Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 17 hours agoAnd when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
Exactly. But performative acts like this play to their base. And their base is almost exclusively people who haven’t read the very book they profess to follow.
Most athielsts (myself included) have read more of the bible than any of these people ever have.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The bible also says to take care of the poor and a bunch of other stuff they actively work against.
amateurcrastinator@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The poor stakeholders you mean?