• FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I hate AI generated imagery, but I do appreciate that there are always little rewards for not paying attention where/how you're supposed to:

    In this case I particularly like the first angel on the left's barbecue fork

  • ButtBidet [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    I guess I missed that bit in the bible where Jesus takes up a sword. It must have been in those prequels that no one watches.

    • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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      7 months ago

      there's basically everything in the bible lol

      Matthew 10:34-36 English Standard Version Not Peace, but a Sword 34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. 36 And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      It's in Revelations, which I guess counts as a sequel?

      And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      (im at the very very top middle tbh, i think of Ukraine-Russia like World War 1)

      • destroyamerica@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        for my 2 cents, i think that's understandable but also misses that america is the dominating imperialist force in a way that britain wasnt any where close to being in the same ballpark as dominant as the United States, who has largely united the west under NATO in a way that would be inconceivable to the powers of WW1, and thus we can't copy paste our analsysis from communists during WW1. In addition, Russia currently serves as a very important ally to the PRC, DPRK, and other countries in the global south struggling to overthrow US hegemony

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          7 months ago

          Yeah all true- if Russia even slightly stopped being a conservative capitalist hellscape I would swing all the way over there. And I understand that Nato has basically knowingly ensured the current war, but it doesn't fully excuse it

          WWI's combatants pre-revolution weren't completely morally equivalent but definitely were relatively close

      • iridaniotter [she/her]
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        7 months ago

        I disagree that Russia is imperialist, but I have seen quite a few other Marxists take this position, so you're certainly not alone.

  • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    So do you think that when Muslims decided that they shouldn't depict Mohammad in their art, it was actually a prescient warning about tacky AI art bullshit? They just wanted to avoid this nonsense in the future?

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      7 months ago

      i think iconoclasm does genuinely emerge from an instinct that shitass art of holy thing would be bad, but one didn't need AI to reach the conclusion art can be cringe

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      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        7 months ago

        Yeah, it's probably far more likely they saw all the weird ideas Christians had about depicting the baby Jesus with an adult's face and just decided to opt out.

      • oregoncom [he/him]
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        7 months ago

        Don't you dare insult minature grown man baby Jesus! I'll have you know the Jesus Homonculus is the only canonical way to portray Infant Jesus and anyone who disagrees is a heretic.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        7 months ago

        In ancient times, if you were conquered by a foreign army, your statues and graven images could just be re-labelled as their God(s), whereas if you had an iconoclastic tradition based in the written word, it was much harder to destroy your traditions.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      7 months ago

      Depictions of Jesus aren’t really encouraged by Christianity either, technically. Catholics will claim they only use it to “aid” their worship lol. But tell them you don’t want any drawings or figures of Jesus or other biblical things in your home because you’re a traditionalist and watch them call you disrespectful

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    2 months ago

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    • Maturin [any]
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      7 months ago

      Well, since most Zionists are Christian and the religious basis of Zionism is an evangelical reading of the new testament, this actually is pretty on the nose.

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        2 months ago

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        • emizeko [they/them]
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          7 months ago

          they're just going by numbers I think. the number of Christian Zionists in the USA well outnumbers the number of Israeli Zionists

  • highduc@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    If Satan's tail is between his fingers, what's the noodly thing next to his forearm? 😱