Medieval intellects are gonna medieval.

[richard_littler@mastodon.social]

Religious zealots always cherry-pick. I mean, just once, couldn't they notice that Satan in The Book of Revelation is typically characterised as an orange Beast who loves gold?

[richard_littler@mastodon.social]

I mean, come on! This one literally has the same hairstyle!

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@Richard_Littler AFAIK, the Beast is not Satan, but I may be theologically wrong.

*I've checked and Saint John could've cut it out with the fucking fungi, because he didn't make fucking sense with the Beast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beast_(Revelation)

[malin@dice.camp]

@Richard_Littler
> Is six heads enough?

”mate, it must be seven"

> Where? I've finished the heads but there's room on the tail.

[fossfor@mastodon.art]

@Richard_Littler yes but this wee beastie is a lot prettier than president Evil 🤔

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@Richard_Littler
They are aware of that (remember the "miraculous headwound" of Trump's ear?), they just believe that if they LARP Revelations they can force (White Republican) Jesus to appear & give them all they desire.
Which if one wishes to get mediaeval is a heresy deserving of burning at the stake.

[fourt4@mastodonapp.uk]

@Richard_Littler Satan looks really unwell in picture 3.

[clintruin@mastodon.social]

@HighlandLawyer @Richard_Littler
According to Christians, the only way to Heaven is through Christ. If you do not believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, you are damned. Given that I do not believe this 2000 year-old fairy tale, I'm damned. All of us who do not believe are. 1/

[clintruin@mastodon.social]

@HighlandLawyer @Richard_Littler
2/But then this begs the question: in the book of Revelations the anti-Christ comes to deceive. But who exactly is being deceived? Not me according to their beliefs, I’m already damned. So who exactly is the anti-Christ coming to deceive? Not the followers of other religions...they too are already damned according to the Christian. Not the sinners. Again, already damned. So who exactly is going to be deceived? I do have a clue...
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@clintruin @Richard_Littler
Can't be a follower of the Anti-christ if you don't believe in Christ.

[clintruin@mastodon.social]

@HighlandLawyer @Richard_Littler
Yes. Exactly. This is my point.

[highlandlawyer@mastodon.social]

@clintruin @Richard_Littler
According to *some* Christians. It's been a popular viewpoint particularly for those wanting a reason to expand their control over people, but it is questionable if you rely only on the reported words of Jesus per the gospels.

[faithinbones@mastodon.social]

@Richard_Littler they don't care. They want #Armageddon so they can go to heaven. What they don't seem to understand is they will be part of the group that is Left Behind

[praetor@mstdn.social]

@Richard_Littler This is the only book in the Bible I've read to the end...because....DRAGONS! And it reads like a mythic tall tale. It's a fun read! The trope of dragons breathing fire is actually very unique to the Book of Revelation. You don't see that in any other depictions of them world-wide, or even in other dragons in the rest of the Bible. The medieval dragon, and by extension the modern dragon, is from Revelations

[hugoestr@functional.cafe]

@Richard_Littler I was wishing that this wasn't real