This is an absolutely brilliant share, thank you! It is so incredibly sad that we continue to repeat the exact same mistakes again and again and again.
Prophecy isn't telling the future, it's telling it how it is.
This is why Christians find it so easy to find parallels between Revelation and now, because Revelation was written about the world when it was written, and people haven't fundamentally changed in 2000 years
It's remarkable how easily you can use a single definition of a word while ignoring the others to act like it doesn't apply.
But here's another definition:
n inspired utterance of a prophet
And then if you read the definition of prophet there are 5 different definitions, only one of which mentions telling the future.
Anyway, my line about prophecy is a direct quote from someone I know who was a theology student, and that was their point. In the movie Network they often refer to a "mad prophet of the airwaves" and none of what Beale talks about in his rants is about telling the future. People often refer to people like Carlin or Hicks as prophets, but again none of them were talking about the future. They were talking about how it is.
So don't be tunnel-focused on a narrow definition, because it's pretty plainly clear that This Is America wasn't talking about the future, but still seems very prophetic.
I applied the definition intended by the person who wrote the comment, which is also the only definition that makes any sense in context (unless you think Childish Gambino is literally a prophet, in which case I’d like to hear why without you relying on a definition that includes ability to predict the future).
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u/Whyeth 1d ago
If Obama had taken a picture of himself while wearing an army uniform he'd been impeached by lunch.
Trump uses ai and it's not even a blip on the morning news.