Plenty of Conservatives wouldn’t be so terminally angry about women dressing immodestly if they didn’t also think that masturbation is wrong. You ought to learn to surf the flow of the horny.
Yeah but you see, to the conservative, it’s the woman’s fault he’s horny so he’s going to control the woman.
Jesus: The rich are sinful, good deeds matter more than identity, people must choose to join us, be good to others.
Supposed followers of Christ’s teachings: Yeah, we’re gonna listen to like, none of that.
I find it real funny that a food not bombs I used to volunteer at a few years back had no christians in it. Just atheists, pagans, muslims, and jews.
Like, the people who worship Jesus, a person who would love the idea of people making food for the needy, did not participate.
I mean, I might have seen some radical catholics show up if I was living in an area with more catholics, but that wasn’t the case. For whatever reason the only radical (left wing/anti-war) christians I’ve ever met have been deeply catholic.
Here in the UK, food banks are very often run by churches. My wife routinely buys stuff she knows they need. We are both Christians.
the swedish church, which is the largest religious organization here afaik, is explicitly pro-LGBT and will go out of their way to tell intolerant people to pound sand
Paul overwrote all of that. Christ is a mascot, not an actual authority.
I enjoy the super human flexibility necessary to make the eye of the needle parable pro-wealth.
And it’s not even pro-wealth, at most it’s “maybe He meant it’s just very very hard instead of impossible”. And then pretend it can be ignored.
Evangelicals: “Jesus? Who? You mean Paul, right?”
It’s astonishing how pretty much everything distasteful in the new testament comes from Paul. If you took him out you’d lose 70% of the story but it would be so much more palatable as a religious text
Fucking this. The amount of Evangelicals who cite Paul as if he’s CHRIST HIMSELF really fucking boils my piss. I have to stop and tell them “that’s not JESUS you’re citing, but Paul, try again.”
Part of the mental gymnastics they use to justify putting Paul on the level of Jesus is that the holy spirit (Jesus’ gaseous state) was speaking through the apostles.
My gaseous state also speaks
Paul who never met Jesus? Yep that Paul
Literally Jesus: “Love each other as I have love you”.
Conservative Christians: Did this morherfucker command me to hate any single human being for any dumbr reason? I think he did.
I had a family member once tell me that I have to hate the people that God hates. I don’t think so.
“sure, so no one? since, you know, god is all-loving”
[27] "You have heard that it was said, `You shall not commit adultery.' [28] But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. [29] If your right eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. [30] And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away; it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.Damn I didn’t know Jesus was chill like that
Counter point: literally the next two verses
31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’ 32 But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.Not to mention that “adultery in his heart” is essentially thought-crime, which I personally find rather unchill and not based.
No, what he’s saying is that since all actions start with a thought (for example, one does not just commit adultery; there’s a period of “I wouldn’t mind a bit of that”), it can be helpful to consider the thought as bad as the action for the purpose of weeding that behaviour out of our lives. Not that the thought is as bad as the action, because clearly it isn’t. Continuing with the example: when we find ourselves thinking like that, it is at that point we should catch ourselves and think about something else instead. Attempting to stop yourself just before you rip her knickers off is unlikely to be quite as successful.
Similarly 29 and 30 are not suggestions of actual self-mutilation. Your eye cannot cause you to sin; it is exaggeration for the sake of making the point. You see something, you think about it, then you act on that thought. But if the act is sinful then we should attempt to stop the act at the earliest possible point.
Thoughtcrime requires crime, which is when punishment is in the control of cops. Jesus says that righteousness should only be self-enforced or God-enforced
