• DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    2 months ago

    I haven’t watched The Ten Commandments in a long while so please help me remember. Wasn’t worshipping a false idol considered a BAD thing?

    • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      38·
      2 months ago

      I think there is literally a story in the bible where someone puts a golden goat in his garden or wherever and then gets punished by god

      Edit: It was a golden calf

      • manefraim@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Any true Christian would know this story. You’re either not Christian, or Evangelical Christian.

        • Machinist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Born and raised in fundamentalist evangelical Christianity. The vast majority of evangelicals will know the story of Moses and the golden calf.

          A significant minority of evangelicals actually regularly study the Bible. (I used to be one of them.) They tend to be the core of the membership and teach classes and have leadership positions. See Mike Johnson for an example.

          The level of internal propaganda is wild. To be able to maintain that faith while regularly studying the Bible takes a lot of willing suspension of disbelief. Basically, they live in a bubble where they self-censor incoming information.

          Something like the ex-mormon CES Letter is needed for the evangelicals. Homeschooling also needs to have required curriculum to give children logical tools.

          Conservative cultural christians are a different problem and probably what you’re actually thinking of. They’re useful idiots for the far right as well as the evangelicals. They really don’t know much about the Bible or denominations around them and tend to believe what they were told last by far right media or their smart uncle who’s into conspiracy theories and shit. Political and religious outrage as entertainment.

          • manefraim@lemm.eeEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            What a wonderful and illuminating reply to my snarky sarcasm! Thank you! That’s all very interesting.

        • BleakBluets@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          2 months ago

          And this was written before the Trump assassination attempt. Revelations 13 describes a beast healing from a fatal wound. There’s also this bit which could read like it describes a loyalist vice president who prevents economic deals with countries who don’t display loyalty to the president (i.e. wearing a hat that displays his name and number “Trump 45-47”).

          [11] Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. [12] It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. [13] And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. [14] Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. [15] The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. [16] It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, [17] so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.

          Edit: I see now there are updates at the bottom of the article that mention the same points I did.

          • CubitOom@infosec.pubEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Sounds more like Musk than Vance, what with spacex and X(.com), especially if in the future X actually becomes the American equivalent of Wechat and a state funded and required everything app.

            • BleakBluets@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              True, especially if you consider the line:

              [15] The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.

              Sounds like Elon’s recent AI generated video of Trump cleansing Gaza.

        • Bonifratz@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I remember this from back then. The cool thing is, it looks like the author has been keeping it updated!

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      The whole point of the antichrist is they rise to power by exploiting Christians and their faith…

      Like, everything about the two line up that I’m starting to think trump is literally using the myth as a blueprint. Like, at some point someone told him about it, and his first and only thought was:

      I bet they’re dumb enough to really fall for that

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      Yes, but only if one was actually a believer of said religion.

      “Christian” Nationalists are just Nazis With An Excuse.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      Wasn’t worshipping a false idol considered a BAD thing?

      Just don’t consider it a false idol. That’s the trick.

      Stick your money-plated golden calf in a big box and have four old dudes carry it around on a palanquin. Then get a dozen DOGE agents to lead it in front of a government agency, blow their shofars, and pull funding until it collapses.

      Boom. Straight out of the Book of Joshua, Chapter 6. Not much more holy than the Siege of Jericho.

    • Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yeah. It’s one of the few things the Bible is fairly consistent about, along with golden calf/bronze bull imagery. I’m pretty sure there’s a historical religious explanation for why the Bible consistently referenced gold/bronze cattle, but I find it fascinating and kinda sad that they’re so blatantly worshipping something that the Bible consistently says is wrong. Like, there’s a lot of stuff in the Bible where it says one thing and then later says, “actually, wait, just kidding lol”; but it consistently talks about not worshipping idols while using cattle imagery.

      • Maeve@kbin.earth
        7·
        2 months ago

        No, I didn’t. I just was stunned they profaned yhwh and Baphomet. I guess they’ll get around to Kali and Shiva eventually. Got to cover all the bases, I guess. 🤷‍♀️

        • Optional@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Well, you’ve got to appreciate that not only are they ridiculously ignorant and incompetent, they’re also disturbingly hypocritical.

          They only serve the one true deity, except when they don’t.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            2·
            2 months ago

            No, they never stay from worshipping , Mammon, and I daresay plenty of people, regardless of their religion or lack thereof, also do.

  • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    Now I don’t believe a word of the Bible, but this guy checks off so many anti-Christ boxes it’s getting harder and harder to see how the people who do believe that stuff don’t see it.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I’m not a Christian but man this Trump guy keeps matching what revelations said the anti christ would be so well that I might look into the religion if it wasn’t oppressing me and I wasn’t already happy with my gods

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    Trump is literally the Anti-Christ, he takes Christians away from Christ and thinks it’s funny.

    I actually read a report somewhere that said Christians were having to choice between their Churches and Trump… and they choose Trump