Many claim that God speaks directly to them, often in dreams, and believe that Christians are called to wage a spiritual battle for control of the United States.
These people are dangerous.
And mentally ill.
I increasingly feel like religious indoctrination in childhood creates a kind of mental illness or disability by disrupting the development of critical thinking skills.
This is not accidental. Many religious scholars have talked about the need to “instruct” children when they’re very young - by the age of three or four.
I experienced this first hand and it was stunting, if not traumatic. I came to peace with myself for being atheist only in my 20s.
I have trauma from this, but from the other end. So many stunted people trying to force insanity on me as if it were logic. For the longest time I thought I was crazy or broken for not being able to make some connection they were. Turns out, there’s no connections. Just gut feeling.
My wife only got it a little firsthand because her family is evangelical, but her mother is one of the kindest, most accepting, most tolerant people I’ve ever met. Despite that, and despite being an atheist since she was a teenager, she still has dreams about going to hell in her mid-40s.
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Because it’s normalized gaslighting. If a kid isn’t encouraged to think critically and is told to ignore their own perception of the world, they learn to seek truth externally from themselves.
Teaching children religion is child abuse. It happened to me and it was abuse. My parents didn’t realize it and I forgive them because they were abused by it too but we need to start calling it what it is.
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There have actually been three popes from Africa! Though the last one was pope from 492 to 496. Not 1492… 492.
I totally agree with you though, I just had to "uh actually’ a little because I think it’s interesting.
Source: https://www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/the-three-african-popes/
The Scathing Atheist podcast has been reading through the new testament lately with Jesus played as a sassy gay man.
According to Genesis, man was made in god’s image. Archeologists have determined that the oldest humans were black. It would be more accurate for sure.
Judaism doesn’t require belief in God to enter heaven, just being a good moral person (so that rules out almost all of Isn’trael). No one’s been able to explain to me why the New Testament would’ve/could’ve changed that.
Reciting scripture from the NKJ Bible to me and I’ll respond back in scripture from the Catholic Bible. Oh what? There’s two more books in the Catholic Bible? But what about St Thomas? He was literally right there next to hayzues…why wasn’t his gospel included? The council of Nicea you say …
Almost seems like the curated collection we call Bible has had numerous politically motivated omissions and… Innumeral suspicious translations. Which is all quite silly, because we can still read the original works in Greek and Hebrew. We can directly translate them ourselves, if we want to be sure our compact with God is pure and holy.
In the days when Rome fed believers to lions, Christians were the only ones to walk into plague stricken neighborhoods and tend to the sick. Everyone abandoned the infirm as matter of course, except the Christians, who grew exponentially because they were the only ones who cared about the poor. They also gave all their shit away like the aesthetics. Material possessions mean nothing in the halls of the Lord. Early Christians were the antithesis of capitalism and heirarchy. Every power structure to ever touch what Jesus taught has usurped and destroyed his instructions to heaven.
If you’re a believer, you’d do best to stop believing power structures and read the works for yourself. Gambling eternity on the largest “trust me bro” in history is…idk. you’d deserve what you got then I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
How do paint a woman as transexual? Why would a being without what we can recognize as a physical body even need reassignment surgery?
Or even Jesus as gay? Is he gonna be gulpin down glizzys? Because Rule 34 assures us that already exists.
I think you’re a little lost in the weeds, bruv.
If anything, republicans are perfectly represented by Jeezuz Jeezy if you will because he is a total asshole true and thru. Yeah, that’s right, Jesus Christ is an asshole. Last night for example a bunch of people died in Gaza and Ukraine, innocent, hungry people. And guess what? putin is still alive, Mr Yahoo is still alive. They probably had some of the best tasting grapes by licking them off virgins bodies yesterday while they were freely murdering. Where’s Jesus? Oh! It’s s mystery! Oh he’s using putin for a good cause. Bullshit! The Christian Church is pure bullshit.
Is that really the quiet part anymore? The GOP being anti-choice and pro-matricide is pretty fucking obvious.
The quiet part, for me at least, is being anti-democratic, anti-interracial marriages, and wanting to forcefully convert Americans to Christianity.
I wouldn’t even say the last one is the quiet part. They are pretty forward about that, too.
Sorta? With both the last ones they’ve been open about discouraging it but our current Scotus seems to be chomping at the bit to kill Loving v Virginia and I’m sure they’re doing homework to try and kill separation of church and state.
FYI, the expression is “champing at the bit”.
Oh neat, TIL another eggcorn I misunderstood.
Yeah. I saw it coming years ago. There’s no more quiet part, only people who haven’t been listening
Shut up! I am better than you because my skin colour matches der Fuhrer. Der Fuhrer says that rich people are better! Der Fuhrer says God promotes him! All hail!
Shut up, Oompa Loompa.
I wish it were that easy…I will shut up. The fascists won’t.
Everyone will be required to eat nothing but Sea Wheedies.
No not that life, our life.
No not that family, our family.
No not that faith, our faith.
“Pro-Life” but they will execute oceans of lives, in their regime.
I expect full-on human-sacrifice worship of Trump within 4y of his gaining dictatorship.
( there’s been continuous human-sacrifice-cult activity in the Americas, Central & northward, for about 11.7 millenia, ttbomk.
This won’t be anything new: it’ll just be the same-old same-old getting blatent about it.
I bet every one of you an imaginary-dime, right now, that the “uncanny valley” is going to be stark on Trump’s face, within 4y, to those who aren’t his worshippers.
I don’t know if there’s a remind-me-bot thingy for lemmy, but if there is, & anybody wants to set a reminder, so you can prove me wrong, go for it.
I think this bet of mine is certain.
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The bot works on an opt in system, mods have to approve it for communities otherwise id be violating the lemmy.world bot guidelines
Tldr they want to ban abortion. This is news?
No, the TLDR is that they are waging a war on the nonbelievers. At least that’s my takeaway. They want a fully Christian government. They’re “Christian”.
Except Jesus calls to feed the poor and such, Jesus was a hippy compared to what these people “believe”
Yikes, this Jesus dude sounds super anti-“Christian”.
You’re being sarcastic, but that’s what they actually think now.
https://newrepublic.com/post/174950/christianity-today-editor-evangelicals-call-jesus-liberal-weak
Oh man… He would be sooo anti Christian. He’d be disgusted, start flipping tables.
God and football a match made in Nirvana.
