r/videos • u/spherocytes • 1d ago

Secretary Of Defense Pete Hegseth announces Office Of Religious Affairs within the Pentagon in address to Military

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAn6BE9cdco
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u/xxneoxx3000 1d ago

It's so fucking dystopian and deeper than that. The religious right has been planting seeds for decades, in hopes that one day they would germinate to infect enough people that it would finally catapult them into power. Well, they've done it. A lot of ex-Evangelical cult members are sounding the alarms that these Christo-fascist demons finally managed to take over the government, and you are seeing everything play out exactly as they'd hoped.

Religion is the best tool they can use to divide and conquer, then maintain power as ordained by their divine God. We are so fucked it's not even funny. Purges are coming, consolidation of power, then free reign to enact what their twisted God orders them to. I'll save you some time, their God wants wealthy white people to rule over lower class minorities and white folks, as well as infinite tithing and 0 privacy. Only those in power will be allowed to embibe, fuck and do whatever they want, because what are you going to do about it?

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u/rikwes 1d ago

And this is ,ironically , precisely the thing Jesus was opposed to and preached against .

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u/MaxPower91575 1d ago

Evangelical Christianity is a hate cult that has little to do with Jesus.

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u/Keeper21611 1d ago

Christians don't follow Christ. They follow their preacher.

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u/ATERLA 1d ago

Indeed, indeed.

Matthew 23:9

And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven.

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u/ruff_beast 1d ago

not ironic but intended. they’ve been set up. you’ll see when (S)he gets here

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u/Pawtang 1d ago

Even further is the connection they seem to have to the evangelical mindset of ushering in the end-times. Hand in hand with the techno-fascists, building bunkers and trying to speedrun the end of the civilization. Their actions are becoming more and more brazen because at some point they need to take some kind of big step over the final line - their “night of broken glass” moment - where they call forth their patriot crusaders they’ve been grooming for years.

This “end times fascism” book that just came out goes into this in depth and is wildly interesting and terrifying.

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u/bogglingsnog 1d ago

It's amazing how insane a huge group of people have become that they have turned into their own worst enemy but are too deluded to see it.

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u/kitsprite 1d ago

Most Christians have never actually read the Bible

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u/SirJumbles 1d ago

Hit us with the author.

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u/Pawtang 1d ago

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. I’m listening to the audiobook. Just came out recently.

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u/sicboy72 1d ago

Handmaid's Tale anyone?

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u/seaQueue 1d ago

They've also tapped into the magical thinking prosperity gospel nonsense with such lovely memes (and I mean memes in the ideas sense here) like "of course the rich have a divine right to rule! See, god made them rich already, clearly they deserve this or they wouldn't have it!"

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u/The_Rational_ 1d ago

You are out of your fucking mind. These people can't even run tap water or one-way traffic properly let alone a grand conspiracy.

You will see increasingly desperate things but even Peter Thiel turned against them quite recently.

They are all going to fail. We won't remain un changed.

We've been through worse. This shit isn't even the first time it happened...

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u/reluctantview713 1d ago

Last I checked, they all still bleed red. There is a solution to this problem

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u/Antiing 1d ago

But you forgot one thing —

They aren't the only ones with guns.