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This afternoon while we were eating lunch the topic of my daughter’s upcoming confirmation classes next winter came up. Her older brothers were baptized and confirmed at a church we recently left. The church decided to leave the UMC during the split. We switched to another church that chose to remain within the UMC to stand with our LBGTQ brethren.

While discussing the split my youngest son started questioning the absurdity of the various branches of Christianity and stated that he chooses humanism and rejects the idea of the Christian God. I told him that was fine with me.

After more discussion, I admitted that I primarily only pushed our form of Christianity because I believe in the teachings of Christ, the mission of the United Methodist Church and the benefit of community a church provides. We all need a community and can only effect change in a group.

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When an evangelical pastor rapes a 12 yo, does he wear a condom or does he pray to Jesus for a helping hand with birth control ?

does he pray before or after the rape ?

or is there a mega prayer that covers all the years of rape ?

 

 

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Barbara Phillips Littlepage is either an excellent satirist or a vile cunt.

‘Excellent Satirist - Vile Cunt’ would make a nice double EP title.

 

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5 hours ago, troph said:

Guarantee you he views this new publicity as an attack by Satan on his godly work.  Makes me want to vomit.


evangelical mind - she was an adult !!!

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Wow such fucking generosity !!!! I can only imagine how much they were helping people in actual need …..

 

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8 hours ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Just checking in to see if he was trans or not?

TBD

14 hours ago, troph said:

Guarantee you he views this new publicity as an attack by Satan on his godly work.  Makes me want to vomit.

In the Episcopal church, we are taught that the book of Amos speaks to the heightened responsibility that comes with God’s covenant. The book is addressed to Israel specifically but Christ brings us into God’s line of sight, so to speak, and where he is merciful he is also stern, particularly w/r/t the consequences of not holding up our end, to wit from Amos 5:

18 Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
    That day will be darkness, not light.
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?

21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals;
    your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river,
    righteousness like a never-failing stream!

I guess my question is this: when  these people contemplate the word of God, whom do they think his prophets are addressing, if not themselves?
 

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In the Episcopal church, we are taught that the book of Amos speaks to the heightened responsibility that comes with God’s covenant. The book is addressed to Israel specifically but Christ brings us into God’s line of sight, so to speak, and where he is merciful he is also stern, particularly w/r/t the consequences of not holding up our end, to wit from Amos 5:
18 Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
    That day will be darkness, not light.
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?
21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals;
    your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river,
    righteousness like a never-failing stream!
I guess my question is this: when  these people contemplate the word of God, whom do they think his prophets are addressing, if not themselves?
 

The answer is “not themselves at all.” See….THEY are the prophets…the gods. The laws and admonitions are for lesser men, not them. You know this. Idolatry of self is their actual religion.
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4 minutes ago, troph said:

Ahhhhh, it’s been a good long while since I’ve read the minor prophets. The best of the best imo. Hosea was my go to. I’ve always despised hypocrisy and the short cuts taken to appear righteous. And the minor prophets were arguably the best at the call out. 

 

For real/ but serious question, do evangelicals regard these prophecies (or Amos, in any case) as directed at them? IOW, who do they think God is talking to? 

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12 minutes ago, troph said:

Today’s evangelicals are off the fucking reservation. 

So it's different now than it used to be? Keep in mind, my closest brush with evangelicals was elders of the local Church of Christ showing up on our front porch one evening around 1981 to tell my parents that I would go to hell if they didn't change my name, among other things.  I'm not angry about it and never have been. I understand they were trying to be the righteous and literally trying to save souls, but did they not have any beams in their own eye to deal with  before they confronted 7 year olds and young parents at home for nothing more than the wrong identity or word on a piece of government paper?

It's just an interpretation of the gospel that's foreign to me, and I don't understand how it works or whats different about today's evangelical fundamentalists.

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17 hours ago, troph said:

And I think one of the biggest risks for non denom churches and how they lost their way is the fact that there is no formal training and no formal oversight.
...
that same fucking zoo could easily be turned into radical political activists in no time because of no oversight or formal training.

It's funny.  No one would think of trusting their physical health to a health care professional with no education, yet many of the same people would trust their spiritual health to an untrained "preacher."

 

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5 minutes ago, troph said:

it's people who "God spoke to" who are leading this movement

And what makes that even better is 1) you have fucking nimrod assholes who are self-declared "people who God spoke to," and 2) if you DARE question them, the rebuttal is "how DARE you question GOD!"

It's fucking medieval idiocy.

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47 minutes ago, TeeDubya said:

It's funny.  No one would think of trusting their physical health to a health care professional with no education, yet many of the same people would trust their spiritual health to an untrained "preacher."

 

I just recall my experience with jury duty in Dallas County for a malpractice case. Woman there with her child screaming about how she doesn’t trust doctors. Now, maybe she was just trying to get out of jury duty (like we all were), but god damn she sold it well. 
 

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18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

2) if you DARE question them, the rebuttal is "how DARE you question GOD!"

 

Just like politics, when your second point is rebutted with, "so you DARE question GOD's ability to use women in the pulpit or LGBTQ folk as clergy?"

"THAT'S DIFFERNT!!!"

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1 hour ago, TeeDubya said:

Just like politics, when your second point is rebutted with, "so you DARE question GOD's ability to use women in the pulpit or LGBTQ folk as clergy?"

"THAT'S DIFFERNT!!!"

When I challenge them with their attempt to nullify the sovereignty of God by not embracing his freedom to choose whomever he wants in ministry, they get angry. Then I ask how comfortable are they in limiting/restricting/ confining God to just what he chooses to disclose about himself in Scripture, they look confused.

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On 6/18/2024 at 9:12 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

TBD

In the Episcopal church, we are taught that the book of Amos speaks to the heightened responsibility that comes with God’s covenant. The book is addressed to Israel specifically but Christ brings us into God’s line of sight, so to speak, and where he is merciful he is also stern, particularly w/r/t the consequences of not holding up our end, to wit from Amos 5:

18 Woe to you who long
    for the day of the Lord!
Why do you long for the day of the Lord?
    That day will be darkness, not light.
19 It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.
20 Will not the day of the Lord be darkness,not light—
    pitch-dark, without a ray of brightness?

21 “I hate, I despise your religious festivals;
    your assemblies are a stench to me.
22 Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
    I will not accept them.
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
    I will have no regard for them.
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.
24 But let justice roll on like a river,
    righteousness like a never-failing stream!

I guess my question is this: when  these people contemplate the word of God, whom do they think his prophets are addressing, if not themselves?
 

Amos was a hell of a man

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Fuck MS13 insurance there is a remote chance something might actually happen, this is the ticket right here.  A monthly title insurance subscription plan for a plot of land in heaven is what we need to do.   

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3 hours ago, Pancho said:

 

 

11 minutes ago, BamaATL said:

Fuck MS13 insurance there is a remote chance something might actually happen, this is the ticket right here.  A monthly title insurance subscription plan for a plot of land in heaven is what we need to do.   

Given the graphics, this appears to be a Hispanic/Latina church.  This is going to read awkwardly, but we all know it to be true.  You can let them sell these "Heavenly plots of land."  But we could start a property insurance plan tomorrow for said plots of land that guarantee that no 'undesirable" Latinos or Blacks or Asians will be allowed to live near your plot.  And if they do somehow end up there, this insurance plan will recoup your money and relocate you to another cloud with people more like you, or even whiter.  Jokes aside, we could do this and have enough money by 31 July to get a suite at DKR for Surly and fund every single tailgate and NIL project immamac has in mind.  

'Heavenly Hatred Insurance', for when the darker ones come for your afterland.  And they will.'  

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40 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

May as well bring back indulgences. 

Surprised it hasn't been "resurrected". Damn Trent. 

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48 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

 

Given the graphics, this appears to be a Hispanic/Latina church.  This is going to read awkwardly, but we all know it to be true.  You can let them sell these "Heavenly plots of land."  But we could start a property insurance plan tomorrow for said plots of land that guarantee that no 'undesirable" Latinos or Blacks or Asians will be allowed to live near your plot.  And if they do somehow end up there, this insurance plan will recoup your money and relocate you to another cloud with people more like you, or even whiter.  Jokes aside, we could do this and have enough money by 31 July to get a suite at DKR for Surly and fund every single tailgate and NIL project immamac has in mind.  

'Heavenly Hatred Insurance', for when the darker ones come for your afterland.  And they will.'  

"Wait a minute - if there are Latinos / Blacks / Asians anywhere near us, that CAN'T be heaven.  What kinda "fine print" bullshit are you trying to pull here?" /MAGA
 

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1 hour ago, BamaATL said:

Fuck MS13 insurance there is a remote chance something might actually happen, this is the ticket right here.  A monthly title insurance subscription plan for a plot of land in heaven is what we need to do.   

The possibilities are endless:

Heaven Home Builder

Heaven Realtor/Broker

Heaven Pool Installer

Heaven concierge medicine contracts

Heaven law services

I see an entire new cottage industry to suck the idiots dry.   

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2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Football booster club is a better alternative.

No. lol

I was in the football and baseball booster clubs for multiple sons. Glad to be out of it now.

Half the interactions were like this.

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Posted in the education thread too, Oklahoma Supreme Court rejects zealots' attempts at a publicly funded Catholic charter school. What pisses me off the most is that the Archbishop in OKC and the Bishop of Tulsa are listed as the members of the school and have been promoting it publicly. Just more proof that religious folks give zero shits about anyone but themselves. So glad I broke free of my catholic upbringing. 

https://www.kjrh.com/news/local-news/ok-supreme-court-rules-catholic-charter-school-unconstitutional?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR39xW5jcAgzZfMfsBee4oVbjdvBFKVamIkwf1k6IaMTb5hU1KcvnM58Row_aem_zTyYgW4254OY1DuZJqEheQ

 

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And that end of work, end of life, Sabbath, heaven master planned community, ready to move in on Sundays...Home Builder for the 7-days of your ascension?  You guessed it.  David WEEKLY

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29 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

I can tell this is scam because no way God is speaking Mexican or using metric units.  We don’t do those things here in the USA. 


only commies and hippies use the metric system !!!



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