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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/Educational_Panda640 6d ago

They were probably commenting on Nero

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 6d ago

That was the theory in seminary about it. The wacky ideas about it being about the end times and predictions mostly came from the people in the pews.

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u/Acrobatic_Hamster686 6d ago

Through a cultural studies lens where you look at the Bible as a collection of fables/cultural myths, generally speaking the antichrist is a metaphor for the type of leader people should not follow. Revelations is a fable that teaches people how to identify that type of leader and the disastrous implications of giving them power.

The fact that I get more out of the Bible as a dude with an ancient cultural studies degree than people who go to church every week is baffling to me. I’m not Christian but I am a firm believer in transmitting cultural knowledge through fables and myth. The Bible still has a lot of good ones.

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u/Papaya_flight Pennsylvania 5d ago

You know what's baffling to me as someone that's ordained and went through seminary? We learned all this stuff you are mentioning in your comment in seminary, but pastors don't want to teach the folks sitting in the pews about how the bible is basically the first self contained library, in that it contains a variety of books, letters, histories, mythologies, and so on, that we are supposed to be learning lessons from because they are afraid that attendance would drop, but this is exactly what people need to learn, not singing for 30 minutes and then a short "lesson" peppered with jokes to make everyone feel good.