Comment on White House Faith Office

ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ahhh fuck that movie.

      The aliens permanently live in my nightmares alongside the Legion time eaters

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      • Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I’m all outta bubble gum.

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• SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Money has been the point of religion for a very long time.

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  • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nah, it was originally about making sure your population had good morals, then about controlling your population more generally, then about making money, then about banning fun for some reason, then about making money again

    It’s been quite the wild ride

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A lot of old testament stuff had to do with hygiene. Look at all the kosher rules regarding food. Deut. 22:9 also forbids growing mixed crops, which likely had to do with the chance of crossbreeds being infertile and the inability for Bronze/Iron Age tribes being able to replace seed stock quickly enough.

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      • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or some priest or political leader took revenge against a pig farmer who slept with his daughter.

        And the mixed crops this was more likely to make sure farmers are not self sufficient.

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t for a second believe that religion was required for people to have good morals. It was required for control.

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      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Parents do tge same thing with santa.

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      • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Agree 100%

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      • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        By good morals I mean it came up about the time that people were moving from tribes where they knew everyone personally to settlements where it was impossible to… it sounds weird now but “don’t steal from strangers”, “don’t kill strangers”, “share your harvest with strangers in need” etc. were actually pretty novel ideas which needed to be taught and helped a bunch with ensuring people could co-exist with more people than they had relationships with

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