Atheist Memes

Listening to Dan McClellan, I was surprised how much care for the stranger is a running theme in both the NT and OT. Of particular note is the sin of the city of Sodom for which it was firebombed, which was not about homosexuality, as per modern interpretations, but about mistrust of the stranger, mistreatment of them, and failure to feed them and show them hospitality while holding an abundance of material wealth.

Not only does the US have a problem with internal disfavor of immigrants, but so do most industrialized nations, and as the bible shows us, this has been a problem for a very, very long time. (I hypothesize, today, public animosity towards migrants in the US is exacerbated by the oligarch-owned massive far-right propaganda machine, as a means to distract common Americans from the excesses and abuses of the ownership class, but that's another convo.)

In fact, I think I remember McClellan noting that kind treatment of the foreigner is part of the ancient Babylonian doctrine that inspired the OT.

I was raised church of christ. My father always made a distinction between church beliefs and what he thought was necessary. That's how they did it. Everyone else is evil and you can't have morals when fighting against that evil. The church tends to make up its own rules as it needs to.

Former Catholic school kid here - yeah, that was kind of a rude revelation. I musta missed the part where Jesus says, "Payest thou not for somebody else's health care, let the freeloading bastards fend for themselves!"

Care for others. And by “others”, we mean fellow tithe-paying church members of the same skin color, language, and specific denominational sect as us, not those apostate rogues whom we will exterminate once our brothers and sisters reproduce to become so numerous that we take over the government. Unless they repent, of course. Then we'll let them serve us as one of the lower caste tribes from our Canaanite fanfiction we pick out-of-context inspirational quotes from.

I shelter in place on sundays and this is why. They are out in force. And my perimenopausal ass has a strong sense of justice and no filter. I’ll get in a fist fight.

That’s basically what cured me of evangelical Christianity.

Don’t try bringing logic to a dingleberry convention!