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‘The President Is Right, The Pope Is Wrong’: Hannity Suggests Leo Has ‘Totally Lost Sight of the Bible and Its Teachings’ (www.yahoo.com)
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Fox News host Sean Hannity dedicated a segment of his Thursday show to deliver a message to Pope Leo XIV, suggesting he and others at the Vatican had totally lost sight of the true meaning of the bible and its teachings.

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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Agreed.

I mean, it's my favorite book of the Bible. But it's the most easily misunderstood and misinterpreted. The whole thing is an allegory written in a particular kind of prose, drawing on tropes common to a genre of writing scholars call "apocalypse." But given that even lifelong Christians are unaware of this fact means that this is definitely not the book to recommend reading as an entry point. Unless you're looking for inspiration for something to airbrush on the side of your bitchin' van (hopefully one with a crescent moon bubble window on the back). Then by all means flip to the section right before the maps and get to sketching!

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    ABSOLUTELY. I love the book of Revelation, but too many don't understand how to read apocalyptic literature, nor do they understand the source material to contextualize the heavy symbolism. I blame a ton of the dumbshit premillenial dispensationalism crudely hobbled together to resemble a form of eschatology on a poor understanding of Revelation, Dallas Theological Seminary for spreading the fuck out of it, and Schofield for being the dipass to keep it from remaining the obscure hallucinogenic ramblings of a (probably) sick pentecostal woman in England. Man there are so many cool things about the theology of hope and some strong influences of Stoic philosophy(again), but man does American theology love to fetishize about the unbelievers facing a gruesome divine genocide...

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  • [+] 1 point 6 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    Reading that book without the context of other books of the bible and like Paul’s writing in particular is just plain stupid.

    Knowing the context makes it worse in my opinion, but you do you.

    You know what's really stupid? Thinking Jesus is a beacon of peace, He's horrifying. If you can't handle Him murdering everybody in a rage, you can't get through the Bible anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    This is a pretty silly take. Look, I'm an atheist myself and I'm someone who is of the opinion that religion has been a net negative for humanity, but I also know pretty well what I'm talking about when it comes to Christian theology, eschatology, and biblical principles, and I can tell you don't know what you're talking about when it comes to this subject. There's plenty to be critical of the Bible about, but you haven't really hit any of the points at all. If you don't know the subject very well, you probably shouldn't form such strong opinions on it.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child)

    You saying it's a silly take is ignorant and misinformed.

    I know what I'm talking about too, with over a decade of Christian education from three denominations and many years of Bible studies besides. Your education was apparently shit, I hope you didn't pay for it!

    Perhaps you should study some more so you can catch up with me?

    Jesus will murder everyone who won't submit to Him on His return. This is a FACT, no opinion involved... according to the Bible, anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I can't help but notice you went straight to ad hominem and didn't engage with any argument. It seems as though you more so just want to be angry than anything else. Where I can definitely personally sympathize with what appears to be a strong anger toward Christianity/Christians, it's pretty counterproductive to lash out because of it. What good is it to do so when it only perpetuates your own anger and serves to cause Christians to double down on confirmation bias? Making sweeping generalizations about Christianity would only serve to put Christians on the defensive and make them extremely unreceptive. What good is that other than causing more discord and anger?

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