From someone who lives in this shithole: this has never happened except for maybe a few times on a super edgy atheist subreddit for teenagers.
No white Christian dude in Texas has ever experienced this. We get it, bro. You’re the victim. You and every other Jesus-loving white guy in office right now, passing laws to take away the rights of anyone not like you. Even if this did happen, you’re all victims because a few guys laughed at you while you read your sacred book.
Not in Texas but Oklahoma, and I grew up “Christian” and there was definitely one asshole in high school that just wanted to be that atheist asshole. Like obnoxiously mocking. anyone that mentioned anything about religion.
I’m pretty non religious now and heard that he has since ‘found religion’ but also believed the COVID vaccine was a government conspiracy. So tables have turned a bit there, or maybe he’s just dumb.
I knew those people too. It’s funny because I was the Christian they mocked at the time, but I’ve grown and went through time as an atheist, and am now pagan. For some people I think religious identity is primarily a tool to ensure they feel superior or enlightened, whereas for others it’s a search for an inner or outer truth or something else deep and private, and for others still it’s cultural or just “I don’t buy it”.
It’s easy for all of us to misunderstand each other when often our why is more significant than the conclusion we reach (per my observations). The people who want to feel superior are going to find people they agree with and gloat. The seekers are going to pursue understanding and self mastery. And the others are not going to understand why all of us care so much outside of transitional periods of belief.
Hey AI granny: we don’t look down at you because of your Bible, we look down at you because you act AGAINST the core teachings of the Gospels, such as “love thy neighbor”, yet you insist on cherry-picking ‘n’ thumping over our heads a book whose teachings you don’t understand and if you did, you would REFUSE to follow them… like you already don’t now, and haven’t for your entire goddamned life.
Yeah. We are laughing at them. It’s their own fault for being laughable.
They’ve been doing far, far worse to everyone else for thousands of years, so a bit of online snickering shouldn’t hurt them. Like witch trials, the inquisition, the crusades, the holocaust, lynchings – that’s all fine, but their god forbid we make a few jokes online… that’s too far.
It’s also a religion self-defense. If you tell people early on that their faith will be “tested” they are much harder to reason with because all they are hearing is “Satan is trying to take Jesus away from you” instead of the logical arguments against these made up stories.
To be fair, that stylistic choice was made by the AI. Their prompt was probably “man sits with Bible being laughed at” or something equivalently trite and uncreative/lifeless.
I don’t see any signs of AI, though? Their eyes and eyebrows don’t look like cascading vaginas, they all have 4 fingers, etc.
I guess the lady’s hair on the right and the one finger missing an outline on the left are sus, but I feel like this could just be some regular human trace work.
It’s easy to make fun of this, but the sentiment it’s expressing explains so much about how Christians and conservatives in general are motivated.
The first premise is that conservatives in general are fixated on what’s “normal”. It’s very important to them that they’re in the mainstream and the majority. But they see faces that aren’t like theirs in the media, on the streets, and worst of all in power. Their favorite show expresses values they don’t hold. All the institutions celebrate black history and LGBT pride.
This is a problem because if what’s normal changes, they’ll have to change to be normal. Or even worse, they’ll be excluded from the normal. This is a threat to their identities.
This is how I understand irrational Conservative issues like the ‘war on woke’ or the ‘border crisis’. Trump speaks to this fear and anxiety in everything he does. When they say that “he’s come to save us” that’s what they’re talking about.
Which is ironic because the progressive ideal is to leave the concept of “normal” behind entirely and embrace new different things instead of excluding those who are different.
if what’s normal changes, they’ll have to change to be normal. Or even worse, they’ll be excluded from the normal.
Based on how much time I spend voluntarily associating with any openly conservative family members or coworkers these days (none), my anecdotal evidence is that this is already happening.
They are bringing it on themselves, but there’s really no point trying to tell them that.
Thing is, they are. Not because they’re Christians (most people don’t care), not because they’re reading the bible (Most of them don’t anyway), but because they post shitty memes like this to feed their victimization fetish.
i care that they’re christians. i grew up in the bible belt south in the 80’s. fuck these people. they wanna ruin my life? i’ll gladly return the favor.
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