cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/56500480

"We're terribly sorry Mr. President. We'd love to help, but we don't know either."

There were lots of preachers all over Texas in the 1970's to 1990's preaching about the end times and Gog and Magog. He probably used their pronunciation.

The simplest way to explain their ideas is with the following meme.

Eh. Plenty of nutters around. No sense in spending time trying to figure out each unique band of nonsense. We'd never get anything useful done.

It's very hard to understand even half of what American Evangelicals are babbling about without a long and comprehensive talk about the history of the various movements and beliefs.

The best way I could even get started was some long series of blog posts, long ago, written by a theologian, who did pretty good critical literary commentary on the Left Behind series of novels. Looked at the nonsensical stupidity on the pages and then explained why was it that way.

I thought this was a Warhammer joke about Gork and Mork at first.

The US being pro Armageddon is really such a strange thing to nearly everybody. Also the reason they support Zionism, as the Jews returning to the Holy Land is said to trigger the end of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory

Do they believe or do they want us to believe that they believe?

we know it’s not a theory or ploy.

How do we know?

Oh God I forgot about those books! I grabbed the first one not really knowing, thinking it was gonna be some cool post apocalypse adventure romp around. Only got a couple chapters in. It was sooooo bad.

It’s a healthy dose of both grifters and true believers, like any good cult.

I prefer Gork, for he is brutal, yet also kunnin’.

How do I know solipsism is wrong?

I don't, but you say you're a real person and you do all the things a real person would do so I have to pretend to believe you

But I'm on to you anyway, delusion of my mind

What about the leaders like Bush, do they believe?