Religion: Catholics, Episcopalians, Atheists, All Are Welcome!

[state of hockey]

This is spectacular.

I can feel it is coming to a close, so I stop laughing a bit and take a moment to breathe. Right then the microphone tapping hits and I nearly fall over.

[MissThundercat]

This week in history, around 500 years ago, the Catholics massacred the Huguenots.

[Kepler]

This week in history, around 500 years ago, the Catholics massacred the Huguenots.

Missed a few.

[MissThundercat]

Per Evangelicals, empathy is a sin.

But even though Desiring God and more of their outlets started declaring it, this is something they've been thinking since time began.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Per Evangelicals, empathy is a sin.

Of course it is. To have empathy would require too much learning and thinking on the part of the believer, and we all know that too much learning and thinking eventually leads to questions about dogma, doctrine, and eventually faith itself.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Got a handwritten letter from the Witnesses today. I'm on their list because I tried to hook one of them up with a job at my then-employer years ago after he helped me change a blown out tire. They're a plucky bunch, I'll give them that, but definitely at or near the bottom of the list of faiths I'd remotely consider ever converting to. Given their proclivities about blood transfusions, I wonder what their stance on the COVID vaccine is. I bet I can guess.

[MissThundercat]

Of course it is. To have empathy would require too much learning and thinking on the part of the believer, and we all know that too much learning and thinking eventually leads to questions about dogma, doctrine, and eventually faith itself.

This is what I grew up with. Poor and minorities were always "those people."

When I revealed myself to be one of "those people," the chorus of coded "**** you" wouldn't stop until I distanced myself from it.

[Kepler]

Atheists understand and perform far better Christianity than those people.

Matthew 23:1-4

[MissThundercat]

It's hurricane season. Joel Osteen is making sure all the doors to his "church" are locked.

[MissThundercat]

"We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn."

Honey, your grandma was a Baptist.

[Kepler]

"We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn."

Honey, your grandma was a Baptist.

And..?

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

The most accurate statement on Joel osteen you’ll ever read

https://twitter.com/gjmcclintock/sta...114901507?s=21

[Kepler]

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/...gods-judgment/

Radical right-wing pastor Shane Vaughn used his livestream broadcast Monday night to falsely declare that COVID-19 vaccines are not working because, he claimed, the United States is under God’s judgment for tolerating reproductive freedom and LGBTQ rights.

“I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you,” Vaughn said. “They’ve got variants coming that ain’t no vaccine going to work for. This nation is under the judgment of God. And I want to tell you something right now: They’re already admitting that the vaccine is alarmingly not working. Alarmingly! They’re alarmed at what they’re seeing. Do you know why? Because America, you’re making a huge mistake.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge45R9qoW_Y

[MissThundercat]

From Meghan Danzig:

.Hey I don't know who needs to hear this but the creators of Veggietales were given explicit instructions not to insinuate that vegetables could have a salvific relationship with Jesus Christ.

So whenever they mentioned salvation, they would look into the camera and say that YOU could have a relationship with Jesus. They never claimed it for themselves.


Which means that both Bob the tomato and Larry the cucumber are rotting in the compost heap of Hell.


I hope they're writing a silly song about that.

[MissThundercat]

It now makes sense American Evangelicals would declare empathy a sin in conjunction with embracing end times theology.

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. ² People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, ³ without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, ⁴ treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— ⁵ having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." 2 Timothy 3:1-5

However, as noted, Patmos is home to a known hallucinogenic that's plentiful. Revelation was what John saw on one big *** acid trip.