• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    These stupid motherfuckers give truckloads of money to bible thumping parasites instead of their own families and communities, then turn around and blame all their woes on immigrants, LGBTQ+, the left, the right, and even some made up shit like satan.

    PS: Also, can anyone explain to me why Satan is the bad guy in that fairytale? He stands up for equal rights for his brethren by starting some angel union or some shit and he and all his homies get eternal punishment for it. Then, instead of rebelling further, he spends all his time revealing and punishing the wicked. That sounds like a stand up guy to me.

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      Yeah, translations are rough. More importantly, every story has to have a bad guy and the people who put together the Bible were not very creative. Other texts are way more fun with quality and variety of lore (good and bad).

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Lol. These people would draw and quarter Jesus if he came back to life and continued preaching his own teachings.

  • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world
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    Before leaving to prison, the pastor gathered all members of his church, whipped out his Neuralyzer and flashed the fuckers. He came back from a “vacation”. That’s it. No one knows.

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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    I had a friend my first year in college who was black, gay, Republican and a fundamentalist christian. He gave most of what little money he had to the televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker - and this was after the sex and financial shenanigans that brought down their empire were exposed. And it’s not like he didn’t believe the truth of the scandals. He did believe it and was still that fucking eager to give them his money anyway. I just can’t understand the people that support these frauds.

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      Oof. Also Tammy Faye wound up awesome after she left Jim. She became a voice of progressive Christianity (most famously hugging a gay man with AIDS on TV in the height of the fear) and stopped her embezzlement.

      Jim on the other hand sells drums of survivalist food through his preaching to this day