IF I was still religious, I'd wonder if Satan, as once before, made a [new] bet with GOD as he did (and lost) when Job proved GOD correct by not allowing himself to be corrupted by hardships Satan placed on him.
Perhaps this time, Satan bet that he could corrupt, not 1 man, but the religion itself.
I’m not a believer, but judging from how evil the God character in the Bible is and the person who just got elected, it makes me think God is actually real.
Yes. Yet here we are with the church being the reason that awful person was elected. Somehow the “church” truly believes that a man that demonizes immigrants, belittles the poor, mocks the disabled and refers to himself as the chosen one is somehow the Christian choice.
We were gifted the potential for reason. Some use it to see the world as it is, and to make things better when they can. Some use it to to find a way to justify what they already want. They chose lies over truth, because I think they wanted followers more than actual Christian values.
It used to be where the Church was about helping the poor, the sick & elderly & because of that the Government gave them tax exempt status but then the Great Depression hit & their help began to wane but they still benefited from tax exempt status. Now they are big business & many are self serving.
The Talibangelist Apocalyptic Ignoranus Assholtarians are full of Abrahamic Fascist authoritarian, patriarchal, misogynistic oppression and evil personified...
All abrahamic religions are schizophrenic. Proof no peace amongst the three brothers. Islam, chistian and jew. Killing in the name of salvation. Christianity is prison for the mind.
When white evangelicals went to Africa/Latin America to convert the poor, it was game over for Christianity.
They didn't understand the damage they would do, and they were so arrogant in what they did. Then they sent the PROSPERITY Gospel, telling all those people GOD WANTS YOU TO BE RICH😞🤦♀️😡
Then they white washed him because the story was too good not to tell but it couldn't be a Brown guy if the chosen ones (the Royals) were supposed to be white.
If Jesus comes now he will again be crucified by his own followers for being "woke". Jesus doesn't deserve to die for anyone's sin whether he is God's son or not. He deserves better.
I have long argued that evangelicals have always been for C'thulhu that their book is in fact written by his will exerting overwhelming influence on the minds of early cultists as Dead C'thulhu lays dreaming in his house at R'lyeh(ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn). ...
I’m a Christian and I’m 100% against Trump. He brings division and is an anti Christ! The Bible says you’ll know them by their fruits. The proof is in the pudding, as they say!
I'm sorry, but the Bible is not the "Greatest Story Ever Told". It's the Most Nonsensical Story Ever Told. Satan sneaks into the garden as a snake, tricks Adam and Eve into sinning and God then proceeds to punish humanity rather than Satan by putting Satan in charge of humanity for 6000+ years?!
That's like a creepy guy molesting a child and then someone saying, "Sorry kid. But you know that creepy guy that molested you? Well, I'm going to see that you'll have to continue to deal with him and that he remains a part of your life, then your kids' life, then your grandkids..."
I read the entire Bible and came out of it atheist. I'm now 100% for teaching the Bible in school. ALL of it. All of the ridiculous contradictions and absurdity and showing people what's really in their holy book that they've never read.
I'm very spiritual, but not religious. I believe in a higher power, but as you said, due to the contradictions and absurdity of much of the Bible, I'm convinced that isn't the answer.
And don't even get me started on the wars, conflicts, animal sacrifices, and even hate that book spews.
Technically speaking, the serpent in the garden wasn't Satan, but many religious folks think that the serpent in the garden was Satan simply because later Satan is refered to as "the serpent of old" but never directly confirms that the serpent in the garden is the devil. Its just interpretation.
The way I see it -
Adam & Eve were given EVERYTHING, except a stupid piece of fruit - the Apple.
Humanity: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE GOD, forgive us!!!
GOD: Ok, I'm sending my SON.
Humanity: Sacrifices his SON, JESUS
GOD: (face-palm)
Humanity: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE GOD, forgive us!!!
JESUS: Oye
Your ignorant belief in Christ is why we’re up to our necks in fascist morons who think Trump is the next messiah. You can either stand with your feet on the Bible with the rest of them, or grow the fuck up and realize Christians have been the targets of the Heritage Foundation for half a century.
It has nothing to do with actual belief. Jesus was a social revolutionary figure at the end of the day. And at the end of the day, Trump is the exact opposite of Jesus. Those that worship their own salvation over following the literal words of the person they claim is the SON OF GOD refuse to see it
Yeshua was the name Mary used to call Him to breakfast. There was no letter J in aramaic. He over and over again made clear His Kingdom was not of this world. And those that manipulated people through money He literally beat them with a belt. In the last days up to the very elect will be deceived.
The original writings of the early church never even called him holy or claimed crucifixion. Much of that was added generations later, many after Paul corrupted the church with his conflicting writings. Jesus never actually claimed to be the only son of God, only that he was a Child of Creation
It says Jesus made a whip & chased the money changers out of the temple for fleecing the people but I don’t think He hit anyone. That’s not the person that I believe He was.
Wolves are pretty wonderful and being tortured and shot to extinction by big $$ cattle ranchers. So maybe a better metaphor. The demon wolf metaphor is overused and has always been a lie.🙏
The religious elite are exactly who the Bible warns us against following. They are who Jesus drove out of the temple with a whip. Nothing has changed. They still control the masses through lies and hypocrisy.
This is the e’djt’s mantra, of sorts.
a metaphor, to "run the table" means to dominate your competitor so thoroughly that they never really had a chance to play,
Meaning 👁️🔔👁️ eyeballs.
Something the Dems are having getting their arms around more than bad man, that ran the “Table, Rule of Law. “
The evangelicals and Christians have been waiting for the Antichrist since the Jesus and when he arrives showing all the things to watch for they elect him for president. The war in the ME is something that they are salivating over. Fires, floods from climate change, bring it on. Mike Huckabee YEH
The funniest thing to me is that if you believed in signs from gods, they would have seemed pretty clear.
A blue bird lands on Bernie sanders podium to listen to his speech. An American eagle, the symbol of this country, attacked trump in the oval office.
I'm not even religious, and I saw it.
If I were religious then I would take that as a sign, lol. Not to mention the blue bird of twitter was disfigured into a lifeless X, n mass exodus is happening frm that X to where the blue sky is. It's like moses leading his people away from Egypt, then when soldiers followed they drowned/blocked.
A blue bird 🐦 is still symbolically linked with hope/faith. Twitter USED to be a good place, but it's our 'X' now just like it wanted. Fitting that it was changed to reflect what it is: empty. Butterflies are linked with small changes in the system resulting in large events: The Butterfly Effect 🦋
Yes, that is what has boggled my mind as a Christian, that they would follow such heinous people. But I know that many, including within my own family, were programmed by proven psychological and marketing strategies that have been reinforced to infinity by the sycophants and media. IT CAN BE UNDONE
Yes, that is what has boggled my mind as a Christian, that they would follow such heinous people. But I know that many, including within my own family, were programmed by proven psychological and marketing strategies that have been reinforced to infinity by the sycophants and media. IT CAN BE UNDONE
Yes, and from what we heard from many before the election, former Trump/MAGA loyalists, all it takes is ONE scale falling away, one chink in the armor, and they begin to thirst more of the light of knowledge that they weren't open to before. Slowly, Truth wins out & the scales fall off completely!
I doubt this meme is gona change anyone's mind. I wish it was that easy. To me its funny, but a waste of energy. Would a catchy phrase turn you evangelical? Its kinda the same. Try and think of what might work on you, and apply it. Call your congressman if some shady shits going down at church.
I agree because the God I was raised to believe in was a giving and loving God. I also believe that we are being tested, and I hope that they're trying to do their best
Matthew 24:24, Jesus states that "false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect (Christians who thought they were on the right holy path)
In the most sustained account of the Antichrist's appearance, 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, he is called “the man of sin” and “son of perdition.” He will come at a time of a general apostasy, deceive people with signs and wonders, sit in the temple of God, and claim to be God himself.
God gave us Free Will. He planned we would use it. Most of us have failed. We will be tested again and again, as a group. Somehow, we have to graduate together to the 4th grade cause 3rd grade sucks.
I’m sorry but those Evangelicals were never considered. Thank Ernest Angley for never healing a damn person but made millions conning poor saps into thinking he did.
Part of the problem with this concept- all sides claiming symbolism for their deity's preferences- is that gods don't exist. But humans get to disclaim accountability by using their invisible sky friends as a proxy.
Awesome. But! Its impossible to denie that Donald is about something special. And- in my country Latvia we have a politician Ainars Slesers. Heavily doubted as a someone who works for our nation but its impossible to denie that he also probably is about something. So who is right and who is wrong?
In my view “gods plan” is just a way for humans to express the shared experience of fate. Fate to me can be explain through the theory that time and space are all happening at the same time, we just experience it linearly through our limited perception of reality.
Any all knowing god that interferes with US elections to put pieces of shit like Trump on ballet “as a test” and then does nothing to stop the inauguration… that god is equally morally flawed and should be judged as a piece of shit by its creation as well.
That is really harsh. I would say that God is sleeping on the job, and said he would not destroy the earth again like he did the first time but since we have free will we will destroy ourselves. Sad
I’m more convinced there are no gods rather than ones sleeping on the job. I’m open to an existence of a god, but I reserve belief until the existence is verified by non biased scientific research. As for free will, wether he have such a thing is still philosophically debated
Sorry to hear that, though to an extent I can understand. Looking from the UK, the extent to which the US church has abandoned God in their lust for power is staggering to see.
Don’t be sorry, I did catholic school for years. That doesn’t mean I treat those who feel differently any different. Idc how you live your life. I’m just over it all. I’m sorry that you(the rest of the world) have to deal with our problem. Just know that we’re not all morons and are straight pissed.
I actually think it's no small coincidence that we elect Trump leader of the free world, and then we're visited by a 3-year plague that kills 1 million people.
Absolutely no evidence of that man, please don't be like this.
Thousand of scientists in the world, from different countries, with different interests, didn't all get together to lie to you.
Actually a lot of diseases can be transmitted through animals, especially in an unsanitary environment where the crowd is very numerous. It wouldn't be the first time it happened.
Besides the lab in Wuhan thing is unfounded stuff, they to faced the backlash of the virus...
That's ever so slightly different than your first assertion.
Unless you're suggesting Chinese scientists who hate Trump unleashed a virus on the entire world, including their own cities, to be inconvenient for Trump's political aspirations.
Yes exactly. It was me who engineered the "plague." I specifically made it so that it would only kill republicans and only prop up during trump presidencies. This is all very real and rational reasoning.
Yes. It was actually my pet bat 你这个混蛋. I made sure to cage 你这个混蛋 in a cave full of wild bats to make sure she got sick. I served her to my family who lives in America to collect free social security and not pay taxes. This was also the plan by the CCP. I am very serious and not calling you stupid.
God gave us centuries and centuries to grow our intellectual selves and our spiritual selves and we definitely failed in those areas as the humans that he designed people have not been able to see the force for the trees even though the trees have burnt down
as someone said elsewhere who's a pastor, Trump may not be THE antiChrist, but he's certainly antiChrist, or a dark spirit destroying people and this independent democracy that doesn't have some vain wicked oligarch ruler like so many other countries do, that harms their citizens. Trump wants that!
Earth is just he/she/they/them (God) weeding out the dick bags. People who are just and empathetic get uploaded to the new Earth, he just couldn't do it all at once because they needed to isolate the dicks.
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Perhaps this time, Satan bet that he could corrupt, not 1 man, but the religion itself.
The almighty Pastor Orange
Not for nothing, Pagans, atheists, and agnostics have always known that Evangelicals were never about Jesus or Godly works but trying to turn America into a Western version of Iran
https://www.newsweek.com/evangelicals-rejecting-jesus-teachings-liberal-talking-points-pastor-1818706
They didn't understand the damage they would do, and they were so arrogant in what they did. Then they sent the PROSPERITY Gospel, telling all those people GOD WANTS YOU TO BE RICH😞🤦♀️😡
But I will just say that the story demos our freewill, that we chose to have knowledge, and it comes with the constant temptation of sin.
And don't even get me started on the wars, conflicts, animal sacrifices, and even hate that book spews.
Adam & Eve were given EVERYTHING, except a stupid piece of fruit - the Apple.
Humanity: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE GOD, forgive us!!!
GOD: Ok, I'm sending my SON.
Humanity: Sacrifices his SON, JESUS
GOD: (face-palm)
Humanity: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE GOD, forgive us!!!
JESUS: Oye
a metaphor, to "run the table" means to dominate your competitor so thoroughly that they never really had a chance to play,
Meaning 👁️🔔👁️ eyeballs.
Something the Dems are having getting their arms around more than bad man, that ran the “Table, Rule of Law. “
Whore of Babylon comes to mind.
A blue bird lands on Bernie sanders podium to listen to his speech. An American eagle, the symbol of this country, attacked trump in the oval office.
I'm not even religious, and I saw it.
☮☮~"Just Keeping It Real"~☮☮
In the most sustained account of the Antichrist's appearance, 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, he is called “the man of sin” and “son of perdition.” He will come at a time of a general apostasy, deceive people with signs and wonders, sit in the temple of God, and claim to be God himself.
You're free to make your own choices/think for yourselves, but make the wrong choices or think the wrong thoughts and you will suffer.
Not only you but your children & your children's children too (the fall).
Thank you for posting this.
People behave exactly the way god is described in the Bible. Hateful and stupid.
—Matthew 24:24
If only Christians actually read the book they are trying to force the rest of us to follow.
Or do you think the CCP doesn't hate Trump?
Also, those aren't mutually exclusive options, the CCP can hate Trump, and Covid can come from "bat soup". 🙄
Thousand of scientists in the world, from different countries, with different interests, didn't all get together to lie to you.
But the truth is it came from a lab....the lab in Wuhan to be precise.
Besides the lab in Wuhan thing is unfounded stuff, they to faced the backlash of the virus...
Seems totally legit. LOL
Unless you're suggesting Chinese scientists who hate Trump unleashed a virus on the entire world, including their own cities, to be inconvenient for Trump's political aspirations.
Which, again, seems totally legit. LOL