• ccunix@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    As an actual bible believing Christian, I would like to officially distance myself from all this nonsense.

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        21 hours ago

        Jesus teaches that He will return at the head of a Holy Army, to kill all who won’t accept Him as Lord.

        “They” can’t even come close to the horrors Jesus promised. The lake of blood will be miles wide, and as high as a horse’s bridle (according to Him).

        His billions of victims won’t even have peace in death, as He promises them eternal torment in a lake of fire. According to Him.

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          16 hours ago

          Which shows that you did not understand the bible. Forget the Apocalypse. It should never have made it to the book, and has nothing to do with what Jesus preached.

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            I understand the Bible… it appears that you’ve never read it.

            Jesus Himself preached that He will return at the head of a Holy Army to crush humanity, you have no idea what is going on. Jesus Himself described the eternal torments of Hell.

            You should probably read the Bible so you know what I’m talking about, and stop spreading blatant falsehoods, which, by the way, is heresy and condemns you to Hell.

            Even if you remove “the Apocalypse” from the Bible completely (by that I take it you mean Revelation), the quotes of Jesus remain in the New Testament elsewhere. You just ignore them.

            Disgusting revisionism of core Christian doctrine. You should be ashamed of yourself.

            Do you think He promised to come back to Earth for hugs? No. Like He said, He came not to bring peace, but the sword.

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              Funny, though. I’ve read the Bible several times, but I do not recall any line of Jesus returning with an army to crush humanity. Could you supply book and verse?

              And because I know the Bible I disregard the Apocalypse (or Revelation, if you prefer).

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      23 hours ago

      They are only hypocrite religious. Nothing of what they are doing is even close to Jesus’s core teaching “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Mark 12:31). They are giving Christians a bad reputation.

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        21 hours ago

        Christians gave themselves a bad reputation, then as now. Their faith never recovered from the Black Death, which finally broke the back of the church, and ended their stranglehold over almost all of Europe.

        They later tried to break the peasants with their various Inquisitions, killing thousands more, but no matter how many people the Christians tortured to death, they were never able to achieve their former glory and power; they have diminished every year since.

        They’ve lost half of their faithful in the USA over the past 20 years. PRAISE GOD

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      23 hours ago

      Thats exactly what they did last time, ship all the fundy religious nuts overseas, the Massachusetts bay colony was full of religious exiles deemed too “extra” for post-reformation Europe… And look where we are now.

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    Didn’t Christian nationalism literally come from Britain? It didn’t spontaneously form from the ether in America. A bunch of brits sailed to America to slaughter native Americans because God “wanted them to”, a few generations pass and then here we are. And no I’m obviously not saying it is actually this simple (“Americans = brits + time”), but the headline seems dumb to me too.

  • ProfThadBach@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    As a white boy deep in the south region of the US where evangelical Christian is the only Christianity I suggest to you, as a person who has live in this shithole, that my brothers and sisters in Great Britain nuke this shit from orbit and pour gasoline on the smoke embers. We thought this would not happen here but we let the fucking nuts congregate and feed off each other. It all started when Eisenhower let Billy Graham in the White House because, " what can a little prayer breakfast hurt?" And no one said a thing because why offend " good Christian" people. Stop it now while the chickens are still in the hen house.

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      Can not upvote this enough. This man speaks the truth, and reason. He is not crazy. I’ve had a similar experience, and if anything, I think this isn’t raising the warning flag high enough for what could happen in the UK here.

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    1 day ago

    Color me shocked that this is happening in a state with an established church and members of the clergy sitting in the legislature.

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      Over a third of all parliamentarians in 2024 chose a secular oath.

      Christianity is not the only non-secular group that has overt representatives sitting in the legislature.

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      1 day ago

      How much do you want to bet they don’t even go to church? I’m an atheist and I’m more christian than them