• JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    I hope you have a good day too. I left that comment because for a long time I’ve been asking “what would Jesus do”, and I think he’d try to create a culture where judging car ownership is normalised. I’m glad you have an electric vehicle, and I hope it’s an electric bicycle, because even electric cars release carcinogenic particulate matter, which is a sin, and serve to tear apart communities by encouraging urban sprawl. I live in a country with good public transit, and I believe the difference between my country and yours is culture. If we can export our culture to your people, your people will change their cities and stop upsetting the Lord so much with all the carbon.

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      2 days ago

      I can’t tell whether to believe you. What country is yours? Arabia?

      I support things that support the climate, but if you’re really trying to do that, you’re not doing your cause a service. If you’re just trolling, I’ve never understood the purpose of that anyway.

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        2 days ago

        Look at it this way: Donald Trump is a clown. It would not diminish his credibility in the least if tomorrow he walked into the Oval Office wearing squeaky clown shoes. Yet, he has somehow become the vanguard of the return of fascism to the world, and some significant percentage of the United States, despite claiming to be followers of Christ, truly do worship him as a god. Furthermore, his coming has heralded the rise of innumerable fascist media figures, from Charlie Kirk to Elon Musk to Kanye West to Kyle Rittenhouse. In short, he has shifted the overton window. A clown did that.

        It turns out, being a clown is a great way to shift the overton window. Clowns get attention. People remember them. And even while laughing at the ridiculous things they say, people become accustomed to the rhetoric. It ceases to shock, and that makes the suit-and-tie respectable fascists such as Peterson or Shapiro seem more reasonable by comparison. Do you know what things are today being said in government all over the world and earning hardly a blink, because Trump has said something far worse?

        I believe Jesus Christ would approve of a strategy of using the same tactics, but instead of evil, turning them towards good. We have among us an Antichrist. It is now time for the coming of a Prophet.

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          I have now realized you are a troll taking advantage of my naivete. Thank you for the information. I still hope you have a good, if unsuccessful day, though.