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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
@georgetakei@universeodon.com  ·  activity timestamp last week

The religious right has infiltrated far into our military with disturbing consequences.

Screenshot of an X post by Republicans Against Trump reporting claims that commanders at multiple U.S. bases told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan” and linked to Armageddon. Below is a photo of Trump standing with several evangelical leaders praying around him.
Screenshot of an X post by Republicans Against Trump reporting claims that commanders at multiple U.S. bases told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan” and linked to Armageddon. Below is a photo of Trump standing with several evangelical leaders praying around him.
Screenshot of an X post by Republicans Against Trump reporting claims that commanders at multiple U.S. bases told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan” and linked to Armageddon. Below is a photo of Trump standing with several evangelical leaders praying around him.
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Don Hawkins - W7DAH
@donhawkins@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@georgetakei @SJAsh_03

Black and white image of a man with a smirk, with text: "Stop using religion as your crutch to hate people... Just say you're an asshole, we'll understand."
Black and white image of a man with a smirk, with text: "Stop using religion as your crutch to hate people... Just say you're an asshole, we'll understand."
Black and white image of a man with a smirk, with text: "Stop using religion as your crutch to hate people... Just say you're an asshole, we'll understand."
Scene depicting the tragic impact of religion, with distressed individuals and figures crucified in the background.
Scene depicting the tragic impact of religion, with distressed individuals and figures crucified in the background.
Scene depicting the tragic impact of religion, with distressed individuals and figures crucified in the background.
The image shows a comparison of religious faith and reality, with a drawing of hands reaching toward each other in the top half, and blood and destruction in the bottom half.
The image shows a comparison of religious faith and reality, with a drawing of hands reaching toward each other in the top half, and blood and destruction in the bottom half.
The image shows a comparison of religious faith and reality, with a drawing of hands reaching toward each other in the top half, and blood and destruction in the bottom half.
Cartoon man with a beard, wearing a red cap with a house logo, smiles confidently. He thanks God for his religion and celebrates freedom from hate.
Cartoon man with a beard, wearing a red cap with a house logo, smiles confidently. He thanks God for his religion and celebrates freedom from hate.
Cartoon man with a beard, wearing a red cap with a house logo, smiles confidently. He thanks God for his religion and celebrates freedom from hate.
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Cosmic Librarian
@cosmiclibrarian@universeodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@georgetakei

So...let's talk the Anti-Christ...an entity that opposes Christ and presents himself as a savior. I rest my case, devout Christians. It's all on you.

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gravedigger
@gravedigger@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@georgetakei Right, so when you start a war with no clear objective and no way out, you declare that you’re “fighting for god” — and now you no longer need an objective or an exit strategy.

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ZS
@ZS@techhub.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei American politics has been only too happy to ride on the coat tails of the massive pyramid scheme that is religion.

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Nils Liquidfire
@lagerfeuermetal@metalhead.club replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei This is indeed disturbing. But nice to hear that there's a Military Religious Freedom Foundation

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955_36
@955_36@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei Here's a different view from someone I would trust more. I hope he's right.

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/before-you-share-that-story-about

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this

The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.
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Gurre Vildskägg
@Gurre@mastodon.nu replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei
All of them need to be weeded out from the military. Military intelligence ought to have been doing that all along: no end-times / death cults get in at all.

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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽
@georgetakei@universeodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@Gurre You'd think that was something we could all agree on.

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Gurre Vildskägg
@Gurre@mastodon.nu replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@georgetakei
The Swedish military (and probably more) used to weed out communists from the mandatory military service during the Cold War. So its not like the concept of keeping certain ideologies out was unheard of.
They just chose to have an open door for the white christian nationalists.

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François @Prague
@FrancoisPrague@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei USA are a deeply sick country.

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@iveyline
@Iveyline@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei Abuses of power. What foes God have to say about their utterances. It's like Krill in Russia blessing Putin's war against the Ukraine.

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James Dos
@jamez_2_point_0@nerdculture.de replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei this should be classified as an illness

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Richard R Lee
@InfoMgmtExec@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

#JesusGrifters - #Nihilists - #EndOfDays. #Trumpistan.You knew this was coming and did nothing to prevent it you fools.
@georgetakei

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JackMex
@JackMexa4@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei

Poor brainwashed soldiers

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FurballsNHairballs
@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei
30 years of FoxNews will do that.
Before that,they had Rush Linbaugh.

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woodenmachines
@woodenmachines@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei without #evangelicals we wouldn’t be Israel’s lapdog/sugardady/bitch/bff. Constantly drug into wars of choice and terror attacks because… the rapture?

We will never have a just and free society as long as politicians can perform for evangelicals. It’s just too easy a character to play to get elected and fill your pockets with #aipac money. I’m so #athiest I don’t even believe they believe.

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HTPC NZ
@htpcnz@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei ha ha now the American Taliban is getting deployed overseas, my old comment America lost against the Afghani Taliban because half of them on the ground were like these guys are what we want to be - raping kids and women, having gay sex when it's forbidden for everyone else and confining women only to do housework only etc has come true, now a majority are just Taliban who likes pork & beer, so think they are superior than their Afghani cousins.

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glutto
@glutto@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei

The same guy who was selling signed bibles. Don't let that false prophets stuff slow down your Project 2025 plans, you nutcases.

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BoloMKXXVIII
@BoloMKXXVIII@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei So, they are just like the enemy they are fighting?

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Manic
@Manic_Walrus@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei

Considering the South and South West are the largest recruitment areas, are we really that surprised?

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A_Minion
@A_Minion@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei

I live above the 60'th parallel and have been saving banana seeds for Global Warming but mayhaps there is something more pressing we need to work on. We all need to Prey as hard as we can for the Rapture to rid our selves of the goofballs amongst us so we can work on the important problem around the world..

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nothingTV
@NothingTV@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei I think somebody who believes in ghosts, hears voices in their head, bases their values and behaviors on an ancient fiction shouldn't be in a position where they can harm themselves and others. Such a behavior is only tolerated in the Western world when it's called Christian religion and almost nobody is questioning that.

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ewhac
@ewhac@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei I have a... *different* vision of the Lord's interactions with the orange menace.

Christ leaning over Trump in the Oval Office, seizing his hand, and instructing him, "Drop the Sharpie, you slob, and get out."
Christ leaning over Trump in the Oval Office, seizing his hand, and instructing him, "Drop the Sharpie, you slob, and get out."
Christ leaning over Trump in the Oval Office, seizing his hand, and instructing him, "Drop the Sharpie, you slob, and get out."
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SarcastiCat
@Plumbert@thecanadian.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei I thought the war was supposed to remove a heartless theocracy, not reinforce one.

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Rorschach :verified:
@der_tom@nerdculture.de replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei
Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets will arise and deceive many.

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Luca Ruggeri
@lcruggeri@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei the "Don't kill" rule is forgot at convenience

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thriftwicker
@thriftwicker@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei

I hope they 'end times' themselves right off the planet.

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Draken BlackKnight
@draken@masto.nyc replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@georgetakei
They've been in there for over 30 years.

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