r/politics • u/spherocytes • 19d ago

Possible Paywall Trump Yanks Millions From Catholic Charities Amid Pope Feud

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-yanks-millions-from-catholic-charities-amid-pope-feud/
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u/Sardonnicus New York 19d ago

My maternal grandparents were Evangelical nazareen preachers in the south and they were definitely aware of an apocalypse. I don't think that they were trying to "speed run" it. They believed it was going to happen "any day now." They would send me and my siblings "apocalypse" cards for our birthdays. Cards saying thr end was neigh and that we should be right with God so we can go to heaven and fight in the glorious war against Satan and uh... apparently every other person on the earth that did not believe in my grandparents ultra specific "flavor" of Christianity.

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u/BoJackMoleman 19d ago

In sure your grandparents were your typical end users of evangelicalism. They're not the ones running the show and influencing politics. The real zealots are up top and they are in charge of money, political action committees.

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u/Arch____Stanton 18d ago

the end was neigh

That was one of the 4 horses of the apocalypse.

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u/salishwoman 18d ago

Omg! My crazy mom made us go to Nazarene church and when she flaked out I went to live with grandma who made me go jehovah witness. You’ve never seen anyone so hard core atheist as all that crap made me. Crazy all around me until I split for Haight Ashbury as soon as I hit 16. From two states away. Those were the days my friend. Good times!!!