• Tormato [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Thought my Dad would have some sense, empathy and rational thought about this when I texted him. Told him this shit only happens in this country and that I hated it for that.

    He’s been in FLA now for over two decades, and succumbed to becoming “born again” with my mother. They watch Fox all day and their whole social life together is their church.

    He texted back this:

    “Unfortunately guns have been in existence since the 10th Century so, just maybe it’s the evil that uses then improperly. The demonic aspects of gun violence dig deep into the spirit of people that have no regard for the love of God for us. “

    I fucking flipped. So my formerly liberal-minded father now regurgitates RW reactionary bullshit about everything. So it’s “not guns that kill people but people who don’t God”?

    “If you look at evil and spiritual warfare then look at it in other contexts of desecration to God; why does China send Fentanyl to Cartels then compounded into opioids illegally move here killing hundreds of thousands, mostly young people and now that your a father you might even see the entire abortion issue from a different perspective. In the eyes of God it’s the demonic spirit of self over God and more about destruction of good. “

    Wtf?

    Told him he’s fucking warped. And not to talk to me about this stuff ever again.

    Completely, utterly poisoned by Fox propaganda and Conservative Christian fascism.

    So sad.

    • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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      3 years ago

      “If you look at evil and spiritual warfare then look at it in other contexts of desecration to God; why does China send Fentanyl to Cartels then compounded into opioids illegally move here killing hundreds of thousands, mostly young people and now that your a father you might even see the entire abortion issue from a different perspective. In the eyes of God it’s the demonic spirit of self over God and more about destruction of good.

      this is philosophical suicide, this is somebody who doesn't want to face reality and blames their problems on figments of their imagination.

      • Tormato [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Yeah, he’s fed this irrational fear-mongering from everywhere he looks. Including things like Epoch Times (or whatever that RW newspaper is) , from which he sometimes sends actual paper clippings.

        The China hysteria seems to have gripped him hard in the past few years. Think he admitted he belongs to a reading group or something based on concerns about Chinese hegemony. So I love to tell him as often as necessitates that I can’t wait for the American Empire to collapse.

    • ides_of_Merch [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      “If you look at evil and spiritual warfare then look at it in other contexts of desecration to God; why does China send Fentanyl to Cartels

      No that's the CIA or British finance imperialism

      In the eyes of God it’s the demonic spirit of self over God

      that's the definition of the word "landlord" but you will never see these Luciferian kulak apologists point out bourgeois evil

    • LaughingLion [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      a man of god shot up a club in orlando where some of my friends live

      he shouted "god is great" while he did it