I always laugh when I hear shit like this, there is an old german saying my father taught me. "When there are 9 Nazis at a table, and you go sit with them, there are 10 Nazis at the same table".
If you are sharing the same church with them then you are sharing the same ideology. Start kicking these maga fucks out of your churches and I might start believing you.
It’s a crying shame that I’ve had to do the same with some of my extended family. They’ve gone ultra MAGA and I’m sorry I cannot support you when you want to harm others.
I lost a childhood friend to the MAGA cult. It sucks, I knew him since elementary school. He slowly became angrier, then he one day was just all out hateful saying the most vile hateful crap he could and I just cut ties completely.
The stupidest part is I heard through someone else that "he has no idea why I wont talk to him". I didn't ghost him, I told him to his face on my way out his door for the last time that "I will not tolerate hatred, never speak to me again."
I suspect most of maga are the same way, they know full well what a massive piece of shit they are, the problem is that they are proud of it.
That always reminds me of the "missing missing reasons" post. It's about estranged parents specifically, but I think the behavior shows up elsewhere. People's ego is too fragile to let them remember or admit some details, and their emotions are creating their whole reality.
https://www.issendai.com/psychology/estrangement/missing-missing-reasons.html
This is an absolutely fascinating read; as someone with parents that tread a very thin line this is an incredible validation of what I've observed. And with multiple examples.
30But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? 31And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick. 32I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Luke 5
The Bible is also abundantly clear about being misogynist and homophobic (even in the New Testament). Skipping over those parts gives an evil book/religion a pass. Fuck Christianity.
its always been about power and control. A population in fear of eternal damnation is easier to manipulate.
Yup. Also condones slavery.
In the New Testament, that stuff all comes from Paul. Paul was a conservative asshole. He was the first evangelical Christian, in both the historical and modern sense.
I watched several of her videos. As an atheist I find her position refreshing.
Yes! Matthew 25:32 is one of the best examples of how warped MAGA & Christianity has become.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
I quote this passage a lot because it’s very explicit about going to heaven or not. It’s based on good acts, outlined briefly here. I don’t get how any MAGA person can read that and agree with our current policy. It’s anti-Christian.
There was a news article a while ago about maga hats saying their church was repeating "liberal talking points", when the pastor was simply quoting Jesus.
Most of the maga hats don't care. They found their tribe and that's all that matters to them now.
Facts and quotes don't change people's minds. In-group belonging does. So long as they see you as an enemy, they won't listen to anything you say. We're all vulnerable to that, but maga hats seem especially vulnerable.
They (Christian MAGA) don't care. I have a family member I shared this verse, and many others with, and they only got angry at me. This was months ago.
They simply don't care. Not about what Jesus said, and not about any of us.
My brain is still as broken as my relationship with my father when he looked me straight in the eyes and told me that yes, Jesus would be ok putting kids in cages.
It's always best to address stuff like this with a very wide grin and say "Ah, it's good to know that for all your self-righteousness and false piety, you will burn in hell, and Jesus will weep knowing his sacrifice meant nothing to you. Ta!"
You don't even need to believe it, it just really gets under people's skin. Fuck 'em.
the problem with religion, and the reason it should be completely eradicated, is that you can spend your entire life trying to explain how one interpretation of the stone age holy book is "wrong," while the other person does exactly the same thing with you, and there is no valid proof that either side is "right." meanwhile people are killing each other over the whole thing. it's all such fucking bullshit.
it's time for the human species to grow up and stop wasting time (not to mention lives) with religion
I think most atheists I know are much closer to the christian values that the church and people who consider themselves christians are. Almost funny how a religion that's supposed to be built on sharing, tolerance and love have produce to most selfish intolerent people filled with hatred.
Just a quick reminder that stonetoss is a nazi
This guy?
Daily reminder that the correct response to people accusing someone of being a racist or a nazi isn't: "But is he really?" it's actually: "so what?
Holy f This statment could not be more wrong.
Yes, pebbleyeet is a Nazi.
Studies have consistently shown that atheists/agnostics are also as knowledgeable or more knowledgeable about world religions and even Christianity than Christians themselves, especially in the USA.
This pissess me off so much. I was raised in christian family. And I mean motherfucking christian. I was taught from young age to show compassion, to help other, to help others up even if I don't personally like them. This is what it means to me to be christian. Compassion, love, and charity. Help others without asking for anything back.
Which is also core of fucking theoretical communism, so no wonder that also fell.
But it pissess me off when I meet people who are soooooo fucking hardcore believers, each sunday in church, always praising god and then they start the goddamn gossip of the day. Because Annie has a man of a slightly darker carnation, it's obvious Annie is abused, poor Annie but in the end Annie knew what she was doing, oh that poor hoe hope she finds god in her life. FFS these gossipin pseudo-christians should find god in their life -.-'
There's epigram in polish, fun little thing by Jan Kochanowski. Translation would be
"If you're not sinning, as you're telling me, why are you, dear, confessing so often?".
I wish Christians in red states were Christians.
I’ve taken to begging churches in my state to investigate the states systemic refusal to investigate the physical and sexual abuse of children. I’ll see if our “Christians” believe in the words of Christ.
So, which one keeps giving it septic tanks full of dead babies?
And why the fuck do we tolerate this shit existing when that's the benign version?
I'll tell you exactly why these trump supporting Christians don't realize this, it's because most of them don't actually think critically about what's actually in the Bible. They have piss poor media literacy, and their example of Christianity is what their probably racist parents and community instilled into them. That's how my father is.
MAGA is a cult. There's nothing Christian about it.
No True Christian
No True MAGA
No True Scotsman
The broader truth is that you can't be Christian and be pro-Capitalist.
Once you remove Capitalism as the base, the entire "prosperity gospel" falls apart.
If jesus came back today, mega will definitely deport him to a concentration camp
I'm just glad people can tell the difference between Christ and Trump, the beast of revelation
Most "Christians" have never actually read their own handbook, and just stick with shit they've heard that reinforces their venomous beliefs.
It’s all Christianity. Whenever Christians act horribly, a different group of christians always come out saying “they’re not REAL Christians “ how convenient. The thing is they ARE Christians, because you don’t need an official membership card to get in.
It’s a cop out to brush away these people as not one of you, but they are. These are the dregs of your religion, this is the end game to certain branches of your religion. You don’t get to brush them under the carpet and pretend they don’t represent you , cause they do. Own these people and fix your religion which often leads to this. Don’t just keep pretending that this isn’t part of Christianity
I read about this story today and looked her up. Why do so many people watch her content? I genuinely couldn't get through more than 30 seconds of anything she's posted. Not that she's a bad person, and I hold nothing against her personally, but it's just utterly uninteresting to boredom. Like photos of food but of people.
Wtf is MAGA Christianity? Is that a new word for bigotry?
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