U.S.-born Pope Leo XIV pushed back Monday on Donald Trump’s broadside against him over the U.S.-Israel war in Iran, telling reporters that the Vatican’s appeals for peace and reconciliation are rooted in the Gospel, and that he doesn’t fear the Trump administration.

“To put my message on the same plane as what the president has attempted to do here, I think is not understanding what the message of the Gospel is,” Leo told AP aboard the papal plane en route to Algeria. “And I’m sorry to hear that but I will continue on what I believe is the mission of the church in the world today.”

History’s first U.S.-born pope stressed that he was not making a direct attack against Trump or anyone else with his general appeal for peace and criticisms of the “delusion of omnipotence” that is fueling the Iran wars and other conflicts around the world.

  • I_JediEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Things get even more fun if you look at the Gnostic view of Armageddon.

    Gnostics believe that God (the Abrahamic God, anyway) is an evil piece of shit. The whole Judgement Day thing is Abrahamic God exerting control over the physical realm, because you’re supposed to think that you’re not allowed to say no to him. Same goes for Armageddon - it has to be a big bombastic event because God hates you and wants you to suffer for not believing in him.

    Gnostic Armageddon is more personal. Your goal is to begin Armageddon, except Armageddon affects you and you alone, and when enacted you get tossed out of Abrahamic God’s domain into somewhere more spiritual. While everyone else gets stuck fighting wars for their bloodthirsty master, you get to see what comes next.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      4 days ago

      Gnostics believe that God (the Abrahamic God, anyway) is an evil piece of shit.

      I mean…

      Objectively he is…

      It didn’t start out as monotheistic, back in the day every city had their own god.

      Yahewah/Allah’s followers just conquered everyone else and said it proved their god was Yahweh/Allah this whole time. If anyone disagreed they were killed.

      He was an early war god, and his followers acted like it. The whole point of Gods of that era was to give enemies a reason to stay away and not invade.

      My god is an awesome god

      Meant:

      My god scares the absolute shit out of me, and if you’re not scared of him yet I’ll make you scared of him.

      When Yahweh/Allah was repackaged as peace loving, it went so hard that it flipped the meaning of awesome/awful.