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[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 146 points 1 week ago (8 children)
[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 139 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

[–] evidences@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week 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 week ago

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

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

The only difference between a religion and a cult is time

[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 36 points 1 week 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 week ago (1 children)

Number of followers helps too.

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

The difference is sincerity.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week 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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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