bradley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Telling people not do something makes them want to > do it more. True -- but it doesn't stop the fundies from trying. That's the irony.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIm6Lslq-Y0&t=200s
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Imagine, if you will, a world where religious dogma and conspiracy theories were promoted as "fact" and fictional events were regarded as "real." ########## "One Nation Under God", religious allegory by John McNaughton https://jonmcnaughton.com/litho-print-one-nation-under-god-20-x-30-signed-numbered/ ########## https://www.douglasucc.org/homilies/
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Icke David Vaughan Icke (/vɔːn aɪk/ vawn iyk; born 29 April 1952) is an English conspiracy theorist and a former footballer and sports broadcaster.[1][2][3][4][5] He has written over 20 books, self-published since the mid-1990s, and spoken in more than 25 countries.[6][7][8] In 1990, Icke visited a psychic who told him he was on Earth for a purpose and
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Former "Children Of God" cult member Flor Edwards describes her childhood growing up in Father David's cult known today as The Family International. ########## https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_International` According to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, "at its height" the Family movement had "tens of thousands of members, including River and Joaqui
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https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/solar-eclipse-conspiracy-theories-far-right-1234998475/ Solar eclipses, like the upcoming one on April 8, are a well-documented scientific phenomenon. As early as 763 BCE, ancient Assyrians were charting the process by which the path of the moon temporarily obstructs the sun, and astronomers have continued to do so for thousands of years s
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Joseph Smith's "Reformed Egyptian" doesn't exist, but the words you are reading are composed of letters created by ancient Hebrews or Canaanites who couldn't speak or read Egyptian. ######### A table illustrating the evolution of the alphabet from the hieroglyphs that inspired it to more recent scripts https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/01/07/17/37731400-9122891-image-a-48_1
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Om mani padme hum... Om mani padme hum... Om mani padme hum... Om mani padme hum... Om mani padme hum... vs. And it came to pass... And it came to pass... And it came to pass... And it came to pass... And it came to pass... And it came to pass...
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BG, try reading "Earth Abides" (1949). It only takes a single generation for knowledge to be lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Abides I as I've said before, I've tried many times to put myself in the mind of religious fundies and WNs who literally want to go back in time and re-create the social mores of the 1920s. "Simba" (1955) is a (now dated and very
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/05/religion-evangelical-christian-apocalypse-josiah-hesse Raised under the dark bubble of religious fundamentalism, Josiah Hesse recalls a childhood filled with gloom, doom and preparing for the end of the world ne stormy night in the summer of 1992, I walked down the basement steps of my parents’ house to await the apocalypse. The Iowa air was t
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https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/taiwan-earthquake-hualien-tsunami-warning-hnk-intl/index.html A major earthquake has occurred near the east coast of Taiwan with a magnitude of 7.4, according to data from the US Geological Survey. It was followed by a 6.5 magnitude aftershock. The earthquake epicenter is located approximately 18 kilometers (11 miles) south of the city of Hualien. It
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Remember Prop 8? How much of your time and money went into trying to stop something that eventually happened anyway? Here's the difference. Mormonism is a relatively small, insular cult compared to all of society. EV fundies outnumber Mormons in terms of numbers and influence, but are still a minority and do not have the support of the younger generation. They can try to create "G
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemtrail_conspiracy_theory Chemtrail conspiracy theorists often describe their experience as being akin to a religious conversion experience. When they "wake up" and become "aware" of chemtrails, the experience motivates them to advocacy of various forms.[31] For example, they often attend events and conferences on geoengineering, and have sen
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/chad-daybell-murder-trial-lori-vallow-b2520142.html Chad Daybell dug graves while he was a student at Brigham Young University and worked as a cemetery sexton in Utah for almost 20 years. He told the Deseret News in 1992 that he believed digging graves helped him through school. Daybell later founded his own publishing company, Spri
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https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/downloads/Jackson%2C%20Conspiracy%20Theories%20Final.pdf
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Why is it that so many people who want black or white, all or nothing religious fundamentalism, biblical literalism, biblical inerrancy, etc., etc., are also the same people who espouse conspiracy theories such as diseases not being real, vaccines faked, subliminal messaging in adverts, fluoridation, mind and weather control, chemtrails, lizard people, UN and/or FEMA concentration camps in the de
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Sadly, as a simple web search reveals, these aren't the only ones. ########## https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/execution-stoning-christian-nationalism-1234797127/ The podcast setup at first appears familiar: a pair of white dudes, mic’d up at a table, wrestling out loud with big ideas. But the conversation between the two men veers, without guardrails, into
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Lots of news on this guy. ########## https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/r5v5vc/our_independent_women_are_more_medicated/ "Our independent women are more medicated, meddlesome, and quarrelsome than women need to be. Without connections to eternity delivered through their family, such women gain their meaning through their seeming participation in the global project."
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And to think there are religious fundamentalists in America who want to establish what they call "biblical law" in the USA... ########### https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror Afghan regime’s return to public stoning and flogg
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