Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

But have you read this part:

Among the most unusual claims discussed is the existence of a mysterious device said to allow people to view past events.

'My favorite object that's supposed to be down there is called a chronovisor. And this is an object that lets you see through time,' Gentile said.

The chronovisor is a legendary, unproven device allegedly developed in the 1950s by Father Pellegrino Ernetti, a priest and physicist who claimed it could capture residual vibrations left behind by past events.

'And what really put it on the map was that he took a picture of Christ's crucifixion and released it. And it's a wild photograph because it's Jesus Christ on the cross,' Gentile said.

However, later investigations suggested the image more closely resembled a photograph of a statue rather than an authentic historical moment.

'And it turned out that that's really what it was was he had this photograph that he said he saw Christ, but it was just his photograph of the statue,' Gentile said.

Despite the lack of confirmed evidence supporting the device's existence, the legend continues to circulate among researchers and conspiracy theorists alike.

So which parts of the past would you look with a chronovisor?

The last place I left my keys.

Boru

[Angrboda]

"Would you like to take one?" Woman gesturing with a stack of paper slips containing some Jesus rot.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

"Would you like to take one?"  Woman gesturing with a stack of paper slips containing some Jesus rot.

We have a friend who serves at one of our local eateries. She’s frequently give a tract in lieu of a tip.

Boru

[Paleophyte]

But have you read this part:

Among the most unusual claims discussed is the existence of a mysterious device said to allow people to view past events.

'My favorite object that's supposed to be down there is called a chronovisor. And this is an object that lets you see through time,' Gentile said.

The chronovisor is a legendary, unproven device allegedly developed in the 1950s by Father Pellegrino Ernetti, a priest and physicist who claimed it could capture residual vibrations left behind by past events.

'And what really put it on the map was that he took a picture of Christ's crucifixion and released it. And it's a wild photograph because it's Jesus Christ on the cross,' Gentile said.

However, later investigations suggested the image more closely resembled a photograph of a statue rather than an authentic historical moment.

'And it turned out that that's really what it was was he had this photograph that he said he saw Christ, but it was just his photograph of the statue,' Gentile said.

Despite the lack of confirmed evidence supporting the device's existence, the legend continues to circulate among researchers and conspiracy theorists alike.

So which parts of the past would you look with a chronovisor?

You know, I could believe this one. Not that they have something that lets them see through time. Rather, that some Pope was conned into buying something like that and they've kept it locked away in the basement so that nobody finds out just how gullible they are.

[Fake Messiah]

Christian leaders always find a way to keep their sheep in a bubble and make them pay for it.

"Yes, Christianity is authoritarian, but it's for your own good, to save your soul. It's better to live in North Korea-like authoritarianism than to burn in hell forever."

A new US phone network for Christians aims to block porn and gender-related content

A new US-wide cell phone network marketed to Christians is set to launch next week. It blocks porn, which experts in network security say marks the first time a US cell plan has used network-level blocking for such content that can’t be turned off even by adult account owners. It’s also rolling out a filter on sexual content aimed at blocking material related to gender and trans issues, which will be optional but turned on by default across all plans.

“We are going to create—and we think we have every right to do so—an environment that is Jesus-centric, that is void of pornography, void of LGBT, void of trans,” Radiant Mobile’s founder, Paul Fisher, told MIT Technology Review.

Fisher says he’s recruited a mix of Christian influencers to advertise the plan and has also done outreach to thousands of churches around the country, offering a way to have Radiant donate a portion of congregants’ $30-per-month subscription fee to their church. Fisher has ambitions to market it beyond the US in other countries with significant Christian populations, like South Korea and Mexico.

Chris Klimis, a minister in Orlando who was recruited to be the company’s chief operating officer, says part of the reason he got involved was to offer Christians a real way to “do something” about what he sees as a pornography crisis in the faith. He was appalled by a recent survey showing that 67% of pastors have a “personal history” with porn use. And he worries his six children will come across porn on their devices, even if only inadvertently.

The technology to do this blocking is a blunt instrument: Allot groups website domains into more than a hundred categories, which include pornography but also violence, malware, gaming, and in Radiant Mobile’s case “sects,” which includes websites about Satanism. If one of its users tries to visit a website that belongs to a blocked category, the page won’t load. That’s harsher than app-based content blockers like Covenant Eyes, a Christian porn-quitting app that sends notifications to your friends or family if you slip up; those can be worked around or deleted.

“Blocking in the network is certainly not new,” says David Choffnes, a computer science professor and executive director of Northeastern University’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Such blocking is the backbone of censorship efforts by authoritarian governments, for example. What is new is a US cell plan instituting network-level blocks that can’t be removed, even by adults.

The trouble is that most websites don’t fit neatly into one category, leaving Fisher with enormous and subjective control over which are allowed or banned. This is most apparent in his effort to block content related to gender identity.

Anthony Re, a sales director at Allot, says the company does not have a category specific to gender but that “LGBT content” tends to fall into its sexuality category, which is described on Radiant Mobile’s website as “sites that provide information on sex, sex and teenagers, and sexual education, without pornographic content.” This category is blocked by default for all phones, a setting that can be changed by adult account owners.

But if a news site starts hosting enough gender-related content, Fisher might not just label it as “press,” which is allowed, but also “sexuality,” thus blocking the whole domain to any phone with that category blocked.

Fisher illustrates the subjectivity of such decisions with a recent example involving Yale University. Its general website, http://www.yale.edu, is categorized by Allot as education. “But they have a subsection of one of their websites that’s totally focused on, you know, trans equality,” Fisher says, referring to lgbtq.yale.edu. Because it’s a distinct domain, Radiant Mobile is able to place it in the sexuality category and block it.

To fill the gap left by all the sites being blocked, the company intends to offer access to a library of religious content, including AI-generated Bible videos. It plans to use characters like Cinderella, Tinker Bell, and others (it has obtained rights from the entertainment and media company Elf Labs, which has been amassing rights to hundreds of children’s characters). “Those characters were originally constructed with a conservative perspective," Klimis says. They’ll be used in AI-generated content alongside testimonials and devotionals.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/05...d-content/

[Angrboda]

It's not surprising that Christians are creating a space where an alternate reality reigns supreme.

[The Grand Nudger]

He was appalled by a recent survey showing that 67% of pastors have a “personal history” with porn use. And he worries his six children will come across his porn on their devices, even if only inadvertently.

...fixed that for him. They would, ofc, be looking for drugs.

[Fake Messiah]

Megachurch pastor Jesse Duplantis proudly shows off his $100,000+ luxury watch to the congregation while preaching. He brags it cost more than his first two houses combined.





Which is making other pastors jealous:

Missouri pastor says congregation is 'poor, broke, busted' for not buying him a luxury Movado watch

A Kansas City, Missouri, pastor Carlton Funderburke in his sermon posted on TikTok, berated his church members for not "honoring" him with a Movado watch.

"This is how I know you’re still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me. I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I ain’t worth your St. John Knits — y’all can’t afford nohow. I ain’t worth y'all Louis Vuitton? I ain’t worth your Prada? I’m not worth your Gucci?" he said in the nearly minutelong clip.

At one point, Funderburke tells the congregation that a Movado watch can be bought at Sam's Club.

"And y'all know I asked for one last year. Here it is all the way in August and I still ain’t got it," he said. "Y'all ain’t said nothing. Let me kick down the door and talk to my cheap sons and daughters."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mis...-rcna43557

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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"This is how I know you’re still poor, broke, busted and disgusted, because of how you been honoring me. I’m not worth your McDonald’s money? I’m not worth your Red Lobster money? I ain’t worth your St. John Knits — y’all can’t afford nohow. I ain’t worth y'all Louis Vuitton? I ain’t worth your Prada? I’m not worth your Gucci?" he said in the nearly minutelong clip.

Mate, you're not even worth Macca's value menu.

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Is education illegal if you’re a Christian?