so is their food. if drug use, hedonism and gluttony are sins, who is going to cook for them?

There's some cool old Christian music but I bet they're just playing creed in heaven.

No chance any of this is u know who, or maybe just your ego? Oh no, you know cause a gut feeling and old folks said so

In Evangelical circles, we refer to this as discernment. Discernment is great, it explains why the bible might be confusing to some people, why it might seem to definitely contradict itself, and why it seems to be so broadly open to interpretation. To navigate all of that, you don’t trust your evil sinful gut - you use Discernment

It’s spoken about as if it is a super power you get when you become a Christian. Unfortunately, you don’t magically become discerning once you become a Christian, and plenty of people are just dumb.

When I was a kid, one of my parents' friends had a fun idea she shared with us. She posed the thought that maybe all the different religions were real and the world was just a game of chess they were playing with us as pieces.

All religions.

The crazy thing is that the three main religions all derive from the same dumb story of Abraham convincing himself that God wanted him to murder his own son to prove his belief in God.

Luckily some slightly sane part of his mind kept him from doing it, but his delusion convinced him it was God that stayed his hand.

I recently read that up until fairly recently in human history, people didn't understand thinking. They didn't realize it was their own mind coming up with ideas, they literally thought God placed it there. Come up with a good solution to a problem? You didn't think of it, refine it, figure out how to apply it, etc. GOD gave you the idea. They really didn't think they were capable of their own independent thought.

So all three religions worship the exact same God, and believe in the same origin stories, but we still have to genocide all the others because their version of the guy with uncontrolled schizophrenia who tried to murder his son in the name of God, has different nuances than my version.

One person seems to go "um, ackchually, real christians like Barack Obama are not like that".

Really great.

and breasts

One in the stink?

..........okay.

Watch "Sandman" on Netflix. Really an accurate Lucifer, if you ask me.

The traditional depiction of Baphomet, since before Christianity has existed, has had a goat head.

Turn off the television.

Please to meet you. Hope you guess his name

Makes me think that the church encouraged people to invite their "heathen gay friends" that week so you would hear the gospel and repent or some nonsense.

I’m so, so sorry that happened to you. And I am so glad you didn’t give into the guilt and shame they tried to put on you. Probably saved you a few years of deep fucked up guilt, if not your life. (I’ve lived it, post religious trauma is real and heavy).

That’s their entire model: making emotional hostages through guilt.

I’ve left that behind a good 10 years now and I’m feeling so much happier but boy it’s been a ride. I’m still rediscovering life and myself to this day.

Thanks for sharing. Thanks for standing up and walking out of there, hopefully you ignited something in some of them. As hateful as they are, a lot of them are victims, being held there by fear against their will.

And that's why I left the church. Priest kept drumming up hatred for little zero reason

Been getting more involved with a small non-denominational church over the last few months though. The pastor really steps back when to earth when he gets off the little stage, just back to being a normal guy

I love community and hate hate... There's no room for hate within me, I won't let that poison taint me

Satan isn't really much of a presence in the Bible at all. Christians made up more shit to have something to blame for everything they don't like.

So why is the Israeli government and IDF committing a genocide?

Eh, don't know if you can truly separate the IDF and their religion. Certainly the rhetoric they employ relies upon it.

Organized religion is a very useful tool for imperialism and capitalism, and I'm tired of pretending it isn't

I don't recall saying any of these words you're putting in my mouth. Are you suggesting the people committing these atrocities are not what I say they are?

Evangelical Christianity IS a manifestation of capitalism. It is the culture arm of capitalism.

Racism literally came from Christianity. It definitely is the problem and creates a framework to allow capitalists/wealthy to take advantage of people.