The best way to damage Christianity is to read the Bible. I'm rather all for that.
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The worst people I've ever met in my life wore a cross.
There is no hate like Christian love.
The most effective way to damage Christianity is to read the parts of the Bible they don't talk about
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.
the problem with religion in general is the proven proclivity to believing lies. these people are just that brainwashed. they arent 'lies' to them
thanks for the insight, oh great deceiver and accuser.
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.
What is a "real" christian according to you?
I’m not Christian, so to me a Christian is anyone who says they are one.
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.
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)
If I were to develop an evangelic ruleset, hypocrisy would be the most fundamental sin.
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.
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.
That's not a crucifix, it's just a cross. Point still stand though. Fuck Bondi.
Bondi is terrible and all, but this is a photo of press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
I get my Trump blondes mixed up. I still stand by my original, "fuck Bondi", but also, fuck Leavitt.
There are no gods. Religion is a cancer. No one is doing anything to ancient myths, their doing it to humanity.
The most effective way to damage Christianity is to make public all the child abuse and take away their rights.
Is it actually damaging....? That is like saying "the most effective way to damage MAGA is Trump lying".
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.
Cults and mysticism continue to delude this world.
nah when i see the cross, i know what they're about to say is a lie. got it all reversed.
I don't know. Real Christians are aware of the bullshit and the zealots love it. It's clearly very effective.
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.
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."
not to be that guy: but that's a cross not a crucifix. A Crucifix contains the crucified Christ hanging on the cross. Most Protestants, as most Americans are, don't utilize the crucifix in anyway.
You will probably also have to spend 25000 years in purgatory: sitting in a cauldron full of boiling oil, naked.
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.
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)
All religions are demonstrably false and ridiculous
This changes nothing
I used to have respect for religion, no longer, all it does is convince the gullible to do the bidding of the wicked.
I've always lost respect for a person the instant I find out that they're religious
It's always like "Really? You're choosing stupidity?"
Bigot /bĭg′ət/, noun: A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
Well that's utter nonsense
Bigotry is about hating something that is an inherent part of a person, like where they were born, the colour of their skin, their gender, their sexuality
Religion is a choice.
A stupid choice
If you were born in an other country, an other time or just in your country and your time but in an other family, you'd probably have other religious views.
And even if it wasn't the case, if you lose respect for people just because they made a stupid choice, you didn't have a lot of respect for them from the beginning. Tolerance reserved for people agreeing with you is not tolerance, it's agreement. It's bigotry.
My tolerance ends the moment someone else is intolerant of me. Christians think I am going to hell and plenty of them would happily kill me if they thought they could get away with it. I won’t tolerate that.
My tolerance ends the moment someone else is intolerant of me.
That's legitimate. I'd say it's even the only case where intolerance is legitimate.
Christians think I am going to hell and plenty of them would happily kill me if they thought they could get away with it. I won’t tolerate that.
Some think that, some would do that. And you're 100% right not tolerating that. But none of that is inherent to Christianity.
Oh, just fuck off and cry about it to your invisible sky-daddy
I don't care what you think, I don't value your opinions and I have no respect for you whatsoever
You're stupid, and once again, you're making up a definition of bigotry that fits your identity as a victim
I refer you back to my point about bigotry applying to things that people can't control
Again: Your superstition is a choice.
You're not the victim of bigotry.
You're just upset because I think of your religion the same way you think about the religions that aren't your particular flavour of stupidity.
you're making up a definition of bigotry that fits your identity as a victim
I didn't wrote this definition. It's from a dictionary; check yours. Or are dictionaries stupid too?
You're just upset because I think of your religion the same way you think about the religions that aren't your particular flavour of stupidity.
No you don't think of my religion the same way I think about others'. Contrary to you, I respect people I disagree with, and religions and schools of thought that aren't mine. Most of my friends are atheists, one of my closest ones is Muslim. Because I may be religious, but I'm not a bigot.

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