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[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 147 points 1 month ago (8 children)
[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 139 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"I hate you guys, kill yourself" said Jesus probably during daylight saving time because he didn't sleep enough.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Fair enough, that's enough to make me give up on humanity.

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hear he also dropped the n word a couple times on Twitter but he was taking Ambien so it wasn't his fault.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 month ago

Also, Jesus was so just of full love when they did the Nazi salute twice.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The only difference between a religion and a cult is time

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 36 points 1 month ago

I've heard the distinction described as "it's a cult when the founder is still around making stuff up, it becomes a religion after he dies and his followers are left to continue doing that in his name."

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Number of followers helps too.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

George Carlin

[–] p3n@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The difference is sincerity.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Apparently started from a hate ministry in 2021... Dude named James White on Twitter.

"When you start with man as image-bearing creature of God, you can understand why sympathy is good, but empathy is sinful.

Do not surrender our mind to the sinful emotional responses of others."

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I don't get it, "image-bearing creature of God"??

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Asking religion to make sense is like asking a fish to describe outer space.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I think his point is that humans are meaningless little things made just to be in the image of "God" and should "get over themselves" since it's all about God and not at all about humanity.

Seemingly, that somehow doesn't apply to having him shut up and stop making it about himself.

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The sinful emotional response caused by losing your home after the landlord tripled the rent

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I came across some article he wrote. He basically said if he hates someone, they deserve it because god says so, and if anyone disagrees with him, they are making it about "them" and not Jesus.

He evidently (understandably) got blowback on Twitter back in the day, and wrote some word vomit that sums up to "No no, you don't understand, what I said is not as bad as you think it is (it's sooooo much worse)"

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

So then... We don't need to apply empathy to whoever that guy is.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Coil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde. She asked Trump to have mercy for immigrants and pissed him off.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 month ago

...she's an episcopalian bishop who led trump's inaugural service, asking that he accept god's humility and share his mercy with marginalised people who fear him, specifically naming genderqueer, immigrant, and refugee populations...

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every time I see that I'm so skeeved out. Like I understand needing to close your heart's empathy to deceivers. It's something I've had to do with abusers who play on pity. But this is language that you use to prepare people to do evil

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Notably, I don't think folks would consider Christian teaching would not explicitly declare that you should hate (that part is usually just implied).

Generally what they say is that while you shouldn't just yield and let "bad" people walk all over you and society, you shouldn't "hate" them either.

[–] Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

This sounds like Warhammer 40K flavour text. How can anyone write this and think that they are the good guy?