Could you imagine being all powerful and creating same-sex attraction (or at least allowing it to be possible), but being so butthurt by it that you have to give babies cancer?
Well, that’s two religions, which are both part of the same family and are even arguably the same religion. That data doesn’t tell us anything about Shintos, Haudenosaunee, Sihks, Maori, Hellenists, Aztecs, realists, pantheists, Buddhists, Celts, or any number of other religions I could name.
The problem is that people go their whole lives where the only religious people they interact with are Abrahamists, so they think Abrahamism is representative of all religions. But that’s an extraordinarily sheltered viewpoint, and no good has ever come of dismissing foreign cultures out of hand with no relevant data.
I mean, I get that this is basically the last standing GOP policy, but to read those verses correctly, you have to remember that "to suffer" is another way to say "to put up with," and he's talking to his disciples, not the children. He's just saying "Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!"
That is why they selectively read from passages - both amongst themselves (ignoring the parts where they were commanded to help others) and those they had read aloud to their slaves (there is where they read all those other passages!).
Picking and choosing whatever people would like to believe - e.g. “God wants me to be RICH!” - is a very lucrative business model for pastors/priests/ministers. And quite a comfortable one for the believer too. None of those pesky “commands” like how the worker deserves his wages.
It is exactly like how on January 6 the self-styled “patriots” rose up to “defend” American democracy. Jesus / God’s message - Love One Another - is fantastic, too bad the religion part gets in the way of it.
Oh yes, I totally believe that they were really going to donate $7600, yep. And now they're definitely going to give $7600 to St. Jude's. Yeah right. I'll bet they've never given a dime to anyone and don't leave tips either.
You can do what you want with your own money, but it costs nothing to keep your bigoted opinions to yourself. Also, the quotes around "hateful" trigger me a bit. It wasn't "hateful", it was straight-up hateful.
it costs nothing to keep your bigoted opinions to yourself
I used to not understand the concept of opportunity costs but now I'm beginning to believe that there is such a thing even when spouting disgusting, obnoxious, dogshit opinions. Like, some people in the world are losing out if they don't take an opportunity to slander and disparage someone else.
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