Zyobot
Just a time-traveling robot stranded on Earth.
Other people might have tossed the “theocrat” label around, but personally, I never accused anyone here of wanting a Christian theocracy, unless they outright advocated for a state church or religiously motivated laws.
Still think they misunderstand (and maybe dishonestly read) the Bible to confirm their own hidebound biases, unfortunately. Not that I put much stock in the Bible or Biblical literalism, anyway, since I no longer consider myself Christian and don’t care for organized religion in general.
That said… I fear @Skallagrim is all too correct about how we’re living through something akin to Worldwide Weimar, the relentless debauchery of which — combined with preexisting grievances going unaddressed for years and years, and helping to reignite old hatreds along the way — will be met with blowback. Don’t expect The Next Hitler to be a direct expy of the original, of course, but a “Neo-Crusader” terrorist leader who proudly embodies the whole “Fire and brimstone!” caricature haunting modern Wokesters’ fever dreams?
More than possible, I’d say, precisely because they’d be a reaction to decades of Leftist rot and the Establishment’s stodgy aversion to Trump and his moderate reforms when they could still be implemented. By then, I think American Pinochet (Heck, even American Saddam Hussein!) will be the least terrible of some thuggish options; even though they’d be right bastards, they’d still be much preferable to the Millenarian, “Neo-Crusader” version of Hitler, Pol Pot, or Jim Jones taking the reigns instead. And that, more or less, is how I see this whole thing ending.
Still think they misunderstand (and maybe dishonestly read) the Bible to confirm their own hidebound biases, unfortunately. Not that I put much stock in the Bible or Biblical literalism, anyway, since I no longer consider myself Christian and don’t care for organized religion in general.
That said… I fear @Skallagrim is all too correct about how we’re living through something akin to Worldwide Weimar, the relentless debauchery of which — combined with preexisting grievances going unaddressed for years and years, and helping to reignite old hatreds along the way — will be met with blowback. Don’t expect The Next Hitler to be a direct expy of the original, of course, but a “Neo-Crusader” terrorist leader who proudly embodies the whole “Fire and brimstone!” caricature haunting modern Wokesters’ fever dreams?
More than possible, I’d say, precisely because they’d be a reaction to decades of Leftist rot and the Establishment’s stodgy aversion to Trump and his moderate reforms when they could still be implemented. By then, I think American Pinochet (Heck, even American Saddam Hussein!) will be the least terrible of some thuggish options; even though they’d be right bastards, they’d still be much preferable to the Millenarian, “Neo-Crusader” version of Hitler, Pol Pot, or Jim Jones taking the reigns instead. And that, more or less, is how I see this whole thing ending.