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[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Seriously I have come to find blonde women grossly unattractive and its because of Fox News and this motherfucker.

[–] QuantumSparkles 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I found that one pissed off rant from a Young Turks journalist where’s she’s angrily saying “I DONT CARE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS” to be very attractive. I literally know nothing else about her and she could be a horrible person, but that moment of righteous indignation really had an effect on me

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

Untrue. Christianity is self-proclaimed. This "real Christian" bullshit is apologetic nonsense, just like "the devil made fossils."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

As an atheist raised roman catholic, I disagree.

There are rules and tenets and ideals of the religion. It's not about meeting them, but it is about wanting to and more strictly attempting to.

It's not even a no true Scotsman fallacy, because there's a book no flavor of Christianity I know of openly rejects while claiming to be Christian, even if they have adendums like the book of Mormon. The rules are defined.

They aren't only not trying to live up to those rules and ideals, they aren't only just paying them lip service, they are actively, jubilantly, and studiously undermining and working against the most belabored edicts of their belief system without end and calling that Christianity.

Cheering for the torture of the meek, demanding cruelty upon people from foreign lands and calling oneself Christian, ie Jesus of Nazareth as written in the New Testament, is like claiming to be an academic because you burn a book every morning and brag about how illiterate you are.

"What you have to know how to read and... read books instead of burning them to be an academic?" Actually yes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You're looking in the wrong direction. Inconsistency in religion is the name of the game. No base to stand on in the fucking Bible. Look in the direction of sociology, and on your way, take a peek at Buddhist theories of mind. The Buddha was a real philosopher whose system is partially used today everywhere in psychology. Christianity popped up in an area dominated by Western philosophy, and it's valuable to take a look at what the East had going on.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago

Academia is a capitalist indoctrination/gatekeeping machine, but I won't get into that. You know there are mixed, opposing religions, right? Things like African American Christians still worshipping indigenous African gods. I don't know if you've heard, but the world isn't black and white anymore. You can use language however you want, but you can't just do religion correctly, Christian is a self-proclaimed title linguistically and by subjective categorization (even the tree of life is old news - labels to make sense of shit), and from my experience "real Christian" is a term used by apologists to distance themselves from people like The Westboro Baptist Church (who actually read their bible). Been that way since I was balls deep in watching Matt Dillahunty and shit 15 years ago when I gave a shit about atheism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

People demanding sources for basically a shitpost. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

~~It makes sense if she means to diss people with tattoos.~~

~~She says "can turn" in comparison to "doesn't". That comparison is not balanced.~~

I thought this was a quote.

As an observation, it is literally right. There is 'Christian' as a path of spiriitual growth and 'Christian' as a gang. That golden cross is a gang symbol and works as such. Spiritually it would be wooden. Golden, it shows membership of the Christian gang.

Tattoos work in the same way. Japanese know and treat them accordingly. At the very least tattoos of normal people make gang membership less despicable. If everybody marks themselves as non-normal, society changes.

This is not an argument against tattoos. They are just more than a fashion symbol, while those can already be spiritually influential, as many women on diets can attest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

I think there's a distinction between what some ignorant people think of as "tattoos that signify gang membership" (i.e. literally any tattoo) and literal gang tattoos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

God is not with the fucking MAGAts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Are those the same person? Lol I never realized how much they look alike.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

That photo on the right reminds me of Syril Karn...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago

Gang tattoos do. If you have a, say, MS13 tattoo and you're not a member, and a member sees that. You're not going to like it. It's a membership card. But I agree with the rest. It takes more than a cross to be a Christian. Faith without works is dead.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

the fact that her husband will be 70 when her kid graduates high school (ironically the exact time when she started dating her husband who was 50) is gross

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Don't be like that. Hate her based on anything else but 2 consenting adults well past when their brains are fully formed being together is far from gross or unethical.

If it was 18 and 38 then yea.

[–] ayyy -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The kid did not consent to having a crotchety old dad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Old dads have a high probability of being best dads (assuming they aren't shitty people independent of age). A fifty year old man is far more likely to have a stable career in cruise control (read chillin), had his fill of philandering, and is genuinely looking forward to being a father. I always think of Robie Uniacke, Rosamund Pike's partner and father to her children. He was born in 1961 and the moment he found out he was having a kid with Rosamund, he decided to learn Mandarin and has opted to only speak to the children in Mandarin so that they could be multilingual. That's the sort of zany shit an older man can get up to once they realize they have a chance to be an awesome dad.

Or, you could be born to a Trump or Elon. No guarantees.

[–] ayyy 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

They said 70 by the time the kid graduates highschool, which puts him at very early 50's at the time the kid was born.

[–] ayyy 1 points 6 days ago

Oh, thanks for pointing that out, I’m an idiot 🤦

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago

In no way is that anyone including the parents problem.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

~~Citation needed. In the age of disinformation, spreading quotes without a source is a sin.~~

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Oh, I thought it was a self own. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'd say it's a choice as to what the symbol communicates.

A tattoo that is art or fun creative is awesome.

A cross, be it tattoo or necklace... Just means you promote one of humanities biggest and oldest lies.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Islam is way bigger version of christianity tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Yea, that's why I say "one of the biggest" :)

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Does Christ and the Antichrist work a bit like matter? Could I just summon Jesus and put him next to Trump, would they annihilate each other

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It really is uncanny how Trump has managed to meet basically every single criteria for being the antichrist. I’m not even religious, but it’s like his political strategy team read Revelations and used it as a checklist.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Okay, so... "The antichrist" is a plural nominative...it isnt one entity, and there have been several already. Trump and some of his gang are antichrist.

One of the primary criteria for antichrist is that christians cannot see them.

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