• Riskable@programming.dev
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    1 month ago

    He claims heaven isn’t a place, it’s a person, and that he entered that person.

    Now he’s reminded of heaven everywhere he looks. The trees, the mountains, etc.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    "When you have to fill a 24h news day you can literally drag up brain injured crazy people and just let them talk! "

    -giggling ceo

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    Ah, if Jesus was born in the stable, makes sense he grew up as a horse. Or perhaps as a camel, trying to go through the eye of a needle.

  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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    The bigger story is that Fox put this guy on air and acted like there was some legitimacy to it. The guy himself at least has an excuse for acting brain dead. What’s the excuse for the viewers?

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      Gabe added that ‘in America, Jesus has been misrepresented. And there are so many cultural things that present him as if he’s some tolerant guy.’

      There is your answer right there. They know their credulous audience and they have their message to push.

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        Yep there’s a deliberate effort to train people into hateful Nazi fucks and get them to accept violence and cruelty. And it needs to be treated like the terrorist movement it is.

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          Specifically evangelical Christians. It’s a very tricky thing to navigate because on the one hand we are taught absolute biblical inerrancy, but it’s crucial to redefine a lot of Christ’s message that gets leveraged by people with actual humanity, because a lot of it can be made to sound, well, awfully socialist.

          So I think there is a deliberate, if not coordinated and conspiratorial, effort to thread that needle. AI is also a really potent vector for this. Evangelical Christians are simultaneously 3 things:

          1. Completely devoted to scripture as the perfect and inerrant word of god
          2. largely unfamiliar with scripture itself - the bible is perfect but it’s more of a cookbook than a manual, much less a library.
          3. Weirdly open to God speaking and working in all kinds of ineffable ways, even if the resulting doctrines contradict the scripture they aren’t familiar with anyway - such as God “clarifying misinterpretation“ through AI, or through the ramblings of someone with a traumatic brain injury.

          Here is the trick - I remember understanding the rhetorical genius of it when I first heard it, even before I deconstructed:

          God’s word is inerrant - our understanding of it is not.

          It might sound tinfoil hatted, but I think this is a lever actively being pulled by the Epstein class.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Was probably a distraction day.

      Like the time Paul Manafort was indicted and Faux News suddenly decided that the cheese placement on Google’s hamburger emoji was the biggest and most important thing happening that day.

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    The impact cracked the then 20-year-old’s skull, causing a traumatic brain injury

    Sounds about right

  • GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Gabe added that ‘in America, Jesus has been misrepresented. And there are so many cultural things that present him as if he’s some tolerant guy.’

    🤦

    • HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.world
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      My dude, it’s written down. There’s an actual book. But this is America, so he very likely can’t read.

      Also note my surprised face that the entire account is vaguely homoerotic. Yet again, repressed sexuality seems to be at play here.

  • Susaga@sh.itjust.works
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    I think the brain injury has him a little confused. He spent 18 days with a 6ft Mustang full of testosterone called Jesús, and it was heavenly.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    My mom for a while believed a TV evangelist for a while, I’ll always remember his shit name. Jesse Duplanis. Told everyone he went to heaven and met Jesus on a deathbed experience before being “sent back to preach the good book”. Of course it was the abundance gospel of he just happened to have a private jet and multiple mansions.

    My gullible naive mother sent him money when she was most destitute thinking he knew how to make things better. At one point it was a full tithe, 10% of her income. I hope he rots in the ground.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      Apparently he’s still around.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Duplantis

      In May 2018, national news media outlets reported that Duplantis had asked his followers to donate money to him so that he could buy a Dassault Falcon 7X, valued at $54 million.[4][5][6] Duplantis said that his organization, Jesse Duplantis Ministries, had already paid for three private jets by 2006, and that he had been using them by “just burning them up for the Lord Jesus Christ.” Duplantis defended his choice by saying: “I really believe that if Jesus was physically on the earth today he wouldn’t be riding a donkey. Think about that for a minute. He’d be in an airplane preaching the gospel all over the world.”[7] In response to a wave of criticism, Duplantis stated on his ministry website, “I’m not asking you to pay for my plane, I’m asking you to pray for my plane.”[8]

      In 2016, Duplantis and fellow televangelist Kenneth Copeland defended their use of private jets with the claim that commercial planes were full of “demons”.[9]

      A few weeks later, Duplantis claimed the Second Coming was held up by a lack of donations, while touting his multi-millionaire status.[13]

      In February 2024, Duplantis was named as a defendant in an amended civil securities fraud complaint filed by Colorado regulators concerning the promotion of the cryptocurrency INDXcoin. The complaint alleges that Duplantis was among individuals recruited by Denver pastor Eli Regalado to help sell unlicensed securities within Christian communities and that certain recruits received commission payments. The broader case claims INDXcoin raised more than $3 million from over 300 investors between 2022 and 2023 through promises of guaranteed returns based on divine guidance.

  • W. Pilecki@piefed.social
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    Cf. Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez:

    Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping account of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, showing how American evangelicals have worked for decades to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism, or in the words of one modern chaplain, with “a spiritual badass.”