Ah yes, the racist warrior Jesus killer of innocents cult.
I hope he takes his lethality and shoves it so far up his ass he tickles his tonsils.
“My god is the god of love and compassion, and if you don’t believe in him, fuck you, I hope he kills you before I do.”
He and his entire administration cohort deserve no mercy
When did “cohort” start being used this way outside maybe academic/scientific settings?
I started hearing it a couple of years ago. For 40 years ago it was only ever “you and your cohorts”, more like “gang”.
Cohort has been a military term since at least roman times.
His words are antithetical to Jesus’s teachings. Diametrically opposed even. Perhaps even a smidge Anti-Christ-ian to anyone with morals or brains or a shred of bravery to stand against this? Hmmm?
It irks me when people try and counter this kind of stuff by arguing that Jesus was all about love and peace and kum-bah-yah blah blah blah. Because
- Trying to mount arguments based on logic with these people is an exercise in futility
- If you’ve read the book, he kinda really wasn’t
- His “teachings” are either the fanciful musings of some illiterate shepherds, or state-sanctioned propaganda, and either way, are kind of worthless from a philosophical or moral standpoint
- Most importantly, religion has absolutely no place in government, and that’s what we should be saying every time something like “the monthly Pentagon Christian religious service, headed by one of the highest officials in the federal government” crops up in the news, instead of this pedantic attempt to paint Jesus as some peaceful figure
Pete Hegseth is a weak dork.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, hosting his first monthly Christian worship service at the Pentagon since the Iran war began, prayed Wednesday to have “every round find its mark.”
Right on par with the lunatics in charge of Israel and Iran.
Such a wonderful Christian soul.
Not sure that’s how Christianity is supposed to work…
glances at the history of Christianity
The saddest thing about the history of Christianity is just how juxtaposed it is to the actual theology contained in the new testament. Anytime in history a movement actually starts to apply the actual lessons of Christianity they seem to get hunted down by their fellow Christians.
My dad’s side of the family got kicked out of Europe towards the end of the bohemian reformation, and then got kicked out of colonial georgia for accepting slaves and native Americans into the church.
Jesus is a marketing mascot. Expecting the Christian religion to behave according to the teachings of Jesus is like expecting the Nestle corporation to behave according to the teachings of the Quik Bunny.
There isn’t a religion on the planet that hasn’t been manipulated and misconstrued to encourage violence against others.
It almost seems like that’s the whole point…
“a way of thinking”. It’s not just religion that gets people blood thirsty. It is human nature unfortunately. We need to rise above our animal selves
Yeah, but when a way of thinking is based from the outset around letting authority figures dictate your beliefs it becomes a hell of a lot easier to manipulate. Other ideologies have to at least pretend to be logically coherent. Religion doesn’t have that limitation.
Maybe not how it’s supposed to work, but it is how it’s always worked.
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Don’t cry when violence comes to your doorstep then, Petey.
When you encourage violence against others, you invite it on yourself. It would normally destroy me if I caused grievous harm to another, but Nazis? I could off them and sleep with a clear conscience.
Sooo does he need to be on list for threatening all of Congress…?
Why the fuck is the Pentagon hosting a Christian service anyway?
As an aside, with as evil as they are, we should be calling them The Pentagram.
Don’t put these weirdos in the same boat as satanists, who generally try to actually help the masses.
I think it’s a logical extension of having chaplains in the armed forces. It makes sense, provided that there are services for other denominations including non-denominational. No idea if that’s the situation or not.
I thought the point of Christianity was that everyone deserves mercy?
Theologically speaking, it’s the opposite: nobody deserves mercy, but God gives it to them anyways. But you’d have to open a Bible to know that, which none of these ghouls have.
I thought that was no one deserves God’s mercy. Not that the mewling masses don’t deserve mercy from each other.
Are we really quibbling over the logic in a make-believe book about sky daddy?
What an incredibly apathetic view. Do you dare not learn all you can with what miniscule time we have here? How much history, story, mythos, and philosophy do you miss out on? Are the Vedas treated with such blantant disregard? The Parthenon? Ted Lasso was right, it’s significantly better to be curious and not judgemental.
The point of Christianity is that if you can convince people that they shouldn’t expect any rewards until they die, you get a really compliant set of workers and soldiers who will let you impoverish and mistreat them because “the meek will inherit the earth.” You know, after your value has been fully extracted by the owners.
Christianity went from a cult to a state religion REALLY fast because of this concept.
Not Nazi Christianity.
It is, if you actually believe in it. Unfortunately practically none of them actually do. And discouragingly, most atheists would love for you to believe that the world would be no better off if they actually believed in and followed the teachings of Jesus. It clearly would be. Does that mean Christianity isn’t full of issues? Nope. But it does mean that clearly we’d be better off if people treated each other as they wished to be treated themselves. And yes before the atheists say it, we ALL KNOW this idea is not unique to Christianity. But it’s kind of key to that religion for the small minority of Christians who actually give a shit about it.
And discouragingly, most atheists would love for you to believe that the world would be no better off if they actually believed in and followed the teachings of Jesus.
What a shallow caricature. I’ve never met an atheist who didn’t basically agree with the teachings of Jesus, even if they didn’t believe he existed. But I’ve met many Christians who seemed completely at odds with them.
What a shallow reading of my comment. This thread is full of people raging about Christianity being an evil cult. So I don’t really have to prove that point. Just about any thread on Lemmy where this comes up is the same.
Not long ago someone flipped out on me for making this point, accusing me of defending the church which I hadn’t done in any way. What usually is happening, when people disagree on this, is assumptions are being made about what each party believes. I am sure most atheists would agree with those teachings yes, but online if it comes up you’re either a brainwashed Christian or a hardcore atheist who hates Christianity. At least that’s how people think of each other. The nuance is erased, and it’s a damn shame.
But it does mean that clearly we’d be better off if people treated each other as they wished to be treated themselves
This is a Gnostic point of view, and Gnosticism is opposed by Christianity. The Christian view is to treat others how God wants you to treat them.
It is.
If you consider the Inquisitor Cycle, people do not. Jesus took revenge after the Romans tried to kill him, and refused to die for anyone’s sins. Christianity is based on having no mercy whatsoever.
Christianity is Cobra Kai???
Maybe Terry Silver.
Only for those who have actually read the book…
The problem is what parts you choose to read and focus on. Violent abusers are all about that old testament. The only good Samaritan to them is a dead one. They generally shun the new testament because that’s where all the namby pamby you are your brothers keeper stuff comes in.
Oh, the book is horrendous. Cannot recommend.
But the overarching story of this Jesus character they obsess over, I think that guy had something to say about mercy.
Yep, even their Jesus is OT. A brutal conquering emperor. That would crush all who opposes him. Not a meek man generally preaching tolerance and sacrifice.
I think a lot of them would love to be one of the Romans “helping out”:
You can’t get them with logic
“What’s the 5th commandment Pete?”
The Christian god is actually very wrathful and routinely causes death and suffering in the bible
Well, ya see, they’re morons. That’s why I sacrifice to Odin. You want no mercy? Pray to the guy who hung himself on a tree by choice, not the one who got his pacifist ass nailed to one by the authorities.
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Religion doing what religion does, I see
