“This is how we should order our lives together,” he said. “And frankly, yes, we are going to impose it upon you. If you don’t like it, I’m sorry, but this is good and right and just if it lines up with God’s standards, and I am going to enforce my morality on you in as much as our morality is God’s morality.”

“You should always check yourselves,” he continued. “Do I believe what God believes? Am I defending what God says is good?”

“And if it is, then you should have the courage to say, ‘This is how we’re going to run our town, this is how we’re going to run our county, this is how we’re going to run our state, and this is how we should run the United States of America by legislating the morality that we can find in the Bible.'”

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    What did Jesus have to say about immigrants?

    What did Jesus have to say about taxes?

    What did Jesus have to say about retaliation?

    What did Jesus have to say about money and what should be done with it if you have it?

    What did Jesus say you should do with everything you own?

    Jesus was a Communist. Own nothing. Share everything.

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    Yeah, I mean some people are trying to bring back the pet rock, doesn’t mean it’s going to work.

    Most people are tired of religion and all of its hypocritical rules and guidelines. Then you learn that a large portion of leaders in religions are pedophiles and abusers.

    No real “OOOOOOOHHH SHINYYY” moment for people to want to join.

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      Just like Republicans… religion has outlived its usefulness and the only way to remain is to force your ideas on people…fucking assholes need to all go live in Oklahoma or Missouri together and create their perfect Utopia of ignorance, racism and hate.

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      I’ve always thought of jesusians as predatory because they target the most vulnerable people for their brainwashing.

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    And the head of their entire structure has never been religious and, in fact, matches their description of the anti-Christ.

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    “Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.” - Denis Diderot

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      Clearly, based on their voting history, those values are to horde wealth and rape children.

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    “the morality we can find in the Bible”

    It’s ok to own human beings as property: “As for the male and female slaves whom you may have, it is from the nations around you that you may acquire male and female slaves. You may also acquire them from among the aliens residing with you and from their families who are with you who have been born in your land; they may be your property. You may keep them as a possession for your children after you, for them to inherit as property.”

    Its ok to rape young girls (is God in the Epstein files?): “So now, kill all the boys, as well as every woman who has had relations with a man, but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.”

    It’s ok to kill babies: Thus says the Lord of hosts: "I will punish the Amalekites for what they did in opposing the Israelites when they came up out of Egypt. Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”

    When David had an affair and had the woman’s husband killed, God killed his baby and had his wives publically raped: "Thus says the Lord: I will raise up trouble against you from within your own house, and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in broad daylight. For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel and in broad daylight.”

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    It will be a small, hollow victory.

    But I hope I can hear the MAGAs cry, when they find out “Christian Nation” means they can’t get booze and pr0n anymore.

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    Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

    Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

    Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth.

    Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

    Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

    Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

    Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the Sons of God.

    Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

    Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

    Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you…

    Oh, not these values.

    Right wing American politics has made a mockery out of Christianity.

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      Unironically how these people read that list:

      Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

      Read: the poor in spirit die first.

      Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

      Read: We will kill those who mourn

      Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the Earth.

      Read: Once the greenhouse gasses are no longer tolerable. We going to Mars, suckas

      Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.

      Read: killing those who oppose me is what is righteous.

      Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

      Read: we don’t even bully the Mexican guy on our squad, he’s pretty cool guy

      Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

      Read: white

      Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the Sons of God.

      Read: kill those who oppose you until there is no more opposition and you will become Jesus.

      Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.

      Read: God needs me to kill ANTIFA

      Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.

      Read: you have my permission to kill the infidels.

      Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you…

      Read: don’t question your mission. You and all your pedo friends can fuck teenage girls or something, after you die for this cause.

      …yep. those are them alright.

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      Right wing American politics has made a mockery out of Christianity.

      So, they’re the pharisees?

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    Hey, fucking moron, you have two run-on sentences, and an “if” that’s never resolved. Does your church teach you how to grammar?

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      I remember a particular asshat on DP forums that would try to get me booted all the time, and always crying that there is no such thing as xtian Shariah Law and that calling xtianists talibangelicals was so very unfair and so mean, and oh my god, the civility of it all!

      The xtianists definitely have Shariah Law even if, sure, they don’t call it that, duh.

      Other than the days they worship and a few other differences about ritual and so on, explain the difference between backward dumbasses of the fundamentalist stripe of either of these Abrahamic religions?

      Both groups ache to subjugate women and murder infidels and gays, etc.