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White House / President Donald Trump claims credit American Pope Leo’s election - despite having nothing to do with Conclave. -- Instead of God appointing the King, Donald Trump is bigger than God He (www.independent.co.uk)

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White House / President Donald Trump claims credit for new American Pope Leo’s election - despite having nothing to do with Conclave. -- Instead of God appointing the King, now Donald Trump is bigger than God Himself, Allah

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Surkov / Surkovian meme inversion

"the church plays a crucial role in legitimizing and blessing a king's rule through coronation ceremonies and religious rituals like anointment. This process, rooted in the concept of the divine right of kings, signifies that the king's authority is derived from God and is not merely a secular power."

"Divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy in Western Christianity up until the Enlightenment. It is also known as the divine-right theory of kingship." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_right_of_kings

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Trump is, at least, real.

I keep explaining to Lemmy users over and over, that The Bible never claims God is real. It's spelled out :

Bible verse John 1:1 - "God" is a meme and only memes, language and only languages, words and only words, metaphors and only metaphors. A science fiction story character. Like Hamlet's Ghost character created by William Shakespeare (pen name or otherwise).
Bible verse "1 John 4:20" - you have never seen God because God is a science fiction story character. And you should not say "I love Jesus" because loving a fiction character completely misses the entire point of learning compassion and love for real human persons.

This has been explained for 2,000 years - but reading literacy is horrific in 2025. All this was spelled out by George Lucas in 1986, 1987, 1988 to his Star Wars audience / Hollywood audiences with former White House director Bill Moyers in the "Power of Myth" that Lucas filmed at Skywalker Ranch. But nobody can seem to read a book!

I teach more about this massive literacy failure / science fiction reading comprehension issue over on Lemmy community: [email protected]

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“Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies.” ― Joseph Campbell, Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor - https://lemm.ee/post/59340405

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My IQ is significantly higher than 35. Why would I care what the Bible claims or does not claim?

What, is your I.Q., 38 to 42? Why did you bring up your I.Q.? Do you follow Donald Trump? Did you see the posting here on Lemmy was about Donald Trump (This Lemmy Posting you replied to is titled: "White House / President Donald Trump claims credit American Pope Leo’s election - despite having nothing to do with Conclave. -- Instead of God appointing the King, Donald Trump is bigger than God He") - and you instantly started to parrot / repeat Donald Trump talking points / media messages? "Trump fixates on IQ as a measure of self-worth", "It wasn’t the first time Trump fixated on IQ as a measure of a person’s worth — or, as is frequently the case, worthlessness. And it wouldn’t be the last. Fifteen years later, Trump, now president of the United States, still uses IQ as a shorthand for intelligence, dividing the people in his orbit into winners and losers."

Why would I care what the Bible claims or does not claim?

To not be ignorant and uninformed. To not make electric information warfare against the topics of Marshall McLuhan postings on Lemmy. To not compulsively react as conditioned by Cambridge Analytica to behave as you do on social machine systems. As study of how the mechanics of mass mind manipulation and information warfare works on the Roman Empire and United States of America in May 2025.

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George Lucas filmed lessons for Star Wars fans, Hollywood audiences in 1987: "It says to me that they don’t know how to apply their religious ideas to contemporary life, and to human beings rather than just to their own community. It’s a terrible example of the failure of religion to meet the modern world. These three mythologies are fighting it out. They have disqualified themselves for the future." - Joseph Campbell, age 83

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trying to have a nuanced conversation on religion on Lemmy is like trying to have a nuanced conversation on atheism with die-hard MAGA evangelists. Save yourself the pain.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Trying to have a nuanced conversation on religion on Lemmy is like trying to have a nuanced conversation on atheism with die-hard MAGA evangelists. Save yourself the pain.

I wouldn't be here if people confusing fiction with non-fiction (See Lemmy community: [email protected] on topic) wasn't the very basis of society of people flocking to badness and avoiding goodness in United States of America 2024 / 2025 / etc. (Sustained since March 2013)

like trying to have a nuanced conversation on atheism with die-hard MAGA evangelis

There is no supernatural. There is only addiction to fiction and avoidance of non-fiction. Social media has given everyone the chance to have endless fiction from all over the world and people are detached from reality, favoring 5,000 anti-reality alternate reality screen games released by the Kremlin and Cambridge Analytica since March 2013. Addressing the Bible Literacy crisis is all part of a massive need to fix a long-standing problem. Lemmy is ground zero for this crisis.

Every Lemmy community, every Reddit subreddit, every narrow perspective is a filter-bubble, information sovereignty egoism / egomania training camp.

“If all information is seen as part of a war, out go any dreams of a global information space where ideas flow freely, bolstering deliberative democracy. Instead, the best future one can hope for is an ‘information peace’, in which each side respects the other’s ‘information sovereignty’: a favoured concept of both Beijing and Moscow, and essentially a cover for enforcing censorship.” ― Peter Pomerantsev, This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, 2019

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“As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated.” ― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, published 1955

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks bro, great illustration of my point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Thanks bro, great illustration of my point.

You are welcome. I love you. Glad to see you use Lemmy to spread love and say "thank you", brother in love. Pale Blue Dot brother.

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“Hitlerism was a mass flight to dogma, to the barbaric dogma that had not been expelled with the Romans, the dogma of the tribe, the dogma that gave every man importance only in so far as the tribe was important and he was a member of the tribe.” ― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, published 1955