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[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (16 children)

Now? Now?

I grew up with evangelicals who were enraged at the blasphemous insult that God did not control the Earth absolutely, and therefore the earth couldn't be getting hotter unless God decided it was time for judgement day, in which case, celebrate, because those jews are finally getting what's coming to them.

This sounds like mental illness to normal people...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Did you ever ask them about nuclear bombs and we could wipe out all life except cockroaches several times over and make the earth uninhabitable for 10000 years or did this not count?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

America is God's vessel.

Seriously, that's what "Under God" meant to them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Yeah, "under god" was not added to currency or the pledge until 1954, in response to the civil rights movement of the era. The founding fathers would have be rolling in their grave if they could.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/14/the-gripping-sermon-that-got-under-god-added-to-the-pledge-of-allegiance-on-flag-day/

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