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Had no idea this was a thing 🧐🤔
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There is widespread belief among white evangelicals that exclusive Jewish control of Israel will bring about Christ’s second coming.    And they're willing to endanger both Jews and Palestinians to pursue these selfish theological ends. /2 independent.co.uk/news/world/ame
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The Abrahamic religions are very confusing. I have no idea how Christians, Muslims, and Jews keep their shared mythology all sorted out. It’s like Bitcoin forks except they all continue to transact with each other. By contrast Hinduism only *looks* confusing. It’s all NFTs.
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The way you join an Abrahamic religion is you convert to it by trading in some fiat secular beliefs. The way you join Hinduism is by making up a new god and minting an associated NFT and tweeting it to pump it. It’s more cinematic universe/shared namespace and canonicity rules.
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I’m clearly going to be canceled around the world with a single tweet someday. Should find some way to fold Confucianism into this crypto-theology.
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My understanding of middle-east politics news growing up. It hasn’t improved much despite >half my life in the west tbh.
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Even though Muslims, Christians, and Jews exist as significant minorities in India at least, there was something very incomprehensible about why the middle-east played the weird role it did in the global news.
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Possibly because all 3 religions arrived in Asia before the first crusade, so predates the history-religion entanglement 🤔
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I think there’s something I just don’t grok about historicist religions with a narrative built around an end-date. I guess it’s like 21m bitcoins end-of-mining-history. So a deflationary narrative. The last soul born (or dead) just before judgment day will be like last Bitcoin.
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Oh wait, born, since the rapture doesn’t assume everyone is dead. So if last baby is born just a few seconds before rapture, it won’t time to be baptized so it will get left behind?
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