really feels like confirmation that revelation was written about nero

I mean there was a point last week where I wondered if he was just gonna invite the Iranian army to walk to Megiddo for “A Big Beautiful Brawl”

I have the same reaction. I suppose that a key factor of Antichrist is that people don’t recognize him for what he is, but jeez.

Yup. The Jesus of the Bible would just be absolutely aghast at all these people claiming to follow his teachings by accumulating money or other nonsense.

The prosperity gospel is one of the wildest things this country has invented.

I think the same textual mechanics that made prosperity gospel possible are identical for originalism.

It's extremely similar, yes

Also it's literally the same people and the same movement.

One is a bit more Catholic than the other, I think.

When I say the same people I mean the same individuals working in concert.

I’m going to be thinking about this for a while.

I keep going back and forth if it’s him or Musk

Is the antichrist like the Highlander? There can be only one?

No, there are multiple

To be fair, it is kinda baked-in with the “I am the way” stuff

You mean a Galilean peasant who preached about how hard it is for rich people to get to heaven might not have liked the prosperity gospel? /s

He was immensely clear on this very specific point! Over and over and over again!

"There is one thing that Christ and all the Christian saints have said with a sort of savage monotony. They have said simply that to be rich is to be in peculiar danger of moral wreck." —G.K. Chesterton, ORTHODOXY

The next few sentences hit even harder, especially right now: "It is not demonstrably un-Christian to kill the rich as violators of definable justice. It is not demonstrably un-Christian to crown the rich as convenient rulers of society. It is not certainly un-Christian to rebel against the rich...

... or to submit to the rich. But it is quite certainly un-Christian to trust the rich, to regard the rich as more morally safe than the poor." Boom.

His message was overwhelmingly for the poor and outcasts of a conquered land, and he was murdered by Rome for his anti-elite message, yet too many evangelicals today would rather ally themselves with Empire than with the victims of Empire.

I always walk away from these evangelicals thinking that I n their minds somehow White Jesus got his documents in order with the Romans first and was pitching God’s get rich scheme to his followers before the crafty Jewish rabble killed him.

Truly. Just the devils work. I mean that as only a semi joke, cause I don’t think the devil could have spun that tale better.

It's as close to a perfect match for real world, non-ironic Satanism that is possible

I’m not even sure I can make an argument with that at this point but I am resisting side eyeing the Mormons really hard.