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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I've always wondered how many prophets, witches, and possessed people throughout history actually just had undiagnosed mental disorders.

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of them. The remaining ones were constantly getting high.

[–] taladar@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were probably some con-men among them too.

[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think all of them were con-men. Just read about Joseph Smith and Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, people who created two modern religions. The former had dozens criminal charges including banking fraud and treason and the latter was forging bank checks.

[–] normanwall@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol how did I not know his first name was Lafayette?

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I thought his name was Elron. Now I understand it's L. Ron

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Jesus' criminal record wasn't exactly clean either.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Once you throw in either deliberate, or accidentally high, basically all of them. Though there are/were likely some charlatans mixed into that too.

[–] Enkrod@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I can't decide who's more dangerous, the zealous madman or the power hungry charlatan. But the mix of both is just... yikes.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

or you know, covering up for stuff using supernatural mambo jambo

[–] groupofcrows@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

And there's the guy who got his daughters pregnant but claimed they got him drunk and raped him because they wanted to be teenage mothers.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There’s a really good secular movie called “The Rapture” that covers this exact scenario. It stars Mimi Rogers.

[–] catfish@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

The Rapture

sweet, thanks for the recommendation

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 points 1 year ago

White abraham?

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Abraham: "This is the future libruls want WAKE UP SHEEPLE! mUh FrEEdOm!"

[–] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

“I’VE DONE MY WAITING! 7 YEARS OF IT!! IN AZKABAN!!!” Abraham said calmly.

[–] KISSmyOS@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Are straightjackets even still a thing?

[–] harmonicPerc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] harmonicPerc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Fear and Trembling is an extrapolation of details surrounding the story of Abraham traveling up the mountain to sacrifice his son, this meme does the same only through a modern lens