• Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    reading the bible made me aware that 100% of all american christians aren’t following jesus’s teachings and way of life, and more follow the biblical satanic ideology

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    12 hours ago

    You just gotta love how these Christians, always ready to show the world their virtue signalling, always ready to paint themselves as the best people that people can be, also always cheat and fraud to get ahead and get their religion shoved down the throats of little children, and you always have to be thankful that that’s all they try to shove down your own child’s throat.

    Fuck everything about religions in general, but Christianity specifically

    • potoooooooo ✅️@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      “Your religion is like a penis. It’s fine if you have one, as long as you don’t try to shove it down my kids’ throats.”

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    If they read it and comprehend how crazy it is, how Christians pick and choose what they follow, and the discrepancies and inconsistencies in it. Sure. Let it backfire on them.

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      11 hours ago

      We had a super Christian lady in my first job, always smiling and happy and telling us how gods got a plan for us all. I tried reading the bible to see if I could get some of that blessed happiness. In the first 10 minutes of reading god makes everything, sees its shit, spakes “whoopeth” and fireballs everyone to ash and starts again.

      Thats the being they truly believe is in charge of everything and they’re happy. Scares the shit out of me.

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      That is what I was thinking. They consistently pick out extremely short peices of passages to quote. In context, most would push people away from religion. Maybe other states should force kids to read the entire bible. That would cure todays youth of any religous intentions.

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I’d have no problem with that were it done critically, comparative to “christians”, and analytically. Dissecting the Bible would create a lot more atheists.

    But we know that’s not what they want. The talibangelicals want unquestioned dogma.

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    9 hours ago

    In school we only did their creation myth. There were so many other myths in the world that we didn’t have time to learn the whole thing.

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      13 hours ago

      it’s always the KJB, or some later evangelical even more bastardized version of the KJB

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      13 hours ago

      That’s a great point. They may want to nail down exactly which version is the correct one, to avoid any issues…

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          I think it’s crucial that the state of Texas make a ruling on which exact interpretation of Bible is the correct one. Everyone should weigh in on it passionately at the next opportunity.

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            I think it’s such an important issue that the implementation of the law should be delayed until a consensus opinion is reached.

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              That’s a great point! They should start discussing who has a right to chime in, as soon as possible, and then take however long is necessary to reach full agreement.

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    12 hours ago

    My great great aunt forced me to read the Bible. I am now a half feral Neo-Pagan, hail Odin fuck that trash, Jesus is kinda chill and Sampson gets overlooked too frequently.

    • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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      Yeah Jesus was chill. The issue is the other half of the bible and also that people who force others to read it usually don’t even follow what Jesus taught so whatever.

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        Yep, honestly I’m kinda surprised that there doesn’t seem to be any major Christian sects who said fuck it and either cut out or simplified the old testament kinda like what Islam did or at least better separate it all out.

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          Yeah, there are many variations but it’s taboo enough that the closest to a major sect I can think of is that Catholics have additional books.

          But fun fact, one of the founding fathers (I think Ben Franklen) made a very short version that took out all the history or magic and just left being the laws and rules to follow

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    11 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure if there is a hell the god bothers outnumber the devil worshipers.

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    Maybe someone should hint them on the … interesting … bits. Things their boring preacher usually leaves out. Song of Salomon, Lot’s daughters, etc.

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      13 hours ago

      hell, even just the sermon on the mount. lotta holier than thou capitalists hate reading that one

      all of Ecclesiastes too, basically about how $ is evil and corrupts everything iirc

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    Honestly, at this point I’d be happy if American children were capable of reading anything.

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      16 hours ago

      “Dur dur dur, ‘Muricans dumb!”

      If you’ve got nothing more pathetic to do than demonize an entire nation online, I suggest you go outside and touch some grass.

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        Literacy rates are at historic lows. It’s a deadly serious problem that cannot just be ignored.