting or pushing Harris off course.
On the other hand fracturing a significant slice of the conservative base into not voting or voting against Trump would be delicious, especially if it meant more congressional and state seats to go blue because of it.
I thought he was literally anti-christ, but I guess false prophet isn't inaccurate.
No it's usually the democratic candidates/presidents who are called the anti-christ.
From the article: "TRMP"
Wake up babe. A new tetragrammaton just dropped.
Is false profit and Antichrist the same thing?
Basically yes? Antichrist is pluralized in the Bible in places and thus is not necessarily one individual. The false Prophets are described similarly.
Most of the pop culture picture of the Antichrist as a more singular entity is more like the Thessalonians "the man of sin"... Also known as the Man of Lawlessness, Apostasy, Insurrection, rebellion... One particularly agregious Antichrist that Jesus himself must come down and take out with a breath that exposes his naked wickedness to the worshipping masses who will realize that they are not among the saved. It's sometimes interpreted that this kicks off the second coming but it doesn't actually say that... It just says it happens sometime before the end of days which could mean it's distinctly apart from and not feature of the revelation. Like some kind of Jesus warm up cameo.
Really its kind of tempting to paint Trump and Evengelicals in that role. He wouldn't be the first nasty to wrap himself up in an altar cloth.
Biblical false prophet = competitor cult preacher that would compete with Jesus
Walter, Martin, the man in black, flagg, the walking dude, antichrists, all of them
At first I was annoyed, until I realized "drop" is an antagonym.
False profit for damn sure
Link directly to the ad please. Mediaite is a piece of shite.
The ad is on Twitter and Mediaite embeds the tweet, so it's not like that would be any better.
Ooh, can't wait for MAGA for Harris 🤭
Well duh
It's a good thing I guess but a 'prophet'? Is that what these people believe? He's a dangerous, sleazy grifter. Always has been, always will be.
The point of a "false prophet" is that they claim to speak for/act in the name of God for their own (evil) ends. False prophets are the highest tier of grifter in a religious context.
Yes, they believe it. They believe worse. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60246687-president-donald-j-trump-the-son-of-man---the-christ
If flying sky-daddy existed the orange gibbon would not. Ergo, in place of a Supreme being we get Mr. Cheeto.
God is testing us... /s
He's one of the horses that the 4 horsemen are riding. And he's jumping the republicans as hard and fast as he can. It's not how long you make it, is how you make it long. Unfortunately for him, he's basically flat and smooth down there. One would get more pleasure from someone rubbing a pimple between their republican butts. Meanwhile the true horseman has made their move invisibly. But the move is visible, we have judges who don't have our backs, we have laws that diminished the Rights of women, LGBTQA and other minorities. Where's the horseman? We know where trump is but he's so dumb he couldn't plan breakfast, much less cause laws.
What, did he say something remotely tolerant?
Chickens for KFC