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This one (if their god is real) isn't so hard to believe tbh. Imagine seeing a nation that every day for almost 250 years has made a mockery of your (originally pacifistic, ascetic, grassroots and accepting of the downtrodden- even sex workers, minorities like Samaritans, lepers, etc) teachings, which genocided its way across a continent, and now is genociding your homeland and your closest ethnic kin...
If the religious YanKKKees had any self-awareness, they'd probably consider their country "Babylon" or the antichrist.
In Rastafarian circles, the imperialism by the USA and Western society ( culturally, politically, and economically) is referred to as "Babylon".
I've definitely heard of that, yeah. And honestly I can only agree (it's an insult to the Babylonians who could never have imagined the sheer wickedness of western imperialism ofc)
Yeah, had many friends and acquaintances who went through a rastafarian phase and would always talk about the current state of the world as Babylon.
They'd sooner blame the gays
True (probably also another reason their god, if it exists, hates them- the historical figure of Jesus' sexuality is very much up for debate)
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Having grown up around a lot of them, a common retort takes you into the "can't fail, can only be failed" territory. "America isn't horrible and evil at it's ontological core, it's just filled with ~insert minority here~ that's doing awful things (i.e. existing) and THAT'S why this awful thing has come upon us"