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Isn’t this idolatry? Your jealous god is gonna be, uh, jealous.

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Religious people that vote republican are 100% hypocrites. Even you mom.

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Especially your mom!

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I’m glad my mom isn’t some hyper-religious hypocrite. She’s just your average low-information overly-proud bigot that couldn’t be bothered to vote until a black man had the audacity to be president.

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What about my mom???

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If god were real he’d be real pissed right now

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Too bad he isn’t real.

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Eh, I’m fine with the absence of a sky-wizard

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Problem here is that you seem to think (or assume others think) that religion is something other than a means to con dupes into giving up power and money. It’s pliable as fuck. It means nothing; it’s merely a means to an end.

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There are a significant number of American Christians that have worked Trump into the religion.

Many prophesied his election victory, fueled insanity when this did not happen, culminating in… basically he is a kind of messiah, not literally Jesus, but doing his work, and he must do it before Jesus comes back.

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If religion was real Trump would be the antichrist their bible warned them about.

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As an ex Christian raised in a fundamentalist household who is now Atheist…

Fucking YUP!

He fits extremely well into the common rapture/antichrist narrative that I was raised in.

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You’d have to actually read the book to know that.

And people who actually read the Bible (and comprehend it), typically end up atheist.

Because it’s fucking awful.

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Well, yeah, he would be upset if Trump was an idol - but he’s the real deal because nobody’s been smote.

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Yep. I’m not a perfect Christian, but I’m better than these freaks that are literally making Trump their idol. I don’t know how anyone could read and believe the Bible, then go follow this adulterous, lying, dishonest, rapist piece of garbage felon…

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“I died for this shit?”

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turned water into whine

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Jesus condoned slavery. And that was directly used by Southern slave owners to justify chattal slavery in the US.

He could have very easily said, “hey guys, you shouldn’t own other humans as property,” but no (assuming he even existed).

Instead, he instructed people on how to treat their slaves.

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I think you’re confusing Jesus with “Paul” who almost certainly wasn’t Paul in “his” later letters but it’s still generally true that the Bible is pro-slavery and heirarchy. Plus it’s taken as the indirect word of Christ anyways so same difference, really.

If you have the specific passage about Jeebus saying slavery is fine feel free to share, I love getting more ammo to hit theists with.

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Luke 12:47-48.

Matthew 20:27.

And here I’ll just copy/paste this from the “the Bible and slavery” wiki:

The Bible says that Jesus healed the ill slave of a centurion and restored the cut off ear of the high priest’s slave. In his parables, Jesus referenced slavery: the prodigal son, ten gold coins, unforgiving tenant, and tenant farmers. Jesus also taught that he would give burdened and weary laborers rest. The Passion narratives are interpreted by the Catholic Church as a fulfillment of the Suffering Servant songs in Isaiah.

When questioned about the hierarchy of his followers, Jesus responds that “whoever would be first among you must be your slave” (Matthew 20:27).

Yes, most of the overtly pro-slavery stuff in the NT was Paul, but Jesus (I would say more than) tacitly condoned it.

Jesus was clearly immersed in a culture that included slavery. He could have very easily had, you know, done the right thing, and told his followers that owning other humans as property is bad. It seems like, if there was a loving god etc etc etc, that they wouldn’t want people to have slaves. And could have stopped it any time they liked. Fuck that…

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Paula White-Cain, the NAR-affiliated Florida pastor who served as Trump’s lead spiritual adviser during his presidency, warned her followers that Christians who didn’t support Trump will “have to stand accountable before God one day.”

Those will be the ones ascending to heaven according to your bible, Paula, while you stand with the literal Anti-Christ you fucking grifter.

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I think at this point we can stop calling it Christianity because it obviously has nothing to do with a messiah religious character from the middle east.

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Come now, modern day American Christianity has nothing in common with the Roman Catholic faith that spawned the Reformation in 1519, where the pope and his cardinals openly sold penances and salvation for money.

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Evangelicapitalism?

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Supply-side Jesus.

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As opposed to all the times in the past where it had more to do with zealotry towards a figurehead (kings, saints, martyrs, etc) or outright heinous acts. This is what Christianity has always been. It was only ever about peace and love on paper. It’s always been about idolatry and control in practice.

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No, this is Christianity. You don’t get to just disown large swathes of your religion because they make your hateful ideology look as bad as it actually is.

If anyone is “not really Christian,” it’s the ones who claim to be LGBTQ+ friendly.

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In Jesus and John Wayne Kristin Du Mez explains it all and brings receipts.

https://kristindumez.com/books/jesus-and-john-wayne/

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The Christans yearn for false idols

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Blessing someone or praying for them is not idolizing them you know. Religion is stupid anyway.

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Don’t bother. He’s a disinformation spreading Tankie.

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Does she bang porn stars, cheat on her husband, sexually assault men, show appreciation for Hitler, stamp her name on cheap Chinese bibles, claim to jave been personally saved/chosen by God (who apparently gave zero fucks about the actual Christian who died) , demonize the poor and those who seek shelter and aid, or just generally live a life of sin and greed while never setting foot in church other than for photo ops during riots that he caused?

Because that’s the part where i have trouble watching a bunch of Christians give their prayers and blessings to him instead of just about any other random stranger who’d likely be far more deserving.

It’s like watching an anti-Christ movie play out in real life.

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Just as cringe in a still photo.

The difference here is when you look at literally everything else each of these groups says outside of these individual snapshots, it becomes instantly clear what the difference is.

Looks like my user tag of “bad faith. don’t waste time” on this guy was accurate.

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