cooljeanius
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Well, given that the alternative of Trump would probably lead to genocide of people who have already been born...
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Split Over Donald Trump and Cut Off by Culture Wars, Evangelicals Despair
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This. It's always funny seeing people complaining about the evils of gay marriage while they're already on their second or third one. Apparently they only care about the sanctity of marriage when it doesn't apply to them.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Poor poor zealots. I feel so bad for them and that they aren't being politically pandered to.
Baraka in the White House
2-Terms of Kombat
I really can't feel sorry for anyone who despairs over the expansion of civil rights.
mentallyinept
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What a weird article exploring the minds of the religious conservative.
"They all turned gay overnight!"
Underrated post.
"They all turned gay overnight!"
Underrated post.
LegendofJoe
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America is securalizing more rapidly than any other country on the planet. These people ARE being left behind. And unbeknownst to them a lot of the blame for that falls at their own feet. They've strayed so far from the teachings of Jesus they're no longer recognizable as Christians.
The ideals of classical Christianity are not diametrically opposed to modern liberalism. The core Christian ideals of loving your neighbor as yourself and forgiveness will always have a place in civilized society. If more evangelicals actually practiced this significantly fewer people would be turning their backs on the church.
The ideals of classical Christianity are not diametrically opposed to modern liberalism. The core Christian ideals of loving your neighbor as yourself and forgiveness will always have a place in civilized society. If more evangelicals actually practiced this significantly fewer people would be turning their backs on the church.
DontBeThatGuy
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IdreamofHIME
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Hateful bigots whining that don't feel they are being represented.
Delicious.
Delicious.
MisterR
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This is dead on. There is almost nothing related to the teachings of Christ in modern American Christianity.
I wish it was here to stay, but just watch the next republican presidential candidate be Cruz.
You know, I honestly wonder how many years need to pass before they figure out that, no, God's punishment is not imminent.
I don't know what it's called but I know when you are taught how to train a dog. A dog learns that if he barks for example he gets food. Then one day he doesn't get food. The dog will associate that with he didn't try hard/bark right and try harder. Eventually he figures that it no longer works but he has to try harder first before he makes that association. People kinda work this way too. They are used to something working and when it stops the first impulse is to try harder (cause it always worked before). So you'll see people get more ridiculous about this stuff before they give in (but as long as their ridiculousness doesn't work to produce the results they want they'll eventually cave. But, if it does work sometimes, it will reinforce them keeping trying. This is why it actually works better to not always give a positive result to an action to reinforce that action. It works better to not always have that result happen).
Every presidential election since Bush Jr. I keep thinking the Republicans can't get any lower with their whole spectacle on choosing candidates (at least last time they came to the obvious conclusion vs. one of the crazies. Though this time I'm not sure there was one, sadly another Bush was the closest to that). You gotta wonder what they'll top it with next time. I'm really hoping Trump is the stick that breaks the camel's back so to speak though. At this point I really think the Republican party needs to die and become at best a third party and the moderates need to make a new one (let the crazies stay with the Republican party since they are already so entrenched in it).
is that article supposed to be empathetic
found myself finding very little sympathy for the Odgaards. at some point they should stop what they are doing and ask themselves if they aren't in the wrong, instead of wondering if God will punish their country -tbf the odgaards don't seem to be fearing the punishment themselves-
the point where your family stops talking to you should be a wake up call. I guess they are old people, but still
found myself finding very little sympathy for the Odgaards. at some point they should stop what they are doing and ask themselves if they aren't in the wrong, instead of wondering if God will punish their country -tbf the odgaards don't seem to be fearing the punishment themselves-
the point where your family stops talking to you should be a wake up call. I guess they are old people, but still
Haha man this photo seems a lot more telling than it should be.
DragonSworne
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Shouldn't Christians welcome the end times and not be fearful of it?
Homosexual dinosaurs defied god's will.
Stormhammer
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god bombing the us must be part of the newclear testament
And yet, this is the same Christ who said:
"Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn 'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law a mans enemies will be the members of his own household." (Matthew 10: 34-36)
I honestly wish people would see beyond this popular concept of the lovable, hippie Jesus.
ShockingAlberto
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Poor babies.
benjipwns
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I'm not asking for it, but I'm going to get it no matter what I do.
a Ronaldus Magnus Reagan appointee tho
The difference is, that could effect them personally. Christians are excellent at only obeying the laws that don't effect them personally. Everything else can safely be ignored. They are not gay, most of them and even the few that are could never admit it, so that is the sin they stick with as being the ultimate one. They can feel good about following one of them, the one that doesn't have to do with them personally.
Ehh the modern interpretation of that is not what you're thinking. He was implying that his followers will be prosecuted by non-believers and given what followed his death he wasn't necessarily wrong.
This. A million times this. I have little to no empathy for these people.
These people don't even know the meaning of persecution. What entitled little pricks.
Wait! Brachiosaurus could walk on water?!!
Chaotic-Strike
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Those poor persecuted Christians who just want to live their lives and be able to hate on other people in peace.
Muppet of a Man
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Holy shit with the nuclear weapon comment. The faster these people are relegated to history the better.
It's not even an accurate depiction of what the sky would look like. 0/10 for this artist.
Agreed. Thanks for sharing this, OP
benjipwns
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TheSpoiler
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See?!? The dinosaurs turned gay and God dropped a nuke on them! They started building a community and wearing rainbows while watching Will and Grace!
SolarMystic
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Right?!
Good, I'm glad they feel like shit. Bigots should feel like shit.
Their hateful rhetoric will only spread more hate.
Lmao at god sending nukes to punish us. Neanderthals.
So God is going to punish our country for murdering babies (in their eyes) by... killing EVERYONE?
Makes sense to me.
Goro Majima
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The problem has always been that many in the religious right treat the US like a new Israel and want it governed as such.
The entire New Testament is about how Israel failed as a religious state and that the new church is based on local congregations. Creating a new theocracy and expecting non believers to follow Christian law was never the idea.
Also don't think the idea was to create exclusionary businesses which kinda contradicts the idea of the "great commission".
No true persecution happens for Christians on US soil.
The entire New Testament is about how Israel failed as a religious state and that the new church is based on local congregations. Creating a new theocracy and expecting non believers to follow Christian law was never the idea.
Also don't think the idea was to create exclusionary businesses which kinda contradicts the idea of the "great commission".
No true persecution happens for Christians on US soil.
But *only* the country. So he will kill indiscriminately, but he'll respect international borders while doing so.
paragonpro
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Im sorry but fuck off if you're religion actively discriminates against people who just happen to be born different then you. Yea you dont get a champion now because the world is moving past your decrepit puritan "values"
Who are you to judge him because of this. They're both fine.
That's not to say I agree with him on gay marrage, I don't. But don't judge a person cause they like stuffed animals and shit.
benjipwns
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Duane Cunningham
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Ironically, the only candidate who seems to have any religion at all is Hillary. She's the only one who goes to church as an adult. Gary Johnson has said he doesn't, Jill Stein is Jewish, but has said she's non-practicing, and Trump seems to just play to the room and pretend he's whatever the people he's talking to are. Two Corinthians, baby, that's the whole ball game right there, ain't it?
Hillary is the only one who has spoken about how her faith reconciles with her modern duties... not only things that the people in the OP tend to disagree with like supporting women's reproductive rights and wanting equality for LGBT people, but also things they DO usually support, like bombing the hell out of foreigners. She's actually put a lot of thought into how to keep her faith in the modern world, and if anyone could be a role model for people like this as they try to navigate such challenges, it's her. None of the others give a shit at all.
Hillary is the only one who has spoken about how her faith reconciles with her modern duties... not only things that the people in the OP tend to disagree with like supporting women's reproductive rights and wanting equality for LGBT people, but also things they DO usually support, like bombing the hell out of foreigners. She's actually put a lot of thought into how to keep her faith in the modern world, and if anyone could be a role model for people like this as they try to navigate such challenges, it's her. None of the others give a shit at all.
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Indeed. These people just want to openly exercise bigotry under the guise of religion as some kind of moral authority.
If nothing else, it's nice to finally see that bullshit stance discussions on gay marriage and abortion rights no longer have to come up in a presidential election just to appease this crowd.
lol, their idea of "persecution" is their friends & family not speaking to them..? Because they discriminated against other people in the first place?! WTF, what an insult to people who face actual persecution. I can't wrap my mind around the mental gymnastics that these people contrive to justify their crazy-ass ideals.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
At least they are only socially cut off. If the positions were reversed, they'd probably have gay people's heads cut off.
So they're worried that God is going to nuke America because we're killing unborn babies and letting gays get married. Right, that's what God would be pissed of at. Not the rampant greed, gluttony, hubris and wrath (mass shootings/murder) that have come to define this nation, it's that pesky liberal stuff that he hates.
Count Dookkake
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Waaaah.
Go fuck yourselves, dinosaurs.
Go fuck yourselves, dinosaurs.
But that shit takes work and who has time for that. Much eaier to thump that bible, yell that fags are goin tah hayall and justify your shitty behavior that you're doing the Lord's work. Actually tending to the sick, the poor, the oppressed. Naw, can't do that. Thats why nobody believes them.
Zoe
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Other churches get around that by requiring membership and counseling before use of the venue. Maybe they should have thought of that.
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