Women can't vote - repeal 19th amendment

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Those who hasten Jesus return will be wiped from existence.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#3 it won't work unless you make it loud, disruptive to society and most importantly last more than one fucking day.

Thats the main crux or every protest lately. It lasts one day, you all pat yourselves on the back for your turn out and nothing changes. Every fucking time.

Look at history, the actual effective protests disrupted for days, weeks and months.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well OBVIOUSLY Christians don't believe that women should be in any position of leadership. It's banned in their fucking book.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Then please stop talking to that baby making washingmachine if she dont want any rights. How stupid are they all. Why is america like this

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just reactionary, backwards people wasting oxygen.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Woah, Pootin bots are in full force tonight. -6 in 5 minutes.

7 months ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

I love how bible thumpers cherry pick scripture they agree with and skip the rest. "We believe in Gods word!" Oh you mean like when the bible says "When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt,"

NO NOT LIKE THAT!!!

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Goatherds guide to the Galaxy

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Closest thing to this position in the Bible is wives submitting to husbands and women not being placed in spiritual authority over men. There might be some argument that submitting to a husband means having to vote the same political appointments but it's a weak one and could be contested by other verses. The argument that women shouldn't be in leadership or military positions is groundless with several biblical examples to the opposite. This is stretching religion to fufill personal desires.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I often wish we could put all of these people on their own island. Let them live out their ideals. When they completely self implode, because they don't know how to do a fucking thing, we just laugh at them. Maybe stream it?

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's a fucking fascist death cult. What the actual fuck is going on?

7 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

trump is the antichrist and the walking talking 7 deadly sins how do these morons not see that ?

7 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 2

"God works in mysterious ways" they say.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Just for the record, please don't associate us with these fuckwits, we hate them too.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

this is nothing new

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

If you're supposed to follow everything in the Bible, then why the hell are you wearing mixed fabrics?

7 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I bet they want slavery back as well. Because the bible says where to get your slaves and how to treat them Exodus 21.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

4B movement saves women's lives.

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7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

are these the dominionist arse holes from his first term? or new ones

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

they've been here since well before Trump, before Palin, before Reagan even

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Submit to my husband??????????
I love and respect my husband
I Argue with him
I disagree with him
Have great conversations with him

But Submit……..? Thats just such creepy yucky shit

7 months ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

The only time anyone should ever submit to anyone else is after they've established boundaries, ground rules, and a safe word. OR if it's 1998, when The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer's table.

7 months ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

😂 love it

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'll be honest, it sounds like these fellas have no prouder accomplishments than "being born white and male".

7 months ago | Likes 50 Dislikes 0

100%. they made a terrble take on faith and being a "victim" their personality. I sadly have an inlaw like this who is the worst person I know. "the only black lives that matter are the ones who attend church" ~ his facebook

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Oh god, the victim complex. There's this conservative dingbat with a Punisher skull neck tattoo who always shows up in my area, starting unprompted political rants with strangers, and half the time they turn into whinging about being the enemy of the (Liberal) government or someshit. "They want to make us all weak and metrosexual because they're afraid of strong men with opinions, like me!" and I can fucking hear the eyerolls around me.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's literally all they have. It's the bedrock of white supremacy. It's the foundation of toxic masculinity. It's the desperate cry that, despite having accomplished nothing of value, having no worth to society, having made no mark on history, having no unique traits or skills, having no group of renown to claim brotherhood in - that they must still, somehow, in defiance of all evidence, be special, better; superior to someone.

7 months ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

"MY god says I can't do a thing" is religion.
"MY god says YOU can't do a thing" is hate.

7 months ago | Likes 87 Dislikes 2

I fully support women who don't think they should vote not voting.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Crazy part is, their god doesn't tell them to do this. Christ tought basically the exact opposite. Christ as written in the Bible would have nothing to do with them.

7 months ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1

Note: THis post is already at -5.
FUcking god damn A.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

The bible says to pluck out your eyes if it makes you sin and that you should be stoned to death for about 300 different things. But we're not going to ever bring up how none of that makes sense huh?

7 months ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

Well... Maybe we should not give them ideas...

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Im ok with letting them pluck out thier own eyes.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Psh they couldn't approach an idea with a fork and a knife. These are not intellectuals just weasely manipulators.

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7 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Hegseth is an DUI-hire!

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Burn Christianity to the ground. Ok, that's my first take, and I admit a bit hasty. Not all Christians are like this. My second take: all these men who say women shouldn't have a vote or any authority or autonomy, I say they spend a year living under the same rules they want for women. If they still have these views at the end of that year, they spend the rest of their lives living under the rules they want to impose on women. If they think it's a great idea, then it's a good idea for them.

7 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Honestly if you're going to get rid of Christianity then you have to include all religion. That being said these people aren't even Christian. They're something else entirely while telling people they follow Christ.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Nah, I suspect they could do it for a year. Knowing at the other side they'd get all that power. Just like asking someone rich to live on minimum wage for a short time. Most of the major problems don't happen right away. You can put off solving them for a few months if you have to.

But also, they think women are actually inferior. So they would say doing that to a man is evil and wrong, but it's fine to do to women.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It suddenly clicked, for me.

They're accelerationists. It's not that they actually think Trump is holy. They'll take ANYTHING, even the antichrist himself, to accelerate their goals.

Accelerationists are dogshit terrorists.

7 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

"Accelerationism is a range of ideologies that call for the drastic intensification of capitalist growth, technological change, and other processes of social change to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations." - These guys are absolutely not that. They are lost in a fantasy of a bygone age that never quite existed. CNN's Accelerationist overlords find them to be useful tools, however.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Fascism is social change.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But Fascism is not Accelerationist. Right-wing accelerationism is explicitly anti-Statist and incompatible with Fascism, which requires a controlling political state (ie it doesn't care about profit). Fascists think they can harness capitalist economies for their own ends, nationalising what they want, and dangling private ownership as a reward for their financial backers. Accelerationists favour a Dark Enlightenment with a CEO operating as a figurehead of a sort of "capitalist monarchy".

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

#1 can a Christian explain to me, like I am five, how these Christians are not a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States and our way of life?

And also, if these people represent Christianity, what the actual fuck?

7 months ago | Likes 124 Dislikes 0

they do not represent the book that Christianity teaches, but rather they cherry pick the select stories that are in the book to go and follow. Their ideal world is that literally of Red Dead Redemption because they haven't realized the chance to be cowboys was way before they were born.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Any decent Christians would say they are a clear and present threat, any other Christians can get fucked. My mom and multiple members of her church have been getting together at rallies to protest the orange demon.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Christian here: they are absolutely a danger to this nation, and they are a cancer to the American church. They are creating a cult of power that uses Christian trappings to crush and oppress. They are truly taking the name of God in vain.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

They worship the anti christ.

Trump

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Christian here, everything in the religion says these guys are fucking demons and need to die. Big book itself even states how Christ took a fucking whip to people just like this.

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

They're one sect of many in the cult of Christianity, all bullshit, but some more dangerous than others.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You are gonna get a lot of: tHeY aReNt rEaL cHrIsTaNs

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I would argue that a group is defined by its membership... I would argue they absolutely are real Christians... just like those Israeli Zionist genociding fucks are real Jews (even tho they have no understanding of Judaism....)

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I've read their book cover to cover. By the time I was done I was pissed the church I went to in my teens cherry picked so much, and I was done having anything to do with them. The hateful ones are the real Christians.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I'm not christian, but I have lots of friends and family who are. There are actual christ-like followers, and then there are dollar store discount pretend-christians. The latter VASTLY outnumbers the former. And, most infuriatingly to me, the former won't lift a finger to oppose the latter. "They'll use our position against us one way or another, so we walk the path and ignore what others do."

So the pretend christians grow and the actual kind, caring real christians dwindle.

Fuck religion.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

After 9/11 we asked, 'where are the good Muslim condemning the bad Muslims?'

The question now is, 'where the hell are the good Christians?' Cuz from the outside view, it looks like they do not exist and it is just these pieces of shit.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, you're right, they are a clear and present danger. He basically a klansman without the mask. And I bet he's worse with the mask on.

7 months ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 1

The parents and grandparents of these men were spitting on Black teenagers who were just trying to go to school. Their grandfathers were pouring sugar over the heads of Black teenagers who dared to sit at the counter in "new" unsegregated malt shops and soda fountains. Their grandfathers, when told they had to let Black kids on the same school bus, went out of their way to redesign the bus route to make it hellishly long but also pick up the "quota" of Black kids. This is just a new costume.

7 months ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

The Behind the Bastards podcast has some interesting episodes on how the rich and the right wing took over evangelical Christianity along with the formation of the "moral majority" in the 70's and their support of Reagan and the Republicans.

The tl:dr is there have always been conservative strains of Christianity but when FDR got elected there was a concerted effort to magnify those leading to the current crop of vocal extremists.

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

A "Christian" would tell you it's God's will so it's the only way to do things. To me these is no difference between Sharia Law, Halakhah, and Canon Law. It's all the imposition of a belief system on an entire nation's population. It's the opposite of religious freedom, which includes the freedom to not be religious.

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

These demonic Nazis are trying to impose a form of Sharia Law, yes. The NAR, New Apostolic Reformation, is a cult that Trump introduced into power.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Sharia law is Islamic law. Canon Law is Christian law. Don't use the term "a kind of sharia law." when describing Christians trying to impose religious laws please.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 5

More people understand what Sharia Law is - at least in the degree that it is unwanted and forced on others - than have even HEARD about Canon Law before. We're here to communicate, not hold hands.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If you don't want to communicate intelligently maybe go find someone else to communicate with.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

1. They are. 2. I don't know what the fuck to say anymore. I was taught you followed Christ for the same reasons you used science when faced with a hypothesis. You don't use science to prove you're right, you use science to become right- to paraphrase Xkcd. By the same token, you don't follow Christ to prove you're better, you follow Him to become better, because one of the sticking points is that we're all flawed.

7 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 2

actually, I take the first part of number 2 back. I do have a really good fucking idea of what to say, but the mods won't let me.

7 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Stack Nazis high.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Klaus, get the forklift.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They'll tell you they're not a threat because the US is a christian nation and blah blah basically.

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

You forgot that get-out-of-jail free card prefix of 'Judeo-' so they sound 7% less antisemitic...

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These people are not Christians because this isn't what Christ said to do. They do whatever the fuck they want and put Christ's name on it. In the Bible Christ himself called people like this "whitewashed graves" and claimed they would be the first to be judged. He chased people like them out of the temple with a whip and flipped their tables.

7 months ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 3

religions is what practioners do not their origins - and because the NALT christians spend more time whining about how they're not like that, and how non-Christians are meeeeean, they're not horse-whipping these fascists speaking for them

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

While not really untrue, I think what you're saying is a bit pedantic. If people behave by hating women but say they are feminist they are liars. It doesn't matter if most of the feminist movement either behaved like them or the rest didn't stop them, they are not what they claim to be. The group is judged by what they do, but one of the best ways to go against their actions is to call them out for being liars and hypocrites and not what they claim to be.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

My Dude, those "Not Real Christians" are the ones who are speaking for the rest of them, and no "We're Not All Like That" are doing any serious push back in the public sphere. They're spending more time whining about being painted with the same brush while being happy to hold the pail... or benefiting from the Christofascist erosion of the separation of Church and State

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

former army chaplain, forgive my brevity, they are following a terrible set of doctrine that's like a cancer on Christendom it's...more->

7 months ago | Likes 59 Dislikes 3

completely out of orthodoxy and is "Aemrican" in it's views. one of the positions is the 7 mtn. mandate-part of which is taking control-->

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of civil governance.

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ugh I misspelled American because of course I did. hth

7 months ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

We got what you meant... and I agree... this is a distinctly American form of Christianity... hell, Germany had Christian Democrat as a political party and it wasn't anywhere near this batshit insane.... these Christians also oppose feeding children or providing healthcare (the joke is that their Jesus asks for a $75 copay to cure leprosy).

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I spent 10 years in the US Army (the lone Jewish kid in an infantry battalion in Germany, I think there were like nine Jewish enlisted dudes in all of USAREUR... the chaplains were always the go to when you were being screwed over...

I haven't read much of the New Testament, but I have read the Book of Mathew, and it seems extremely clear that whatever version of Christianity these guys are practicing has nothing to do with it.

7 months ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

you are correct. They are considered apostate and heretical. Apostate=a falling away from the faith and heretical because they teach things NOT in the Bible and teach things that are contrary. It's obvious even to non Christians.

7 months ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

the fact that they can't see it demonstrates their apostacy

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

I mean, the whole "women shall not have positions of authority" is actually in the bible. So not exactly heretical.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So is an adovocation for slavery and genocide...

So, I am guessing these men also eschew their wealth and exist to help the poor?

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I am actually kind of a fan of Mathew... I read it and got the whole Christianity thing.... and then I saw American Evangelical Christians and was like, 'wow, no'

I think this is a hyperfocus on 1 Timothy 2:9-15 and ignoring everything else in the New Testament...

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I am totally aware of how little they know what the Bible teaches and therein lies the problem. They're failing and being failed.

7 months ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

Yes and no. While 1 Timothy is certainly the way that fundies see women, the core of modern US Christian issues is the christo-fascist interpretation of John 3:16:

"If I believe, even if only for a moment on my deathbed, I am above eveeything and will live in heaven for eternity. Thus, I can do no wrong in the eyes of God."

This is the root at the very base of the plant. Without the belief that they are Saved simply by saying "Jesus save me", they have to have morals ALL THE TIME.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

May I suggest a YouTuber by the name of Dan McLellan to you? He has multiple Masters degrees in Biblical studies and spends vast amounts of time and effort destroying the arguments of guys like the ones in this video. I think you would enjoy his content.

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's in the fucking instruction manual, Timothy 2:9-15. You are literally saying that the Bible's instructions and ideals are a cancer of Christianity. I don't disagree but that means that Christianity is the tumour.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No that's not what I mean. The way that many of them use that verse is incorrect. It is only for the people in the faith. a non believer is never to be forced in some way to adhere to it. Submission is for both the husband and the wife in love. Meaning they live in accord, in peace, and love for each other. . It's not submission in the sense of beating someone down and keeping them under your thumb. Timothy was a pastor. Paul is giving him instruction regarding that

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just to get this out of the way, how do you interpret Jesus saying that NONE of the law will go away until the heavens and earth disappears? To me that is entirely clear language, all 613 laws are to be followed even better than the prophets until the end of time. It is what it says, isn't it?

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you’re a Gentle, see Acts 15. If you are an ethnically Jewish Christian living in Israel, then you’re subject to the laws of Moses.

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"11 A woman[a] should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man;[b] she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. " It doesn't say what you say it says at all and there is no uncertain language to interpret nor does the context change any meaning at all.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

a little history: there's something being addressed here. ( it has to do with female oracles and how it caused confusion also spoken of in other NT books) It resolves a problem. It also must be matched with similar verses. That comes out as what I was explaining. Yes, context matters. Unclear verses can be made understood by more clear passages. Women can totally speak in church and do ministry. The NT is full of them. I wish you well.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The letters to Timothy and Titus are considered forgeries by the majority of scholars.

Paul seemed to have no problem with women in positions of power in the church. He praised several by name: Prisca, founder of one of the churches at Corinth. Phoebe, deacon of the church at Chenchreae. Junia, an Apostle. Chloe, head of a group of Christians in Corinth…

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

if you read my other comments you will see my convo is about false teachings from terrible "Christians" and how they've perverted everything

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why do you split you're comment before reaching the 500 characters limit... ?

7 months ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

I'm still on 140 unless I'm replying to a comment made by somebody who's on the 500 limit - weird programming bug.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Just get tampermonkey/violentmonkey/greasemonkey (whichever one you prefer) and get the ImgurComment500Limit script. I'm on old and it works perfect.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Might be on an old version of the app, pre-upping of the limit

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Just get tampermonkey/violentmonkey/greasemonkey (whichever one you prefer) and get the ImgurComment500Limit script. I'm on old and it works perfect.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"because the Bible says" Nothing you have to say after that has any relevance

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yup. I really don't need to care for your justification for being a douchebag.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I counter that argument with, "Well, the Constitution says.... and we used to be guaranteed those rights by our government. Only the church "guarantees" anything in the Bible, and half their shit is for when you're dead anyway.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Well, ok, Devils advocate here. She did ask if they accepted women in positions of leadership in the church and government. He did, at least, specify, "In the church? No." And she asked why not, to which his response was accurate. "Bible said so" So, that statement, in that situation, its fine, the question, and answer, was relevant.

The issue is, I doubt they would want women in any capacity for anything but a cook/incubator. In or out of the Church.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Unless the next words are to the effect of: "...nothing of relevance or importance."

7 months ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Very good distinction, thank you

7 months ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Thanks, needed a chuckle. Sure wish more people would read their religious texts and abandon these churches. Have a barbecue or meet for political discussion if you need a sense of community on Sundays.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nothing they said before that was relevant

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Ask Christians how many of the gospels say Mary was a virgin.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Not a Christian, but now I'm curious, how many?

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2, Matthew and Luke.

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0!

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No…

Matthew 1.22-23: All of this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet:
“Look, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,” which means, “God is with us.”
(Matthew is misquoting Isaiah here)

Luke 1.27: to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.”

Luke 1.34: Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I am a virgin?”

Matthew implicitly. Luke explicitly.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She's a virgin when she had Jesus. No part of the Bible explicitly says she remained a virgin for life. That's a later invention.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks! Countdown to some maths nerd to point out that 0! = 1.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

😆🤓 touché

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Ask a christisn to tell you the history of the bible. Start with jesus and walk me through to the king James version. Unless they majored in theology, they wont have a clue. They dont care about the history, of course, but they have no idea how the random stuff came together and changed over millenia.

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I try to be cautious about using the word “history” around religious texts, like the Chistian Bible. I’m sure there is some relevance, but let’s be real and not pretend that book captures actual history.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I will also add. The Jewish Bible *cough* the OG before the incell remix *cough* had an example of a great female leader Deborah. Wild how Christians consider that part of their lore, but know nothing about it.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

if they cared. they do what they're told. education is what is dictated to them. the words are interpreted for them. no questions; just dogma. why conservatism goes hand-in-hand w/bad religion. all b/w w/no need for thoughts or questions. 'deeply held beliefs' is code for '"it's all too hard to understand — stop asking!"

7 months ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Even if it's gone unchanged through all of history I'm not inclined to let a bunch of goatfucking primitives dictate my ethics.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I went to catholic and Jesuit schools, have a minor in theology and can tell you that most people just use it as talking points, most bible thumpers have no idea what they are talking about (I’m also an atheist now)

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What do you mean 'start with jesus' though? That character wasn't invented until about 70 or 75 CE by the unknown author of what we now call the Book of Mark, who cited no sources, never claimed to have even spoken to anyone that claimed to have met Jesus. It's all just derivatives from there.

7 months ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Well, we know that Jesus was a real person. The fact he existed isn’t really in contention any more, it’s mostly just his status as divinity that is.

Really, he was just some charismatic dude that preached a relatively small religion until he was killed by a jealous religious sect and got popular.

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I don't think any of that is credible, but that's okay - we'll likely never really know. But brushing away the historicity question is perhaps disingenuous, even if you'd prefer to believe the person existed historically. As I say, there was no record of him existing until 40y after he was meant to have died. All the mythology around his birth (the non-divine aspects) is clearly bonkers (there was no 'census you had to travel home for' etc). It's all prophecy-fulfilling back-story stuff.

7 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you wanna discount the supernatural, great, but this always seemed like a ridiculous claim to me. A charismatic leader with a common name wandering around the middle east preaching sounds pretty damn plausible.

Do you think its impossible that Abe Lincoln was a wrestler, lawyer, rail splitter, and president? That he was dying of a terminal disease when an assassin shot him and the killer's brother saved his son's life? Must have been like 12 different guy's stories blended together!/s

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2/2 - I overlooked your comparison, sorry. The problem there is that Abe Lincoln had a lot of contemporaries writing about him, first hand accounts, citing their sources, and you can correlate those stories, and they all fit. This Jesus character - there's no second-hand sources at all, none of the stories we have are written by people who claim to have met him, a few are written by people who even identify themselves. Lincoln (or more commonly Alexander the Great) comparisons are disingenuous.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yeah, I used to assume that he existed, because that's the popular position. It may be ridiculous if you've not considered the arguments to and fro, and that's okay. My considered opinion is a) first & foremost, it doesn't matter, and b) he probably didn't exist *as a non-divine person*. If your bar is 'a bloke called Jesus existed 2000 years ago', then yeah, sure, that's definitely true. If it's *that* bloke that's described in the bible existed (except for the woo bits) then .. not so much.

7 months ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

👍 I gotcha To me - I think It's almost definitely true that Joshua of Nazareth wasn't the only son of the supreme being of the universe, but given a few refrences at the time, and looking at how cults work now I feel confident saying that christianity wasn't a conspiracty to build a religon around a person who never existed, or that most of the tales are from other sources. Yes, modern cults are power/money grabs +CSA by a charismatic person, but it's common pattern...

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Aside from the fact that most scholars accept that there probably was a historical Jesus, you’re forgetting the authentic letters of Paul which predated Mark. And Paul does claim to have directly seen the risen Jesus, and to have talked to people who saw the living Jesus.

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Well, a) most biblical scholars are christians, so their desire / opinion is quite skewed on this subject, and b) we don't really know who Paul (Saul) was as he never identified himself, all we know is several of the letters attributed to him were almost definitely written by one person (style analysis). He never claimed to have met Jesus, and did claim his insights were 'from revelation' - no other sources were cited in his works. 1/2

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There's no corroborating evidence for his claims about meeting various kings or other rules, no Jewish records of his (ostensibly quite profound) split from their church. No contemporary historian mentions him at all. So, yeah, someone - might as well call him Paul - existed, and wrote this stuff, but it was revelation-inspired not from first or second hand experience. If he actually did claim to have seen the risen Jesus, this would contradict the (original) ending of the Book of Mark. 2/2

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There are many biblical scholars who are not Christians, and they are also not Mythicists.

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Is that cotton thread in your polyester shirt? Stone the heretic!

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The amount of mental gymnastics when I bring up mixed fabrics would qualify them in the safe space Olympics.

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I bet they eat bacon, too

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The old testament is a buffet for picking the things that are convenient for the church.

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Have they given doves to their priest when they ejaculated?

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Funny how they only pick the things that make life better for them

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Now now, they also love to pick the things that make life worse for everyone else.

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Speaking of buffet, we need to burn down pretty much every seafood place in the nation before God gets angry.

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