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  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    If she really took Christ's teachings seriously and really wanted to be his follower, she'd have to take care of the poor, hungry, cold, refugees, the spurned and oppressed - and that includes taking up the struggle for LGBT rights - all without preaching to them or condescending to them. Jesus was very clear about how to act as his follower.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Evangelicals, and probably tradcaths too, are starting to turn on Jesus. Like explicitly stating to their religious leaders that Jesus is a wuss and they can't do that turn the other cheek crap in the face of the liberal threat. They're complaining Jesus is too woke. It's great. I love it. I am super enthusiastic bout this, the greatest of all anime betrayals.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          1 year ago

          afaik, yeah, basically. They're the same kind of brainworms as the Evangelical Christian Fascists with a thin Catholic veneer. I think most of them denounce the pope? Basically just more of the schismatic hard-right-wing reactionary heresies that America nurtures like mushrooms in shit. It'd be fun to get a list of world religions and see just how many of them have a wildly heretical American-spawned schismatic sect.

          • UlyssesT [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            It'd be fun to get a list of world religions and see just how many of them have a wildly heretical American-spawned schismatic sect.

            There's Canadian MAGA and Australian MAGA. It's real and it's fucked. trump-moist

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Some freeze-gamer I know went "tradcath" after years of Warhammer 40K bullshit and "ironically" spouting Imperium of Man fascist shit. It wasn't their only influence (up-yours-woke-moralists likely had more to do with it) but it contributed.

      • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        I know a lot of very very evangelical people and i aint ever heard this shit from them in my life lol u sure this isnt some weirdo twitter screechers

        • spectre [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It's not the same as what they said, but people I know who work at a church have told me that it's not unheard of for someone who donates a lot to the church to talk to the pastor about talking less about Jesus in the sermon. It might be exaggerated (maybe not idk), and it's not a majority opinion (or is it?), but the energy is there.

        • Juice [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          There was a story the other week interviewing reverends and priests saying that their parishioners are complaining about Jesus's teachings being too woke.

    • Florist [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      If Jesus was so clear on how to act as his follower, why are there so many Christian sects?

      • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        A lot of political concerns overtook religious ones. Some of the religious fights got substituted for political economic struggles, for example the donatism heresy happened because a bunch of berber christian priests were persecuted by the Romans in North Africa and led a struggle against them - and they lost, and instead of martyring some of the priests renounced Christianity. Later when it was safe they rejoined but there was resentment that these people shouldn't be able to do that and they were punished by people saying that these priests shouldn't be capable of giving communion or blessings as they ought to be sinless to do so. Jesus told people that those who haven't sinned should cast the proverbial stone but that teaching was discounted because people were mad that these priests renounced Christianity to save their own hides.