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[–] 97 points 1 year ago (8 children)

This is the time to start invoking all of the gods for a more dynamic and adaptive office environment.

"Listen, Ryan, I'm gonna need you to ask yourself what Enki would do in this situation, ok? You're giving Enlil when I need an Enki. Dammit, get your head in the game. Have you not been keeping up on this stuff? Seriously, if you've been experimenting with that Jesus stuff again I'm gonna come unglued, I swear. Get off the fuckin cross already, jeez."

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Really throw them off by talking about Yahweh and Elohim and how are these Gods relevant today?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Or discuss the singular El versus the plural Elohim and the related implications for that over the pantheon alluded to in the books of Moses.

    But... I was trying to spread the love across the old religions and just leading off with a fun pairing. This Yahweh guy gets a lot of attention. Ra is displeased and unpleasant droughts will undoubtedly be visited upon us all now. Fuck.

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  • [–] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    This shit only flies as long as it isn't a Muslim doing it.

    Reminds me of Valarie Hodges in Lousiana like a dozen years ago. Where she stopped supporting religious vouchers for school cause an Islamic school wanted to use them and she didn't realize that could happen.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    I hope the Satanic Temple can have some fun with this.

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  • [+] 34 points 1 year ago (27 children)
  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    My I introduce the reverse loophole.

    Blaspheme against the holy spirit, that piece of shit.

    Doing so is the only unforgivable sin. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars. Straight to hell with you and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Not even their god. By blaspheming against the holy spirit, that fake garbage, you are putting up the shield against christians. They can't save you, you have no reason to convert, it is a waste of their time...please leave me alone.

    Now, if anyone can give me reverse loopholes for other religions, that would be great.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Fuck your gods, all hail Satan!

    That might work for most

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Technically that doesn't even work with christianity. You have to very specifically blaspheme against the holy spirit, who is most definitely a child rapist on the Epstein list. You can call their god whatever name you want, deny Jesus, worship any form of metallic idol you want - you still can get through the door to heaven. It takes a special kind of statement - like saying the holy spirit isn't even real and only exists because whatever man made it all up was accused of copying off of some other religion and just made up even more bullshit so their "nuh uh" had more weight.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That's not what the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit is at all.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh, it isn't? What's your definition if not Merriam-Webster's? Or do we look to the holy spirit for the definition? Because in my understanding that thing can't even spell much less string together a coherent definition of what it means to blaspheme.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Traditionally, blaspheming the holy spirit is taken as denying the existence thereof. As soon as you believe in it and convert to christianity, the sin no longer exists and is 'forgiven.' The reason it is "unforgiveable" is because you literally cannot ask for forgiveness and to "receive christ in your heart" without believing in it.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (20 children)

    I agree with you. On surface, it is a good thing. But again, this is Trump speaking.

    I think maybe someone should convert Trump to Christianity.

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  • [+] 3 points 1 year ago (19 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (18 children)

    I think society would be pretty good if the people who identified as Christian actually acted accordingly

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (17 children)
  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    The Bible doesn't promote slavery or the subjugation of women, the stonings are the old levitical law.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    That's not promoting slavery. It's addressing slavery that's already happening.

    Also worth mentioning this isn't like chattel slavery

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    It's addressing it. Not promoting it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (9 children)

    Ephesians 6:9 ESV

    Masters, do the same to them, and stop your threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that there is no partiality with him.

    Doesn't sound like Trump/Epstein, knife wielding, or bombing gazans behaviour to me.

    1 Timothy 1:8-11 ESV

    Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    An indentured servant is not comparable to a sex slave 🤦

    And I show you a bit of the Bible which condemns enslaving people after you claim it is promoting slavery because it is apparently silent on the topic, and you just say "contradiction!" Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

    I've read the Bible before I started going to Church full time. There's nothing in it telling you who to vote for. Or to hate groups of people.

    violent situation with all of your current support networks rugpulled from beneath you. It's fucking terrifying.

    My family has a mix of religious belief or lack thereof. I really doubt that would happen, considering my beliefs differ from my parents, and I have a sibling who is even a different religion.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)
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    Three random atrocities you list don't hold any bearing.

    As for your claim the scripture instructs you to "hate homosexuals"

    Now we know that the law is good, if one uses it lawfully, understanding this, that the law is not laid down for the just but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and profane, for those who strike their fathers and mothers, for murderers, the sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

    Where does it say to hate these people? The whole context of this conversation is talking about the law and addressing pharisees.

    As for other groups, how do you reconcile disparities between what scripture instructs vs how the church acts? There's a heavy red lean in christian voters despite Christ's teachings largely boiling down to things decried as 'woke' today. Why is the modern culture surrounding christianity so blatantly at odds with the lore of christianity?

    Irrelevant.

    "Red" to me means leftist. But I assume you're an American and talking about the American Republican party led by Donald Trump.

    Pedantry aside, there are people who identify as Christian and fail to act on it. So what? Should I- someone who believes that God literally became man and died for our salvation, reject God's gift because Karen in Mississippi hates mexicans? By no means!

    How do I feel about the current president of the United States of America? I believe he is an evil antichrist and he along with those who idolise him need to repent and turn to Jesus before it's too late for them.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    It drops homosexuality smack-dab in the middle of some of humanity's absolute worst.

    And?

    paints a pretty clear picture of how christians are to think of gay people.

    Matthew 5:43-44

    “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

    So we should love them if they are our enemies..

    The evil shit committed by the church is the result of the instructions from the lore. So, hard disagree - it's 100% relevant.

    So close yet so far! The whole Bible is about how we as humans are evil and need a saviour. This "evil shit committed by the church" isn't endorsed by the Bible at all! In fact, God's standard is perfection!

    Matthew 5:48

    You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

    We can't be perfect,

    Romans 5:8

    but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

    I have seen evil committed by Atheists as well, does that make every Atheist evil and depraved?

    that's be catering to christianity (in areas where christianity is the dominating religion... we could pretty well copy and paste this entire conversation subbed for islam or w/e if you wanted). It's the same us-vs-them shit every time.

    Yes. For example, Türkiye, the leaders often pay lip service to Islam. But if people who identify as Christians want non christian things, then populists will cater to that. Doesn't mean Christianity is at fault. The American republican party can be the same but stop paying lip service to Jesus.

    So should you- someone who believes in god, reject that mythology over the realization that it compels people to do evil things, consistently and frequently?

    No. Because I don't interpret the Bible to tell you to hate everyone who is sinful or different. I don't interpret it to mean "you are better than everyone else" or "elect a fascist". I think being a Christian means we need to act like Christ.

    antichrist... he certainly checks a lot of the boxes. I can say with a pretty high degree of certainty that the folks here won't be repenting in any meaningful way. Trump is their god; Jesus is just their mascot. ...I'm not convinced it isn't already too late for us.

    Can't argue with that. Not going to call the shots already and say he is THE antichrist, but he does check enough boxes to know that he should be avoided.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Do you believe that homosexuality is fairly categorized into the same group as murderers, violent criminals, and slavers?

    For a start, don't truncate what it says. I will reword your question.

    "Do you believe that men who practice homosexuality are fairly categorised into the same group as the lawless and disobedient, the ungodly and sinners, the unholy and profane,those who strike their fathers and mothers,murderers, sexually immoral, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whoever else practices what is contrary to sound doctrine?"

    In that case, the answer is yes.

    You could reword it to say also "do I believe that liars belong in the same category as murderers". In which case, it depends on the context. Is murder as bad as lying? No. But are murder and lying both sinful? Yes.

    To round it off,

    James 2:10-11

    For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. For he who said, “Do not commit adultery,” also said, “Do not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

    Romans 6:23

    For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

    while building a no-true-Scotsman scenario

    Quoting that fallacy is fallacy in itself.

    James 1:26-27

    If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person’s religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

    Probably because scripture also tells christians to beat them to death with rocks.

    No it doesn't. That was in the levitical law and was for the jews of that time. The law has been fulfilled through Christ who stopped the stoning of an adulterous woman. (John 8:1-11)

    There is no atheist dogma

    There is. And that is that "there is no God". Which also naturally follows "There is no final judgement". And if there is no God, one could reason morality doesn't exist. It can and has resulted to cruel acts. Hate and evil knows no creed.

    how you reconcile the disparity between the church and the book

    I try to live out the change that I want to see, and rebuke those who act unchristlike.

    There was a fella a while ago who I presume was just racist. He joined our Christian group and identified as Christian. Then he started spouting absolute vile hatred against muslims and even boasted about harassing them. I took the stand in telling him that even though we see islam itself as a heresy, the way he was acting was not only unconstructive but unchristlike. I guess because I lead, the others joined in an were like "yeah, Flax is right". He eventually got so fed up that we were so "weak" that he renounced Christianity and left us.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm sure when atheists and satanists start proselytising there will be outrage - "we really meant Christians should allowed to bother their co-workers not you guys"

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    i’m waiting for this to backfire on him as muslims openly pray in their workplace at the designated times

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    Let's start spreading the unspeakable ancient knowledge of the first one. The one that has no name but an idea of an existence. Now hum the deep tone of the empty.

    Edit: Fuck CBS

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I don't think people really understand what's comming. Everyone's like "so now everyone can talk about their respective religion, haha". But where I see this going is only the one right religion being acceptable in near future and everyone who's making clever remarks being outlawed and prosecuted. The fact we're not there yet makes the obvious progression to that none the less scary.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don't think you realize that christians aren't as popular as they were before. There are a LOT of others and non religious. I don't think christians are going to enjoy the process as much as they think.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They will once the rule is unevenly applied in their favor. Which it will be.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You misunderstand, when they inevitably try that, and try to continue the "Christian nation" shit, there will be a backlash, and the violence will likely get out of control. I would not be at all surprised to see a concentrated effort to murder Christians by mobs. Christians have gone so long without facing ANY BACKLASH whatsoever for their continued depravity. It will happen and they will cry about how much of victims they are.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm pressing X. The christo part of christofascism is well embedded. Just like with this epstein thing, if the 'deep state' under trump tried to rid themselves of the christian part by not enforcing the law in christians' favor, they would rattle a significant part of their base. Also, we are LITERALLY seeing an entire segment of our nation (something like 40+ million strong) be targeted by this administration, and the most we can do is filming the masked guys doing it and having some city walk-arounds to show our irritation.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    "Please talk about anything else but the epstein files"

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I look forward to promoting my all powerful Lucifer.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    Hail Satan!

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago

    "Fascists enable Christian Nationalist Karens to abuse coworkers on the government's funds."

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Time to found Epsteinology, a religion based around the release and realization of the Great Nefarious Files to bring about the Grand Awakening and destruction of the Orange Menace for the good of all Humanity.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Not to be confused with epistemology, which also poses a grave risk to the MAGA cult.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Baphomet?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    THANK YOU TRUMP for allowing me to FINALLY share the Teachings of ALLAH with other Government Workers!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I know it's intentional here, but I cringe whenever someone says 'Allah' in an English sentence because it's just the Arabic word for God.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    But doesn't muslims also consider arabic to be the holy language and therefore the correct way and only way to refer to allah?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Ah yes, the age old source of disagreement. The nuance of what God/Allah/Elohim/Bagavan/Deva/Dingir/Wakan Tanka/Kami/Hunab Ku/Baiame/Netjer……… is and isn’t. The biggest source of discord used by the greedy to aim humans against each other. When in reality it should be the binder of humanity. It’s like fighting over the description of what a perfect apple tastes like. Every time we fall in that trap, we widen the gap.

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  • Satanism pamphlets in the break room!

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So this is where the new new atheist movement will start.

    Also, remember epstein? whatever happened to that guy?

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Time for TST to start distributing literature through the ranks of the federal government

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    And fully expect this to only become worse as time goes on. The Christo-taleban has full steam now and won't stop

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Surely that goes both ways, and one side has a lot more evidence...

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