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[–] chemicalprophet@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 minutes ago

There are no gods. Religion is a cancer. No one is doing anything to ancient myths, their doing it to humanity.

Remember, "Thou shalt not take my name in vain" wasn't about swearing.

[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

'fool some of the people all the time'

[–] snowdrop@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Any “Christian” who isn’t calling them out loudly is complicit and deserves to have their religion dragged through the mud.

Anyone who dismisses them by saying “oh they’re not ‘real’ Christians” is deluding themselves and is carrying water for fascism.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What is a "real" christian according to you?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

You know that bishop telling clergy to get their affairs in order and that the time for resistance is now? Yeah I'm pretty sure that guy is a real Christian, at least based on the words attributed to Jesus.

[–] snowdrop@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago

I’m not Christian, so to me a Christian is anyone who says they are one.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 8 points 23 hours ago

Probably someone who actually follows the teachings of Christ.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

One of the most effective things you can do to damage Christianity is to stand before the world with a crucifix around your neck

You can stop there really. People wearing jewelry to show off their devotion is explicitly condemned by jesus. These people are heretics at best.

Lying is by far the least of their crimes.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

If the losers could wear a swastika too, they would. These asswipes remind of the photos showing German Protestant and Catholic priests wearing a cross and swastika urging the young men to their duty for God and the fucking Nazis.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The best way to damage Christianity is to read the Bible. I'm rather all for that.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago

I was raised Southern Baptist, did the youth group trips and church services. Eventually decided I’d jyst read the Bible cover-to-cover. Got to the end of that book, thought about it for a while, and came to the conclusion it was all bullshit.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 90 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the problem with religion in general is the proven proclivity to believing lies. these people are just that brainwashed. they arent 'lies' to them

[–] doleo@lemmy.one 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

thanks for the insight, oh great deceiver and accuser.

[–] 5PACEBAR@piefed.ca 1 points 18 hours ago

don't believe the Christian propaganda 😛

[–] dp@thebrainbin.org 12 points 1 day ago

Doesn’t mean the fairytale Lucifer couldn’t or wouldn’t speak the truth, Christians just gaslit themselves into believing that he couldn’t and wouldn’t.

[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 63 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The worst people I've ever met in my life wore a cross.

There is no hate like Christian love.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The wearing is performative.

[–] tordenflesk@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

It's basically a gang-sign

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The most effective way to damage Christianity is to read the parts of the Bible they don't talk about

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know, part of believing in religion is doublethink. Many religious will say "just don't think about it" when presented with contradicting information. That's why religion encourages suppression of free thinking.

[–] kevin2107@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

If I were to develop an evangelic ruleset, hypocrisy would be the most fundamental sin.

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

The most effective way to damage Christianity is to make public all the child abuse and take away their rights.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That's a trans ✝️ symbol now, see? https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/37119853 (If I didn't link it right, someone plz post it correctly)

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Look it is a t , I think that qualifies.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not a crucifix, it's just a cross. Point still stand though. Fuck Bondi.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bondi is terrible and all, but this is a photo of press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get my Trump blondes mixed up. I still stand by my original, "fuck Bondi", but also, fuck Leavitt.

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

The MAGA Face definitely makes it hard to tell them all apart.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Its called blasphemy. Especially the "moral" outrage aimed at anyone who makes a joke that's deemed offensive by team neo Nazi pedophile, or points out their hypocrisy.

How dare anyone question the unjust laws of the department of injustice! Didn't you all see the giant gold cross she always makes sure to put on public display? It's like walking around with a VIP pass that says anything we say is now law becomes automatically justified and moral because obviously, as proud members of team Neo Nazi Pedophile, we're the authority on what's moral.

Isiah 10:1-4 Woe to tyrants...

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless. What will you do on the day of reckoning,

Tbf that's the old testament, but the "Christian" natural law crowd sure loves to cite the old testament when it suits their needs (they kinda have to because most of the new testament doesn't. This is a feature, not a bug because Christ was a SJW).

"An unjust law is no law at all." We all allegedly agree on that, but there does seem to be some sort of miscommunication in America about what is "justice," and who gets to decide if a law is "just."

I tend to believe this is where the voice of "We the People" have a very important role to play. However, many of the "anti-elitists" in the Trump administration, (who often hold degrees from Ivy League universities), prefer to cite their fellow "anti-elitist" Harvard law professor Adrien Vermeule and his legal theory on Greater Good Constitutionalism.

Essentially all law, is meant to be interpreted by the highest authority. That's why executive authority "Trumps" judicial. The theory also explicitly states the constitution is not meant to uphold liberty, but to be interpreted by a modern authority in order to promote the greater good. In other words, a violation of your constitutional rights isn't necessarily a violation of the constitution, as long as an authority claims doing so is necessary for the greater good. For instance, trading liberty for the "safety" of all Americans in order to justify the patriot act or sending ICE to take over American cities. Obviously this is all being done for our own good.

Coincidentally, this could also apply if we we're hypothetically told by somebody that accepting our own authoritarian surveillance state might be preferable to billionaires losing the made up race they're allegedly competing in against China, despite those same billionaires being the ones who enabled China's surveillance state.

Sept 2025: Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

Nov 2025: Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

Even though you may be under the impression that murder, exploitation, and pedophelia are crimes that should be punishable by the rule of law, Vermuele and all the "anti-elitist" legal scholars and authorities like him, believe the law is meant to be the embodiment of a leader's moral reason. When a leader's moral compass steers him to break the law as it's written, simply applying those laws as they are written (aka accountability) would be "unjust."

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

What damage? Where? Citation needed.

[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

nah when i see the cross, i know what they're about to say is a lie. got it all reversed.

[–] ElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.org 16 points 1 day ago

christianity discredits itself.

[–] KingGordon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

And boy howdy does she do that.

Arkansas's governor is one of trumps ex liars.

[–] TheDrunkard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cults and mysticism continue to delude this world.

[–] dogsnest@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That's quite profound!
How do I sign up?

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Is it actually damaging....? That is like saying "the most effective way to damage MAGA is Trump lying".

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trump is like sponge to whomever happens to be standing next to him in the moment. And political acts follow. It explains his rxn to Momdani, regardless of how pretty and charismatic Momdani is. Flip flopping on Russia-Ukraine. Suddenly placing sanctions on a country he doesn’t care about (first term) because Ivanka showed him pics of dead refugee children.

Right now, it’s Miller and Vought.

We all knew he was easy to influence but it’s worse than we’d ever originally imagined. Worse now with his cognitive decline. Trump has no agenda. He’s just an empty shell of a megaphone for the person standing next to him.

[–] snowdrop@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

He is quite literally a puppet at this point. It’s like weekend at Bernie’s but his heart (such as it is) hasn’t stopped beating yet.

[–] red_tomato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

They could be praising Satan and they wouldn’t notice anything wrong.

[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't know. Real Christians are aware of the bullshit and the zealots love it. It's clearly very effective.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

You should probably be more specific, because "real" Christians are what most Christians actually do.

[–] notsosure@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You will probably also have to spend 25000 years in purgatory: sitting in a cauldron full of boiling oil, naked.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It’s a comforting thought to think that these people will be punished someday, but I am doubtful. I think it’s up to us, as humans, to affect justice, as a human concept of our own collective creation rather than a divine or absolute one.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

no justice, it's just us.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, I'm hiring human demons to torture sinners forever. Starting pay is 14$/h (afraid it's not very profitable).

You in?

(This is a joke, of course)

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

You got too much competition from ICE, etc.