We will be GLAD to return when Christians & Those who fear God and HATE evil!
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Real Christians understand.
Aneurysms work in mysterious ways
"God fearing" has always struck me as a ridiculous statement. It's supposed to be a positive, like, that person respected God. No. Jesus preached of a loving God. He was delusional, apocalyptic, and a product of his time and circumstances, but he said his god loved everyone. Throw that tired shit away.
You're thinking New Testament God.
Old Testament God is a big mean motherfucker and he will fuck you up unless you follow his very strict rules. In fact, he won't just fuck you up, he will fuck up your entire tribe collectively because you didn't follow the rules.
Largely because he wasn't the only God kicking around. Jehovah was originally just another local deity, but he beat up the others. You really were supposed to be afraid of the awesome power your god wielded. Ties back to the language of "you shall have no other gods before Me" - they were around, and they were real, but Jehovah was the baddest of them all.
Moses didn't try to convince the Egyptians to worship Jehovah, he tried to make them scared of Jehovah.
I like how the Egyptians considered the Israelite god to be an evil spiteful desert war God that lied about how his people were treated.
There's zero evidence that they were enslaved by the Egyptians and then revolted. But thanks to one king and centuries of retoric, here we are.
The funny thing is that they were enslaved by the Babylonians. And they did wander through the desert back to their homeland once they were freed. A much bigger desert.
Because if it took them 40 years to cross the Sinai, something was seriously wrong.
So my guess is that at some point, some Hebrew King was like, "you know what? I like the Persians. They run Babylon now. And FUCK THOSE EGYPTIAN MOTHERFUCKERS! We're changing the story!" And since the King was the voice of Yaweh on Earth, now they were freed from Egypt.
I propose a new cinematic universe, and/or game series of wrestling matches between the gods.
He'll also spontaneously change the rules at anytime and then kill your family.
"God fearing" is a train of thought for a reason.
okay but without fear isn't there no morality? and, like, if nobody's suffering, is there really such a thing as justice? if there's not at least one child in a basement being tortured and treated like dirt, can you even call it a society? I mean, obviously the optimal number of people being horrible tortured in society is "everyone but me, in the sickest ways I can imagine", but, y'know, progress is progress
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"We will be GLAD to return when Christians & Those who fear God and HATE evil! Thank ------ You,"
... yeah, that seems about right.
I mean. The actuall complaint is to early and Ill agree with that part. I don't like holidays starting up more than a month before. october for holloween, november for thanksgiving, december for christmass, march for saint pats, febuary for valentines and whenever for easter if it can get its act together. Ill give that an exception as mardi gras is its own thing. Oh but if its fireworks can we keep those to just the day of and maybe before and after but we don't need a week of it. blah blah. man yells at cloud.
You can bet they don't mind Christmas decoration is up 4 months before Christmas though.
I'm impressed the people of Tulsa put aside their differences to issue this joint statement
Lived near there once. It was truly amazing to see how unified the entire populus was. Nobody ever got into fights over anything, and there certainly weren't any stabbings at a bar in town while I was there.
Pussy-ass bitch didn't include a return address
I just love the idea that their almighty god can be defeated with cheap chinese plastic decorations at the dollar store.
It's amazing how many things hurt the omnipotent being they worship. The words "happy holidays," red cups, plastic Halloween decorations in July...
I mean, I cant say I disagree with the irrational rage of holiday creep. seeing Christmas shit out in october, and halloween shit out in July/August is infuriating.
Far better ways to to approach it than this ridiculous satanic panic and other myriad religious bullshit, though.
"the majority"...you keep using that word....
People like this usually aren't smart or sane enough to understand perspective. They think everyone thinks the way they do and can't fathom otherwise.
I guess they aren't aware that Big Lots starts putting up Christmas stuff at the beginning of October.
When a minority of people think they are the majority. Fewer trash like them every year.
Have the courage to stand by your convictions and print a return address.
There's not enough room for the addresses of all the citizens of Tulsa
Fuck these people. Last year they were playing Christmas carols BEFORE halloween. It’s nauseating.
Fucking hell, evangelical freaks fear God too?? Is their entire day just fear 24/7? Afraid of gays, afraid of trans, afraid of communism?! afraid of socialism, afraid of Muslims...
What an awful existence...
Yes. Fear is the basis of Christian fundamentalism, and it has become a super convenient way for the Republican party to keep them in line.
When fear is the baseline for your worldview, you see boogeymen around every corner.
Uh, Big Lots is closing all of their stores in October. Guess they won.
Know what else is in October? HALLOWEEN and all the wickedness!
I agree with the holiday items coming out wayyyy to early and was on board with this person at first… then I realized they’re a delusional fundie and it makes me want to buy extra Halloween stuff just out of spite.
"Hello, police? I'm just calling to ask, how evil is Halloween?"
Hi, I understand you used to be the head warlock?
I'm going to write a LETTER with different COLORED words because I don't REALLY understand emphasis.
3b. Christians & Those who fear God and HATE evil!
Should we... should we tell them that it's originally a Christian holiday?
3b give me a verb!
I half agree with Halloween stuff not being up in October, not that I care about Halloween as a holiday, but at least wait until September.
Halloween is now a huge cash cow, it’s quietly become the holiday that people spend the most on decorations. So I don’t really blame them.
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