• ℛ𝒶𝓋ℯ𝓃@pawb.social
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    10 months ago

    I’ve grown up in the same educational situation, and this is exactly what I’ve experienced. Their attempted indoctrination turned me into a liberal, antichristian agnostic. But with mental health issues, because emotional abuse is better than “letting your kid go to hell”…

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      10 months ago

      Well Jesus was a peace loving socialist hippy, who would have been seen as a woke liberal by any US Christian conservative. They would have crucified him and not seen the irony.

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        They were also warned about the antichrist, and then elected the embodiment of the warning almost identically.

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          It’s a popular theory that the antichrist thing was an attack on Nero, who was persecuting Christians at the time Revelations was written.

          But then that means Trump is nearly identical to the Bible’s description of Nero.

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      10 months ago

      Well, they were at least partially successful, then. If you’re really “liberal” then you believe in at least some parts of capitalism and think thay the “bad” parts can be “fixed”.

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        10 months ago

        Unless you’re talking to an American and making an incorrect assumption about what they mean by “liberal”.

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          10 months ago

          In which case I would still stress the importance of understanding what the fuck “liberal” actually means

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            10 months ago

            When one person uses a word with an unusual meaning, they’re just wrong. When a whole country does it it’s a difference of dialect. Are you gonna try to argue that American English is wrong?

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              10 months ago

              Yes, just because nazis called themselves “national socialists” didn’t actually make them socialists in any shape or form.

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                10 months ago

                Ditto for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK; aka North Korea). People often intentionally misuse words to obfuscate their true intentions, particularly those with an authoritarian or fascist slant.