If an entity demonstrating that kind of power contacted us and claimed to be a god, I’d still tell them to get stuffed. It’s a hobby.
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Except for Zakāt (giving alms), the Third Pillar of Islam. That’s where Xtianists would draw the line.
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Religions that stole from Judaism tend to be: it was only retconned into monotheism. El had a wife (common archeological find out there) and the various supernatural beings are part of the pantheon.
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A lot of self-described Christians are much bigger on the Old Testament than the New.
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May he be hoist by his own petard; or a reasonable facsimile there of.
It seems to depend on who is currently in charge.
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You know things are getting weird when Candyman turns up to your Bible Study group.
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Catholicism, and medieval aprocrypha, has a very bureaucratic spiritual world.
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Makes sense in Hellenism, where delegation is needed. Not so much in a religion that claims an omniscient, omnipotent god. :-/
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Well the various authors of the Abrahamic Extended Universe have been retconning for centuries, so what do you expect?
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Ipso facto: Jesus must have looked like him (but blond). They so cling to that.
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There’s a scrumptious line from Spartacus (1960). Charles Laughton (as Senator Grachus, on the existence of gods): “Privately I believe in none of them - neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.”
I don’t know if Hawley is more dangerous as a hypocritical political opportunist, or as a true believer.
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On the contrary. He believes with all his heart that he is God’s vicar on Earth, justified, sanctified, and incapable of error.
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I’ll keep that in mind when the inevitable live boy or dead prostitute come tumbling out of his closet.
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then there’s white evangelicals and the belief that successes are due to god, and failures are due to enemies(*).
it’s not so much entitlement that they’re owed heaven. they’re given entitlements because god knows they’re good people. trump – even if by every metric he isn’t a christian at all – is successful(**) because he’s part of god’s plan 
(* or sometimes, as a hard path that god has asked them to walk like jebus in the desert. either way, they’re not responsible for bad things happening. )
(** i mean just look at all that gold plating. )
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“Hi Jesus, sorry to do this, but you know how clever the phishing scams are getting these days. I’m gonna hang up and call you back at the number listed in the Bible. [click]”
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That’s the thing, we don’t even have a physical Jesus that we suspect isn’t real.
We literally have nothing, and these lame brains are building fascism on the top of it.
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Touché, I see that now with the polls. Forgive my pessimism.
“Elohim” is, in a term of art from linguistics, a frozen plural: “the gods”. Grammatically pointing to a polytheistic past, it became nominalized to a singular ‘name of god,’ beloved of shouty, sweaty preachers with microphones and PAs.
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