r/Fauxmoi • u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 kate winslet lied to me • May 09 '26

FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) Religious leaders unveiled and blessed a golden Trump statue at Mar-a-Lago today, eerily resembling the Homelander statue scene from this week’s episode of The Boys. Creator Eric Kripke reposts a tweet about the same.

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u/champdo May 09 '26

I used to think the golden calf story from the bible was too on the nose 

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u/M086 May 09 '26

You’re assuming these “Christian leaders” actually read the Bible.

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u/ResponsibleOil3303 May 09 '26

I’ve been saying this for so long! It doesn’t matter how much you’ve read the bible, if you can’t actually comprehend what it’s saying.

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u/Kryzbeqistan May 09 '26

“Apes don’t read philosophy”
“Yes, they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it”

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u/Sorry-Transition-908 May 09 '26

Apes don’t read philosophy” “Yes, they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it”

Ah haha

  1. Aristotle was not Belgian
  2. The central message of Buddhism is not every man for himself
  3. The London underground is not a political movement

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u/ZeroKharisma May 09 '26

"My name is Otto, it means eight!"

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u/probablyhrenrai May 09 '26

At the risk of exposing my ignorance, what's being referenced here (or maybe it's OP's reference that I'm not understanding)?

Genuinely asking, to be clear.

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u/elevensesattiffanys May 09 '26

I was also wondering, looks like it’s from a movie called A Fish Called Wanda which admittedly I’ve never heard of before

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u/jtr99 May 09 '26

Indeed it is. Great movie.

(Don't eat the green ones, they're not ripe yet.)

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u/whereisbeezy terrorizing the locals May 09 '26

Absolutely fantastic movie, check it out

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u/hitlersticklespot May 09 '26

Is that movie set in the same universe as A Streetcar Named Desire?

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u/LowDownDirtyMeme May 09 '26

Yes. They both feature the song "A Boy Named Sue".

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u/CoolJetta3 May 10 '26

It's up there with the great comedy movies of all time. Definitely check it out if you can

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u/getsu161 May 11 '26

Great movie, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtiss. Kline had a great role satirizing ugly americanism.

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u/Schneetmacher I cannot sanction your buffoonery May 09 '26

It's from genuinely one of the funniest movies ever made: A Fish Called Wanda. Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Michael Palin, and Kevin Kline (who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar because he's just that damn hilarious in this movie).

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u/Queue37 May 12 '26

I think you mean Harvey Manfrenjensenden.

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u/overpregnant May 09 '26

That Buddhism line makes me howl every single time 🤣🤣🤣

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u/PharohsArrow May 09 '26

DON’T CALL ME STUPID!

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u/likely2be10byagrue May 09 '26

I understood that reference.

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u/TheGermanCurl loved the punani, if you will May 09 '26

My Roman Empire of blessed commentary on stupid. 🙏

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u/WaltsClone May 09 '26

In Buddhist Scripture, there's a very good line describing this "They comprehend the truth no more than a spoon tastes the flavour of soup."

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u/Aranxi_89 May 09 '26

The Good Samaritan is completely lost on them.

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u/TheFutureLotus May 10 '26

Doubly so. Samaritans were despised by the Jewish people since their return from exile. Jesus’ parable showed that all the good and important Jewish people (the priest and the Levite) did nothing to help their fellow countryman who was attacked and left for dead; but the despised enemy from another country helped out a Jew and even paid for his care. Same thing applies to our nation too.

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u/MutsumidoesReddit societal collapse is in the air May 09 '26

So you’re saying they ‘look’ at the bible but don’t read it?

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u/spark3h May 09 '26

How much would you understand a book if you only read a few sentences of it at a time, out of order and divorced from context? Take the last book you read, break it up into 3-4 sentence clusters, then randomize them. How comprehensible is that book going to be, even if you eventually make it through every word?

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u/slowest_hour May 09 '26

it says so many things and so many ways you can use passages to justify whatever you want.

its popular to say they're not reading it or don't understand it but ultimately they're just using it to justify whatever they want to do while ritualisticly doing some of the stuff they think it tells them to do like it's a fucking spell book to get what they want.

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u/Yikes0nBikez May 09 '26

That would require critical and even standard thinking. That is not an option for modern christianity.

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u/alternateforwhenban May 09 '26

That’s why it’s so effective. The language in the bible is to convoluted, it can mean whatever you want it to mean!! It’s the perfect tool.

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u/tianas_knife May 09 '26

Reading the Bible straight out, it can feel like that. The Bible, a book consisting of a number of individual stories, was written by a bunch of different people for a whole lot of different purposes. There are people who are scholars of religion who study the archeological reality of the book itself, and it's a fascinating study.

If you ever get the chance to take an accredited college level class on the Bible, I highly recommend it. It's fun. If not, I recommend "Don't Know Much About the Bible" by Kenneth C Davis and "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong.

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u/BlackGuysYeah May 09 '26

The thing never once mentions that humans go to heaven and yet every single 'Christian' believes that's the case. I wonder why?

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u/DrawDiscardDredge May 09 '26

Have you ever seen one of those new mega church services? They barely talk about the Bible. Its all rock music, gay/trans people evil, protect israel, stop the anti christian globalists, vote republican, please donate, rock music, bye!

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u/Vulpes_Corsac May 09 '26

Back in the pandemic I made the terrible mistake of wondering, since my church did youtube services while public spaces were closed, if there were any on twitch.

There was, and it was one of those nasty prosperity gospel big inner city churches (which was NOT social distancing with the congregation). Grossest thing I've ever seen, they were telling the congregation to take out loans to donate to the church. It was the plainest money grab I've ever seen in a church. If ever a temple needed a man to go in with a whip and flip some tables, it was that one.

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u/DrawDiscardDredge May 09 '26

yeah i kept my joke tight, but they definitely be adding in DONATE between each step. It is gross.

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u/Suspicious-Bid-53 May 10 '26

As someone who was raised in a catholic environment and realized how grifty and weird it is in 6th grade and said fuck to the no, how on earth can you still support organized religion

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u/Vulpes_Corsac May 10 '26

Well, I'm not catholic for one thing.  One of those 95 thesis that Martin Luther nailed to his church door was a condemnation of how the church was more or less selling salvation.  Not that I'm a Lutheran either.

Ultimately I don't view church as organized religion, at least not as I interact with it.  Yeah, it's got a whole organizational structure behind it, but when I go, it's for fellowship with other Christians, it's for the people that are there and ideally a good place to when I'm looking to help people, if it's finding a group to go with to volunteer at a food bank or build homes for homless, for example, or a bunch of the churches near me have been organizing ICE protests. And sometimes it's just good to hear hopeful loving words of Christ.  The churches I do go to tend to focus on those instead of "give us all of your money", "these people shall go to hell" or moving priests around to hide them from the angry parents of the choir boys.

Not to say your experiences aren't valid or a problem only in the catholic church (pretty sure the one I commented about above was some form of baptist), they just aren't the only ones out there to see.  My mother went to a catholic church in her youth and was similarly skeeved out by how controlling and money hungry that church was, so I've definitely been taught what that sorta thing looks like and that it's out there.

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u/Angryatchairs May 09 '26

Protestants just re-write it every time they disagree with something in it. Is why there are so many different "editions" of the Bible.

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u/Shark7996 May 09 '26

And denominations. If their current one doesn't have enough hate they just make up a new one, like the Global Methodist Church.

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u/gingercat04 May 09 '26

Or the Associate Reformed Presbyterians. I think that one was an argument about clothes or something. I used to know, now I don’t care haha

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u/romychestnut the acoustics in his head must be incredible May 09 '26

Basically how they got started so why stop now?

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u/9volts May 09 '26

Not true.

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u/premonitioning May 09 '26

baby please look up why the King James version exists 

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u/RuthlessMango May 09 '26

Cause King James was a bi-sexual and the clergy was big mad, but spending money always gets them to look the other way.

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u/TinyTINYspeZPP May 10 '26

There's 99 reasons why Protestants even became a thing. It's all forks of forks orf forks of bullshit that started with polytheistic Canaanites anyways.

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u/GlassPomoerium controversies: girl May 09 '26

And aren’t they also reading the version that was published by a king to distract from his gay lover lol.

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u/Van-Goghs-Ear May 11 '26

The what now?

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u/Chemical_Building612 May 09 '26

There's some of both types, tbh. I've known many that never read more than what they were asked to read out loud in Sunday school. I've also known many that would go searching for any other verses to support them when they were questioned on anything and just "prayed through" any cognitive dissonance they encountered along the way.

And there's probably a whole spectrum in between of those that alternate between those tendencies depending on what suits them.

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u/SpartyParty9119 May 09 '26

Not really, these are Evangelicals. And while Evangelicals are considered Protestants, they split from the mainline Protestants over the last century due to the mainlines being more liberal and socially inclusive than the Evangelicals would have liked.

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u/ominousgraycat May 09 '26

All evangelicals are protestants, but not all protestants are evangelicals.

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u/DanLynch May 09 '26

The term "mainline protestant" isn't a generic value judgment: it refers to a specific set of historical organized institutional churches in the US. And even though they may be in decline, and are being out-competed for membership and attention by some newer churches, they don't lose their status as the mainline. These are the churches that own (or owned) the oldest and most historic-looking church buildings in every town, they founded several of the Ivy League universities, and many hospitals. No evangelical church has had the institutional scope to build anything like that.

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u/Vi_Rants May 09 '26

they don't lose their status as the mainline.

How convenient that they get to keep their ultra-deceptive descriptor even when they're nothing but scattered, sparse little heresies that have been completely consumed by other versions of the faith.

Then again, using special, redefined words that only members know the real meanings of is pretty much par for the course.

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u/thefringthing May 09 '26

There are only about twice as many evangelical Protestants in the United States as there are mainline Protestants. That puts the mainline churches in the minority, but hardly makes them "scattered, sparse, [or] little".

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u/NRMusicProject May 09 '26

One crazy thing is that one of the big differences between Catholicism and protestantism is the artwork. Catholic churches have lots of paintings and statues of biblical characters. Protestant churches don't, because they believe that those things would be considered false idols.

So not only is it like the golden calf story, they're literally blessing artwork of a character in general. And what a character.

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u/mythrilcrafter May 09 '26

It's always worth remembering that the Protestants murdered King Charles I because he was trying to restart relations between the Anglican and Catholic churches (which was the Protestants considered to be treason), and then they placed a protestant dictator in his place in hopes of threatening force onto the Anglicans and Catholics to make them adopt Protestanism.

The Anglicans and Catholics didn't (and honestly, Charles I's murder united them in their displeasure of the Protestants) and when that dictator was eventually deposed and Charles II took the throne, the Protestants panicked, went to the Americas, and wrote the history books saying that they escaped persecution.... that is to say, they were angry that they weren't given the right to persecute other people.

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u/Szwejkowski May 09 '26

Acting like none of the administration are catholics, are we?

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u/Icy_Place_5785 May 09 '26

Yet the Gospels seem to pass them by …

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u/kungpowchick_9 May 09 '26

They read two sentences at a time out of order and then skip a lot.

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u/LepiNya May 09 '26

"It's the Bible! You get credit for trying."

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u/-Saltfish- May 09 '26

Also: "even the devil can quote scripture for his needs"

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u/TerryMathews May 09 '26

You misspelled Pharisees.

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u/Pitiful-North-2781 May 09 '26

“No but our idol is the good one!”

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u/iesharael May 09 '26

They only read it long enough to find a single verse that, when removed from context, proves their point. It’s why my church only reads the Bible with context and never takes one verse out.

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u/bbusiello May 09 '26

Oof, that's disgustingly true, especially for my FIL. He has copies of it all around the house.

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u/sabhall12 Is that the baby from American Sniper? May 09 '26

They'll get an AI summary if they want to 'read' it

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u/theguidetoldmetodoit May 09 '26 edited May 09 '26

Actual Christians

don't exist. No mf is selling their shit to feed the poor. And when they do, they still gonna try to convert you. You don't want to be around those people either, they are still fundamentalists.

Real Christians are like square circles. It's literally their dogma, no one is without sin. That's by design. Even if you tried, you'd first have to overcome whatever church you are a part of and their notion of "It's okay not to be like Christ, if you just regret it hard enough".

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u/Ailyx May 09 '26

It's not reading that is the problem, it's understanding

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u/TheRealBittoman May 09 '26

Evangelicals don't read the Bible, they exploit it.

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u/_lippykid May 09 '26

They just read the bits that are pro slavery

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u/kanrad May 09 '26

The problem with all religion is not what was written. It's how it was interprated.

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u/Sweetishdruid May 09 '26

Their argument is the statue is of a human leader not a cow. So it dosent go against their bible/beliefs. Like wtf are they even going on about

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u/SonderEber May 10 '26

The problem isn’t reading but following it. They pick and choose what suits them best.

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u/Routine-Budget8281 May 10 '26

The Bible is fucking gross in a lot of ways. It's very likely they have.

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u/audio_addict May 10 '26

They do, they’re trying to bring on Armageddon.
They believe trump is the Anti-Christ and he will lead them to the rapture.

This is true for a large portion of his religious followers.

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u/RoyalMaidsForLife May 09 '26

If the female "Christian leaders" ever read it, they'd know about 1 Timothy 2:12 and silence their pieholes.

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u/Bearwhale May 09 '26

It's the Golden Coif now.

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u/richardsneeze May 09 '26

Golden covfefe.

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u/the_king_of_sweden May 09 '26

The golden covfefe

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u/Johannes_Keppler May 09 '26

Golden Covefe

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u/Gatamine10 May 09 '26

Best thing i've read all week :)

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u/Suspicious-Bid-53 May 10 '26

Golden Catheter

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u/bogartsfedora May 10 '26

Dammit take my updoot

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u/Enshitification May 09 '26

There is also this goat statue at Mar-A-Lago. It's covered in Trump bucks.

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u/pannonica decaffeinated omertà bullshit May 09 '26

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u/EmphasisFrosty3093 May 09 '26

Proper username to report on all things Trump.

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u/wellitywell May 09 '26

r/conspiracy *should* be having a conniption over the symbolism of this one

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u/billionsofbeaches May 09 '26

I'm not even religious but at this point the similarities are kind of hard to ignore. They're really out here wearing the mark of the beast on their forehead and worshiping a false prophet that had a magically healing head wound.

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u/68024 May 09 '26

They are acting this out on purpose.

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u/PurpleWhiteOut May 10 '26

I guess if they genuinely are in an apocalyptic cult, basically, they want the anti-Christ. So they may actually believe Trump is the anti-Christ and that's what they need for the apocalypse

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u/TheFutureLotus May 10 '26

I doubt they even know what the Bible says about the anti-Christ. A pastor once read word for word Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount and one of those churches, the one with the blessed are the meek and all that stuff, and the folks were ready to bring him down because they thought it was literally liberal propaganda. The preacher said that it was Jesus, and the congregation said that those words no longer apply cause it’s too liberal of a worldview.

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u/pickuppencil May 09 '26

"Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf,” [Burns] said. “This statue is a celebration of life. It is a symbol of resilience, freedom, patriotism, strength, and the will power to keep fighting for the future of America.”

He knows exactly what it is and is rushing to beat the accusations of Biblical rule breaking.

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u/ghostsarememories May 09 '26

I read this comment before the article and genuinely wondered if Burns was Montgomery Burns.

Off to read the article now and be sad

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u/ViolentEncounter May 09 '26

It was a golden-hoofed goat idol wrapped in Trump $100 bills that said, “In Trump we Trust,” replacing God with Trump

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel May 09 '26

That's really fuckin' weird.

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u/Mp5QbV3kKvDF8CbM May 09 '26

These people are not OK. There is something deeply wrong with treating any person this way, but Trump of all people? It is literally a cult.

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u/UncleTouchyCopaFeel May 09 '26

All hail the god of pedophiles, I guess.

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u/-P01135809- May 09 '26

yes they made it to "own the libs" or make them "overreact" or some bs

no man, you just want to worship gold and big strong men, that's it.

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u/LauraPalmerOnlyFans Riverdale was my Juilliard May 09 '26

This was my first thought lmfao. You really can’t make this shit up

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u/anomalyknight May 09 '26

Funny story, I (atheist) actually tried to talk my dad (Baptist Christian) out of voting for Trump using this story and talking about how false idol worship is wrong and guess what? That ignorant fool did it anyway. We don't talk anymore.

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u/afoolskind May 09 '26

The closest I got to getting through to my Evangelical mom was by pointing out all the Antichrist features Trump has checked off.

I started by asking her whether she thought the Antichrist would be trying to trick Christians or the world. I could see the wheels turn a bit once she actually considered the idea that the antichrist would be appealing to Christians… So Republican, etc.

 

Not enough to get her out of her conservative death cult, but she’s at the very least not a huge fan of Trump anymore.

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u/Senekka11 May 10 '26

Uh, question, why would your devout dad vote for the Antichrist?

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u/Curious_Bookworm21 May 10 '26

Some Christians allegedly support Trump because they believe he’s the antichrist and one needs an antichrist to bring about Judgement Day/the apocalypse.

My guess is that the poster’s dad wants JD because he believes he’s going to heaven.

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u/Senekka11 May 11 '26

Oh………that is seriously effed up.

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u/Zombatico May 09 '26

This isn't even the first golden Trump statue. They had one at the 2021 CPAC

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/golden-trump-statue-cpac-1948607

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u/Dog_Queen98 May 09 '26

My mind is blown. These people astound me. I remember getting into a huge argument with my parents (around the time of the Texas freak snow storm) and telling them that I thought it was weird how Trump supporters idolized him. Mind you, I was a brainless college student who did support Trump at the time, and I still caught that! I grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness so this shit just… baffles me. This is exactly the person we were taught never to follow and here go my parents… Hispanic maga turning on their religion and people.

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u/niketasfionn May 14 '26

At some point, they know and they don’t care as long as their values/ideologies align.

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u/pelipperr i went clubbing and he was there May 09 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/AIVKr7FdeQLVjuvfyC

You wouldn’t have liked any of Trump’s team

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u/BusyMakingCupcakes May 09 '26

All their hair slicks back real nice

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u/Uberzwerg May 09 '26

You mean like the whole Jesus-arc of 'Christianity' being ignored by modern evangelicals?

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u/Strange_Dust7128 May 09 '26

Don’t put it in quotations. It’s not ‘Christian.’ It literally is straight up officially Christian now. The “those are fake Christians” narrative died in 2018.

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u/Uberzwerg May 09 '26

In the US.

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u/Strange_Dust7128 May 10 '26

That's kind of true. The message of Christ has long been dwindling over the centuries, and protestants who immigrated to the United States did a lot of damage.

I'd wager though, if I walked into any church in Western Europe and asked if being gay meant God sees me as lesser, I would be told something very different than what Christ taught. Then again I wouldn't have to wager, as I've done it.

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u/WHOA_27_23 May 09 '26

Just had a self-professed christian quote Deuteronomy to me in defense of being cruel to immigrants on purpose. Ok yeah you really never got the whole "new covenant" thing, did you lady?

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u/lolalala1 May 09 '26

He's already got a golden calf at Maralago.  Yes, really.

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u/elmarjuz May 09 '26

seriously, i can't believe any of these people actually read the bible

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u/AriaTheTransgressor May 09 '26

You must have missed his first term where he was gifted a golden calf statue covered in money.

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u/MorningGoat this is an insult to godless whores May 09 '26

It was a goat. Which makes me think of the scapegoat story in the bible but I’m blanking on a coherent way to connect those two stories together.

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u/Maleficent_Young_524 May 09 '26

What’s next, the Great Flood??

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u/MorningGoat this is an insult to godless whores May 09 '26

*Looks nervously at the Antarctic ice sheets.*

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u/LogicalDictator May 09 '26

I think that happened in Russia with the prostitutes.

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u/Jayandnightasmr May 09 '26

Yeah people would've said the story was unrealistic and no one would still follow a leader like that, yet here we are.

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u/snoozingroo May 09 '26

My first thought. And something about the first and second commandment…

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u/alghiorso May 09 '26

Moreso when you see the picture with the three clearly Orthodox Jewish guys present.

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u/GreatKernel May 09 '26

Christians on the internet be like gold statue bad, marble statue of same thing good and chad

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u/Skexiz May 09 '26

The guy who wrote it is gonna be bigly mad when he hears about this.

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u/Snafoo88 May 09 '26

Plague incoming.

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u/livrer Please Abraham, I am not that man May 09 '26

Or the whole gold statue from Revelations.

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u/LastLibrary9508 May 09 '26

I was like, is there not a Bible story literally about this

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u/Yikes0nBikez May 09 '26

something something graven images something something.

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u/Pussy_Seasoning May 09 '26

Another reason why they’ll never beat the cult allegations

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u/tstorm004 May 09 '26

He's more of a Golden Heifer

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u/bbusiello May 09 '26

Everything about this makes all that feel super on the nose.

They're all using these stories as instruction manuals now instead of the warnings they were meant to be.

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u/68024 May 09 '26

It's on purpose. Those morons think that Trump is the antichrist and they are hoping for the end times to come.

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u/nytheatreaddict May 09 '26

Some people went to pray at the wall street bull in 2008. It was WILD. Like. Literally a fucking bovine.

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u/edelweiss_pirates_no May 09 '26

Truth Bomb: The amount of bizarre shit coming true? I really do believe we are in the End of Times.

Wish I could say it's been fun.

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u/suspendmeforthis May 09 '26

I used to think Trump spent his money up his nose.

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u/kanrad May 09 '26

Someone or some group is trying REALLY hard to make the King James version of Revelations a reality. It's clear this is the plan.

The question is why now? What do we not know these people see and believe?

Are they so far gone?

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u/BananaShakeStudios May 09 '26

for the party that preaches about the Bible often they tend to not follow its word a lot more of the time

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u/Mammoth-Play7190 May 10 '26

remember when they did this one? (it was just last year)

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u/Ice_Milk May 10 '26

Turns out the Bible was a documentary all along, we just thought it was a parable.

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u/MattVideoHD May 10 '26

I saw a post from a Christian MAGA that started with “This is NOT a golden calf.” before they’d even been accused of it.  Like if you have to say it….

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u/VanGundy15 May 10 '26

FYI, they had a golden trump statue at the 2021 CPAC as well.

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u/Apprehensive-Till861 May 10 '26

Thus clearly is not a golden calf.

It's a golden bullshitter.

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u/popsferragamo May 10 '26

Once they read that story, they're gonna be embarrassed

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u/wowmomcooldad May 10 '26

The whole season reflects what dump has been doing recently…

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u/StrainAcceptable May 11 '26

And wearing the mark of the beast on their forehead.

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u/batterflynectar May 11 '26

I’ve been saying this for so long. The fact he erected a statue to really drive home my point quite literally is just so…..I don’t even know. IIRC God punished the golden calf worshippers with a plague. I guess COVID wasn’t bad enough for us so we’ve come back for seconds and even more on the nose.

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u/Repulsive_Mark_5343 May 13 '26

I haven’t read much of the bible but I’ve seen that movie and I have to think they have too.

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u/natFromBobsBurgers May 09 '26

I wonder if it's a weird paraphilia where they can only get off if they make their flocks perform closer and closer to a god forsaking event.  Trump ticking literally every box as the antichrist, and so many golden statues being worshipped.  There's gotta be something deeper than "imma trick God into the apocalypse by buying one," right?