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US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And 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. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    Matthew 6:5-6

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    • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

      Isaiah 1:15

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

        Ezekial 23:20

        (side note, while looking up this verse it brought me to biblegateway.com where it shows dozens of translations basically in a list, and here is what the MSG (The Message) version translated that one single sentence into:

        “Her sister Oholibah saw all this, but she became even worse than her sister in lust and whoring, if you can believe it. She also went crazy with lust for Assyrians: ambassadors and governors, military men smartly dressed and mounted on fine horses—the Assyrian elite. And I saw that she also had become incredibly filthy. Both women followed the same path. But Oholibah surpassed her sister. When she saw figures of Babylonians carved in relief on the walls and painted red, fancy belts around their waists, elaborate turbans on their heads, all of them looking important—famous Babylonians!—she went wild with lust and sent invitations to them in Babylon. The Babylonians came on the run, fornicated with her, made her dirty inside and out. When they had thoroughly debased her, she lost interest in them. Then she went public with her fornication. She exhibited her sex to the world. “I turned my back on her just as I had on her sister. But that didn’t slow her down. She went at her whoring harder than ever. She remembered when she was young, just starting out as a whore in Egypt. That whetted her appetite for more virile, vulgar, and violent lovers—stallions obsessive in their lust. She longed for the sexual prowess of her youth back in Egypt, where her firm young breasts were caressed and fondled.

        How fucking creepy is that?

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Metal as fuck

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      • zloubida@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps. But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

        Amos 5:21;23-24

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    • rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t think they’ve read that bit.

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      • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        or any bit. pretty sure a bunch of them cannot read at all.

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  • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not a single Christian among them. What exactly are they praying for, did anyone ask?

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    • BigBluntPapa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Optics, they are praying for optics.

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      • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s funny how fast Murica has fallen into authoritarianism, I’m genuinely having a hard time believing that such a large portion of the population can be so stupid.

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      • Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Jesus actually said something about that, it turns out. Not that it matters to these knuckleheads.

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      • frunch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well they got em. The Lord truly does provide 🙌🥴

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not a single Christian among them

      You don’t get to decide this, regardless of how embarrassed you may be.

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      • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh they may call themselves Christians, but none of them uphold the ideals or beliefs of Christians. They are hypocrites. The same day they do this they take away healthcare from millions, take food out of children’s hands, and ramp up more violence to those already hurting.

        I don’t care what their label is they put on the outside, none of these are Christian. They openly spit on the morals that Jesus laid down.

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      • Grumpyleb@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The bible begs to differ. I’m sure your source is better though on what makes a Christian.

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The concept of God was invented because it’s an unbearable thought to think that men like these will get away scot free with what they’re doing

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      • CXORA@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The concept of God was invented by men like these to enable exactly what they’re doing :)

        It’s the ultimate authoritarian power fantasy, and the human mouthpieces for that ultimate authority tend to be very well taken care of.

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  • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You will never convince me that shit like this is more than just performative play-acting for the sake of their base.

    They aren’t actually fucking praying. They don’t actually believe any of this shit. It’s a tool used to keep the support of their base of white christian nationalists.

    That’s why we see them doing shit like this now than every before.

    In a world where more liberal minded Christians are balking at how “unchristian” these idiots are turning out to be, they have to make these shows louder and more obvious…and make damn sure there’s a camera around, so that they can play even harder to the more extreme supporters.

    If they were to quietly go about their business with no “performative acts of faith”, more people would recognize them as the monsters they are.

    But with shit like this, 81 year old grandparents the country over can look at them and say “I don’t understand what they’re doing, but they MUST be the good guys because look how christian they are…”

    If anyone thinks America is getting out of this without resorting to firing squads and hanging these fuckers upside down in town squares, they’re naive as fuck.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      And 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.

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The bible also says to take care of the poor and a bunch of other stuff they actively work against.

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      • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        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.

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    • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The most worrying thing is that I think they do believe (a form of) it. They believe their god is helping them maintain power, and is helping people.

      They just don’t see us as ‘people’.

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      • thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        They absolutely do believe in this shit. They’re a bunch of evil idiots.

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    • renzev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They don’t actually believe any of this shit.

      I agree with everything else that you’re saying, but I wouldn’t be so sure about this. Have you ever noticed how it’s much easier to start only flame wars when you actually believe in the batshit stance that you’re arguing as opposed to pretending to believe it for the sake of trolling? I think it’s a similar thing here. I don’t think humans are that good at compartmentalising, so in order to do something performatively so often and so well you have to trick your mind into actually believing it in a sort of corrupt way. I know this makes me sound like a middleschooler, but I think George Orwell’s concept of doublethink is very much real in cases like these.

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Generally with humans, I assume about 99% act in good faith, regardless of what they are arguing for. Someone could argue for genocide in good faith, for example. The last 1% are sociopaths who have some intense issue with emotions or socializing, and do awful things on purpose.

        I think most of the republicans are good faith, they just have shitty ideology and problem solving skills, and dont do enough to counter their own biases.

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    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ever see one of those photos with HitlerPig in the middle, with a group of people all with one hand on his shoulder, all with their eyes closed, praying? And there in the middle front, is HitlerPig, who we all know is an absolute Sociopath, and doesn’t believe any of that crap.

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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        So Moses went back to the Lord and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”

        The Lord replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”

        And the Lord struck the people with a plague because of what they did with the calf Aaron had made.

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    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      While I’m sure that some are just cosplaying as Christians, i have no doubt that there are true believers there. I mean, RFK doesn’t believe in germ fucking theory, so we know that being crazy is no hindrance from getting power. Is it really so hard to believe that Americans elected Congressmen who believe the earth is 6000 years old?

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      • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Their god is a vindictive evil fucker. A god of hate, and they mirror themselves in his image.

        The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this. – “There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.” – By the mere pleasure of God, I mean his sovereign pleasure, his arbitrary will, restrained by no obligation, hindered by no manner of difficulty, any more than if nothing else but God’s mere will had in the least degree, or in any respect whatsoever, any hand in the preservation of wicked men one moment.

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    • parody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Wealthy republican politicians are too smart(/?) to be religious??

      Top tier engineers in all fields can be found quietly attending church. It’s incredible—religion, a helluva…

      Oh DEFINITELY people like orange hitler prob think about zero about god (idk if he’s literally atheist but obviously not religious)… CERTAINLY plenty of wealthy republican politicians are atheists and will never admit it…

      But ohhhhh boy isn’t it worse that some genuinely believe especially the evil parts of the Bible? (Maybe “worse” is a little unfair, I deeply respect some very ethical & intelligent people who happen to have strong faith traditions)

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, you will start a war with us, that will end like the war in Ukraine for Russia 😇

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  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Those who say, “I love God,” and hate a brother or sister are liars, for those who do not love a brother or sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.

    1 John 4:20

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    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      4:20, ayoooo! /s

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The next day the older daughter said to the younger, "Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.

      "So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up.

      So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father.

      Genesis 19:34-36

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      • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That must have been some special magic booze to get the old man so drunk he couldn’t recognize that he was fucking his own daughters, yet leave him capable of getting it up to do the deed…

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    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Joke’s on you, I’m an only child.

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  • terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It bothers me how pretty this is. Like, the best logo you can never use anywhere.

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      • rarbg@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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      • Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It is the logo of magic the gathering circlejerk sub on reddit

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Change the colours up to the gayest possible and you’re good

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    • Bieren@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No homo.

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  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    None of those motherfuckers are going to heaven.

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    • modifier@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m sad there isn’t a heaven for them to be excluded from.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If there were a heaven, it would 100% be only for wealthy people. Pearly gates? Golden streets? Nirvana? Eternal peace? That’s rich people shit. I certainly can’t afford that.

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  • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is called taking the Lord’s name in vain. But they tell people that’s saying omg

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      yet more evidence religion is a sham. If god were real, they would most certainly be dead.

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  • lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Dear God, thank you for Trump, ICE, and Alligator Auschwitz. Please let our reich last a thousand years.”

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    • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Awww, I thought you also made the prayer 14 words. Would’ve really nailed the point home.

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      • parody@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        In a just world this would be hilarious

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words

        b/c it would have to be followed up by a punchline or be a comedian’s punchline

        1000% troglodyte shit, damn I feel bad for someone who could say that unironically

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  • Pendorilan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Disgusting piece of shit. Reminds me of Jesus calling out the pharisees for praying in public performatively. Not to mention they are going tk ruin people’s lives with that bill! Poor people are going to die so they can cut taxes for the rich!

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  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh please white Jesus and white God. Bless us while we take food from the mouths of millions. Take Healthcare from millions of infirm. And life itself from those evil brown people both here and around the world.

    Amen. /s

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m just going to assume these are republicans and call them scumbags, hypocrites, and heretics.

    Matthew 6

    1“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

    2“So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. 3But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

    5“And 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. 6But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. 8Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

    I don’t know how anyone takes them seriously. They should be laughed out of the room and shunned by polite society. But there are a lot of bullshit “christian” churches peddling nonsense, I guess.

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    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Just one more part of the books they have never bothered with

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      • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The type of person who critically reads the bible is the type of person who stops believing in religion. Sort of a shitty paradox.

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    • Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Was just about to quote this. Seems like they really read the book. 🤡

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  • PoopSpiderman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Totally performative. Just a bunch of assholes.

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    • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s worse than that. They’re praying very sincerely to be successful in taking any money and assistance away from poor people, children, and the elderly, and transferring it to the already wealthy. And of course prayer granted. I’m just so sad that the only hell that exists is the one they’ve created on earth, and it’s the one they make for everyone but themselves to live in.

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Right before they pass some abysmal legislation that would make Jesus weep

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    • maniclucky@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure he’d skip weeping and go straight for the whip and upending of tables.

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      • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        *wheeping

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  • glorkon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If these people have their way, the USA will become a religious autocracy that respects human rights on a level comparable to that in Iran.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But only for men. Women will be treated like in Afghanistan.

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    • ReallyAngryNerd@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah so, fun fact, they got their way.

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  • elevenbones@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Dear God, please help us kill the poors and the gays and the brown and blacks. Amen.”

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  • Litics@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Looks more like a circle jerk to me.

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    • Elaine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same thing

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Ah, the ol’ prayer oneupsmanship.

        “Father God Jehovah Almighty, we prostrate ourselves before thee on these hallowed grounds. As you tell us in Jeremiah 29:11, you know the plans you have for us…”

        Sorry, just a little flashback.

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  • ef9357@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They’re not praying, they’re huddling to come up with another evil plan.

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    • Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      How about one night we smash the windows of Latino owned businesses so they know we really don’t want them.

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  • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why are they praying in a huddle? Do they all shout in unison “GO TEAM” afterwards ?

    Don’t you also have separation of church and state? Wasn’t that what you were founded on?

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    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s so the microphones can’t catch the stuff they’re praying to be forgiven for.

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      • zbyte64@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That would mean admitting they did something wrong, which is impossible for these ghouls.

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    • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Church and state have been separated.

      They simply joined the Church of State.

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    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They have found a way to make praying to the magic man in the sky even more ridiculous.
      separation of church and state? No

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      • fox2263@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Saw this somewhere else in lemmy.

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  • collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hey, guys, I don’t think Jesus would approve of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare, but keep pretending that you are holier than me.

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  • matlag@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Oh yeah, that’s definitely settled: John has the biggest one! Ok folks, zip up before they realize what we’re doing!”

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Fucking gross.

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  • nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wonder if there is anyone in the group that is actually praying or they are all just pretending for the others

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    “Alright guys, someone very carefully look to see if the cameras are still here”

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why is that infuriating? I’m not religious, but why would this not be allowed?

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  • Numenor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think there’s a biscuit that they’re all looking at

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Am I the only one finding this disgusting?

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    These people think all compassion and “wokeness” is preformative because everything in their lives is preformative.

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  • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Circle jerkin 4 Jesus.

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  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Praying for more dead seniors and babies.

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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To some morons on Lemmy, these people are actually just doing what democrats want to do. Despite the fact that we’ll have at least 8 years of Democrats trying to undo this shit, it inevitably won’t be good enough and that will be their proof. “See, Democrats are the same” these smug fucking morons will say. And someday I may punch their thoughtless faces for it.

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