Religion and the 2016 US Presidential Election

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Religion and the 2016 US Presidential Election

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1prosfilaes
marraskuu 9, 2016, 11:36 pm

https://aediculaantinoi.wordpress.com/2016/11/09/ill-give-him-this/ says

Several trusted polytheist friends have been saying for months that their visions have shown them nothing other than the President-Elect winning. I have tried to be hopeful, but it looks like they were right. When I did divination last night with Antinous and His pantheon to ask if the election would go to the eventual President-Elect, I got the strongest possible “yes” answer, but the Deities involved that I asked the question to also expressed how they are not remotely happy about this…it is not a win for Them, nor is it for many of us who are polytheist, queer, disabled, or non-white and various other identities.

Some people have suggested the Deities aren’t involved in politics or who gets chosen to rule the various parts of the human world. Based on some of the traditions I practice, I can’t accept that this is the case in good conscience–though I also don’t think the Deities have the final say over it, which is why things go so spectacularly shitty so much of the time.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2016/11/09/the-day-after/ offers

Wake up, and strengthen what remains and is on the point of death, for I have not found your works perfect in the sight of my God. Remember then what you received and heard; obey it, and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.
— Revelation 3:2-3

2LolaWalser
marraskuu 9, 2016, 11:53 pm

Well, there's at least one so-called Christian on LT who welcomes Trump as the embodiment of "moral right", a conqueror of America's "icky decadence", "sexual perversion" (yes, really!) and "educational abuse of children" (not to be confused with religious indoctrination in his church), and thinks Don the Con is the saviour of the unborn, so I can't, in all honesty, say the OP is the craziest thing I've seen on the topic of "religion & the 2016 US presidential election".

3MyopicBookworm
marraskuu 10, 2016, 1:30 pm

At least it is more apparent that the USA is a "Christian" country only in name, or in fantasy, now that the "Christian" right have helped to elect a thrice-married philandering egoistic con-man to the White House.

4paradoxosalpha
marraskuu 10, 2016, 3:16 pm

>3 MyopicBookworm:

Amen to that!

5smallself
heinäkuu 25, 2017, 9:42 pm

>2 LolaWalser: I don't think that there's anything crazy about divination. I've believed in it so long that I guess I've forgotten what's strange about it. What's strange about it? Of course some people are better at it than others, but there's nothing strange about some people being good at it. It's a skill.

Of course, I'm vaguely monotheist myself. Although, so was Dion Fortune. ".... and there is one Initiator." Hindus are vaguely monotheist too; "To the gods go the worshippers of the gods, but My worshippers come to Me."

Anyway, as for Mr. Trump, at least it's something that many people can agree on, from Deepak Chopra to Sam Harris, that he's at a lower level of consciousness.

As for the people who are confused and frightened enough to actually be at that lower level of conscious, all I can say for myself is that at least I've got some insight into how far we still collectively have to come. (As a relatively privileged person by some measures,) it was easier to ignore the collective insanity in the Obama years, which isn't an unmixed blessing, sadly enough.

6LolaWalser
Muokkaaja: heinäkuu 26, 2017, 12:17 pm

>5 smallself:

I think you referenced my post by mistake, if you're even in the right thread.