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Colorado Pastor: Sign These Anti-Trans Ballot Petitions or “You’re a Traitor” to Jesus (www.friendlyatheist.com)
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[–] 1 point 10 months ago (7 children)

I lived in rural western Missouri and that's exactly how it was. One Walmart, one traffic light, and more flavors of apostolic Christianity than Baskin-Robbins has of ice cream in a town of less than 5k. Tiny churches everywhere.

I liked the variety of films they'd show: "Joseph Smith and the Temple of Doom," "Mohammed: Satan's Messenger," and "Buddha and the Path of Damnation."

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Christian movies rise to a whole new level of badosity.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    It's because they're never made by believers, just people knowing that they can have a tiny budget and a huge price point because parents will pay anything for "Good Wholesome Christian Entertainment" that won't turn their kids woke.

    Except for the God's Not Dead movies, sadly those are made by geniune Evangelicals, and you can tell because they're insanely mean spirited and have budgets.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    @harrys_balzac @IronBird Reminds me of my uncle for some reason. He belonged to a tiny little church and dragged his wife into it as well. I used to say that he believed that he and the minister and possibly his wife were the only people who would be allowed into Heaven - and he wasn't too sure about his wife and the minister. At his funeral his minister got up and gave quite a speech. In his southern drawl he invited us all to rush up to him, get on our knees, and accept Christ as our personal Lord and Savior. I grabbed my father and my son fiercely to make sure they didn't go up in a spirit of comedy (my family has a strange sense of humor). Luckily I didn't have to struggle too hard. But everyone just sat there looking at the guy. My people are polite, but they aren't going to give up their own beliefs for ANYONE. Not when an entire nation tried to exterminate us for our religion! (Although I should note that I'm a long-time atheist. But that was MY decision, no one else's.)#Religion#Churches

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I would have run up. I would have been upset to not have some canned whipped cream to really sell the demonic possession aspect.

    I remember walking by a little church and it was toward the end of the service. The interior doors were propped open. I stopped and looked in.

    One short stocky woman was running (as best she could) laps around the pews, jazz hands going, screaming for Jesus to save her.

    A younger woman was dancing like the Peanuts kids in "A Charlie Brown Christmas." If you'd given them a couple of Red Bulls.

    The preacher was driving out demons up front. His face was so red, I honestly thought his head was going to explode.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    most of em arent even all that predatory, they're just...for lack of a better term...dumb as fuck. (but they are easy pickings for the predatory churches)

    the 1-2 people who can even tell you what denomination their church is probably hasn't even read their whole bible let alone studied the scriptures at all. and the brand of jesus they're selling doesn't work to calm people's fears about death most of the time either, all they do is scare people into thinking (insert family member with above room-temp IQ who gtfo of that place asap) is going to burn in hell if they can't convert them before they die.

    at this stage in america i'm not sure what the answer is to bring these people back to reality, if that's even a good idea...most don't last longer than whatever chucklefuck preacher they got knocking on death's door, and when they're gone the rest just dissolve out into the other churches if they bother at all.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    there's one i see traveling around now via semi called The Thorn, the ad makes it look like low-budget passion of the christ

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