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  • Norin@lemmy.world
    17·
    6 months ago

    Fun fact, the origin story for Satan that so many churches point to just isn’t in the Bible.

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      Yeah… it is astounding how mixed messages get when people are holding the bloody source material in their hands.

    • yesman@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      Most Christian ideas about hell are from Dante and Milton laundered through loony toons. And in Milton’s version, Satan is the protagonist.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I had to explain to someone here on Lemmy that Satan in Job is a rival god, rather than the Satan Christians think, of since it came from before Judaism was monotheistic. The word literally just means ‘adversary.’ Job is about two gods having a wager. But Christians (and the rest of the western world by extension) are ignorant of the fact that the largest role anyone called Satan has in the Bible has nothing to do with Christian mythology.

      And then they decide to conflate the serpent in the Garden of Eden with Satan because reasons.

      Edit: Note to self. Do not try to write longer posts with your phone.

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    6 months ago

    Christianity is a cult and a scam.

    Sometimes even good people fall for it. The good ones have enough reason to be loud and shut the bad ones up. But that not going to happen. It’s a toxic support system that they can’t go against or be kicked out.

    Christianity needs to disbanded just like every cult denying reality and hurting others.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    2·
    6 months ago

    If you worship a cosmic tyrant don’t be upset if some people balk at the idea.

  • spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    Don’t judge an entire group by the loud assholes they have within when the good ones have no reason to be loud.

    Yeah, judge them by their (in)actions and how they treat others.

    …huh, still not super great on the whole. One of the many reasons I left the church…

    • Stamets@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      Eh. Depends on the Christian. Same with every group of people, you’re always gonna have a mixed bag of people who are good, people who are bad and people who are just existing. The bad ones are just louder.

      Edit: It is genuinely concerning how so many of you are so willing to use blatantly bigoted lines of thought to hate a group. How you’re defending blatant discrimination and bigotry. It is funny. You complain about Christians as a group being ghouls while failing to recognize that you’re in the same camp. You’re doing the same thing they are. You are just as bad as the thing you’re complaining about but you don’t have an excuse to try and fall back on. You aren’t doing it because you misunderstood a book. You’re doing it because you’re hateful little bigots.

      You’re embarassments. Children screaming into the night about other Children. Grow the fuck up, the both of you.