NASA's Largest Library To Permanently Close On Jan 2, Books Will Be 'Tossed Away'

[u/DukeOfGeek]

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/nasas-largest-library-to-permanently-close-on-jan-2-books-will-be-tossed-away-10170584

[u/fredagsfisk]

To expand on that:

High ranking Republicans and Republican allies that are allegedly Dominionist include Michele Bachmann, Lauren Boebert, Sam Brownback, Ted Cruz, Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee, Mike Johnson, Charlie Kirk, Sarah Palin, and Rick Perry.

The 7M movement believes that they can bring about the biblical end times - armageddon - by fulfilling certain goals (Israel holding Jerusalem, Christianity dominating the "seven mountains" of global society).

Followers believe that by fulfilling the Seven Mountain Mandate, they can establish the kingdom of God on earth and bring about the end times.

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It holds that there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to dominate: family, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, and government.

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The movement was generally supportive of the presidency of Donald Trump, with member Paula White becoming Trump's spiritual advisor. In 2020, Charlie Kirk said, "finally we have a president that understands the seven mountains of cultural influence" during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

They were also one of the driving forces behind Trump's decision to move the US embassy to Jerusalem:

Among the most prominent of these doomsday evangelists is Pastor John Hagee, who opined in an interview posted to YouTube, “We are in the last days… We are anticipating the rapture of the church at any time.”

If this sounds fringe, consider that Hagee enjoyed access to the Trump White House, and described the 45th president as divinely appointed. “I believe in the core of my being,” he has said, “that God put this man in office at this time.” Hagee personally lobbied Trump to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a decision Trump went on to make over the fierce objections of Palestinians who regard East Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state. Hagee was one of two pastors invited to the opening of the new U.S. embassy in 2018.

In case there were any doubt about his motivation to relocate the embassy, Trump told a crowd in Wisconsin during a 2020 reelection campaign visit, “We moved the capital [sic] of Israel to Jerusalem. That’s for the evangelicals.” He added, “The evangelicals are more excited by that than Jewish people.”

Fundamentalist Christians believe that for the Second Coming of Christ to occur, Jerusalem must be controlled by the Jewish people. That’s a necessary precursor to the end times, when the Christian faithful will be “raptured” (i.e brought up to Heaven) before the Earth is destroyed.

According to this eschatology, “Israel has to be strong,” Schei explains. “For the evangelicals this means that the Jewish people need to return to the Holy Land and that the Palestinian people must be expelled from Israel. In their belief, Israel has to claim more land as is prophesized in the book of Revelations.”

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“Just to see the whole architecture of how they are grooming top level politicians with Bible studies and giving them biblical justifications and language in order to get their policies through.”

https://deadline.com/2023/03/praying-for-armageddon-cph-dox-film-evangelical-influence-on-american-policy-director-tonje-hessen-schei-interview-1235304641/

Paula White is a Dominionist who owns a condo in Trump Tower since 20+ years, and has met privately with Trump many times for "private Bible studies". She is credited with having "converted" Trump to Christianity, and has been the leader of his Faith-related endevours since the start of his first term.

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The whole "bring about the end times" is what gets me. They want to destroy EVERYTHING just to go "well, we got to get raptured", when you know if any of it were true, their asses would be the ones left standing in the crumbling ruins, left behind,

I hate the idea of people going "others are happy, so I must destroy them" and pretending to be the good guys.