“Love thy neighbor, unless they’re gay, black, immigrant or they think different from you, then harass then and make false allegations and boycott every woke media” - somewhere in the Bible.
also remember how jesus helped and fed poor people? well that’s commie bullshit, we don’t do that here
I think that was in Shitforbrains 24:7 or was it Propaganda 69:420?
Either was totes there, Jesus was big on hating thy neighbor.
Christianity and capitalism aren’t compatible but no one is ready to have that conversation
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I think they’re saying the latch on happened because Christianity was prominent when Capitalism was born.
Isn’t there a story in the Bible where Jesus kicks the merchants out of a church and punches them?
He flipped over tables and straight up whipped the merchants and money changers calling them thieves.
Jesus is irrelevant to ------ianity.
Leviticus & Romans, that’s all you need.
Jesus and the teachings of christianity in any of its forms are irrelevant to a functional modern society. Anyone who uses any parts of the bible beyond a few cherry-picked, out of context, touchy-feely bits as a foundation for their morality is almost certain to be a worse person for it.
Nah, it’s situational. Parts are relevant when they need to be and irrelevant when they need to be. It’s convenient like that.
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Oh I went to a Christian school, read it all, did the textual analysis of the different pentateuch authors, that stuff.
And what do Christians actually quote from all that? Shit from leviticus and romans about hating gay people. That’s what matters.
And at weddings people read “love is kind…” before that Khalil Gibran poem about the temple columns.
Truly, contemporary Christians are receiving their reward.
They do like Genesis too, as far as “original sin” meaning everyone is born doomed, and Eve meaning all women are bad.
Christianity is the perfect religion for capitalists. They can do all the harm they want while they’re alive and all they have to do is ask for forgiveness to go to heaven.
I’d argue against that. Your average North American christian church, on the other hand, has been molded to support this kind of attitude.
If any of the stories are true*, it’s the active, practicing red-letter Christians who will get into heaven. Everyone else (see: the majority of church goers) get to burn with the rest of us. Remind followers of the idol of the church of this often, at every opportunity.
*I personally don’t believe they are, but still find value in Christian thought that’s actually wrestled with (and the people that do so) rather than just parroting the agendas and corruptions of others.
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This one hits worryingly close to home
I think it’s more that Christians are mad that they would be helping others who don’t share their same belief system.
I’ve been in and around Christian communities my whole life. There is truth to what you say - someone being Christian increases the likelihood that other Christians would be willing to help them.
But by and large the prevailing attitude is even more disappointing and unchristlike. People are simply selfish and only want to serve themselves, keeping every penny they have earned regardless of those in need around them.
The rich don’t get rich by giving it away, and this is well known amongst the rich themselves. Some may even give on a personal level, giving them a visual alibi for using their resources politically to actively oppose legislation and policy that benefits those less fortunate. To me this is even more evil.
Which is funny because that’s exactly what the Bible tells them not to do
Bold of you to assume that Christians actually read the Bible.
I’ve seen an unsourced claim / quote that reading the bible is the leading factor for atheism.
Hi it’s me, a guy who was a never-doubting die hard christian until about 14 years old when I sat down and intended to read the bible cover to cover.
I made it through every single word (and every John begat Bruce etc ect) until leviticus.
I had always been raised as a bible literalist, that every single word of the bible was either true or a “metaphor”. Well, I’m dumb but not an idiot. And it’s impossible for a sane person to read the whole old testament and come out thinking it’s the same author as the new testiment.
Imo, christians are primarily people who haven’t read the bible yet.
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You think they taught me a single thing about other flavors of christianity? Education is not the point of church.
Also “not taking it literally” and “the entire old testament part of the bible, the majority of the pages, are absolutely insane” are two very different things.
I would challenge anyone saying otherwise to sit down and read it start to finish.
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I’ve had this exact same epiphany after having arguments with my parents about politics… Like, “You made me this way!”
It’s very sad. I’m fortunate that it was the opposite for me. Born into a hyper-conservative Catholic family, then when 3 out of 4 of their children wound up LGBTQ, they realized that God might have been telling them something. They’re extremely and refreshingly Christ-like, and total allies. They treat my same-sex fiancé as their full-blown in-law.
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I wouldn’t call that a contrast honestly. Sounds like a very similar attitude.
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Yeah. Fair I guess. We don’t actually know the other person’s parents started out hateful. Perhaps just ignorant. I guess both angles are assumptions.
One would think the choice would be obvious: Either accept your children for who they are, or accept some right-wing bullcrap and only get to talk with the one kid you didn’t shun from your life.
That’s good, but such a low bar we give them
Love is the sister to hate. It’s very easy to convert one to the other. “Love” your enemies. Love is the Christian codeword for hate. God “loves” you with the intensity of 1000 suns. Climate change is god’s love.
This was like when equality was drilled into me then I punched my friend because she was strangling me.
Apparently I wasn’t meant to do that. But I need to treat boys and girls the same.
That was a big awakening.
Being anti-socialism is caring about people.
