There was actually an opening to an episode of American Gods that has that exact scenario. He literally walks across the Rio Grande and after he gets to shore a bunch of hilbillies with religious iconography alongside their confederate flags roll up in their lifted trucks and shoot him with a fully automatic weapon.
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CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I’m 100% convinced that if Christ came today the majority of white American Christians would call him a demon and one of them will end up shooting him. Especially if he came back as a man of color that spread anti-capitalist ideas and hung out with the poor, sick, and unwanted. They’d never, ever, tolerate that.
IF Christianity is true, a large amount of souls of self-proclaimed “Christians” are in danger of damnation. They are actually doing Satan’s work for him. The issue are the ones 100% certain they are “saved” while spouting racist, evil things at the same time. How do you talk to people like that? How do you convince them that they are in fact 100% wrong? I’m an atheist, so most wouldn’t even take me seriously.
Adalast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
LOL wow.
Makes me wonder how many racists watched that episode and thought to themselves “that would never be me” while fully supporting the mentality behind it.
peto@lemm.ee 10 months ago
So what you are saying is that now is the time to invest in gold AR-15 necklaces?
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I mean look what happened to MLK Jr…
The FBI would probably investigate him and then he’d be murdered by white supremacists.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That’s basically what Jesus said.
Korne127@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, that’s what I always think. For me (German), Christianity is mostly acceptance of other people, empathy, caring for people who have it worse than you, loving your next, etc. Which in policies is… being for welfare, donating, accepting LGBTQ+ and supporting them, etc.
Evangelicals have always confused me because they are against everything Jesus stood for.
HardlightCereal@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Christianity doesn’t have hell or damnation. It has Sheol, which is a waiting room for souls
yata@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A lot of Christian denominations would disagree with you on this. It is also a bit absurd to make absolute claims about what Christianity is and is not because it varies greatly from denomination to denomination (none of which has a monopoly on their interpretation of the bible).
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Better take another look at the Bible, because Jesus disagrees. In fact, he is kind of a fetishist about all the suffering he will visit on those who don’t worship him.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mark 9:
47 And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 where
“‘the worms that eat them do not die,
and the fire is not quenched.’[d]
normanwall@lemmy.world 10 months ago
PerCarita@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
You forgot the best past. He hung out with a group of men and one woman, and the one woman wasn’t any of the men’s girlfriend. Conservative Christians would perhaps thought this was an unnatural arrangement.