Conservatives Christians really think this image of Jesus is about him going into the temple to throw out all the woke they/them liberals using the lord's house to eat avocado toast and complain about climate change or some shitHow conservative christians became the greatest opponent of environmentalism will likely forever remain a mystery for me. If there is one thing worth conserving it would be gods creation surely?
Same way they can look at the metaphor for capitalists are destined for hell a la stuffing a camel through the eye of a needle unharmed - by choosing to interpret the eye of a needle to actually mean a gate arch or some shit.
Instead of changing yourself to follow the beliefs in the word of your God, you change your God's words to follow your beliefs.
Well, on the one hand, you have an old book you might read all the way through once (but probably not) that says to be responsible stewards of the earth. But on the other hand, you have people on the TV every night telling you to support whatever makes corporations the most money.
Old ideas can have value but it's hard to compete with new ideas when those new ideas have a lot more money and can be crafted to appeal to a specific audience (regardless of what's true).
I always figured their reply would be “Well, if the environment is going to shit that that’s what God wants. Don’t question his master plan. He only does things or let’s things happen for a reason.”
The faster we ruin the earth the closer we get to the apocalypse the sooner Christ returns and Yadda Yadda Yadda or some shit.
"the earth was always meant to be temporary" is one I heard. Which for one thing rests on some heavy assumptions but also it is murder according the Jesus to be ok with your actions killing some farmer in Angola
A chunk of my extended family buys into this and it is part of why I don't ever visit them anymore. A couple of them listen to radio stations that preach this 24/7. Grandma was really religious and was the kind of person to hire immigrants, underpay them, then complain about immigrants being moneyless sinners. That side of the family amazes me...
Well that's Calvinists for you. I don't know why anyone ever listened to that guy but I sure wish they would stop
Because that would require a modicum of critical reasoning and the willingness to occasionally and ever-so-slightly sacrifice for the benefit of others.
Just remember that the group you're describing are conservatives first and foremost. Christianity and the GOP are just their current excuses for their selfishness.
Have you seen the episode of Avatar where the fortune teller said the village wouldn't be destroyed by the volcano?
We believe the world won't be destroyed by mankind.
And a lot of anti-environmentalists are hunters and farmers. Like... ¿¿¿What???
yeah but if they actually read the Bible they would probably notice that they are exactly the same people as the pharisees
We love to interpret Jesus as an proto-anarchist terrorist on hexbear.
Yeah we have a ton of really obscure ones that are barely ever used because we've been adding to the list for the last three years, iirc we had around ~1150 before federation but since then we've added a load more so idk how many we've got now
iirc we had around ~1150 before federation but since then we've added a load more so idk how many we've got now
Probably like...
1984
You missed the part where they said, "No I don't, but I'll ruin your life if you teach it!"
It's only taught in higher ed, so this clearly didn't happen. /s
"Conservative Christian" is and oxymoron but having never read any Jesus, its easy to identify that way.
First of all you don't become a conservative Christian by being willing to read. So lets imagine DeSantis misspoke and said "The only way to ensure that Trump can violate The Constitution and overthrow our democracy is to read the New Testament and understand it"
Here are some probable outcomes:
- They see that Jesus is a leftist and can no longer call themselves Christian, when asked their religion they say "none, atheiest".
- They see that Jesus is a leftist and conclude that the bible was simply written by leftists and that it isn't true.
- They see that Jesus has good ideas, unconsciously redefine what conservative means to them, and stay quiet until someone they considerd a friend angrily calles them a libtard for stating one of jesuses teachings in disagreement of something thet had repeated from facebook.
- They see that Jesus is a leftist, they trust in their lord choosing his love and reason over the hatred and fear of man and can no longer call themselves a conservative.
- They conclude that Pontius Pilate and the Roman government where the good guys and Jesus was an evil libtard who earned his crusofiction and they start worshoping Pilate instead.
- The whole thing goes over the readers head
- They strengthen their belief by ignoring parts that clearly don't fit their belief, and twisting anything that can kind of fit their beliefs.
Can we make c/politicalmemes and keep this sort of content there? It's clearly a point of division in the community, we should be more accommodating for apolitical folks.
It brings me no joy to say this, but everything is political.
There's no such thing as 'apolitical'. The very idea of leaving politics to our superior politicians is what brought us and keeps us in this state.
This is not at all a political issue however. This is about not being a trash human being. Being racist is not a political opinion, it's spreading hatred in the world and being a waste of skin.
I'm not arguing for or against of what the post says, I'm only saying that the designated place for funny cat pictures is probably not the right place for a meaningful discussion, sharing opinions, education or anything else but funny cat pictures.
When i browse c/memes I want to see easily digestible posts that will make me exhale through my nose, not deep, thought provoking walls of text.
What is political about critical race theory? Is math also political?
Is math also political?
Yes. Statistics for example gets politicized all the time, remember when Trump said not to monitor for covid because monitoring it will only find more cases?
Also, possibly the most classic example of misuse of statistics in politics is the assertion of "statistics show black people commit more crimes per capita than white people." When in reality, black people in the West have much lower median incomes than white people due to their long history of facing marginalization and descrimination, and it's income that is correlated to crime, not race. We know this because when you normalize for income, there is no difference in crime rates yet that fallacious statistic gets brought up by racists again and again to justify their racism.
People come here to get away from the depressing reality of life, not to be overburdened by it.
I don't see why you're downvoting this. By that logic, you might as well post this in food communities and furry porn communities as well.
