• Localhorst86@feddit.org
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      43 minutes ago

      I believe this actually happened…

      Supporters lay their hands on President Donald Trump as they pray for him at the conclusion of a news conference in February 2020 (Getty Images)

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    well, duh?

    if you believe in God and you believe God has a plan, then this is part of that plan

    how many Christians don’t believe God has a plan?

    it was God’s plan for Charlie Kirkkk to die publicly. it was God’s plan for all those school children to die. it is God’s plan to abuse and murder non-whites in the US. it is God’s plan to have the wealthy and powerful abuse young women and for the masses to protect them

      • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world
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        Oh I’m aware it always has. I remember learning in grade school, about the Puritans coming to America and being told it was a good thing….

        (Spoiler: it wasn’t)

        But it’s getting worse every day.

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          Puritans coming to America and being told it was a good thing….

          I mean, there’s a world in which protestant refugees of the Thirty Years War don’t just show up and start slaughtering native peoples.

          In fact, quite a few early settler colonies ended up “Going Native” and integrating with local tribes, rather than clinging to European identity and loyalty.

          But the promise of a New World Gold Rush invited all the wrong kinds of migrants. Add in the Transatlantic slave trade, and you had a thoughtfully toxic stew of feudal politics layered atop capitalist expansion.

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      America has an individualism problem and well fuck me running if Christians just happen to be the absolute worst when it comes to the rights of others being of no consequence.

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        This is something that hit me like a ton of bricks after living abroad for a bit. It definitely made me think a lot about how much more pleasant things are when people are at least marginally considerate of others, and just how little some people seem to do it in the US.

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    In case you’re talking to a Christian, most believe that everything is a part of God’s plan, even the things they don’t like.

    It’s honestly more interesting that this doesn’t match up with the “do you identify as a Christian” stats. It would imply that there are a significant percentage of Christians who think that Trump is outside of God’s plan. Maybe God didn’t have Trump in his bingo card?

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      27%

      A Christian (or, really, anyone who believes in predestination) thinking “X is Part of God’s Plan” is perfectly consistent with their understanding of the world.

      It’s the Christians who don’t believe this who are being irrational

        • rbesfe@lemmy.ca
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          The winning candidate in the 2024 election was “none”

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            “Didn’t Vote” could as easily be “Any/All” as “None”. Also discounts the voters who were legally disenfranchised or otherwise discouraged from participating.

            Hence “not a democracy”. Voters don’t pick their politicians. Politicians pick their voters.

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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    TIL: 1/3 of the Americans are genuine morons. The more stupid the citizens, the greater the state. So, it’s MAGA all the way!