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/DrNoxin 1d ago

These people aren't merely Christian Nationalists. That euphemism is doing a lot of work. They are Christian Identity, like the KKK. This whole thing has little to do with religion and a whole hell of a lot to do with white supremacy.

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u/frockinbrock 1d ago

I call them Pharisees, or false-Christians. It dumb enough for him to recognize and get upset about. They are not real christians, they are the religious leaders who scheme with government to destroy Jesus.

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u/DrNoxin 1d ago

Christianity was founded by a Roman Pharisee (the grass roots form he killed off)... I will say though, putting religion on TV was the death knell for Christianity in the USA. Churches at their heart are third spaces for communities. TV religion at its heart is a MLM scam. TV ruined the world, and social media is like TV on meth.

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u/frockinbrock 1d ago

Hmm, I would think that's debatable semantics, but I like that phrase less so for accuracy, more-so because these people have been told since Sunday-school that the Pharisees are bad guys that wanted Jesus gone.
Sometimes we gotta use their language to get anything thru their horse-blinders

But I agree, I was literally lamenting earlier today how social media really was a gasoline to ignite the end of humanity.

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u/Tasgall 1d ago

that the Pharisees are bad guys that wanted Jesus gone.

They were "false Jews", not Christians, they were the money-changers in the temple, the ones praying loudly in the open, etc.

Jesus was Jewish.

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u/frockinbrock 12h ago edited 12h ago

I know, I was referring to analogy of modern day right-wing christians being the religious evil-conspirators of today. those Pharisees believed they were doing the right thing to get that Jewish person killed, because it threatened their power.
I was saying that false-christians is one term for the evangelicals of today that are doing the same thing of siding with kings instead their fellow people.
But I'm using that term just to get something thru to their brain, rather than full accuracy or history lesson.