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[–] 151 points 7 months ago (4 children)

“MY GOD HAS A DICK!! IT’S BIG AND VEINY AND THROBBING AND NOBODY’S GONNA TELL ME DIFFERENT!!!” - Evangelicals, apparently.

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  • [–] 49 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    I have no opinion on if God is NB. But he's very clearly in a same-sex union with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

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  • [–] 30 points 7 months ago

    I am not a religious person (but was raised catholic) - I wouldn't have issues voting for him based on that article - he seems far better informed regarding the word of christ than any of those screeching republican harpies, and seems to have the best in mind for the citizens of his state.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    What in the ever loving fuck is wrong with the GOP?

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I think it'd take less time to write down the things that aren't.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Ya got me curious on what would be on that list. I got nothing coming to mind.

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  • [–] 43 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    Newsflash, dipshits: God doesn't have a penis or a vagina. God isn't human.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    So you're saying God is so non binary that they are non gendered?

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    God is nonbiological so no gender. Or all genders. If God is in everything, then there are some bacteria with 23 or so sexes, so God possesses genders beyond the scope of human consciousness.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry about the correction, but that number isn't right on two levels.

    1: bacteria didn't have sexes. Sometimes they will exchange plasmids via a direct pilus or will pick up strays in the environment.

    2: that number is often cited from a book describing certain slime molds (which aren't molds) as having that few, when almost every species we found have something in the 100's. But what I think is cool is that some species of actual fungi have something like 72,000 compatible sexes.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    One of the basic problems with theists is that they have no idea what God is.

    "God is love." In what way? God is just an emotion related to a chemical reaction in the brain?

    "God is all powerful." Can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it?

    "God is omniscient." If everything in the future is already known, then what's the point?

    It just goes on and on. Either God is some vague impossibility, or he's exactly the same as a human male, somehow. But a human male is not the same as God, so that can't really be right. But nobody can even give a real framework as to what he could be.

    If you can't describe God no matter how hard you try, then what the hell are you believing in? That's the basis for ignosticism.

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  • [–] 74 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

    Deuteronomy 32:18. This is the lot that would insist that men cannot give birth, right?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    That's a really poor translation. It sounds more like God gave the "you" reproductivity.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    That one is very clear. Semitic scripture uses parallelism liberally for emphasis. Both “yalad” and “chuwl” mean birth, but yalad is masculine as in “fathered” while chuwl means “gave birth to.” Deuteronomy 32:18 very explicitly paints Yahweh as both father and mother of all Israelites.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Hell, yeah. A linguist enters the chat.

    So from Semitic languages, to Latin—which also can translate feminine, masculine, and anything between as three states jusr fine—to period-subjected variations of English, up to the modern day take, it should've been kept quite clear. But sometimes over a few thousand years it may have been skewed. At least enough to open up interpretation in a way that interpretation aligns with one's beliefs or desires.

    Well, I am shocked that this could happen to an Abrahamic religion /s

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Early computers were non binary

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  • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    So the GOP is upset that some people believe in something that has no scientific backing, eh?

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    The pedo protectors can say whatever they like. Judging by the last 100 or so special elections, the independents have finally woken up and are done with the GOP.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Literally one of the oldest Christian positions about God is that God is not a dude. This should not be controversial. Folks like Saint Augustine of Hippo would agree wholeheartedly with the assertion that God has no gender binary. This is because if God has a gender that gender is "God."

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I thought God was Alanis Morissette?

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  • [–] 25 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Okay... so follow my logic. God made man in his image, then some time later, made woman in mans image. Therefore, we should at least expect God to be as different from a man as a man is from a woman. I would in fact argue that we should expect God to be even more different, as going from a mortal being to a different mortal being is less of a jump as going from a immortal omnipotent being to a mortal being.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Further to the point, the only canon contact he's made with humans was as... wait for it... a burning bush.

    The bearded old dude was after Rome finally decided that Christianity was cool, and they decided to update his pfp to Jupiter. And it stuck.

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  • [+] 57 points 7 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Screeching to the world over an issue you don't think is important while ignoring the reality, that even though it's stupid as fuck its still a problem in our reality, is also pointless.

    Did you change any thoughts in here? Did you move the needle? No. Non applicable noise. This article does however represent an irl shift to monitor.

    So your comment you see, was much more so pointless and not constructive.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Hear me out: none of this matters. Just another distraction from the world being run by greedy psycho billionaires

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    And yet, let the symptoms of a disease go unchecked, and the patient could very well die from them before the antivirals and serum have been administered. The problem is that it ALL matters.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    God is a hermaphrodite. There. I said it.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    So is my cat, who I worship, so that checks out.

    Cat in question, who is very deserving of worship.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (3 children)
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    Born with both testicles and a uterus. All male on the outside, all female on the inside. Kinda neat, but unfortunately very expensive to fix. It had to be done though, 1) because you should fix your cats anyway, and 2) because apparently it causes a lot of health issues if you don’t fix it, including a very high chance for cancer in that region.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Hopefully spayed and neutered pussycat

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Yep, it was a very expensive and invasive procedure but it had to be done. We were going to regardless since you should always fix your cats but in addition to that, having both testicles and a uterus can lead to a lot of health complications in cats. Most commonly a far higher chance at getting cancer in that area.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    How can they be so sure God is male though? Have they checked God's genitals?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    As Yahwism eventually developed into Judaism and Samaritanism, and transitioned from polytheism to monotheism, the existence of other deities was denied outright and Yahweh was proclaimed the creator deity and the sole deity worthy of worship.

    Now i wonder why monotheism at some point just happened? It didn't happen before ever (in large scale), right? Because a critical mass was connected and organized enough?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Zoroastrianism predates Judaism.

    There are some sects of Hinduism that are kind of monotheistic-leaning in worshipping Krishna. Not exactly pure monotheistic, but had some of the same characteristics.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

    Why are you booing him he's theologically correct?

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Why does a politicians views on magic sky daddy matter to anyone anywhere at any time?

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Because magic sky daddy is the most important thing to many people in many places, all the time. Because they've been conditioned to believe that if someone doesn't hold the correct views on magic sky daddy, they'll suffer for all eternity, and so they live in constant fear that they or their children might become misled by the incorrect views on magic sky daddy. This stuff is deeply internalized.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Because religion is brain rot and also, by far, the greatest threat humanity is facing today.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    My headphones are non-binary too.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    “Our god has balls”

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The control of far too many of the levers of power and influence in our society rest on ensuring a majority of the population is unbelievably stupid. I think its what I hate most about the current fascist formula in use. It feels like peoples' ability to survive on their own has been stolen from them.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    If it's any reassurance, the human race has historically been even stupider and less educated. It's better today by leaps and bounds.

    100 years ago, the world literacy rate was in the 20-30% range. Today, it's ~85%.

    The bad news is that the oligarchs use literacy as a weapon, through targeted media. So, yeah, it's not so much stupidity we're seeing, it's just brainwashing, pure and simple.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    Listen to the guy talk and make your own opinion

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Christianity tends to be patriarchal. No point getting clever about it... Followers of "faith" aren't philosophers. They believe in unreason.

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Wtf US. Talrico literally supports building fossil fuel infrastructure.

    He's right of center, and definitely not rad

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Are you saying there are no progressives in Texas?

    Because I know many progressives in Texas.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    if someone is running for office and successful in Texas, odds are they are getting fossil fuel money. it's a pretty good rule of thumb.

    now, does supporting building fossil fuel infrastructure make someone not progressive? i'll let you decide where to draw the line for yourself. we are all more of a combination of various policies and beliefs and just one more conservative policy isn't going to throw it for me at least.

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