Protest Convoy Headed to Southern Border in Texas Is Calling Itself an ‘Army of God’
Experts say that the Christian nationalist rhetoric adds a dangerous dimension to the standoff between Texas and the Federal Government.
This kinda shit is at least part of the reason the fastest growing religion in America is “none.”
Exactly! They know their book says "love your neighbor" and care for the widow, the orphan & the stranger, but they don't even vaguely do anything like that.
These convoy people... false religion...
Sadly that only means they don’t go to a church and just believe whatever, actual atheists agnostics are only 10%.
I don't know why people are down voting you. This is exactly what Pew Research has said about religious "nones" in America. The number of dyed-in-the-wool atheists is still quite low and projected to decrease because birth rates.
If there’s one thing Jesus was consistent about, it’s that poor refugees seeking shelter should be ruthlessly murdered by drowning in a river tangled in razor wire.
Pretty sure that’s in the gospels.
I believe that's in the book of Donald, 6:66
6:66 is a long-ass chapter in that particular book. Covers a lot.
666 is the address of one of their buildings in NY.
Matthew 25:31-40, as I recall.
Oh wait, this is from the Opposite Bible.
Nah, that’s one of the ten commandments right? “Thou shalt murder thy neighbor by rain of gunfire” I think it was?
its old testament genocide : kill the canaanites, every last man, woman, and child
The fact that children still sing about the Battle of Jericho is really creepy to me
So they're basically ISIS
Y'all Kaida
Al Shabubba.
WhIteSIS
Gravy Seals
(What their mothers are)
Minivan Taliban.
Nah they love their trucks.
This one in particular :-D
Talibangelicals
Bruh this is genius.
Yeehaw-dists
Meal Team Six
Vanilla ISIS
Y'all Queda is mobilizing.
Quesadilla is what I was thinking xD
Most likely scenario is that they drive around in their trucks waving both flags of the US and flags of traitors to the US, block traffic, and post to Facebook.
Worst case scenario, there is a wave a of hate crimes as these hyped up fascists try to "defend America" by picking fights with any random brown person they see.
Best case scenario, they try messing with federal agents, get arrested, and wont be voting in November.
Or they will get themselves shot by federal law enforcement or the military.
The first scenario is basically what happened with the convoys in DC a while back. Every day, they'd drive down, drive around a while, and then leave. I live in the DC area, but don't drive in DC often, but from what I heard, the impact was minimal.
I don't know how many trucks were involved, but I do know those trucks are expensive to buy and maintain, too expensive to keep running them in non-revenue service like that for long.
There's so much fucking crazy in just the first two paragraphs of that article:
A trucker convoy of “patriots” is heading to the U.S. border with Mexico next week, as the standoff between Texas and the federal government intensifies. The organizers of the “Take Our Border Back” convoy have called themselves “God’s army” and say they’re on a mission to stand up against the “globalists” who they claim are conspiring to keep U.S. borders open and destroy the country.
“This is a biblical, monumental moment that’s been put together by God,” one convoy organizer said on a recent planning call. “We are besieged on all sides by dark forces of evil,” said another. “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. It is time for the remnant to rise.” (The remnant, from the Book of Revelation, are the ones who remain faithful to Jesus Christ in times of crisis).
I’m a pagan so maybe I’m misinterpreting but I did read the Bible in catholic school and I’m pretty sure Jesus said to do the opposite of this. I’m pretty sure he’d be saying that we should see each family as though they were Jose, Maria, and their baby Jesus as no different than Yusef, Miriam, and Ieshiua 2000 years ago. I’m pretty certain that was in fact his entire point though he’d also be saying that single 20 year old men also should be welcomed because they’re either good or lost and able to be redeemed.
The thing is...what may Christians believe is based less on what Jesus said and more on what suit-wearing, vitriol-spewing grifters tell them.
Why on earth would "peacemakers" need the probably mobile armories those idiots are carrying?
It's doublespeak, a la 1984. In this case many of the words used are inversions of their usual meaning.
I'll provide some translations:
patriots -> seditionists
biblical -> cloaked in the authority of God – which here must be explicitly stated because their actions are opposed to any God of justice
open boarders -> following legal and ethical principles (remember, these people oppose ethical principles)
peacemakers -> those who use violence, or the threat of violence, to obstruct peace. See also, terrorists
besieged by dark forces of evil -> opposed by morality, ethics, or the law. The addition of "on all sides" changes the 'or' to 'and'
As a bonus, "globalists" is antisemitism. There's an old canard that justice for minorities = communism = Jewish conspiracy. This is particularly common among nazis. The convoy organizer is signaling that their group is accepting of these ideas
I read that as "besieged on all sides by dark...forces of evil," narrowly avoiding saying dark people instead and losing all pretense.
A lot of untreated mental health issues making themselves visible in those two paragraphs. If only their parents hugged them once in awhile when they were kids maybe they'd be productive members of society instead.
The Hypocrisy is palpable. Where in Christ's teachings does it say to use razor wire and allow women and Children to drown to protect your way of life?! These Chuds are as much antichrists as 45.
Fucking brain dead morons sacrificing their livelihoods for the party that is actively blocking any action on securing the border.
That’s the whole game, create problems and stop progress so you can claim that you are the only group capable of solving it. This is just an op to try and smear the Ds
I'm no theist, but... If God existed, and was all-powerful as theists believe, why the fuck does he need an army?
Just like when JT Kirk said, "What does God need with a trucker convoy?"
Oh don't worry they have a bunch of poorly translated Bible passages to misinterpret.
No, see, god is omniscient, omnipotent, and petty, so we have to do their biding in fear of their wrath. But also incapable of keeping people in line, so we have to act in their name.
"God works in mysterious ways"
If I were become a god I, too, would make an entourage.
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Lol, it always comes back to an intellectually deficient group of morons and their baseless deity.
Yes, the army of God here to (checks notes) be absolutely monstrous fuckheads to their neighbors, just as Jesus teaches...
"And the Lord said unto thee: fuck those brown skinned mofos, they don't even pay taxes!"
I always find it ironic when religious people try to use race as a justification for their bigotry when Jesus was clearly of middle eastern descent.
It infuriates me beyond belief that I was one of the few individuals who actually read through the bible when I was forced to go to catholic school.
That and the absolutely abhorrent state of humanity really designates evidence that these books of all major religions are just the words of man to trick people into believing a god.
Malleable idiots are the easiest to control, after all. The inquisition proved this and every major violent engagement since has just been additional evidence.
Army Of "Wouldn't Recognize God If He Got In The Passenger Seat."
That's who they really are.
They also can't spot the antichrist, despite a lot of predictions in the bible pointing to a certain orange cult leader
Well, their God probably has horns, hooves, and a tail.
Hey, Baphomet is one of the good guys.
Lol buncha incels. Grown ass men who have families and shit to do, even if they share the same politics, wouldnt be caught dead doing this shit.
Same group of morons pretended to be truckers in Canada to protest vaccination mandates.
the major downside of increased access to communications technology is the nutters and crazy people more easily congregate...
Right?
One of the biggest changes with the advent of the Internet was that no matter what your interests, the Internet was always there with that most comforting of messages: "You are not alone.
Now that we can see that notion taken to it's inevitable and absurd conclusion, I think we can safely say that for lots and lots of people, it's for the best that they're left to believe they are, actually, alone.
And there are more of them than we realized back when we started creating the internet. We fucked up pretty bad.
I sometimes miss the days when the internet was just for scholars, nerds, and geeks.
Language might have been the mistake. Or maybe agriculture. Perhaps it was evolving from great apes. All I know from looking at history is that this shit has been going on since long before the internet.
Remember the days when you'd log onto your nerdy friends website with the marquee text running right to left too slow to read at your normal speed but too fast to not keep your eyes on constantly?
Which hopefully exposes some to reality. And wouldn't be so bad when it doesn't if the 3 letter gang did their fucking jobs with these domestic terrorists.
Ffs can you lot just have your civil war already so the rest of us can deal with the fall out
Wont even be a civil war. National guard will fall in line and in the event of Texas actually seceding from the Union, they will find out exactly how much money the US sinks into their state to keep it afloat while their own elected officials flee the first power grid failure
American here, asking the same. 🤷
Christian ISIS
Crisis?
ChrISIS
Sounds an awful lot like levying war against the United States, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
All of that military jargon, and I'll bet the number of actual vets in that convoy is a small percentage.
Not that there aren't MAGA ex-military, just that they don't as much get a kick out of cosplaying as such. If they liked it that much, they wouldn't have ETSed. Or, dishonerable discharge; I guess there could be a few of those.
Motor pool. Commissary. Adjutant. Fueler. Sanitation.
Guys that “missed out” on real combat. Gotta fill that hole with manliness.
If it's like the Bundy incidents it was like 5 dudes who legit were military and like a hundred fakes that were talking like they were operators. Great fun to watch off we're being honest.
Ah yes, its right there in the Bible for anyone to read....... Only it isn't.
What do you mean? Texas clearly is the land promised!
They need to be careful playing trumpets while walking in circles, or their walls might fall down.
I am willing to lay a bet that they completely fuck this up.
Minivans tangled in razor wire.
Road warriors in their pavement princesses sunk into the Rio.
Immigrants crossing elsewhere.
I prefer the original Arabic name, Hezbollah.
Hezbubba
Perfect!
Hezbullshit
God was an immigrant
You see that, these damn immigrants coming into our void and stealing our jobs! Messing it all up separating the water and the land, making light and all the creatures.. they should send em back to the metadivine where they came from if they're not going to integrate!
Huh? Or are you implicitly referring to the belief that Jesus was God and thus in turn his alleged flight to Egypt?
Because if referring to the concept of a generalized monotheistic deity/creator, this comment makes zero sense.
These guys probably don't hate Illinois Nazis.
"Protest Convoy" or "Anti-Immigrant Caravan"
Like in physics, this particle-antiparticle pair would annihilate.
God wants brown people to drown and suffer.
THIS IS WHAT THEY LITERALLY BELIEVE
For the uninformed, Here's an illustration of how actual Armies of God handle border walls
I didn't have "crusade" on my 2024 bingo card.
A crusade against...
Catholics?!??
Well, it's hardly the first time a crusade targeted fellow Christians, but I'm simply not sure they realize what they're doing.
No no! They’re BROWN Catholics so they don’t count as people.
Plus its the Catholics doing the crusading against other Christians, like the Cathar crusade or whatever it was called.
Republicans saw the Taliban still in power after being fully occupied by the US for how long and decided "that's who we're going to model ourselves after"
Blow their mind and counter protest by praying for them and show up wearing priest outfits and have your own Jesus. Make it a whole thing that your godlier
This is the hill they dying on?
One can hope.
Thinking they can get to the top of a hill seems optimistic.
A group of six patriot-world influencers, including Kim Yeater, who runs a self-empowerment self-help group and an anti-voter fraud group, started organizing the convoy around a month ago. “God’s army is rising up,” she said on the planning call. “We all have been chosen for this time.”
Religion influencing the state is anti-constitutional, blocking the freedom of others, blocking the state, and opposing equal rights, even for non-nationals, is anti-patriotism.
Feelings of patriotism are based on the positive values the country embraces—like freedom, justice, and equality. The patriot believes that both the system of government and the people of their country are inherently good and work together for a better quality of life.
In contrast, feelings of nationalism are based on a belief that one’s country is superior to all others. It also carries a connotation of distrust or disapproval of other countries, leading to the assumption that other countries are rivals. While patriots do not automatically denigrate other countries, nationalists do, sometimes to the point of calling for their country’s global dominance. Nationalism, through its protectionist beliefs, is the polar opposite of globalism.
While I don't agree that nationalism necessarily perceives a superiority, it does prioritise the nation as always being number one, even at to cost of others.
I think strategically the best thing the feds could do is back off for two weeks. Does anyone believe these convoys have enough supplies to keep for more than 48 hours?
Failing that keep this up until November. We know these guys won’t mail in ballot.
Hopefully they get trapped in the snow and freeze like the fuckers in Canada did
I mean, their purpose is to cost the US and Mexico vast sums of money until they get their way. Starving them out is their best case scenario.
Fuckwits.
You are too kind to them.
Isn't canon in their book that Sky Daddy's son spoke positively about immigrants?
None of them have ever actually read it.
Good ole Texas. Never change babe
Not that there aren't a lot of stupid people here, but these particular clowns are coming from Virginia Beach.
So, send them to Him. They're only too eager, so why obstruct such a profound drive? 🤷🏼♂️
Good luck fighting drone bombers with your little pop guns, assholes.
OMG, I remember this one, it's one of my favorite episodes evar. It's the one where Charlie gets a job in the mailroom and can't deliver mail to some dude named Pepe Silvia and he loses his mind and draws all that wacko shit on the board lol. Hahaha he so stupid
guerrilla marketing becoming too meaningful
Christian Nationalists will save the day.
wE'Re nOt hAvInG a cIViL wAr
All of you ignorant assholes who denigrated anyone else for saying we're experiencing a second civil war in the U.S. better make with the apologies.
I don't see a war. I see people levying for war. I see an assemblage of troops. That's the definition of treason.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/article-3/section-3/clause-1/levying-war-as-treason
What's the need of being rude and aggressive to express your thoughs?
This actitude is, in part, why I think social media sucks so bad, call it Lemmy, Twitter, Reddit or Facebook.
Tell me you don’t know what civil war is without saying you don’t know what civil war is
Hell yea!
