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“Talibangelicals” and “Y’all Qaeda” has never been more appropriate.
Imagine their surprise when they end up in hell, lmao
Oh good. I would hate to make it all the way to lunch time without being reminded that this country is run by mid popcorn movie villains.
This is not a complaint about the OP. This is a complaint about stupid evil people in positions of power, and their enablers.
I hate posting a litany of the horrors as much as you hate seeing it, I assure you.
Hey, kegsbreath, will they also get 72 virgins when they go?
Just another rapist saying rapist things.
I once said that the biggest threat humanity faces isn't climate change or nuclear war, but religion. By far.
People laughed.
Still laughing?
Just like in that handmaid's tale documentary
They told this to the Crusaders too.
Something something kingdom of heaven, do gooders beware.
Yes, Christian nationalists, the next world is paradise and this world is a crime-ridden hellhole. Please expedite your passage.
YOU FIRST
Death cult
Wacko
Or oil. Either will do.
Hegseth said:
“[Christ’s] mission was to divide truth from lies, the things of the world from the things of God, light from darkness, good from evil."
That tells me that either he hasn't actually read the Bible or he needs to work on his reading comprehension.
Jesus described his mission in this way:
"For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45)
...he said to them, "I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities also; for I was sent for this purpose." (Luke 4:43)
"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Luke 5:32)
"For the Son of man came to seek and to save the lost." (Luke 19:10)
"All that the Father gives me will come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me; and this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up at the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that every one who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.” (John 6:37-40)
I'm an atheist, but I was raised by evangelicals who emphasized following Christ's example as portrayed in the Gospels. I can't believe that the rabbi who commanded his followers to "turn the other cheek" and "bless those who curse you" could inspire the nationalist bullshit that is quoted from Hegseth in this article.
I'm concerned for the future of Christianity in a country that believes Hegseth and other Republican figureheads instead of their own Bible. And I'm worried about what that will mean for non-Christians in the American military and, eventually, in the rest of the country.
As a former evangelical now atheist, did you go through a period of agnosticism before settling on atheism? I've been going through some unpacking the last few years after distancing myself from religion and I'm curious what your process looked like.
It was a piece-by-piece deconstruction that took nearly a decade. I started with, "Maybe it's the divinity of Jesus that's my problem," and it snowballed from there. I did a lot of research and visited a lot of different religious groups during that decade.
… eventually, in the rest of the world.
My dad isn’t religious, but in his stupid mind, the US is a Christian country. He views all Muslim nations as our natural enemies.
P.S. fuck all Christians and Muslims; their idiocy ruins us
The PS is an incredibly ignorant and unnuanced take. I'm not a Christian or a Muslim, but you're projecting an image that you have of religion most likely based on conservative and institutional Christianity and Islam. There's so much diversity within these groups that dismissing everyone who associates with Christianity or Islam as idiots is ridiculous. While many of them are backwards, science-denying, homophobic, transphobic, racist, nationalist bigots who absolutely deserve all the criticism, and there are churches which induce trauma and hurt on vulnerable people, there are also plenty of people for whom religion is not about belief in supernatural beings or the authority of a book written around two thousand years ago.
For many people, it's all about being part of a community, and religion is an effective way of bringing people together across social boundaries. They enjoy the music, the rituals, the eating together and the charitable events, and they find the myths and stories of the religion to be more of a convenient excuse for all of that without needing to believe that a god really exists or that their book should be taken as some kind of moral authority. This is especially true for people born into the tradition without any choice about their religious affiliation until they were independent from their family. Now, if you were arguing that the world would be better off without Christianity or Islam, that would be a much more understandable position, but I think calling anyone who identifies as a Christian or Muslim an idiot is just plain ignorant.
Please excuse the ignorance of a non-American, but what the fuck is a national prayer breakfast?
Exactly what it sounds like, it fucking sucks here.
Every president and most politicians attend this. It's put on by evangelical extremists, and government officials flock to it en masse to show how "Christian" they are.
🍌 Republic stuff.
Well, Hegseth said it, so it must be true.
No different to Israel, Al Queida, ISIS, ISIL and every other radical extremist religious group convincing people to lay down lives and families, led by wealthy people far far away, living in pomp and luxury.
And historically too. Almost every nation has said this to or about themselves.
Quotes from Jesus according to the gospels:
"If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also." Matthew 5:39
"Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you," Luke 6:27
Nooo you’re just taking the Bible out of context! God actually wants people to kill the sons
Then God said, “Take your son to the land of Moriah and kill your son there as a sacrifice for me. This must be Isaac, your only son, the one you love. Use him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains there. I will tell you which mountain.”
Genesis 22:2
/s but the Bible really does say this so also wtf lol
That's the really convenient thing about the Bible. It can easily be quoted to support any arguement.
Including opposite sides of the same argument.
Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me. Mat. 25
Go, sell your belongings and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me. Mat. 19
Of course if you quote Jesus' literal words at these people they start screeching about how the Devil can quote scripture too
Of course if you quote Jesus' literal words at these people they start screeching about how the Devil can quote scripture too
I was yelling at some people protesting abortion just before the Dobbs decision, and I found one guy who wanted to argue in front of his wife and daughter.
I asked why the Bible has a recipe for an abortion potion in it, and specifically for unfaithful wives; he said it doesn't.
I told him "oh, weird. I have the passage pulled up here in my phone."
With a smug look he replied "I don't do Bible study with non-believers."
I told him "okay, I'm sure I can find someone in this crowd who isn't a coward," and started to walk away.
He didn't want to look pathetic in front of his family, so he agreed to let me read it. As I was pulling it up, he said "you probably don't even know who wrote the book of Numbers."
I told him "Christian tradition points to Moses, but nobody really knows," and then I read the passage.
When I was done, he said "that said it caused a miscarriage, not an abortion."
I berated him and told him "that's what the fuck an abortion is, jackass: an induced miscarriage"
His wife asked then me where I got the boba tea I was drinking. I know I didn't get through to her numbnuts husband, but I think his family may have learned something that day about the Bible and their paterfamilias.
Inshallah 7,200 virgins of the us armed forces
Oh good. The crusades are back.
I thought the point was to make the other guy's soldiers die for their beliefs.
Improving material conditions? No need. We're just gonna sell them this stupid story about salvation
Wasn't "Dying for us means getting into heaven" literally what Al-Qaeda told suicide bombers?
LOL, remember how every far-right jackass would point out this supposed viewpoint of radical right wing Muslims engaging in jihad?
I also remember how so very butthurt the rightwing xtians would be when I'd reference the xtian taliban or talibangelicals or xtian sharia law (and they'd try to get me banhammered from whatever platform I was on and my comments deleted) because that is such an unfair comparison.
If you want to see a rightwing NatC type go apoplectic, bring up how violent "the" bible is when they start up with the Koran. Or how right wing xtians and right wing Muslims don't really differ on much at all but rather marginal details of doctrine.
I didn’t know Israel identified as Christian