This is Republican Jesus who hates brown people and loves rich people.

Fundamentalists and Evangelicals try to interpret the book of Revelation “literally.” Most scholars think it was code-speak to give hope to contemporaries being oppressed by the Roman Empire, but these people think it’s prophecy that will be fulfilled at the apocalypse.

Revelation, as they read it, describes an anti-Christ figure, who is a Jewish man, who will unite the world under one government and broker peace for a short time before a period of unimaginable suffering and destruction. Conveniently, they read between the lines and have convinced themselves that “real Christians” will be swept away in the clouds and spared from all that suffering.

Jesus eventually ends up flying down on a white horse with all the real Christians and angels and skewers the anti-Christ, his followers, and non-Christians with swords that shoot out of his mouth and casts them into a bottomless pit.

I mean, it’s really wild stuff. And apparently it’s informing US policy. They want all of this to happen, but they just want to be on the “right” side of it. This pastor isn’t saying they shouldn’t try for peace - just that Christians should furrow their brows about it so God won’t leave them behind.

MAGA pastors hate woke baby jesus. Also, they don’t pay taxes.

His Jesus is "Do onto others as they would do onto you, except that fucker over there. Shoot him with a howitzer."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon

And every religious nutsack writes their own fanfiction of it, but Israel getting destroyed is usually the central part, so it kind of has to happen, or the "Second Coming of Christ" can not happen.

Jesus is whatever the fuck these cunts want him to be, period.

Book of Revelations mostly. Basically a fanfic about how Rome was going to get wiped out and Christianity would get all their swag. Jesus does not come off as a nice guy in it.

Disagree with your assessment of Jesus being all about peace stuff.

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

-Matthew 10:34

Also fun fact, if you note every time someone has a sword than from the Baptism to the Crucifixion someone is always armed in every scene that involves more than one person.

Genuinely? They believe that when peace happens there it is the final sign of the end times and the second coming is literally happening. And yes... It will be the work of the anti-christ because he is supposed to be some great world leader.

Sucks that this raging asscunt won’t realize that his worldview is a fucking moronic lie that he bought.

According to every preacher on the streets, hell is where all the cool kids hang out. So come join the antichrist if you enjoy sexual liberation, witchcraft, intersectional feminism, psychedelics, or metal music! Or stay with the preachers if you support church funded child diddlers.

We also have devil's food cake

He once said God “sent Hitler to help Jews reach the Promised Land.” https://politomix.com/democracy-now/2093531/march-israel-speaker-pastor-hagee-once-said-god-sent-hitler/

Hagee and he (at least) used to have an outsized influence over Christian thought, radio and TV.

Niche influencer, but effective.

Mostly he's famous amongst MAGAs and therefore dangerous and an awful person.

Burying your head in the sand doesn't stop these people from getting their message to their supporters.

Stop acting like ignoring the problem gives you some high ground over them. You need to know what they're saying in order to counteract.

I think so. Or he's volunteering to be sent over there with a rifle and a new pair of boots.

Don't stop at Abrahamic religions. Look at all the fun people in India are having with extremist Hindus.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/asia/india-hindu-extremist-groups-intl-hnk-dst/index.html