• ThisIsMyLemmyLogin@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    All that prayer and the best God can come up with is announcing tariffs, cancelling them, announcing them again, cancelling them again…

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    • Pretty bold of the 3 in the front to be protesting police brutality and racial inequality just like Colin Kaepernick, right??¿?

    • Doesn’t their book have something about false idols and a golden calf made of $100 bills with their face on it?!

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    There is always that one black guy in these group pictures that makes all other black people go… Wtf is wrong with you man…

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    11 days ago

    Matthew 6

    • 5 And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
    • 6 But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
    • ᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      One of my favorite verses. Preachers will do all kinds of contortionist shit to wriggle out of this one. Usually they don’t have to though, because their followers only read the parts of the book the preacher cherrypicks.

      There’s an old concept I like- The best cure for christianity is reading the bible.

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    The day Trump dies will be a very interesting time for his supporters. I could see it going either two ways. One would be them denying it and treating it like when Elvis died people reported seeing him in public and the other possibility is them going full Jamestown.

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    I just don’t know how he became their Christian idol when he doesn’t even go to church and he has been open about that in the past.

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      The same way Biden got re-nominated even though everyone knew he was brain-damaged.

      Partisans don’t care. It’s all about team color.

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        This is not because people of US have chosen to do so, having only two strong parties is the only logical outcome in a “democracy” designed like it is in US right now.

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          I think calling it “logical” doesn’t entirely make sense. It’s only logical in the sense that people voted for change, because if you look at this solely from the viewpoint of self-preservation, no one’s looking at the politics of the last 40 years and coming to the reasonable conclusion that voting for Democrats and Republicans makes sense.

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    It’s creepy that they’re doing some weird religious gesture, but I think it’s a lovely sign of the times that one of the freaks on the left (as we’re looking at it) just has to record this emotional and reflective moment for their socials lol

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      It’s called “laying on hands” among Christians. As in, “let us lay on hands and pray for them.” In theory it should be a way of showing support that someone is not alone. Usually, I’d attribute it more to religious people doing a silent ‘look at me, I have a direct line to God for this person!’ [Like you said, they’re so in the moment they pull out their phone; yeah, that screams holy moment.] Which is funny because Protestants think everyone has a personal relationship with God, so what’s the extra prayer for? In case God wasn’t listening to the requestor, but they might listen to Ultra Religious person? Doesn’t sound very personal to me.