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    5 months ago

    Funny if you to believe any of these clowns have seriously been in a church before.

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        Trump people only “identify as religious” they aren’t the terrible people that traditional attend and hate. Lol I’m sure there is a slight overlap in the Venn Diagram.

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          I live in the Bible belt and can tell you: the evangelical megachurches are chock full of Christian nationalists.

          Sure, there are factions in the GOP that don’t really care about religion , but the SCOTUS wouldn’t have overturned Roe if the hardcore religious zealots didn’t work for decades to get it done.

          The protesters at abortion clinics were bussed there by the churches a lot of the time; they’re not outliers here. They are the engine that runs the party here in Texas. They have all kinds of excuses as to why Trump is doing God’s will despite being a terrible human being.

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            That’s one wall I wish we could build just separate all those nutjobs

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            Ironically though, megachurches are heavily frowned upon in Christian discourse spaces as basically being incredibly lukewarm

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      “In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.”

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        5 months ago

        Problem is that if you even read the Gospel of Luke or even Matthew alone, it basically already contradicts a lot of Trumpian rhetoric

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            Nice way to cherrypick the verse and remove context 🤦

            It’s part of a wider account of Thomas literally seeing the risen Christ in front of him and still not believing. So Thomas insists that he touches His wounds. And this is simply Jesus’ response blessing him who believes what he saw with evidence, but also blessing those who haven’t witnessed the resurrection and risen Christ.

            So He blessed two groups of believers: Those who critically investigate the resurrection narrative, and those who didn’t feel the need to.

            I, personally, fit into the former category.

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              Nice way of accusing me of removing context while doing it yourself.

              Assuming that what is written is true - and not just a folk tale like the Little Red Riding Hood, which is more probable - and that this specific God exists and became his own son and then died and got resurrected.

              If we take into account the context that this text has been written several hundreds of years after it happened, anyone alive back then and also today can *only* be one of those who believe without seeing, because we can’t go back in time to experience it ourselves like Thomas or the other apostles did.

              So, we can’t be the one “who believes what he saw with evidence”. And we can only be “those who haven’t witnessed the resurrection and risen Christ”. And this is one of the fundamentals of any religion, but especially Christianity where you have to believe in Christ otherwise you will go to hell.

              There is also the subtle nuance that if there is evidence then you don’t need to believe, you just know.

              With this context, at least I come to the conclusion that “religion demands you to go against evidence and just believe”, otherwise you will go to hell, which nobody wants.

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                The Gospel of John was written 40-70 years after the resurrection of Jesus.