Stupid things religious people say

[Silver]

Someone at work: talking about how the christian god can't be real, but then believing in another culture's god. Oh, the irony.

[Pat Mustard]

Bergoglio: Kamala is killing children.

But there isn't anything in the Bible that says that you must prevent a death by implementing state level or federal level or global level laws.
There isn't anything about abortions in the Bible, nothing about storing semen with cryogenics, nothing about storing or destroying fertilized eggs with cryogenics.

There is just a line that says "do not murder".
Do not murder who? It doesn't tell us.

The pope called immigration “a right”, citing Bible passages that call orphans, widows and foreigners three kinds of people that society must care for. “Not giving welcome to migrants is a sin,” said the pope. “It is grave.”

I doubt that anyone in this world wants to have open borders. If western countries did that, half of the rest of the world would move to western countries.

I doubt that anyone wants to not use birth control and end up with 60 children.
Welcome to the real world. A world with science and engineering and a population that is skyrocketing.

The lesser of 2 evils? Which one would a catholic choose:
the jewish god or
the satan guy

The bible doesn't say much about preventing death, but it does discuss different methods for killing babies. Dashing their heads against walls or rocks seem to be a favourite of yhwh.

[Pat Mustard]

Anyway, they broke the record with the height of the Jesus statue again!

I suppose spending money on statues is better than spending it on indoctrination. We all know a culture that went sideways doing this.

To be fair, most of what Jared Diamond wrote about Rapa Nui is bullshit.

[Fake Messiah]

I didn’t tell Christians to stop paying tithe -Pastor Adeboye

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has refuted claims that he advised Christians to stop paying tithes.

However, he was surprised by how quickly false reports spread online, claiming he had discouraged tithe payment.

“The issue of tithing became contentious, and I decided to apologise for anything I might have said wrong. Yet, within an hour, it was being circulated online that I said Christians should stop paying tithes,” Adeboye said.

He further explained that he encouraged believers to give more than the traditional 10%, referencing an encounter at Kenneth Hagin’s church where a man shared how his financial situation improved after committing to tithe 90% of his income.

He said, “Today, I’m close to giving 90%, but I am far from 10%. So, I said it is wrong to limit yourself to 10% when God can take you to a higher percentage.

“As you grow in the Lord, you should grow in praising Him, winning souls, and in giving. I said that for beginners, the minimum is what God calls 10%. I said, from now on, begin to increase what you give.”

He added, “Of all I said, the only thing they put on the internet is that Adeboye apologised, and therefore, people should no longer pay their tithes. I said 10% should be the minimum.”

https://punchng.com/i-didnt-tell-christi...e-adeboye/

[Pat Mustard]

Would you expect anybody else from Bananaman?

[Fake Messiah]

From Christianity Today:

I Cried Out to the Name Demons Fear Most

I grew up on Long Island, New York, as part of an Italian and culturally Catholic family. Christmas for me was mainly about Santa Claus, antipasto, and pretty lights on houses. I had no faith in Jesus Christ whatsoever, and attending church wasn’t usually on the agenda.

At home, there was lots of conversation about ghosts—how they would play with the lights and knock things off the shelves. My sister told me about the time her pals got together and used an Ouija board, assuming it was an innocent game. The girls asked the board who among them would die first, and they got an answer. Not long after, the girl in question died of suicide.

The door to demons was thrown wide open when, at age 13, I had my first experience with tarot cards: a private 15-minute session with an (allegedly) expert reader and her cardboard cards, full of weird pictures. The reading left me intrigued.

Throughout my teens, I delved into other divination tools like numerology charts, astrology charts, angel cards, and runes.

But the further I went down that road, the more it seemed demons were surrounding me. I felt them touching me, and I could see them manifesting as shadowy figures, animals, and what looked like human beings.

One day, I was sitting at my kitchen table with my head resting down on my arms. I looked up, and standing in the entrance to my bedroom was a demon masquerading as a man, tall and lean. He stood there briefly, giving a dauntingly cold stare, and then he was gone. Another day I was thrown off a chair while sitting in my family’s computer room. My dad was in the next room, and he heard the thump.

In my early 20s, I had my first apparent communication with a dead person. In a dream one night, a young man with blond hair let me know that he died in a car accident.

I went to visit a psychic medium. She told me that I too was a medium and that my gifts came from God for the purpose of helping people connect with departed loved ones.

Often, while driving home from psychic readings, I would see familiar spirits in my rearview mirror and on the highway. One night, while doing an individual reading, I had an alarming experience. I started “channeling” for information about the woman before me, and the demon I channeled was pretending to be her uncle who had shot her and her brother when they were kids. I felt sick, and this woman looked at me with daggers in her eyes, as if I were the uncle myself.

Eventually, I started my own divination group. I taught a variety of New Age techniques like chakra balancing, tarot reading, psychic mediumship, meditation, smudging, and past-life automatic writings. I had my students make vision boards to visualize what they were manifesting.

But I lived in constant fear of bad spirits and what they would do to me. In my mid-30s, at a moment of especially intense fear, I suddenly cried out the name of Jesus Christ. Not my spirit guide or a deceased person or an angel—Jesus!

This began my journey to full Christian faith. I didn’t know I was a sinner in need of a Savior. And I had no idea what the gospel was. But I knew I didn’t want to be a psychic anymore.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/2024/0...um-demons/

[Fake Messiah]

During the holy mass, Bergoglio called doctors who perform abortions to be hitmen. So I guess when another Christian attacks and kills a doctor who performs abortions, the Vatican will claim to have nothing to do with it and that it was a lonely guy who got the wrong message.

Pope Francis wrapped up a troubled visit to Belgium on Sunday by doubling down on his traditional views on women and abortion.

“Doctors who do this are — allow me the word — hitmen. They are hitmen,” Francis said. “And on this you cannot argue. You are killing a human life.”

https://religionnews.com/2024/10/01/pope...e-victims/

[Fake Messiah]

They finally get it.

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo summoned the Vatican’s ambassador to Belgium, Franco Coppola, on Thursday after “unacceptable” comments by Pope Frances on abortion.

“It is absolutely unacceptable for a foreign head of state to make such statements about democratic decision-making in our country,” De Croo said during a session in the Chamber of Representatives. “We do not need lessons on how our parliamentarians democratically approve laws. Fortunately, the time when the church dictated laws in our country is long gone.”

VUB Rector Jan Danckaert said the pope’s statement “not only insults the doctors who perform abortions, but also Belgium and its population.”

“It is actually unheard of that a foreign head of state — because that is what Pope Francis is — assumes the right to attack a law of another and moreover democratic country. And to accuse the doctors who apply this law in practice of murder,” Danckaert wrote.

https://www.politico.eu/article/pope-abo...y-belgium/

[Rev. Rye]

So, for the uninitiated, Steven Anderson is an Independent Fundamentalist Baptist preacher whose views are so extreme that, at one point, he was banned from every developed English-speaking country except for the United States. Recently, four of his twelve children (the oldest four; it's worth noting that the youngest of the kids to break away is only seventeen, so I suspect that the only reason more haven't spoken up is because they just can't get away) broke from him and went on record saying that he and his wife abused them.

And this is his response. It's got to be one of the more horrific variations on "If I Did It." You know, "I'm not saying my wife and I regularly beat my kids with electrical cords, I'm just saying that, if I did, I would be Biblically well within my rights to kill them for disobeying me."

[Fake Messiah]