"Love thy neighbor, unless they're gay, black, immigrant or they think different from you, then harass then and make false allegations and boycott every woke media" - somewhere in the Bible.
also remember how jesus helped and fed poor people? well that's commie bullshit, we don't do that here
I think that was in Shitforbrains 24:7 or was it Propaganda 69:420?
Either was totes there, Jesus was big on hating thy neighbor.
Christianity and capitalism aren't compatible but no one is ready to have that conversation
Isn't there a story in the Bible where Jesus kicks the merchants out of a church and punches them?
He flipped over tables and straight up whipped the merchants and money changers calling them thieves.
Jesus is irrelevant to ------ianity.
Leviticus & Romans, that's all you need.
Nah, it's situational. Parts are relevant when they need to be and irrelevant when they need to be. It's convenient like that.
Christianity is the perfect religion for capitalists. They can do all the harm they want while they’re alive and all they have to do is ask for forgiveness to go to heaven.
Christians say they are all about helping people. Until faced with the proposal that we make helping people the baseline system of how things work.
Oh no. They want charity to be something they can pat themselves on the back for doing in tiny amounts when they choose. They want to feel superior to those they are helping - not just…. help them.
This is why, even though churches do a lot of charity work, they and their conservative members are a bunch of hypocritical assholes who are determined to keep the poor poor.
If we fix the system, structurally, so that everyone has clothes to wear, how are they going to make themselves feel superior and gracious by collecting ratty old clothes into grocery bags?
They can't even just help people in another country. They have to shove Christianity as a big tip jar in their faces
They want you to go to church but not support policies that Jesus would support.
"Your Christians are so unlike your Christ"
~Mahatma Gandhi
Ghandi's one to talk.
What? He's a peaceful man. He just doesn't take kindly to unhandled overflows.
These churches sure do love some supply side Jesus.
Why care about the alien within your gates, especially if they got there illegally? Care only about yourself. God helps those who help themselves. That other weird Jesus who says to love everyone and give everything you have to the poor is an icky, nasty socialist groomer.
I've had this exact same epiphany after having arguments with my parents about politics... Like, "You made me this way!"
It's very sad. I'm fortunate that it was the opposite for me. Born into a hyper-conservative Catholic family, then when 3 out of 4 of their children wound up LGBTQ, they realized that God might have been telling them something. They're extremely and refreshingly Christ-like, and total allies. They treat my same-sex fiancé as their full-blown in-law.
One would think the choice would be obvious: Either accept your children for who they are, or accept some right-wing bullcrap and only get to talk with the one kid you didn't shun from your life.
As a parent it is truly unthinkable how anyone could disown their children over this kind of thing. I literally cannot fathom doing that to the people I love the most in this world.
That's good, but such a low bar we give them
I think it's more that Christians are mad that they would be helping others who don't share their same belief system.
Which is funny because that's exactly what the Bible tells them not to do
Bold of you to assume that Christians actually read the Bible.
I've seen an unsourced claim / quote that reading the bible is the leading factor for atheism.
Hi it's me, a guy who was a never-doubting die hard christian until about 14 years old when I sat down and intended to read the bible cover to cover.
I made it through every single word (and every John begat Bruce etc ect) until leviticus.
I had always been raised as a bible literalist, that every single word of the bible was either true or a "metaphor". Well, I'm dumb but not an idiot. And it's impossible for a sane person to read the whole old testament and come out thinking it's the same author as the new testiment.
Imo, christians are primarily people who haven't read the bible yet.
"He's not hurting the right people"
I've been in and around Christian communities my whole life. There is truth to what you say - someone being Christian increases the likelihood that other Christians would be willing to help them.
But by and large the prevailing attitude is even more disappointing and unchristlike. People are simply selfish and only want to serve themselves, keeping every penny they have earned regardless of those in need around them.
The rich don't get rich by giving it away, and this is well known amongst the rich themselves. Some may even give on a personal level, giving them a visual alibi for using their resources politically to actively oppose legislation and policy that benefits those less fortunate. To me this is even more evil.
Help the homeless? Are you insane?? There's so many of them!
No, no, if you help the homeless, they won't help themselves and will instead get a free ride, and that'll just encourage more people to become homeless. That's real conservative logic right there.
This was like when equality was drilled into me then I punched my friend because she was strangling me.
Apparently I wasn't meant to do that. But I need to treat boys and girls the same.
That was a big awakening.
Maybe it's asking too much, but I'd love if Lemmy versions of popular Reddit subs like this would encourage posting and upvoting fresh and original content instead of the same recycled undated reposts.
This one hits worryingly close to home
Love is the sister to hate. It's very easy to convert one to the other. "Love" your enemies. Love is the Christian codeword for hate. God "loves" you with the intensity of 1000 suns. Climate change is god's love.
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