• FrChazzz@lemmus.org
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    12 hours ago

    Let me start by saying a few things about myself (bear with me): I’m a priest in the Episcopal Church and have been for 15 years. I felt called to ordained ministry starting at a young age and so have been reading and studying the Bible since I was in elementary school (though I began my life as a Southern Baptist). I have been a literal life-long student of the Bible and theology. My undergraduate degree is in Biblical Studies. That educational process resulted in me leaving the Baptist church and leading me to the Episcopal Church and toward the priesthood, where I also began to move toward the left in my politics. I enrolled in seminary, which is a graduate studies program. I have a Master’s in Divinity (like most ordained clergy), and my studies centered on Patristics, postmodern theology, and Queer theology (my thesis was on reconciling traditional Christian understandings of marriage with the idea of same-sex marriage in order to demonstrate that same-sex marriage is not incompatible with Christian teachings on marriage). All of that work was heavily centered on the Bible and close readings of the Bible, in addition to a whole library of other sources stretching back centuries. So I not only know the Bible, I also know the work of many theologians and scholars related to both the Bible and the traditions of the Church. I am, all things considered, an expert in my field–as is befitting of a professional.

    Which is all a preface to saying this: this video is the most Antichrist adjacent thing I’ve probably ever seen.

  • OldChicoAle@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I didn’t know draft dodgers were brave and courageous and heaven-sent. You learn something new everyday.

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      11 hours ago

      I dont even like that, it gets all mixed with those like closet pedophiles who look at csam but never actually touch a child.

      He’s a full blown child sex trafficking ring leader and serial violent child rapist and murderer.

      I appreciate the sentiment of the image but I really can’t anymore with not calling him out for exactly what he is and not sugarcoating anything about it and the slightest.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    I love how there’s a clip for basically everything that’s said, except for him going to church. They couldn’t even be bothered to put stock footage of a church, but I don’t think there’s video evidence of Trump ever stepping inside of one.

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    20 hours ago

    They had an AI man voice read this because no living human on Earth or in orbit would be able to do it without puking on themselves due. Trump’s cringemaxxing.

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    17 hours ago

    Choosing to show himself manhandling Melania to pull her into line/himself as she tried to get some distance from him, twice. Just in case any of you women get any funny ideas.

  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    Someone’s experiencing narcissistic injury this morning! I wonder what diaper-filled mania he was in this morning to make this distraction feel appropriate.

    Every one of these stunts is another admission they have zero fucking clue how to make your life better or govern

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        4 hours ago

        His building was the tallest after 911 (which he bragged about) and it’s been years since it was. So he’s sad.

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      22 hours ago

      I think they know how to make people’s lives better perfectly well. That is simply not their goal.