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RE: Stupid things religious people say
April 28, 2025 at 9:45 am
(April 28, 2025 at 6:41 am)Alan V Wrote: My sister-in-law had mobility problems before she died. The minister at her funeral told the attendees that "She is now dancing with Jesus."
Why do xians not know this verse in the bible? It clearly states no one is in heaven because Jesus hasn’t returned yet.
That’s why all xians want jebus to return during their lifetime
1 Thessalonians 4:16
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16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,with a loud command, with the voice of the archangeland with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
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May 1, 2025 at 7:56 am
Trump approval rating still high among Christians, poll finds
U.S. President Donald Trump’s approval ratings are significantly higher among Christians than among the religiously unaffiliated by more than 20 percentage points (48% versus 26%, respectively).
Trump’s approval rating continues to be highest among white evangelical Protestants, while Catholics are almost split at 42%, according to the poll.
Among Christians, white evangelical Protestants had the highest approval rating of Trump at 72%. Black Protestants had the lowest approval rating of the current president at 10%.
Forty-three percent of Christians found the Trump administration’s ethical standards were “excellent” or “good.”
When asked about the ethical standards of top Trump administration officials, about 7 in 10 white evangelicals rated them as “excellent” or “good.” Nearly half of white Catholics and a quarter of Hispanic Catholics agreed.
About half of Christians approved of the Trump administration’s action to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and its budget cuts to federal departments, while 46% approved of the substantially increased tariffs on imports.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/...poll-finds
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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May 1, 2025 at 5:03 pm
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Moment of truth as theists realize it's all BS and that god won't save them
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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May 1, 2025 at 6:49 pm
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(May 1, 2025 at 5:03 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Moment of truth as theists realize it's all BS and that god won't save them
The Buddha isn't a god. Some Buddhists think he was divine, but it's hardly uniform; many don't.
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 1, 2025 at 7:22 pm
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(April 28, 2025 at 9:45 am)h4ym4n Wrote: (April 28, 2025 at 6:41 am)Alan V Wrote: My sister-in-law had mobility problems before she died. The minister at her funeral told the attendees that "She is now dancing with Jesus."
Why do xians not know this verse in the bible? It clearly states no one is in heaven because Jesus hasn’t returned yet.
That’s why all xians want jebus to return during their lifetime
1 Thessalonians 4:16
New International Version
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,with a loud command, with the voice of the archangeland with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
Yeah, that’s not what it says. The verse is about bodily resurrection, not salvation.
Boru
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 4, 2025 at 9:22 am
Maybe instead of maintaining Christianity by birthrates, Christians should rather make Christianity more reasonable by finding some evidence for its claims or be honest enough and admit defeat.
Quote:Jeremy Clarkson, 65, warns Christianity is ‘in danger’ as he shares alarming Islam statistic
Jeremy Clarkson has issued a sobering verdict about global declining birth rates and what it could mean for the future.
The 65-year-old pulled no punches in laying out the comparisons between different parts of the world.
Writing in his column for The Sun, Clarkson reacted to recent findings that the shrinking number of children being born across the world was imperilling the future of humanity.
Clarkson was keen to focus on the practically universal collapse of fertility in the “Christian world” when compared to other cultural blocs.
He commented that births below replacement levels: “Might be the case in the Western world but in Muslim countries, each woman has on average 3.1 kids.”
“So it’s not the human race that’s in danger. Just the Christian bit of it,” he wrote.
Muslim countries boast some of the highest averages of children per woman on the planet, with Afghanistan 4.66 fertility rate, Mali’s 5.42, Somalia’s 5.91 - humanity's second highest.
https://www.gbnews.com/celebrity/jeremy-...-statistic
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 5, 2025 at 8:05 am
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TikTok's "Jesus glow" trend exposes the emptiness of social media religion
The still-unbanned social media site is currently awash in before-and-after videos from people purporting to be recent converts, celebrating their physical transformation from alleged misfit to their current "Jesus glow" status. There's the former goth who now sports a prairie dress look.
Or a bodybuilder who has now shrunk herself into a more petite figure, complete with blonder hair.
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A close watch of the videos suggests people looked fine in their former lives as heretics. They often rely on tricks like lighting and filters to exaggerate the contrast between then and now. Mostly, they're just dressing differently. These folks aren't objectively better-looking in their "after" images. They're just conforming more to a right-wing vision of proper gender presentation, often one with white supremacist overtones, as the "Jesus glow" effect on hair frequently requires the aid of a bleach bottle. It's a level of conformity that McCoy semi-joked verges on "gender religion."
It's also profoundly silly. The "proof" of one's connection to God is that you have good looks.
A lot of online Christian content is shallow self-help, presented in a way that's not so different from what beauty influencers or dating coaches offer. In my reporting on the popular "Girls Gone Bible" podcast, readers can see the same forces in action. Their podcast initially seems not just apolitical, but focused primarily on the self, with titles like "What Men Look For In A Wife" or "Honest Convo About Anxiety." It feels like another variation on the endless online content on self-improvement, but with a sprinkling of scripture on top of the talk about dating or improving your daily mood. But, of course, the hosts are selling a far-right agenda with this soft focus framing, as evidenced by their tight relationship with Donald Trump and the rigidly conservative dictates on sexual behavior they prescribe for their audience.
Its special MAGA flare comes from how it apes the imaginary victimization that characterizes Trump and his followers. These aren't just videos extolling the beautification powers of faith, but are posited as an angry rebuttal to an imagined hater who is denying the existence of the "Jesus glow." It's reminiscent of how anti-vaccine influencers rail against an amorphous "Big Pharma" that allegedly wants people to get autism for unspecified but evil reasons. In the "Jesus glow" videos, we're to imagine that atheists want people to be ugly or sad, again, for reasons that are never articulated.
https://www.salon.com/2025/05/05/tiktoks...-religion/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 5, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Indiana Gov. Micah Beckwith says to Christian nationalist pastors that they are "the Navy SEALS of the Kingdom of Heaven."
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 5, 2025 at 6:05 pm
Good, can we send them all off to deal with pirates somewhere then?
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RE: Stupid things religious people say
May 6, 2025 at 12:37 am
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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