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.
Whatever, the whole point is the religion shouldn’t be in schools in the first place. Get it out.
well this guy deserves to be tarred and feathered
You can’t say tard on the internet! That word is offensive you stupid fucking cunt
i meant tarred as in have molten tar poured on him
Past tense of tar is tarred, tard just means late, like tardy
TIL that nobody in the US military that has died has never ever been Muslim.
What they don’t want you to know is that muslims become immortal while in the US military.
Hey, they never said anything about Muslims in foxholes! Lol
~20% of the slaves brought to America were Muslim. Several fought during the Revolutionary War including Bampett Muhamed, Yusuf ben Ali (also known as Joseph Benhaley), and Joseph Saba: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/african-muslims-early-america
Wrong… A simple google search shows that Muslims did indeed fight in the US revolutionary war along side other colonists
Or you could just say the 10 commandments are part of Islam.
They’re part of the Old Testament, which pulls from Jewish scripture, but it’s all Abrahamic to me. They should post the Beatitudes if they really want to keep things Christian-specific, but they won’t. Why? Just read them (and the corresponding Woes in Luke) and you’ll see. The Wikipedia article should be enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatitudes
Mmm problem with the beatitudes is they’re kinda pretty open to interpretation. What do you consider merciful or righteous? Sure its narrowed down pretty well if you follow all of his teachings… but that’s asking a lot of modern American Christians.
Cool, and dickish on rightwingers part. But t also I didn’t realize they were even a minority population then past like- random individuals and families
“Christians” also stole this land and genocided people who had lived here since long before they came. Those who don’t like this should return to where their forefathers came from, no?
Didn’t the Christians have slaves that they brought over fight too? I’m sure some of them had different religious beliefs.
Ouch, did I completely forget that part. Yup, those cultures also must be made widely known
No, because, you see, after a certain amount of time the land just defaults to the ownership of whoever currently occupies the land, morally speaking 🥰. Why yes, I do happen to be the current occupant of the land, why do you ask? Oh, the amount of time? That depends, of course!
Oh, the amount of time? That depends, of course!
“… hmm let me see… hey Johnson, when did we land here again?”
Optional extra
Damn that is so good. Take my upvote!
I’m pretty sure there have been plenty of Jews, Muslims, Atheists, and others that have bled for the US too.
It is pointless to engage with that point of their argument, because the underlying premise that the 10 commandments are hung in the classroom on account of Christians dying for the US is even more wrong.
So by entering the discussion about whether Muslims have fought and died for the US, they will imply that you have accepted their underlying premise. There is no good faith arguing with fascists.
I am one of those that have fought and is not Christian
Ssshhh, you’re making sense, you’ll scare them off!
There’s no hate like christian love
It is really sad since not all Christians are like that
If the ones that aren’t like that gave a fuck they would do literally anything to stop the ones that are. But because that would hurt their precious religion they just ignore it instead.
As far as I’m concerned they are all dog shit people. Willingly turning a blind eye to hate from your own is no better than spewing it yourself.
Yeah, we often see the entire non-terrorist Muslim population being held responsible for not doing enough to condemn terrorism, but Christians are let off the hook for the atrocities of their fundamentalists.
“Your inaction is your admission of guilt”.
I assure you the ones that arent like that do give a fuck and do what they can with what ability they can when able. A lot of them go non denominational and some are fighting other battles elsewhere.
What would you have me do?
I can’t control other people
If you want to change their minds, you have to do it with promises & lies.
In the meantime, the pope will continue to shit in the woods.
Oh, fuck off with that bullshit. I don’t even have a desire to describe why and how exactly this way of thinking is crap
The ones that aren’t didn’t do much to stop the ones that are from taking over. You’d think they’d care more about the blasphemous hatred they spew. It makes all Christians look bad.
What would you like me to do? I don’t support the evangelicals.
There’s not much of anything you can do as an individual other than publicly denounce them. This is something church leaders should have nipped in the bud a long time ago.
Every 2000 years or so, religion goes to war with itself. Big war.
In the years between, it’s basically disputes over what to call the omnipotent being or which shoe to worship.
What does stopping American Christofascists from reconstructing the US government into a baldly authoritarian cesspit look like for normal, moderate Christians? And how does it differ from what theists of other religions and atheists could do to stop the same thing (reconstruction of the US government)?
It’s decades too late at this point, but not accepting the far-right fundamentalists who were spewing clearly non-Christ-like rhetoric as fellow Christians would have been a good start. This applies more to church leadership than lay people, although a general sense of not accepting them from everyone would have still helped. They were happy to consider them when counting how many people in the US were Christian. Unlike non-theists and theist non-Christians alike, all Christians gain a lot by being the de facto state religion despite it supposedly being illegal.
You also can fuck right off. Didn’t do much my ass
Considering the evangelicals hold all the political power, they apparently didn’t. If they did try to fight them, they did a terrible job.
Lol. That’s funny. Do it again
Not all that segregate are doomed to hate. Just most.
Thanks for not telling us “we are going to hell”, we’re already here.
Christians fought for the land? You are talking about the genocide of native Americans? The same ones that owned slaves?.. Yeah ok, I understand why YOU like them so much now…
About 20-30% of the people enslaved and deported to the US were Muslims.
The “Christians” brought Islam to North America by force.
That is why they are trying to ban the facts you just shared.
Nothing but pro-White Nationalism propaganda allowed
So we should display religious things of only the original occupiers of the land? I don’t think she’s going to be happy with the conclusion there.
I for one am all for this plan. Schools would be a lot cooler if they were decorated by the local Native American tribes.
Never underestimate the kinks of people.
As long as someone beneath me gets hurt at least a little bit…
The Clovis people?
The basis of most modern day US Republican policies is simply might makes right.
Right!
My mom once asked if my Jewish girlfriend celebrated Thanksgiving. When I scoffed, she reminded me that there weren’t any Jews on the Mayflower.
I reminded her that there weren’t any Catholics either.
Nice. You gave her the burrrnn. Good job. We need to really start correcting much of this type of misinformation out there when people say it one day many many more will believe it.
It’s a fight against windmills. There’s a certain type of person who’s just totally resistant against learning new stuff. They got their opinion and that’s truth and screw everything else.
You might correct one thing, but by the time you did that they already dug up three new pieces of garbage.
It’s so frustrating.
she once refused to back down on the fact that Jupiter doesn’t have a solid surface. Best I got was “I don’t know about that.”
You might correct one thing, but by the time you did that they already dug up three new pieces of garbage.
In fairness, Thanksgiving wasn’t made a national holiday until 1863. By then, the US had plenty of Catholics, in no small part thanks to the Irish Potato Famine of the prior two decades.
It also had plenty of Jews, thanks to the Napoleonic Wars and the then-recent string of wars along the border of the Ottoman Empire.
Hell, it might be worth pointing out that the Mayflower was the product of the 30 Years War (of which the Hell on Earth podcast miniseries does a really excellent job of documenting), which also produced a sizable exodus of Catholics and Jews to the New World. So, it seems they’ve got as much of an excuse to celebrate 17th century Settlers Colonialism as anybody.
Post the 10 commandments written in Arabic. Watch the reactive hilarity ensue.
“Nyeah nyeah, my god is better than yours” - some cunt failing to realize they worship the same god
Adjective-noun-number profile? That’s a bot
or just someone tired of making up usernames and thus using bitwarden’s username generator.
Sure, not saying that’s guaranteed. But it’s definitely a red flag
It is not. I confirmed it by digging further. It is a teacher from Texas
The world is full of idiots. Save your sanity and ignore them.
Instructions unclear, ran off into the woods and ignored everyone
You’re doing it right.
Working out ok for me so far.
The world is full of idiots. Save your sanity and ignore them.
yeah, by ignoring them, they’re bringing back diseases that were managed well (polio, etc) and put the US in the hands of fascism.
What’s the alternative to ignoring them? You can’t make them smarter. You can’t exclude them from voting without creating something similar to fascism. Not even removing warning labels helps because idiots don’t read them anyway.
Often, it’s not about the person you’re arguing against, it’s for the people watching who are on the fence.
If you can keep yourself calm, rational, and present convincing evidence, then you can save some people from falling into those conspiracy and religious holes from which they may never return.
Sometimes you get lucky and bring someone back from the brink.
It’s estimated about 2% of Americans believe Earth is flat, and a further 9% aren’t sure what shape it is.
2% of Americans is near 7,000,000 people. Near 40,000,000 don’t believe the Earth is a ball or are unsure.
Even if you can’t convince the 2%, that’s still roughly 33,000,000 people in America alone you could potentially help with critical thinking. We need all the help we can get.
I thought this way a long time ago. But just like Sisyphus I had to watch the rock roll down the slope again and again after believing to have achieved anything. It only takes a slight breeze to make the rock roll down again.
You don’t know what the alternative is? Come on.
No. Tell me. I’m genuinely interested.
It’s a tough pill to swallow because social media gives these idiots a megaphone and places their bullshit right alongside actual experts. These people are a cancer on society. Ignoring them is good for your sanity but it also allows them to spread their disease unchecked.
Ignoring them isn’t working out that great.
Agreed. But digging a little bit more on this person and you’ll find it just gets better. I was entertained for a bit and then moved on
