• GrafZahl [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Ah yes, the food Jesus is most famous for: beef patties.

  • Sealand_macronation [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Did you know Catholics saw open womens' vaginas to help them give birth better? They are not, in fact, made in the image of god lmao

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphysiotomy#Controversial_practices_in_Ireland

  • Barabas [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Lucifarian is a word I've never seen before. Is it just a synonym for Satanist, or is there a Satan worship schism?

    • dontknowoldpassword [love/loves]
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      4 years ago

      Well some people argue lucifer and satan are different beings who both got combined into the devil. Most of the stuff we know about the devil is not in the Bible and some Christians deny there even is a devil. Christian theology is complicated mess of 2000 years of splitters and wreckers and what is true depends entirely on what denomination you belong to and their canon. Here it is synonymous with satanic though yeah.

  • NotAnOp [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Wait, if I no longer am a human, does that mean I would lose my soul? So I wouldn't be brutally punished in hell or heaven? No torture or boot licking for me!

  • TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Okay, question. Didn't Adam and Eve not eat any animals when they were still in Eden? Does that make them non-human until they get cast out? What about the parts of Revelation which suggest that in the end times there would be no more death in the post-millennial paradise (therefore no more slaughtering animals for food)? Jesus himself only ate fish, and if options like tofu had existed in the eastern Mediterranean diet at the time he might not have even done that.

    What's the angle here? That attempting to abandon meat-eating is a denial of original sin or of God's design (which makes it impossible to be Saved)? Why not just make that argument instead of invoking this pseudoscientific bullshit from an obvious position of ignorance? It'd still be wrong, but internally consistent with some interpretation of your archaic belief system. Meanwhile the planet is on fucking fire and we now scientifically understand the role animal agriculture/meat production plays in accelerating that process. Maybe we should...stop doing so much of that. What if that's God's message, asshole?

    • throwaway [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      i literally fainted from lack of b12 while reading this, too complicated ыыы

      edit: anyway, i took my b12 supplements, anyway, i believe this encapsulates a much broader question of how the human mind perceives and adopts foreign ideas and addresses inconsistencies that emerge from contradicting beliefs; i found jonathan haidt's "The Righteous Mind" book shining an interesting light on this issue

      tldr of the book: people are scared of foreign stuff, and other people gaslighting their beliefs onto them while appealing to their emotions seems to be the most effective strategy to convince someone

      disclaimer: the author is probably a lib, but the psychology component is interesting

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        people are scared of foreign stuff, and other people gaslighting their beliefs onto them while appealing to their emotions seems to be the most effective strategy to convince someone

        Takes notes

    • throwaway [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      by the way what is this local marxism-themed stickers set or whatever? (i'm new to this website)

      • Spinoza [any]
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        4 years ago

        they're custom emotes, mostly built and requested by users and site admins, so plenty of them are inside jokes and what have you. type a colon in your comment and then a word and you'll see a list come up.