This poetgirl on Instagram says some off the wall shit.
Some of these old bitches have totally lost their mind and just spread misinformation.
This is more than mildly infuriating for me but I wasn’t quite sure where else to post this lol.
Every time someone tells me about the ten commandments, I ask them to name all ten. They can never name all ten. On the flip side, if somebody starts talking about UBI they can usually say what all three letters stand for.
Muricaaaa!
Are we talking about the Christians who very explicitly opposed the concept of a religious state? The ones who put that concept front and center in their Bill of Rights?
Who didn’t even necessarily believe in a conventional god, just some kind of hands-off universe creator?
I bet her poetry is ground breaking. I love God God loves me I love flowers God loves me!
Poetgirl53 forgot the whole actually follow the commandments part.
People don’t read. Paraphrasing:
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Jesus (J): “Why would you call me ‘good’? Only the Father is good.”
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Muhammed (M): “Our Lord has decreed mercy upon Himself, so to anyone who commits sin out of ignorance and then repents and amends, He is Forgiving, Merciful.”
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J: “It’s harder for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than it is for a rich man to enter Heaven.”
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M: “Those who hoard gold and silver and don’t spend it in the cause of God, give them news of a painful retribution.”
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J: “You have been told ‘do not murder, for whoever murders will be judged for it’, but I tell you anyone who is angry and insults their brother will be judged for it too.”
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M: “The righteous are those who suppress their anger and pardon the people. God loves the good doers.”
I know you’re paraphrasing and probably from memory, but you have one inparticular completely backwards- It is EASIER for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Meaning, of course, a camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, and therefore a rich man will never get into heaven, because in order to get rich he must have been selfish and greedy, which is ungodly. (I’m a heathen, so idfk what I’m talking about, but I learned this proverb from my religious ex-partner, and I think it’s lovely)
100%! Thanks for the very important correction, my cat woke me up at 3 am and I started posting half asleep, lol (and you know exactly what the J-man was talking about! 😁).
Interesting fact: in… 2010-ish a Vatican historian priest released a book where he explained that Jesus was a jokester. A lot of his sermons in the Bible were haha funny for the people at the time.
Do you know what we call a dude traveling from city to city with an entourage making people laugh? :)
A comedian.
Humour is a sign of intelligence! And yes, the ‘camel’ is a play on words, as gamla in Aramaic means both rope and camel, and also a callback to Jewish oral tradition/Talmudic teachings where it’s an ‘elephant going through the eye of the needle’. 👍
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https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0205/tolerance.html
The Founders of this nation explicitly included Islam in their vision of the future of the republic. Freedom of religion, as they conceived it, encompassed it. Adherents of the faith were, with some exceptions, regarded as men and women who would make law-abiding, productive citizens. Far from fearing Islam, the Founders would have incorporated it into the fabric of American life.
Great share.
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What if it isn’t rage bait but a simple slice of the prevailing idiots point of view who think the US was founded a christian country?
“not good, not bad”
“If God truly does exist, he more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows.”
Thomas Jefferson
50% of the Founding Fathers were agnostic or atheist. My question is: why does she hate America?
Jesus would hate his followers. They have zero understanding of the message. But that’s ok, cause he wasn’t the Messiah, nor was he a historical figure, so nothing lost there.
Christianity is a broad religion
The reality is that the extreme are the ones who are seen since they love harassment
Jesus message that everyone is unworthy and deserves eternal torture?
Or the one that everyone is guilty of thought crime?
Or the one where you should abandon your family?
All christolians pick and choose. Ignoring the evil of the religion is no better than ignoring the good
But Jesus’s message is that He will come back and murder everybody who doesn’t bow to Him; He is called the wine press, and people are the grapes and their blood is the wine.
It’s possibly the worst religious message ever, I suggest that you ignore it.
I am skeptical that most people saying this type of shit really have no concept of the US having freedom of religion and separation of church and state as founding values. They just believe in the rightness of propaganda and catchy ideological phrases above actual truth and reality, because they’ve been conditioned to think that way.
God, fucking Christians. We need a slur for them or something so badly. I’m so sick of them.
Replace christian with muslim and this becomes a far right comment
I prefer the term “Christian” (as a slur)
I like saying “CHRIST-ee-en”. It really pisses them off although it obviously shouldn’t.
I started trying it out, it doesnt have the same zip as like, cross licker or whatever
The crucifix is an implement of torture and execution, upon which the titular Christian god was executed to fulfill a blood oath. Executionists, torturers, blood magicians, nailers, death cultists, the forsaken (Psalm 22)…
Being shephered by a higher authority is also a common theme. Sheep is right there, although some actually use that directly.
Another common theme is the second arrival of their god, starting the end of the mortal realm and the death of all mortals. Death cultists again, apocalyptics, doomsdayers…
There’s lots of heinous things in their book, but most reject them or are unaware. You could call out lots of things there.
We always called them bible thumpers
I refer to them as Fundies (i.e., Fundamentalists). That seems to cover all the obnoxious christians.
Evangelicals
Comedian James Acaster offers “crizzos” in one special. That’s got some zip to it.
4chan had a term; Christfag.
If you take out the offence to the gay community, it’s actually a brutal phrase. It conjures up connotations of being literally gay for Jesus (which is really offensive to them).
Note: I’m not condoning the phrase, it’s obviously not something people should be saying.
I’m aware of the term Christfag. I was there, Gandalf. 4chan also had an incredibly abrasive board culture as a means of social filtering, so {append}fag was their way of referring to someone who had identified as some way, or else for someone to refer to themselves as that thing, usually because they were trying to tell everyone they had unique perspective on what was being discussed. It got to the point where I saw a person open their post identifying as a “Gayfag.”
I don’t like using the term for this because its punching down at an actually oppressed minority who would be caught in the crossfire.
In Italy, in our Humanist association we used “credini” for all religious people.
“Cretini” means “idiots” (originally “affected by cretinism”, the developmental syndrome caused by iodine deficit during pregnancy).
“Credere” is the verb meaning “to believe”.
So it could be read as “believing idiots”.
Always loved it and have been trying to replicate it somehow in English ever since.
I love it. I might turn it over in my head for a minute
I just don’t want their pedophile religion forced on me and my kids. Full stop.
… which one?
Yes.
And the land of the free(not you) and the home of the brave(Until we killed them all off with blankets full of smallpox)
They should totally post the ten Qurandments!
