When your God can be killed by us silly goobers, maybe he wasn’t so powerful in the first place.

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    Ironically the only thing killing religion is demonic priests who want to use religion as a platform to hurt innocent people they don’t like.

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    bigots always make trans people seem as badass as possible meanwhile i’m over here on saturday night with a cat on my lap crocheting.

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    He can’t actually say that and not face internal retribution from the Holy See, right? Not for the trans-phobia, but for the possible blasphemy. I understand that his statement could be taken metaphorical. But it still doesn’t place a good light on senior Catholic leadership.

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      Nah, they want Christians to be scared of a demonic threat, otherwise why would people bother supporting them? If God just stomps with no real threat or challenge, that’s not a compelling narrative they can sell to the cult.

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    If god was real and being trans killed him id vagina my penis tomorrow, not out of any real desire to become a woman, but more because of the utter contempt I have for religion.

    Hail Satan.

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    “Hahaha, foolish human, no mortal weapon can harm me- … wait, what are you doing? Why are you wielding that transgender person as a weapon?? Tf, this isn’t fair, I didn’t agree to this!!”

    (If the “weapon” is a trans furry they make uwu sounds as you swing them around.)

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    This is exactly the kind of rhetoric that turns progressive people away from churches. Are progressives ‘killing god’, or is it actually the churches themselves who are deliberately turning people away?

    AFAIK hating on trans people isn’t even in the bible, so this is 100% on the current personnel of the churches being even worse than they absolutely have to. Even if you believe that the bible is truly the “word of God”, this is just something you made up yourself.

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      Unfortunately there is some line in Leviticus about it being illegal for a ‘man to wear the clothing of a woman, or a woman to wear the tools of a man’, and another one about not cutting yourself. But for a god who commands infant genital mutilation, it’s certainly hypocritical.

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        Easy fix: “trans women are women, trans men are men”. You could just as easily argue that the man who wears the clothing of a woman is the closeted trans man.

        another one about not cutting yourself

        The catholic church certainly doesn’t care about that when it comes to modern medicine.

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          Oh, I am certainly supportive of trans people being the gender they say they are. I don’t think the people who wrote the Bible thought of it that way though, it was probably their intent that the (flawed) concept of binary biological sex was what they were referring to.

          And it’s important to acknowledge that and reject the Bible as a source of moral truth, rather than seeking to ‘reinterpret’ it, to make it ‘acceptable’ while not having to outright reject it.

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            While I agree that Christianity is flawed from the get-go and that you’re probably right about what the bible authors would think about trans people, I still can’t keep myself from pointing out the glaring holes in church doctrine. The people who wrote the bible, especially the old testament, would probably stone someone to death if they explained current Christianity to them.

            Arguably, pointing out the raging bigotry of “this isn’t explicitly in the bible, I just made it up myself” and “this IS in the bible, but I chose to ignore it” would make people aware of how absurd Christianity is and reconsider their beliefs, but in reality that’s probably not at all how belief works.

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          This is a great point. It would be easy enough to argue that the verse speaks against closeted folks dressing against their honest inner identity.

          But I don’t think logic or a sincere attempt to unstand the will of a benevolent higher power were ever involved, sadly.

          I feel like if they were really seeking the will of an all loving God, they could have come to that conclusion already. :(

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      Id hope the fact that none of it is true also turns people away from churches.