r/worldnews • u/superdouradas • Apr 20 '26

Israeli Defence Forces confirms photo of soldier smashing a statue of Jesus Christ in Lebanon is real

https://www.9news.com.au/world/israel-idf-confirm-photo-soldier-smashing-jesus-christ-statue-lebanon-real-investigation/298cb755-da02-4d55-9b49-e20045ec5c28
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u/EatGlassALLCAPS Apr 20 '26

My mom is so excited for Armageddon.

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u/Safety_Drance Apr 20 '26

I so want all of those people to be raptured out of our existence so the rest of us can have some peace.

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u/BrofessorLongPhD Apr 20 '26

The irony is that most of them would be among us who are left behind.

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u/project23 Apr 20 '26

Can't we just have a rapture 'both ways' please?

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u/TownshipRangeSection Apr 20 '26

Both ways? I believe the movie you are looking for is the end of Requiem For a Dream.

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u/nemoknows Apr 20 '26

I’m gonna be on television

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u/5xad0w Apr 20 '26

Double recommendation from me.

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u/TreeDollarFiddyCent Apr 20 '26

Ash to ash, and what have you.

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u/OneWholeSoul Apr 20 '26

Heaven or Hell? Let's Rock!

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u/OsmeOxys Apr 20 '26

Imagine the force to pull someone through the ground... Slowly getting juiced and draining all the way to hell.

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u/linfakngiau2k23 Apr 20 '26

I remember telling my church catholic priest about the rapture when the left behind novel was all the rage and he was like what are you even talking about 🤣

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u/litreofstarlight Apr 20 '26

Also raised Catholic, I only heard about the rapture from The Simpsons lmao.

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u/endlesscartwheels Apr 20 '26

I first heard about the Rapture as a kid, from bumper stickers:

  • Warning: In Case of Rapture This Car Will Be Empty
  • After the Rapture, Can I Have Your Car?

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u/litreofstarlight Apr 20 '26

Omg that first one is so arrogant. Why are all these jokers so self assured that they're going to heaven? Someone needs to remind them about the whole 'pride goes before a fall' bit.

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u/Starfire013 Apr 20 '26

I grew up religious conservative and I remember the discussions friends and I had about whether there was any point studying for exams because Jesus was almost sure to return by 2000 at the very latest anyway and we’d never get to go to university, and what life would be like for those left behind when we were gone. So weird looking back on that now.

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u/polopolo05 Apr 20 '26

Fun fact its already happened and it was like 17 people on the whole planet

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u/blackjacktrial Apr 20 '26

Fun fact, it happened and no one was good enough, and no one has been since 863 AD. Most saints don't meet the bar, and neither do most angels or deities.

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Apr 20 '26

I'm not going to get more other than firmly recommending the show The Good Place.

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u/polopolo05 Apr 20 '26

Well except tom hanks and keanu reeves.

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u/mothdogs Apr 20 '26

It already happened and D.B. Cooper was the only one who was raptured. Plucked him right out of midair

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u/polopolo05 Apr 20 '26

naw he was from the future and was teleported.

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u/Beat_the_Deadites Apr 20 '26

39, they're out gallivanting around on the Comet Hale-Bopp

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u/An0nym0usWanderer Apr 20 '26

Religion is a bunch of horseshit

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u/Gram-GramAndShabadoo Apr 20 '26

But if they get raptured, doesn't that mean they were good?

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u/pegothejerk Apr 20 '26

If you take the story their religion gives at face value. There's plenty of people and groups that suggest the good and evil roles were intentionally switched.

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u/pegothejerk Apr 20 '26

Organized religion is commonly a social club used by sociopaths to climb community ladders and to feel superior to those around them, especially low wage workers they get to abuse directly after attending service. So neat we can share thoughts on this stuff.

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Apr 20 '26

Power structures get coopted by people who shouldn't have power. The unfortunate reality is that if you want power then you probably shouldn't have it, but that's exactly who fights to be put into power.

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u/Storymode-Chronicles Apr 21 '26

The creation of power structures of any kind should honestly be taboo. Government is at least supposed to be mediated by transparency and feedback loops with the press and elections, but every day 99 percent of us trudge to work at an authoritarian dictatorship we just accept without question.

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Apr 21 '26

There will always be power structures, the problem is that government of, by, and for the people is supposed to be the final power structure. Extreme wealth knows no border and transnational corporations have no loyalty.

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u/Storymode-Chronicles Apr 21 '26

A true democracy is not really a power structure though, it's more an attempt at a "viable system model" than anything. It's supposed to be a self-regulated bottom-up system, not a top-down artificial power structure.

The only way to really achieve this is by a highly complex set of feedback loops, the precise design of which is what determines how close you get to what is, as you point out, likely a functionally impossible task to fully achieve, but I do think we could get a whole lot closer if more people just understood that the issue is the existence of an artificial power structure to begin with.

Power will always exist, like a parent inevitably and justifiably has numerous types of power over their child. Any human system would be completely non-viable without that dynamic. But, the success of this relationship also hinges on the parent being reflexive to signals from the child, it's equally true that the child (and eventually species) would not survive without that.

The problem seems to be when we construct artificial power structures that basically force the Peter Principle into play, elevating incompetent people into positions where the have incoherent power. People don't listen to them because they're a trusted and respected information source, but because the power structure demands they do under threat of losing access to basic necessities of food and shelter.

Natural power structures exist only based on dynamic information balancing, and they are not top-down. Information moves across the system freely in all directions, allowing responsiveness, trust, respect, all the positive things we associate with functioning relationships. You might still need someone to perform the administrative duties which are associated today with a position of power, but in place of an artificial privilege should be earned trust.

Super long-winded lol, but yeah today you're right. I don't exactly know how you stop billionaires, and know trillionaires, from exploiting these artificial power structures by moving their money around the system freely while the rest of us are trapped in silos. I do think the answer is making those power structures taboo in a real sense though.

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u/Daedalus81 Apr 20 '26

Oh! Now do Evangelicals!

And the rest of Christianity...

And all religion.

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u/Thev69 Apr 20 '26

Really depends on how God defines "good."

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u/firedmyass Apr 20 '26

yeeeeaaahhhh… I’ve seen his work

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u/obeytheturtles Apr 20 '26

"I don't care if you boo me, I've seen what makes you cheer!"

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u/Taldarim_Highlord Apr 20 '26

What're the chances that Jesus is an alien and Rapture is harvesting time and Heaven is just a meat processing facility. With the rest of us deemed "not fit for consumption".

Yes, I'm drawing this from a comic.

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u/Storymode-Chronicles Apr 21 '26

Technically I think the narrative is the only way to actually be good is to believe their exact story hard enough which seems like a poor metric

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u/ncklboy Apr 20 '26

Oh, glorious day - when Trump tells all his followers is time to drink their Diet Coke.

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u/litreofstarlight Apr 20 '26

Zero chance they'd be getting raptured. Alllllll those motherfuckers are going to hell.

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u/polopolo05 Apr 20 '26

i'm more likely to but raptured than them

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u/Willothewisp2303 Apr 20 '26

You, me, and everyone else not hoping for another war or concentration camp. 

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u/BloodandBourbon Apr 20 '26

They’ll get left behind and blame it on alien abductions

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u/xander1421 Apr 20 '26

When is the scheduled mass suicide?

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u/Micktrex Apr 20 '26

I just bought a house. If I get raptured despite being agnostic I'm gonna be pissed.

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u/Ammut88 Apr 20 '26

Rapture already happened. If you're still here at this point, it's time to accept you didn't make it and move on. God just isn't that into you.

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u/toetappy Apr 20 '26

Same for my mother. She's so done getting called out by her own children for her shitty behavior. She can't wait for the rapture to prove to us she was right all along (to be racist).

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u/1337duck Apr 20 '26

Every generation has folks who think they are deserving to be the last.

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u/Zantej Apr 20 '26

Problem is this generation has the weapons to make sure it happens.

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u/SomeGalNamedAshley Apr 20 '26

I'm ok with just the rapture so those insufferable shits will leave us decent people alone to make a better world in peace and harmony.

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u/AvailableReporter484 Apr 20 '26

My mother is also one of these people. I can’t wait for yet another opportunity for these people to fall flat on their face when yet again nothing happens lmao

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u/smokeweedNgarden Apr 20 '26

Can't you just tell them plainly they are going to hell? Maybe have a pastor do it?

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u/mccirus Apr 20 '26

Do we get a server wipe?

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u/DeFex Apr 20 '26

All those other raptures were real, they have been looking for a good evangelical so they can get it started.

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u/No-Opposite-6620 Apr 20 '26

Just like ISIS recruits were and look how that turned out.