A Mississippi man accused of destroying a statue of a pagan idol at Iowa’s state Capitol is now being charged with a hate crime.

  • @[email protected]
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    5210 months ago

    God damn, I wish I didn’t have morals and a conscience… With my knowledge of religion and the scriptures I could be making BANK milking the gullible.

    • @[email protected]
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      3110 months ago

      This is my same struggle every day having been raised in a preacher’s home.

      Reading the Bible is what turned me into an atheist

      • Jaysyn
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        910 months ago

        Reading the Bible is what turned me into an atheist

        Same.

      • Spaz
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        310 months ago

        Psalms 137:9 is my favorite verse.

        • @[email protected]
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          310 months ago

          Hmm I looked it up and apparently one has to be careful with interpreting this. It’s not really about being happy to dash infants against rocks. It’s simply a call for the destruction of the entire nation of people. It’s really about justice! And that’s a good thing! /s

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            Those babies deserved it, and if they didn’t they’re going to heaven anyway, so really it’s a mercykill.

            Anway, love thy neighbors!

      • NostraDavid
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        210 months ago

        FYI: Israelites are a branch of Canaanites, El is a Canaanitic god, and The Exodus lacks evidence from ever happening.

        That was absolutely wild to learn as ex-Christian. Also, the social hole you fall into as you leave Christianity is pretty terrifying, but you’ll eventually learn to deal with it.

      • prole
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        110 months ago

        Reading the Bible is what turned me into an atheist

        Same. And the ultimate irony is that the values I used to determine that the Bible is a fucked up book that I want nothing to do with, are the same values that my uber-Christian parents instilled in me, and then lost at some point along the way.

        YOU MADE ME LIKE THIS

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      210 months ago

      Yep. I have had these same thoughts. Start a business. Any business. Slap “Christian” in the name. Profit.