I remember watching the torture scenes from The Passion of Christ when I was 3 but it didn’t do anything because I didn’t know what blood and torture was.

But then like 1st grade or 2nd grade or some shit, I remember my mom would constantly show me these photos of Mary statues weeping blood.

Imagine just understanding what blood and death is, and seeing an inanimate object with a realistic face, that’s fucking slightly smiling and staring at you, and there’s blood flowing down its face. And your mom keeps going on about how miraculous and amazing and wonderful it is and how this woman bleeding from her eyes loves you.

I genuinely started to think everyone has gone batshit insane and became too afraid to sleep because my bedroom was filled with crucifixes and Mary statues and drawings

“No one is asking any Southern Baptist to change their theology,” Mr. Warren said. “I am not asking you to agree with our church. I am asking you to act like Southern Baptists who have historically ‘agreed to disagree’ on dozens of doctrines in order to share a common mission.”

What was the initial Southern Baptist mission again? Oh that's right, it was allowing slaveholders to take leadership positions as well as to take the missionary position

archive link

https://archive.is/2023.05.21-173003/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/opinion/wyoming-republicans-christian-nationalism.html

I now understand the ugliness I heard was part of a current of Christian nationalism fomenting beneath the surface. It had been there all the time. The rope line rant was a mission statement for the disaffected, the overlooked, the frightened. It was also an expression of solidarity with a candidate like Donald Trump who gave a name to a perceived enemy: people who do not look like us or share our beliefs. Immigrants are taking our guns. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. You are not safe in your home. Religious freedom is on the gallows. Vote for me.

For some, just making the suggestion had put their neck on the line. One pastor had recently been fired. Another, who was nearing the end of his career, lamented: Where did I go wrong in my teaching? Am I complicit in this movement? Have I created this monster? I have failed my flock.

I can think of no better illustration of the calamitous force of Christian nationalism than a room full of faith leaders, regret lined deep in their brows, expressing shame and disappointment in those they were called to lead.

tl;dr: Leopardsatemyface.

The jump in religion-switching comes as many Gen Z — now ages 11 to 26 — say they no longer believe in their initial religion's teachings — or, in many cases, disagree with a religion's stance against LGBTQ+ people.

It's known as the Mod's Prayer.

Here I log off, my posts you keep.
And thee, O Mod, I join in sleep.
Wake I ever, Or, Log in never;
For thee, O Mods, I post and dream of forever.

This discusses (mostly through statistics on membership) the McProtestant denominations we're familiar with in the US, not the Catholic or others.

The introduction of pro-LGBTQ+ rules is equated with some membership loss and the advent of "conservative" (read anti-LGBTQ+) splinters of the mainline denominations.

Fucking lol this rules look at his fucking hat lmao

''I’ve experienced transport being excessively controlled by the Taliban, and I can assure you it sucks. Their IED campaign in Afghanistan’s Helmand province was so deadly effective that the British Army lost its freedom of movement. Admittedly the use of IEDs is an extreme form of traffic fines—but the principle is the same: someone else interdicting your movement. It changes everything. ''

https://nitter.1d4.us/elektrikhippie/status/1637127277375897601

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/jesus-product-class-struggle-galilee

The Jesus movement presented itself as a vanguard millenarian party, custodians of a new theocracy serving the interests of the peasantry.

Jesus did vanguardism, smh.

Most bizarre shit ever. I don’t think I’ve ever listened to a homily from this guy where I didn’t come out like :jesse-wtf: at the end

He said that Jesus being hungry could be seen as the devil trying to tempt him with the sins of gluttony, sloth, and lust because Jesus is thinking about his needs and want to eat

He then said “sometimes we’re compelled to eat otherwise we become hungry or get sick, and we think we know everything about ourselves which is pride.” He then equated being starving and eating to going on social media and wanting to be popular

Turns out basically nobody is as conservative as their church.

“Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

It’s never celebrated/observed on the same day unlike your birthday or Jesus’ birthday (I know it’s not really the 25th of December, but it’s always celebrated in the 25th).

People are just mourning Jesus’ death on a random day just because it’s Friday lol

:what-the-hell:

Or maybe its the over consumption. Both suck.

:spongebob-party: :party-rocking:

"Xmas is a capitalist holiday and yet you commies enjoy it, curious!" :very-intelligent:

Shuddup, what is more Marxist then giving people gifts? Eat my tinsel infused doodoo.