The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
Evangelicals are such dupes, they things the political right cares about them when they only give a shit about their vote.
At the same time the political right are such dupes, they think the evangelicals care about them when really they just want too use them to jump start rapture.
It’s like two guys trying to pickpocket each other so hard they end up wearing each other’s pants.
“They’re believers, Mr. Howard. Pentecostalist dispensationalists—they are saved, but they are surrounded by the unsaved, and they think their master is returning imminently, and anyone who isn’t saved by the time of his arrival is doomed. So they intend to save everyone whether or not they want to be saved…”
Evangelicals are such dupes, they things the political right cares about them when they only give a shit about their vote.
At the same time the political right are such dupes, they think the evangelicals care about them when really they just want too use them to jump start rapture.
It’s like two guys trying to pickpocket each other so hard they end up wearing each other’s pants.
“They’re believers, Mr. Howard. Pentecostalist dispensationalists—they are saved, but they are surrounded by the unsaved, and they think their master is returning imminently, and anyone who isn’t saved by the time of his arrival is doomed. So they intend to save everyone whether or not they want to be saved…”
–Charles Stross, The Apocalypse Codex
I trailed off that quote because it’s a spoiler.