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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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  1. All posts must contain religious cringe. All posts must be made from a religious person or must be showcasing some kind of religious bigotry. The only exception to this is rule 2

  2. Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.

  3. No direct links to religious cringe. To prevent religious bigots from getting our clicks and views directs links to religious cringe are not allowed. If you must a post a screenshot of the site or use archive.ph. If it is a YouTube video please use a YouTube frontend like Piped or Invidious

  4. No Proselytizing. Proselytizing is defined as trying to convert someone to a particular religion or certain world view. Doing so will get you banned.

  5. Spammers and Trolls will be instantly banned. No exceptions.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 8 months ago (3 children)

It's such a ridiculous kind of fake self persecution. No one gets in trouble for saying "Merry Christmas." Some people choose to say other things that are more inclusive, like "Happy Holidays." One person saying "Happy Holidays" doesn't prevent another person from saying "Merry Christmas."

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Manufactured Victimization

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Republicans in a nutshell

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But holiday tidings are a zero sum game!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

Yes, if you're happier, I must be less happy.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The war on Christmas will continue until it refrains from the occupation of November.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

November? They had Christmas stuff out at Costco in September this year!

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[–] starman2112 61 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"No Billy, you bullied a Jewish student for celebrating Hanukkah"

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Has anyone, anywhere, at any point in time faced any consequences at all for saying merry Christmas?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It started because corporations offered guidance to their retail employees that shoppers preferred "Happy Holidays" because it was more inclusive. Retail drones were told what to say, and when Christians got wind of it, they lost their collective brain cell.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

So those Christians spend December berating retail workers being paid so little they're forced to rely on food stamps for saying the wrong thing while imagining themselves free speech warriors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

As a kid, I always thought it was because it was shorter than "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," which was very common until the proliferation of "Happy Holidays" where I grew up. I have to imagine retail employees were glad to cut in half their mandatory goodbye phrase regardless of the reason.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm an atheist and ethnically Jewish and I've never enjoyed Christmas. If anyone would be attacking anyone for saying, "Merry Christmas," it would be me.

When someone says "Merry Christmas" to me, my usual response is, "thanks, you too."

Because, unlike Conservatives (apparently), I'm okay with people saying something I don't agree with when they're just trying to be friendly.

[–] Socsa 3 points 8 months ago

Meh, I make a point to say happy holidays back just because I like getting a rise out of idiots.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I imagine under Nero is was somewhat frowned upon. But since Constantine not really

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

You know what - I'll give you that one lol.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can’t say the C-h word, yet there it is, spelled out your comic? (*side eye*)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If you are comparing the worse-ness of two words and you won't even write one of them, that's the worse word

[–] funkless_eck 6 points 8 months ago

"You can say it. That word you want to say it. I'll say it with you. Let's all say it together. N.... n... come on. All together now."

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[–] Ookami38 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The war on Christmas will end when Christmas stops encroaching upon November.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Christmas is permitted only up to, and no earlier than, the day after Thanksgiving.

Any earlier and you might as well have Halloween in January.

[–] Ookami38 4 points 8 months ago

That's too early. Christmas can start on December 1.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

IM NOT THE ONLY ONE!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's weird - in all the years that I've been seeing and hearing this stuff about this "war on Christmas," the one thing I've never seen or even heard of is anybody actually being punished in any way for saying "Merry Christmas."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Well of course, because for all intents and purposes nobody is going to care if you tell them Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays, because everyone understands the intent.

The only people who think there's a war on Christmas also think not being allowed to enforce their theocracy means they're being oppressed.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

They had to make it a comic because it just doesn’t happen otherwise

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (14 children)

The head canons are insane lmfao.

If a progressive school is sending you to the office for saying Christmas, they’re probably just going to have a chat about being more progressive with our well wishes to include everyone.

You wanna exclude people that’s fine, but don’t label the people trying to be the most kind as insane or assholes. lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

A progressive school wouldn’t even do that in the first place, because it’s the surest way to get the ever living shit sued out of you over 1A because of one disgruntled parent

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why say S-h word instead of just S word? Is there an S word I'm forgetting that they felt the need to differentiate from?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

My kid came home from school saying he'd got into trouble for saying the S word. After much cajoling I got him to tell me what it was: "stupid"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could be slut or even sucks (remember some adults getting upset at that for some reason).

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I almost didn’t notice this was “religiouscringe”. I was wondering why this shit got posted, and was a split second away from downvoting.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Shikaka!

Shibboleet

Shiney Turtles

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Now that's a good reason to be expelled

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Shikaka!

Psst! Your balls are showing!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Buh back before it was an authoritarian religion the authoritarian religion fed us to lion! So we get free boot points when we be authoritarian, and only us don't talk about your problems that is feeding us to lions IN MUH TIMES. oh /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

-no one ever lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

is the principal sniffing glue?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Here we go again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Sheriff and firetruck

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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