Most have probably never read the Bible either.

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[–] 14 points 1 day ago

Calling them Christians is insulting and I'm an atheist.

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    [–] 50 points 2 days ago (16 children)

    They also probably think jesus is white

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  • [–] 18 points 1 day ago (13 children)

    What are you talking about? Next thing you're going to say he wasn't blond and blue-eyed?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    I gotta say, of all the Jesuses, Korean Jesus is my favorite. Bro is ripped for your sins

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    But he did speak English and have a crucifix on a chain around his neck, right?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Ok, seeing as you mentioned the crucifix thing let's talk about why Adam and Eve have belly buttons

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    There's a MEGA movement? Jeebus help us all

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  • [–] 31 points 1 day ago

    Christians are like the least Christian people so I'm not surprised.

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  • Is anyone even surprised? This seems very par for the course for religious extremists. A lot of Islamic extremists terrorists were previously things like Drug dealers or or such who rarely appeared at Mosques.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 day ago

    It's almost like their supposed beliefs aren't sincerely held and they are nominally attaching themselves to that belief system to lend credibility to whatever they want to spread. This post is about MAGA, people with "legitimate concerns" about immigration while rioting and destroying livelihoods, and about these fucks.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Let me correct your statement slightly.

    "Most probably can't read."

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    lovely. I haven't met many of these people (probably because the place I go to interact with Christians is Church) but from rare experiences, trying to discuss theology with these people is often quite difficult. There was someone online, albeit from a different country, who joined a Christian group chat and had a vitriolic hatred of muslims. We kept trying to correct him on his behaviour, and then he ended up leaving (whatever his version was of) Christianity because we weren't letting him have a vitriolic hatred of muslims.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Same here, in France. I read everywhere that Christians are nationalists hating LGBTQ people and women's rights… most of the grey hairs on my church's benches fought for the legalization of abortion (I criticised May 68 one day and was almost lynched), my pastor marries homosexuals and the president of my church (a woman, by the way) openly condemned Le Pen and her party.

    But if I discuss with less active Christians, who I see only rarely or not at all (but send money once a year to our parish, they proudly say), the tone is very different.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (1 child)

    okay that's a bit far

    It has been clear throughout scriptures that unborn lives matter and that murder is wrong due to people being created in the image of God

    I get not hating lgbtq+ people - such a thing is wrong (You shall love your neighbour as yourself) but "marrying" homosexuals is not what this means...

    Racism and misogyny is of course wrong as well, people are created in the image of God.

    In my denomination/Church, we don't permit these things for good reason. Because the Bible is the final authority. In fact, the Bible will always oppose popular society trends. If the Bible doesn't offend you, you're reading it wrong. That's because of our sinful nature. So the Bible is anti racist and would have offended racists, same with greed, and then the cultural norms of today. It calls us to repent and convicts us of our sin. But at the same time, it's not typically a Christian's business what a non Christian does either (1 Corinthians 5:12-13) (Hence I have no issue with same-sex unions being legal on a civil/legal level)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I've noticed here in Australia as well. Our pastor hard that people were picking sides in the Israeli Palestinian Iranian war and he slapped it down in a sermon and told us that we were to love everyone with all our hearts.

    But I've mentioned that I'm a church goer to people who don't believe at all and they told me that Australia should be a Christian country. I'm not sure what value they see in Christianity, but I doubt it matches what I've been taught

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Most Christians probably have never read the Bible? Have you? I have and it's... a challenge.

    And Christians mostly follow the New Testament, btw, not the Bible.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago

    I have little doubt that the percentage of atheists who've read the whole bible is significantly larger than the percentage of people who call themselves christians who have done so, and still larger than the percentage of them who've only read the new testament.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    When talking about Christianity, the Bible refers to both the old and new testament. And while Christians don't typically follow the "laws" in the old testament, it is still a huge part of Christianity

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  • [–] 1 point 21 hours ago

    I guess it depends on a few factors, but yeah. Christians aren't really required to read their holy texts anyway, the clergy have always been the "interface" to the scripture, for... Reasons.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    They just take what supports their ideology and ignore all the rest.

    And to be honest, it's actually quite a decent way of living. But then you also have to accept teachings from other religions as well as atheism. Otherwise you're just a selfish cunt.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I'm actually kinda surprised. I figured people go to church to learn how to be racist. If you didn't have a bunch of bigots around you telling you how to hate the other, you probably wouldn't have that attitude. And fuck knows, Christians can certainly do bigotry proud.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago*

    In-group vs out-group is all it is, modern day tribalism. And calling oneself a Christian patriot is nothing more than a less outspokenly racist way of idenitfying as a white supremacist.

    They all know this, all of us here should know this, it's the less politically knowledgeable white members of the public who don't particularly know this, which are their main targets to bring to their movement

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

    I doubt most can read at all

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  • [–] 4 points 2 days ago

    religion is primarily a tool used by the ruling class (or those attempting to become the ruling class) to manipulate the masses to their own ends


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