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…and they BELIEVE IT! Such a sad, sad bunch of suckers and losers.

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“Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1

It’s basically a cognitive dissonance conference.

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It’s basically a cognitive dissonance conference.

You have also managed to successfully describe attending religious services.

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How is that cognitive dissonance? I don’t see it.

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They’ll believe whatever suits them to prop up their delusional world view. And they’ll refuse to acknowledge any facts that contradict it.

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They believe whatever fox “news” tells them to. They don’t have their own world view, just the view they’re told to have.

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Can you actually find anyone who believes it literally? Honest question. I just watched the video, and it seems to me that he is saying it figuratively and not literally.

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Coach is saying that these people actually believe that he has been “defending religion”, not that they believe that he has literal wounds all over his body from it.

You seem to be the one taking things a bit too literally.

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Truthfully, I believe there are “fine [yet moronic] people on both sides” of this thing. Religions seem to serve both hypocrites and idiots alike.

His quote will sell lots of T-shirts, either way.

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I don’t think anyone is saying he has literal wounds from defending religion.

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I agree, including Trump.

But this thread is full of people saying that they think he meant it literally and people believe it literally. And I think, although I could be wrong, that is what the top level commenter is getting at.

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I honestly think if he took his shirt off it would cost him the election.

Seeing the flabby, 78-year-old American physique in all its glory would be both a literal and figurative “emperor has no clothes” moment for many of his cultists.

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He’d just need to have some acrylic flab sculpting armor like Immortan Joe.

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“There’s the fake abs, then Donald … jiggly Donald, and then … abs.”

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Any scars will be the result of his addictions. Did so much cocaine he broke his asshole. Or did the asshole just become him.

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The quote gets even crazier.

Really!? You were treated the worst of any president?! Lincoln was assassinated!!

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And 160 years later his legacy has been coopted by the same sort of people who killed him to begin with.

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2024 years later Jesus’ legacy has been co-opted by the same sort of people who killed him to begin with.

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And his wounds weren’t from a dominatrix like Drumpf’s.

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I don’t think he has the self awareness to be a sub

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We need to bait him into rallying in a liberal city. We could all show up and pretend to take him seriously and just wait for him to say something insane like this.

Then we could just yes-man him into doing embarrassing stuff. Hell yeah Mr. President, show us your beautiful wounded body. Take that shirt off. Do us a little dance. Jump up and down or something. C’mon, do a little fat man dance.

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America First, you gotta do the truffle shuffle.

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He had a rally in Philly today

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@todd_bonzalez @jeffw Didn’t he rally in/near New York? Also it’s not the same, but he also hosts fundraisers in CA often.

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Outside of the cities, California is conservative af

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@Orbituary he went to San Francisco … to raise money from tech people (this was somewhat recent) https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/06/06/trump-hits-tech-fundraiser-in-san-francisco-some-guests-pay-300000.html.

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I don’t believe in the anti christ. But if I did.

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Well I’m no expert on Christianity, but apparently this theology graduate here agrees with you:

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

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In particular, Jesus showing off his wounds was the big evidence it was him and he had come back from the dead. He isn’t just being weird in front of religious people. He is selling himself as the new messiah.

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He is selling himself as the new messiah.

Aka being weird in front of religious people.

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