if this ritual isn't performed, the monument goes flaccid and results in a dangerous hazard if it bends over far enough for the tip to touch the ground
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
American civil religion really be looking like all other religions.
It would not surprise me if in a couple of centuries they start putting little notes to George Washington through the cracks in the masonry. Then it would be a true Americanist religion in the style of the CK2 mod.
imagine the amount of 
trampling each other if their was an American HaajWe all know an American haaj would not involve that much walking, it would be somehow truck-based
Now I'm just picturing honking trucks all around the Kaaba, like one of those Covid-era Biden rallies. Circumambulation in an F150 sounds nuts.
They even somewhat parroted mihrab inside it, but of course facing west and with idol inside:
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I was disgusted by this photo at first, but imagining a January 6 style christofascist stampede
I didn’t know what to think about this image, but as my eyes were scanning the photo I came across the American flag and realized this is the Washington monument and not Israel, and I fucking lost it
i dont know what bible these peope are reading but i think they managed to defy everything jesus said about how to pray
In order to fight american evangelicals, we need to revive John Knox to tear down the Washington Monument.
I'm really feeling down on myself, but the bright side I could be looking for today is thinking about all the dumb shit I've avoided thinking and doing by just having a little bit of materialist philosophy and care for others in my back pocket.
Common misconception, this was originally called "the Presidential Glory Hole" and the intention was to erect a monument sized depiction of a penis sticking out of it of whoever held office at the time. However, this idea was a bit ambitious so they had to settle for a more metophorical phallic structure.
Just some evangelicals praying on the Washington monument like it's the Western Wall.
as a christian i am flabbergasted at this behaviour. how does this even happen??
The leaders of the American Christian movement are all very rich, fascist, and most importantly, rich
but still, i presume these people can read the bible for themselves right?
actually reading the bible is a great way to make atheists, so presumably the church discourages it
please don't be disrespectful like that, although I get it. I know people here have had a lot of sour experiences with Christianity in the west, but spirituality is a normal thing. Personally I'm an atheist too, but come on. Your username references John Brown, who did read the Bible and it made him into a militant abolitionist.
Is it disrespectful if it's true? My personal experience is that reading the bible after being raised in a religious environment made me into an atheist, and I personally know a good number of people who went through the same thing.
it's not disrespect, it's a very common experience which is why people say it so frequently. But i have also encountered lots of religious folks who misunderstand the truth as disrespect. Maybe you did actually read the bible and not just selected verses from your leader or franchise but if you did and maintained your faith that's somewhat unusual.
and there were christians fighting to maintain the institution of slavery just as the only good white american fought to end it. and instructions in the bible about how you could keep a slave you were otherwise supposed to free under jewish law. Surely you can forgive us having a low opinion of a text that can be on either side of the "debate" about slavery.
It was also my experience that reading the Bible made me an atheist. Their god is an evil deity that only gets credited as "good" because he's also their creator deity. Take that away and he's a wicked tyrant that tortures and murders people for petty sleights, killed his own son for basically no reason, and plans to send billions of innocent people into the Lake of Fire because they didn't love him hard enough.
they don't, and that's presumably what made protestants seem more progressive and such. but turns out you can tell people what to think about the book-club book pretty well with appropriate theatrics.
bonus points if you control which 'translation' of the book you deem permitted
These people generally don't read the Bible directly, they read glosses that explain how the plain text reading is wrong and it actually means God is America and Jesus loves guns.
Emphasis on "American," for those wondering, Second Thought recently has made a really good video diving into the subject of Christian Nationalism which centers American exceptionalism as its "Jesus figure."
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4gjE0bpk9k&t=986
If Catholicism was integral to francoist Spain then I imagine protestantism will be integral to whatever fascist state the US might devolve into
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Can I get a source for this image? When did this happen?
2020
https://onlysky.media/sarahbeth/thousands-of-christians-rallied-in-d-c-to-pray-for-a-nation-they-helped-divide/
https://archive.is/4otwW
There's an issue of Captain America where a dude parachutes onto the washington monument and tries to detonate a nuke.
Images like this make me realize maybe the Mormons were onto something by making Jesus a white American. They really have their shit together. Mormons are gonna outlast evangelicals and it's not even a close contest. Evangelicals are tearing themselves apart from what I understand.
