• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    I delivered lunch to children and it was the most putrescent pizza

    The children asked me, how shall I eat this gruel

    I said kid I gotta go

  • Ioughttamow@fedia.io
    77·
    10 days ago

    Well you see, if you blend the camel into a slurry, dilute it down, and then shoot it through it in a thin stream, threading the eye of the needle is no problem

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    9 days ago

    Fascists are more concerned with knowing all the lore and doing the cosplay correctly than understanding the context of the message or living the virtues as a modern person

    • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      Which the Bible explicitly calls out. Can’t be bothered to research it in the scripture right now (I’m an agnostic these days) but it says it’s better to revere God privately and mean it than to make a whole performance out of your faith just to look good.

      • nickiwest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 days ago

        Hey, fellow former Christian! Do you also find it infuriating that we know more about Jesus’ teachings than literally every politician who claims to be a Christian?

        Matthew 6 is all about this. People think the Sermon on the Mount was just the beatitudes, but Jesus spent more time talking about how wrong it is to make a show of your faith.

        Matthew 6:1-4

        “Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

        “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

        And it keeps going.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        9 days ago

        Unfortunately, it’s a classic case of self-contradiction. Both old and new testaments are full of calls to openly and explicitly praising God.

        Cases in point:

        • God instructing Joshua to have the Israelite army, led by priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant and blowing rams’ horns, march around the walled city of Jericho.

        • The Great Commission in Matthew 28:19–20: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…” and Mark 16:15: “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.”

        • FreeAZ@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          I’m not christian, but that’s not really a contradiction. According to the bible the best case scenario is for you to proclaim your faith to others while truly following the scripture. The part you’re replying to just means that the “following the scripture” part is more important.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            9 days ago

            The part you’re replying to just means that the “following the scripture” part is more important.

            The old testament is a constant call and refrain of prophets and kings denouncing a lack of piety, rallying the people to some triumphant reform, getting too comfortable, abandoning piety, and collapsing the society. Sometimes you get this cycle in a single generation. Other times it is used - for instance, with King David - to explain how sins of the patriarch doom the kingdom centuries later.

            So much of scripture is people not following scripture and reconciling with the consequences. And then new people coming in to reaffirm and reform the old laws.

  • dumnezero@piefed.socialEnglish
    26·
    10 days ago

    Always has been. Don’t let the “good ones” convince you that there’s some redeeming quality to Christianity.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      I mean I’m not the least bit fond of any religion, but a lot of Americans are into the prosperity gospel stuff that has little to do with the other Christian cults like Catholicism or Lutheranism.

      The whole “God rewards good people with health and wealth” thing is an American concept, not a Christian concept.

      • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.todayEnglish
        8·
        9 days ago

        What about Job, who was rewarded with 7 times what he lost because he trusted god? Including his children. The old ones were still dead, but he was blessed with new ones.

        Christianity is rotten from beginning to end. It’s significantly worse than most people seem to realize.

      • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.todayEnglish
        6·
        9 days ago

        The bible is an inconsistent mess that can “justify” whatever someone thinks god wants.

        Christianity is a death cult. Baseless claims should not be accepted or tolerated, all life depends on the reality that defines us. Magical thinking is deadly. Humanity must mature or it will self-destruct.

        In other words, please stop defending christianity at all. They’ll kill you and tell everyone you deserved it. They’ll go through the whole narcissist’s prayer over your corpse: we didn’t do it; if we did, it wasn’t that bad; if it was, you brought it on yourself.

        Take a stand for truth and life. Thank you.

      • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Give it a rest, there’s no redeeming qualities to Christianity. I went down that path too, thinking “Oh maybe it’s beneficial if you do it the right way.” or “Maybe it isn’t so abhorrent if you interpret it correctly.”

        There’s no God, the faster you accept it the better off you’ll be.

    • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      I made a catholic friend who had me convinced that maybe there was something to Christianity. It was an illusion, there is no God, and all religion does is convince you to hurt yourself and others under the delusion that an imaginary invisible man in the sky will make it up to you in the afterlife.

      But the truth is there is no afterlife, neurology has completely debunked the idea of a soul.

      Sucks, I really wish there was an afterlife, but this is all we get. All spirituality is, is longing for an afterlife where you get a spirit guide and super powers… It’s nonsense, you wait for it and you’ll waste your only time with which you will ever get to exist.

      • qaeta@lemmy.caEnglish
        10·
        9 days ago

        It’s weird how leftists are like “Hey, can you stop bombing LITERAL CHILDREN please?” and y’all somehow translate that into a rabid support for Islam when their religion has literally nothing to do with the request.

  • Brem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    10 days ago

    Book of Karen: verse 1 chapter 0

    …and so it was that Karen did flip the table, for she was tired of the terrible service. The people around her in the “Chilli’s” all turned their heads in a singular motion towards her. Several loud ‘cracks’ could be heard; for they hadn’t turned their heads in years. Their necks were for up and down…for music and phone; not the unexpected actions of a woman scorned by “Chilli’s”.

    She demanded a blooming onion, not the unkindly service of those who care only for money and time off to spend it.

  • slemptastrophe@piefed.socialEnglish
    22·
    10 days ago

    As far as holy books go, The Bible sets one of the worst moral standards to follow. These shitheads can’t even live up to that.

  • Thor_Whale@lemmus.orgEnglish
    15·
    9 days ago

    You have to remember that religion to these guys is self-serving. They feel their job is done when they write their charity check. This is why organized religion is dead.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    10 days ago

    Somehow it’s evil if government acts on the Bible, unless it’s the punitive and murderous parts. Government should do those things, clearly /s

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      7·
      10 days ago

      I’ve seen Christians argue that good works should be from the individual not from the government. “But God acted to put this government in place so you can act” typically isn’t compelling, because they just make up stuff to justify what they wanted to do anyway.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        Right, they need to think of the government as separate and not subject to the moral principles of religion, unless of course it is something that hurts people they like, in that case it’s a moral imperative that the government act. Somehow. They’ll explain it in the dumbest fucking way possible and act like you’re the problem when you point out what a fucked up cop out it is.

        I know this is the atheism community but a part of me always will think that religion is not the problem here, it’s terrible people using it as an excuse to do shitty things. They don’t need it to really make sense, but sound just logical enough to the dumbed down masses to gain traction and pressure even some of the smarter people into thinking in these toxic ways.

      • eestileib@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        Having been forced to study the Bible as a child is so frustrating now.
        It’s like “you’re not even doing the evil things you signed on for the right way!”