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Climate Is Now a US Culture War Issue (www.nytimes.com)

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[–] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did you ever ask them about nuclear bombs and we could wipe out all life except cockroaches several times over and make the earth uninhabitable for 10000 years or did this not count?

[–] fubo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

"Have faith. God is perfectly capable of turning the Russian missiles right around and sending them back to Moscow." — fundie uncle

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

America is God's vessel.

Seriously, that's what "Under God" meant to them.

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, "under god" was not added to currency or the pledge until 1954, in response to the civil rights movement of the era. The founding fathers would have be rolling in their grave if they could.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/06/14/the-gripping-sermon-that-got-under-god-added-to-the-pledge-of-allegiance-on-flag-day/

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's their entire Middle East policy, fulfilling the end times prophecies

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

If Jesus came back without all the jews penned in Israel so he could nuke them all at once, how can Christianity live with itself?