• Malyca@lemmy.zip
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    6 hours ago

    I suppose that’s why he held it upside down after his fascist photo op in front of that church?

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    no he doesnt. he listens to his sick-minded “preacher” who also misinterprets the scriptures he cherry picks

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      Personally, I prefer Pope Bob.

      Has a folksy ring to it that’s delightfully incompatible with the whole Vatican ridiculousness 😁

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        Partly, but also because they’re chauvinistic about their religion and think Catholics aren’t Christian. Even at their best they practice sola scriptura and disagree with Catholics on interpretation, therefore they assume Catholics don’t actually understand the bible. Meanwhile Catholics look at them confused as to how anyone can read that thing, reject all context snd traditional interpretation, and come away believing every word is literally true and that they have an unerring understanding of it, much less without the graduate degree in the topic priests need.

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    1 day ago

    He must not be familiar with the seminary school curriculum.

    "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” --Isaac Asimov

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    A Christian pastor who shills and grifts? I don’t think that’s ever been done before. /s

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    As I suspected, conservative Christians in the US are not real Christians, but rather “money for faith” type people. Their supreme authority is money. Nothing to do with christianity or Jesus or faith.

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      Trust me, a lot of these conservative Christians absolutely do believe in Jesus and absolutely do believe in God. And to be honest, I wish that people wouldn’t try to call them something other than Christians. Because they are Christians. We don’t need to preserve the sanctity of that term for only good moral upstanding people. It’s just not fair or reasonable to say that only these really excellent people are real Christians and everyone else isn’t really a Christian. All that does is reinforce the term as something that conveys goodness and morality. If 95% of the people out there who are calling themselves Christians and who go to Christian churches and who read Christian Bibles act in a certain way, then sorry, that’s what Christians are, that’s what Christianity is.

      • NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca
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        I think it’s that this type of Christian believes so wholeheartedly in Jesus’ forgiveness that they assume it means they can do anything they like and claim repentance afterwards

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        Or, to put it more simply: Christians overwhelmingly voted for Trump.

        Not all of them, definitely, but a huge percentage did.

        That’s what they are.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
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      I’ve been saying for a while that they really ought to be called something other than Christians. Maybe “crooks” is a bit too much on the nose, but some new name is definitely required.

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        Camels.

        For it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to gain entrance into heaven…

        They worship wealth, they claim to follow these teachings and to know them well, and they expect to enter heaven? Then they are camels, lining up for the eyes of needles and expecting easy passage.

        EDIT: Wait, wait.

        Scamels.

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    And who cares what this nobody says?
    Should this be an item in even a garbage UK outlet, or worse Lemmy?

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    Dallas-area megachurch pastor

    Well there’s your problem. These guys know as much about the Bible as Trump.

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    That fat child raping cunt doesn’t understand not to shit itself on camera at the Whitehouse.
    Fuck off, Pastor Shitface. Fuck off and die.