It should be much more at the forefront of our minds, the extent to which the most politically activated and politically empowered segment of the authoritarian American cult calling itself "Christian" see the apocalypse as something to hasten, not prevent.
Now ... I'm aware that there's a Christianity that doesn't ascribe to Rapture Theology and Prosperity Theology—I include myself—but I'm not inclined to make a differentiation betwixt and between, or to "not all Christians" this, for a few reasons:
1) This cult has infiltrated "regular" Christianity 2) regular Christianity accepts the graft, treating the madness as difference of opinion to accept rather than a defining break, because ... 3) This cult represents the more politically activated and influential group
What do they believe?
They believe they and they alone are chosen by God for eternal life.
That everybody else is chosen for eternal punishment.
That nothing they can do can change that.
That the world will be destroyed and God will evacuate them to a gated community afterlife.
Imagine what believing everyone but you and a few select people (who mostly look as you do) does to how you think other people should be treated. Or warnings of mass extinction.
You want the mass-extinction. You want the planet to burn. That's part of the plan.
Mass extinction? The planet destroyed?
That's how you get your gated community. That's how you get a better house.
It's a genocide theology. It's an apocalypse cult. It sold a billion copies of a book series called Left Behind.
It's running our government.
It is logically impossible to believe that you are in God's small select group of chosen beloved and that everyone else is rightfully doomed to eternal torture without on some level not caring what happens to those other people.
It's a genocide theology.
It is logically impossible to believe the end of the world means you're about to be catapulted out of a world of pain into a world of eternal joy without wanting the end of the world to happen.
It's an apocalypse cult.
The theology boils down to "the people who intrinsically matter will be evacuated out while those who intrinsically don't matter are destroyed."
How would one expect a political entity who believed this to react to global challenges? Exactly how the Republican Party is acting.
Horde wealth
Stockpile weapons
Favor the people who look like you (they aren't elect *because* they're white, how dare you suggest it, it's just that God's favored *happen* to be people who look like you, crazy coincidence that)
Demonize the rest
Get the women under control
My point is there may have never existed a greater threat to human life than the Christian-backed Republican Party.
They're an apocalypse cult with nukes and a genocide theology.
We have to demand Democrats deliver an uncompromising fight.
1) Voter and election protection/gerrymandering reform 2) Green energy/climate plan NOW 3) Then we start working on centering our other priorities on human thriving over corporate profit
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But we're often the sort of place that fails to maintain what it has built; mostly because maintenance costs eat into tax revenues, and revenues could be used for tax cuts, and tax cuts help profits, and profits are very important, so collapses are just a thing that is coming.
But even if we had performed adequate maintenance, the bridge was probably doomed. Dali is the size and mass of a skyscraper (far larger than container ships used to be—but larger ships lower prices in supply chains, and lower prices help profits, and profits are important).
I'd like everybody to yell at me, so I wrote about the upcoming election.
Or, to put it more specifically, I wrote about what an anti-fascist coalition might look like and how it might fall apart, using the election as a context.
We’re dealing with rising fascism both globally and domestically, as I might have mentioned once or twice recently—“domestically” for me meaning the United States, though maybe you find it is true in your part of the old cosmic blueball, too.
I think there are a lot of people who realize this and agree that it should be stopped, and that’s good for people who want to stop fascism’s rise—people who I am going to assume includes you, the reader of this. Isn’t that nice of me?
Say that the person who was the focus of the rally was a politician, a man who had once been president of the United States, had stopped being president of the United States, and now was running to be president of the United States again.
Say the person was going to use the rally to talk about all the violence he thought should happen, and who he thought the violence ought to happen to. Say all the people who came to the rally came because they liked to cheer at suggestions of violence.
At the U.S./Mexico border, Republicans are defending their right to make themselves feel safe by murdering refugee men, women, and children, using as rationale a once-fringe Nazi conspiracy theory they are promoting.
They’re talking about a civil war in order to protect this "right." And yes, they’re framing it all as self-defense, as if they—the ones eager to murder both foreigners and fellow citizens—are the ones in danger, and the rest of us—who they are eager to murder—are the danger.
And yes, they’re also against antisemitism, they’ll tell you, whenever they aren’t promoting their Nazi conspiracy theory.
Promoting ideas and actions in the name of some fine thing that you don’t believe in and might actually oppose is what is meant when someone says "bad faith."
For example say your name was Elise Stefanik, and you were for example a US Senator
Say also you belong to a political party whose leader is an open fascist who approvingly quotes Hitler in order to promote a conspiracy theory called ‘replacement’ that forms the undergirding bedrock of antisemitism, to better enact eliminationist brutality against refugees.
Now say that, in order to enact eliminationist brutality you find it useful to demolish and discredit things like awareness and knowledge and learning and the concept of knowable truth.