I hope religion continues its slow death in America. Forcing your beliefs on people doesn’t help.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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I was an agnostic when I was 12-years-old. "Christians" have made me an atheist.
Maybe that's their goal. Playing 5-D checkers there.
It's not actually about religion at all anymore.
Can we start putting quotes around the word christians when they so clearly don't give the slightest bit of a fuck about the teachings of christ?
I grew up in a country with over 90% Christian population in the 80s and 90s. The way the average person in my country would have answered if asked what religions are there would be: Catholic and Orthodox. Any other Christian denomination was clumped under either "sectarians" or "heretics" (and of course non-Christians were just "pagans"). Nobody in my country considered these American churches to count as actual Christians.
And even though I personally grew up as an atheist and spent every single religion class (yeah, that was a mandatory subject in our schools) debating the existence of God with my teachers, I still cringe and resent seeing these people called "Christians".
Makes sense to me. If you lack the critical thinking skills to see the contradictions in the fairy tales the Bible serves up, you're likely to miss the fact that the guy paying lip service to 'Christian values' is the antithesis to said values.
"...but he's white and he sells a bible?" - xtian nationalists
It's really disappointing that so many "Christians" are blind to the fact that Trump fits many of the descriptors for the Antichrist. He may not be the definitive article (he doesn't quite match everything), but is definitely one of those false prophets the Bible specifically warns Christians to look out for. They are ignorant of what the Bible says and the values it actually stands for.
Problem is that almost all people who rise to power fit the description, more or less. What's more disappointing to me ia that evangelicals are willing to completely undermine their own Christian witness by submitting to a leader who is, literally, the exact opposite of what they otherwise preach when they choose a leader, all for a few pieces of political red meat. I can't take anything they say seriously.
all for ~~a few~~ 30 pieces of ~~political red meat~~ silver
FTFY
I can’t take anything they say seriously.
They have never given a good reason to be taken seriously.
The book of revelation talks about a flock mislead. That gods followers will be mislead by a false prophet.
Are they still going to support him when his prolapsed rectum gets sucked down into the White House plumbing?
This is such a thumbnail lol
It's because those motherfuckers desperately want to meet God and believe Trump is their fastpass to heaven.
Yeah, because all these dumbasses are upset that their numbers are dwindling and want to force people to be in their silly little book club, against their will, and against the Constitution.