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[–] ravelin@lemmy.ml 34 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

If I'm reading this right, we need to eat fewer Christians.

[–] RuthBaderGonesburg@hexbear.net 9 points 15 hours ago

And the USA should only be consumed as a treat for special occasions

[–] Fancy_Gecko@lemmy.ml 12 points 14 hours ago

what's crazy is some people actually think this way

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 14 points 17 hours ago

Goa'uld bait pyramid

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 15 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Someone replace the US flag with "Islam" to scare them. It'd be just as accurate. Put a "Memri TV" banner on there while you're at it.

By the way, this is a common argument among fascist pundits who disingenuously equate western liberal thought with "judeo-christian beliefs", whatever the hell that means. Our society is good because it's based on religion and our religion is flawless because our society is based on it.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

"judeo-christian belief" is the amalgamation of christian supremacy (standard colonialism) with jewish supremacy (zionist colonialism). It's a fascist solidarity term to acknowledge the mutual interest the current axis of evil serves.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, so they're accidentally right in equating it to western liberal thought

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 5 points 15 hours ago

They're using Judaism and Christianity as a cloak for western liberal thought. To both give it legitimacy and conceal real intentions.

[–] ThermonuclearHoxha@hexbear.net 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

By the way, the second to last word in your first sentence is removed on my home instance on account of its other meaning as a racial slur. You might consider replacing it with a synonymous term.

I couldn't resist making a bad edit though:

Edit replacing US at the top of the pyramid in a Newsmax screenshot with its original headline "Judaism is the foundation of the free world" with Islam. The subheadline "Western civilization" is replaced with "human civilization." Below it are Christianity, Christ, and Judaism. The tweet's text written by a Neo-Nazi, @DD_Geopolitics, criticizing Newsmax for this, is replaced with the Shahada.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 18 points 18 hours ago

Ben Shapiro got tired of getting a yarmulke that matches his exact shade of hair, so now he's trying to get the anti-Semites on board with Judaism.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

DD geopolitics is a neonazi

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Looked at their account and all I saw sticking out is some Russia simping. Feel free to provide evidence of neonazi comments.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

DD geopolitics is ran by

A) Chris Helali, one of the leaders of the closet nazi paty, known as ACP, and former u.s army intelligence officer who's gone to fight for Rojava along other American mercenaries and had a record of wrecking any left party he joins, in addition to having epstein's lost phone book or some shit that had to be leaked by someone in congress because he wanted to keep its contents secret so as to profit off of auctioning it for the highest bidder

https://x.com/jonnysocialism/status/2023039784504230376

https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/jeffrey-epsteins-little-black-book-auction-maryland/

B) Sarah Bils, a former navy NCO and literal fascist, who is on record for saying she worships Mussolini Goebbels, and is an open ACP associate

https://x.com/jonnysocialism/status/1948164713889857610

https://x.com/jonnysocialism/status/1948164713889857610

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Yeah I just wasted my time on this BS and it turned out to be a bunch of memes. The account she called "sexy goebbels" is reposting some leftie stuff and some russia simping. https://xcancel.com/EdbieLigerSmith Not everyone on the internet uses /s. Try not wasting my time again

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The principle ideology of American society is Christianity, and Christianity permeates western culture and philosophy to the very core. Even the parts that are supposed to be secular or atheistic in name. Even those in the west who hate religion often have a very Christian outlook on life. Many like Richard Dawkins are quite honest about this, in rejecting Christian metaphysics but still adopting pther parts of Christian philosophy.

The stuff about "Christ" and "Judasism" on the pyramid is basically a zionist dogwhistle. The "Judeo-Christian values" people like Ben shapiro and this one annoying friend of mine (who is thankfully no longer a zionist, but still believes in the judeo-christian "values").

There are also strains of fascism in the west which see Christianity as the main weakness of western imperialism, as something whose "slave morality" (aka, care for the weak and sick) hold back the west from greatness. I've seen some or these mfs go so far as to think that the west is doomed and should be destroyed since it is irredeemably Christian and weak (this last type is a very funny type of guy). Then they turn towards eastern philosophies and come up insane shit like fascist Buddhism (add 7 kalpas of repentence in hell for these mfs)

And there are also strains of fascism which are Christian nationalism but with judeophobia as well. So just nazis.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Even those in the west who hate religion often have a very Christian outlook on life.

I think about this all the time.

You can see it in what passes for politics – people are only interested in judging who is Good and who is Bad.

It's part of the reason I've been using the internet a lot less; it is overrun with Puritan hordes.

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, puritanism and "good" and "evil" thinking even runs through western leftism quite deeply. I'm quite guilty of it myself.

[–] axont@hexbear.net 7 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Christian philosophy is whatever it needs to be to fit the society that birthed it. I really don't see American Christian evangelism as comparable to something like say South American catholic liberation theology. It's going to twist itself to ensure a comfortable foundation for whatever purpose it needs to serve. Evangelical Christianity in America for instance is more like a white supremacist money religion with Christian vocabulary and ritual painted on top.

There are extremely few Americans who ever took Christianity seriously to its logical extent, namely people like Dr. MLK Jr. and John Brown. It's incredibly rare for that aspect of Christian theology, namely care for the oppressed and self-sacrifice, to present itself among Americans. That's because the circumstances of America as a genocidal empire means that the more negative aspects of Christian philosophy will get emphasized, like patriarchy or dominionism or whatever young earth creationists are talking about.

What you're talking about, how Richard Dawkins claims cultural Christianity, I would say could be more easily explained as a racist imperialist mindset. That guy hates Muslims from the viewpoint of a snooty ivory tower professor. I just can't agree that Christianity is at the core of something like that, since you'd have to somehow claim the naked racism of Dawkins somehow has a similar origin to the Christian abolitionist groups of the American south pre-civil war, when there are vastly different circumstances there

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 14 hours ago

I typed out a lot of shit. As I typed it out, I understood that ideological systems as widely spread out as Christianity are so complex that I don't have a proper framework for analyzing it. Imma still leave the comment I typed out in case you care.

Christian philosophy is whatever it needs to be to fit the society that birthed it.

You ain't going to see me argue against the base-superstructure model. But Christianity is not "homegrown" in much of the world. It spread internationally and was imposed in many parts of the world. Thus, names, myths, ethics, metaphysics, legal theory, culture and many characteristics of Christianity carry across multiple societies, classes and mode of productions.

This can come in the form of concrete policy criminalisation of LGBTQ people in post-colonial nations, or more subtle philosophy such as the christian outlook on things like "sin" and "virtue", or on "purity", "martyrdom", or the essentialism, or eternal spirits and so on. Not all that is unique to Christianity, but Christianity does have its own take on those things.

I would say could be more easily explained as a racist imperialist mindset

It is both. The "civilizing mission" style of justifying imperialism started with the justification of spreading Christianity first.

since you’d have to somehow claim the naked racism of Dawkins somehow has a similar origin to the Christian abolitionist groups of the American south pre-civil war

The ideology of the ruling class also becomes the ideology of the underclass through indoctrination. This creates a class divide/tension in that ideology, even though it is technically the same ideology. So it is not unusual for ideological similarities to appear in vastly different class circumstances*. It's part of what makes politics so frustrating and confusing if you look at only ideology

*that's not to say that those groups believe in literally the same things, although it's not as if Richard Dawkins claims to be against abolition.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Didn't Jews invent Christianity or something?... I don't know, all religion is stupid. Especially NewsMax.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Zionists invented Christian Zionism which they spread to Evangelical Churches. Basically they replaced words in biblical verses and replaced it with Israel and managed to get it into the main print of the Evangelical bibles.

[–] Thesilverpig@lemmy.ml 6 points 16 hours ago

Take it with a grain of salt from someone on the internet etc, but one of the commentators I watch said when he delved into the start of nationalist zionism it actually started as christian zionism as a religious/morel justification to get the jews out of western European christian countries and most jewish sects saw it for that and weren't into the idea until WWII.

But it is very clear the current string of christian zionism in the US is a decades long project of the jewish zionists.

[–] Vampire@hexbear.net 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Jesus is common to Christianity+Islam, but not Juadaism.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 6 points 16 hours ago

From Judaism famous rabbi Jesus Christ from which we get christianity from which we get amerikkka is the thought I believe.

[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago

Money. Influence. Sycophants. That sums up most of it.

[–] thenextguy@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Live cervical cancer!