Didn’t Christians talk about false prophets and the devil pretending to be holy?
Comment on Charlie Kirk in his own words.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
I’m an atheist. I see ‘demonic’ things. It’s the religious white supremacy Americans. It goes against everything Christianity stands for. Spreading hate, indoctrination, racism, misogyny, child abuse, deportations, violence, crimes against humanity, etc. They don’t even know what, their own religion is about. These people are just pure evil and justify everything they say and do by a fictional man in the sky.
Banana@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
blargh513@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
I keep putting it off, but I’m creating an LLC so I can start a damn church.
I can’t get a fucking job to save my life, so why not just profit from the ignorance and stupidity of the lumpenproletariat?
My time is now.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Like L. Ron Hubbard (founder of scientology [pukes in my mouth]) once said: “You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.”
wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 17 minutes ago
Founder of Scientology, who said this a few years before starting Scientology, while he was still publishing as a science fiction author.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
Wyoming is supposedly a good state for LLCs, for tax and privacy reasons.
Good luck!
Banana@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Rooting for ya, bud
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
They did. Several hundred years ago. Then it fell out of fashion.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
As someone who was raised Christian and considers myself one, I think Christianity has a few fundamental philosophical flaws (every religion does).
The major issue is hinging everything on an abstract ideal of faith. Under Christian doctrine one can only get into heaven by believing in Jesus. He is the only path to salvation.
This creates a mkral quandry. Could the worst person in the world beleive that Jesus is their Lord and Saviour and get into heaven? Perhaps not, they must also aspire to live a Christ-like life.
Let’s instead imagine the most Christ-like and righteous person in the world. If they do not believe in Jesus, they will burn on hell for eternity according to Christian doctrine.
What you end up with is a religion where it starts to feel like only one thing matters - do you believe in Jesus? It doesn’t take long moral principles are thrown out the window and people to start judging others less so by their thoughts, words and deeds but instead on just how much they beleive in Jesus.
Other religions have their flaws but particularly Eastern religious philosophy at least tries to tackle how do you live a good life a little more head on.
The deeper you go into the Christianity, the more obsessive it becomes about faith and the less concerned it is with how to live a good life.
Which is pretty warped if you think about it - shouldn’t the whole point of religion be to learn how to live well?
AA5B@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
That’s not just a moral failing of judgementalism over actual morals, but a logical inconsistency
This guy disagreed with that tradition and tried to reset his church toward empathy, care, morality
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 minutes ago
What I think is flawed with the religious MAGA is that they forget one of the biggest fundamental thing of christianity: forgiveness. They don’t care about that. They just use their religion as a basis for their hatred towards others so they can create their perfect world. It’s like they only want to be a good christian if the setting is up to their standards. And they are willing to do anything to reach that setting, no cost is too great. Christian values only apply when you’re dealing with other Christians. When they aren’t Christian (exactly the way you want them to be, like white cis hetero) you can dehumanize them and do whatever you want to them with a clear conscience. Like, how fucked up are these people?
Religion is a way to show people how to live. Many people need it so they don’t have to think about it themselves. They need the structure. Sure, I can understand, even though I think it’s dumb. Why the need to believe in something unnatural, a fantasy, to know how to live like a proper human and how to treat others? But ok, sure some people need that apparently. But MAGA does that only selectively, whatever fits their agenda. It’s the same with pseudo-science. Instead of trying to find ways to destroy your theory (and if that fails, the theory becomes more solid) they try to find ways to support their theory while neglecting the rest. This is nitpicking. That’s not how it works.
Either you’re a christian or you’re not. You can’t be half christian and use it as support for your actions, while your actions go against everything christianity stands for. Same goes for other religions of course. But there are always extremists who abuse it. Whether it’s a religion, a system, whatever.