• tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    His words are antithetical to Jesus’s teachings. Diametrically opposed even. Perhaps even a smidge Anti-Christ-ian to anyone with morals or brains or a shred of bravery to stand against this? Hmmm?

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      It irks me when people try and counter this kind of stuff by arguing that Jesus was all about love and peace and kum-bah-yah blah blah blah. Because

      1. Trying to mount arguments based on logic with these people is an exercise in futility
      2. If you’ve read the book, he kinda really wasn’t
      3. His “teachings” are either the fanciful musings of some illiterate shepherds, or state-sanctioned propaganda, and either way, are kind of worthless from a philosophical or moral standpoint
      4. Most importantly, religion has absolutely no place in government, and that’s what we should be saying every time something like “the monthly Pentagon Christian religious service, headed by one of the highest officials in the federal government” crops up in the news, instead of this pedantic attempt to paint Jesus as some peaceful figure
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        So, your argument is “he kinda really wasn’t” peaceful and that it’s more important to oppose religion in government then it is to say they are doing religion wrong?

        Wow it must be hard to be so enlightened.

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          it’s more important to oppose religion in government then it is to say they are doing religion wrong?

          That’s just a non-fundamentalist position, surely?

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            It’s the only rational position lol. There are like 40,000 different denominations of Christianity, telling any one of them that their version of “wrong” is worse than sisyphusian.

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            3 days ago

            Similar to how the person I replied to thinks it doesn’t matter if jesus opposed violence because religion shouldn’t be in government, I believe the US government shouldn’t exist so it’s pointless to discuss if it should include religion or not 🤷‍♀️

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          I mean, yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. It’s not hard at all to be enlightened enough to think religion and government have no business mixing lmao