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Who needs theology when you have Trump?

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[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I can’t tell if this image is edited or if that’s the real size of his face.

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

This image is definitely edited. They made his face bigger.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why is this guy’s face so tiny?

Must be inferior genes.

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Haha 😂 exactly

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Jesus was a radical left-wing socialist

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No True Scotsman

No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a-posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim. Rather than admitting error or providing evidence that would disqualify the falsifying counterexample, the claim is modified into an a-priori claim in order to definitionally exclude the undesirable counterexample. The modification is signalled by the use of non-substantive rhetoric such as "true", "pure", "genuine", "authentic", "real", etc.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Note that most protestants adhere to Sola fides and Sola Scriptura, which means Kirk and other minister can only offer their stinky opinion. Your relationship to God is between you and Them, and how you personally read the bible (e.g. which passages take priority, which are literal, which are out of date.)

If you're Catholic, then you're bolden to the Pope, the CDF (the Inquisition) and your hierarchy of clergy. But then most Catholics I know are laid back and will chow down steak on Friday and use contraceptives as it suits them. I'm not fully cognizant of how they do it without cognitive dissonance.

Anyhow, this means it's fully possible to be Christian and athiest, though most are still closeted about their atheism.

[–] Halasham@dormi.zone 7 points 6 months ago

Of course not. Religion is a control scheme, if you're not being controlled (by them) than you're not a member of whichever religion they're appealing to in order to control you.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

CORRECT! TRUE Christians ONLY vote REPUBLICAN! And ONLY TRUE Jewie people vote REPUBLICAN! And ONLY TRUE Any Religion without Brown people or Gay people vote REPUBLICAN! And even the Gay Religions ONLY vote Republican!

[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

God that's so greasy

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is interesting, and it's the key way abortion is being positioned.

If you actually believe abortion is murder, there's zero discussion available.

Voting for anyone who supports "murder" is just not an option. .

Obviously I hope it's clear I'm not holding this opinion, but describing it

[–] Rakonat@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Vast majority of these people who say abortion is murder support the death penalty without a blink of the eye, even and especially in cases where there is serious doubts if the accused is the perpetrator of the crime.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think that's because they see children/unborn as innocent/without sin.

They presume (due to "judgement") that criminals that are executed sinned and God is punishing them.

[–] ta_leadran_orm@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Which is ironic since, in Catholicism (at least), people are apparently born with sin, and also everyone can be forgiven. Just shows you how much they really care about what their religion says. They prefer the beliefs that make the world seem a lot more simple than it really is

[–] ghterve@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Who would want to be a Christian?

[–] taanegl@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

You can't be a Charlie Kirk and vote. I mean it's so complicated. You have to do a little checkmark on a ballot, and fold it? What is he, a rocket scientist?

Be like Charlie Kirk. Be unable to vote, but proficient in glue sniffing.