• @[email protected]
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    877 days ago

    Sounds like she shouldn’t have gotten divorced three times if she gave a fuck what Jesus said.

    But the prosperity gospel types know they’re scammers, so she’ll laugh all the way to the bank.

  • @[email protected]
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    1047 days ago

    If anybody wants a reason religion needs to die look no further than subjugation of half our population for religion to exist.

    • FenrirIII
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      She doesn’t have to listen to you, you’re not her first or second husband.

      • @[email protected]
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        Apparently she’s on her third, not second.

        EDIT: Though apparently her first husband abused their son, so now I feel a little bad.

      • @[email protected]
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        Since we’re going back to the caveman days all I need to do is kill her husbands and she becomes my wife.

        That’s what she wants, right? For women to become property again?

  • Kit
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    Why is there even a faith office? gtfooh

    • @[email protected]
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      207 days ago

      Because the “Heritage” foundation paid for it, and they’re a bunch of Xian Fundies. Project 2025 (which Trump knows absolutely nothing about, he says so himself) is their baby.

    • @[email protected]
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      26 days ago

      Dates back to Bush’s “Office of Faith-Based Initiatives”. Sounds like it gets hauled out again whenever it feels like support from the religious crowd might be a little soft.

  • @[email protected]
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    527 days ago

    wish I could spit in the face of every fucking idiot who feels the urge to spread Christianity in any way. keep that idiotic bullshit tf from my life, you’re all clowns and actors

    • kubica
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      It’s counterproductive, even for the ones that once thought it was a way to improve society. They are just being used, and should reconsider if they are doing more harm than good.

      • Admiral Patrick
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        127 days ago

        They are just being used, and should reconsider

        Reconsider?! Whoa there. That’s too much like thinkin’ which is the devil’s work.

    • Em Adespoton
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      Feel free to spit in my face then.

      I’d argue that what these people are spreading is about as close to Christianity as Trump’s sharpie hurricane map is to an actual hurricane though; damaging and ignorant by misleading people.

      As an example, they say God orders women to submit to their husbands. They get that from a letter Paul of Tarsus wrote to a group of early Christians in response to the way a particular group of (uneducated, likely trophy) wives were behaving that wasn’t in line with Jesus’ teachings to put others before themselves, because they misunderstood the bit about Jesus being an ultimate sacrifice that freed people from Jewish law to mean that you could behave however you wanted, and all would be forgiven. Paul told them that’s not how things work, and to ask their (likely educated in Jewish law) husbands to explain it to them at home instead of disrupting public meetings by preaching junk like this.

      Unfortunately, a lot if what the public sees of Christianity in the US is remixes of exactly the same things the Bible these people own directly instructs against.

      Jesus was a socialist pacifist. These people attempt to re-make him in their own image, taking instructions from his immediate followers out of context to justify their behavior, totally ignoring actual direct commands like “love your enemies and do good to those who hate you.”

      • Zagorath
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        227 days ago

        I don’t disagree with you that these people are taking a message that seems inconsistent with the biblical portrayal of Jesus. But the above comment was criticising people “who feel the urge to spread Christianity in any way”. Which, yeah. Fuck them. If someone wants to do their research and convert to Christianity because they like it, more power to them.

        But introducing children to that nonsense (by which I mean belief in resurrections and other obviously ridiculous bullshit, even if it’s not directly used to cause tangible harm) as though it’s fact at a vulnerable young age should be considered child abuse. And preying on vulnerable lonely or depressed people and using highly manipulative tactics like love bombing the way many evangelical branches of Christianity do, as do Mormons and I believe Jehovah’s Witnesses, should also be considered abusive behaviour.

      • @[email protected]
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        As part of that group, you own ALL their bad behavior, because your group doesn’t do anything to remove that element from the group.

        So now that distorted sharpie-version of Christianity IS the actual and real Christianity, even if you don’t like it. You can either accept that being a christian is very similar to being a garbage nazi, or you can start to kick them out.

        But they’re yours, and you’re theirs

        • Em Adespoton
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          Yup; upvoted, and doing exactly this.

          But that same argument can be applied at all levels. These people are also Americans and humans, with a distorted sharpie-version of both identities.

          We all need to own our shared identity with these people while rejecting the false narratives they stand behind.

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            “Humans” nor “Americans” are a group that espouse moral authority. So of course there’s a HUGE difference, and I’m not sure your point is anything but whataboutism

            • Em Adespoton
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              How do Americans have more moral authority right now than Christians? They’re overlapping groups that as a whole are behaving pretty badly right now. You could apply the same logic here to police officers or many other groups (manyotherism?)

              You may have a point with humanity as a whole, as there’s only one way to exit that group and it’s not going to be an effective solution to the world’s current problems.

              It’s not “whataboutisn” when someone says “I own that and I’m doing what I can to fix things. This needs to be applied to other groups as well” though. That’s a “yes, and” not a “not this but that” argument.

              In this context, the other groups are brought up solely to illustrate the issues, and not to condone the bad behavior festering inside the larger group that self-identifies as Christian.

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                  Imma be honest, I don’t know what they said either, but in part it’s because your comment that they’re replying to didn’t make sense.

                  “Humans” nor “Americans” are a group that espouse moral authority.

                  This doesn’t scan at all.

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      What would be more awesome? Walking on water? Or flying thru a lake at ludicrous speeds on a jet? Or same but on a jetpack? Or same but at 30,000feet on a Boeing flying machine?

      Also imagine a Boeing plane sitting on 30,000 feet? Why!!!

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    God has an order

    1 Corinthians 11:6:

    For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head.

    Put your hat on, Paula. I’m definitely seeing uncovered hair there, and we know how God is about that.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8wb40_U1ZU

    Preaching to the innocent masses with that sinful outfit.

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    196 days ago

    “I’m up here working on the initiatives for President [Trump], who’s been in ministry for 40 years and understands it,” she insisted.

    WTF? Show ANY evidence at all of 40 years of HitlerPig’s “ministry,” specifically anything BEFORE he decided to run for president.

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      It’s from a passage in the Bible.

      Ephesians 5:22-24:

      Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord.  For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.  Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

        • @[email protected]
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          36 days ago

          Ah, yes, but a divinely-inspired human, no doubt, acting on God’s will to relay His message.

          https://biblehub.com/topical/t/the_power_of_divine_inspiration.htm

          Divine inspiration is a foundational concept in Christian theology, referring to the process by which God imparts His wisdom and guidance to humanity. This inspiration is most notably associated with the authorship of the Bible, where human writers were moved by the Holy Spirit to convey God’s truth. The power of divine inspiration is evident in the transformative impact of Scripture, its enduring relevance, and its ability to guide believers in faith and practice.

          • @[email protected]
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            46 days ago

            Like I said, written by a human. The rest, like the entire Bible, or even religion itself, is also a human construct.

        • @[email protected]
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          16 days ago

          Even the ancient Levant had its furries!

          I think that comparing breasts to deer was probably something of a poetic convention then. I believe that there’s something in Solomon along the same lines.

          goes to investigate

          Yeah.

          Song of Songs 4:5:

          Your breasts are like two fawns,
          like twin fawns of a gazelle
          that browse among the lilies.

          Song of Songs 7:3:

          Your breasts are like two fawns,
          like twin fawns of a gazelle.

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      usually when something happens god always sends in the angels to deal with his wrath and to signal the end times with 7 angels and trumpets. they should watch evangelion.

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    “White House Faith Office”, that sounds like someone is pushing the “Faith” branch of their current Frostpunk playthrough a bit too far. Next up are the “Faith keepers”. Ugh.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s her kink for that to happen to other women, it doesn’t apply to her. They’re all like that.