• @vale@sh.itjust.works
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    246 months ago

    no no, God is doing this BECAUSE we’re polluting the earth. if you stop and reverse the pollution then he won’t be mad anymore…

    You think that would work to get them to stop?

    • @Sludgeyy@lemmy.world
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      36 months ago

      The whole Noah story arc proves that God would totally cause storms to cleanse the evil.

      Doing it Thalnos’ style and only killing/moving? the bad people isn’t God’s style. He could do it, but “God snapped his fingers and all bad people were sent to Hell, the world instantly became a better place.” Doesn’t get you a New York bestseller.

  • @over_clox@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Jesus never drove a car. Or even rode a bicycle for that matter.

    Also, the letter J wasn’t invented until the year 1524 AD.

  • ivanafterall ☑️
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    56 months ago

    Like he’s going to let us into Heaven to trash it after seeing what slobs we were down here.

  • @SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
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    46 months ago

    This looks like a country singer waking up on the ground from a night of drinking. He only has the dog/horse blanket on him and he has no idea how he got there.

    • @wjrii@lemmy.world
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      56 months ago

      You’re closer to right than you know. This is “The Olive Press” by (in)famous white-Jesus Mormon painter Del Parson. The man paints Jesus through a very, very thick lens of the American Mountain West.

      For the record, I had to look up the specific painting, but I grew up LDS, and red-robe white-guy mullet Jesus is a Parson trademark.

  • @Matriks404@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    One thing I don’t understand about organized religion is why they don’t care about being environmently friendly. Isn’t Earth created by God in all of these religions and wouldn’t God by saddened that we are destroying it? Why is it not talked about in churches?

    • @Redredme@lemmy.world
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      66 months ago

      The books (since they all share the old testament in one way or another) talk about it, us being good shepards and responsible for all beings. Just a little, but it is there. Somewhere in the beginning.

      It’s just that we’re assholes and if something doesn’t fit our narrative we ignore it.

      Just like all the books make killing crime no 1, but we go “yeah, no” when it suits us. (in war you may kill because i say so and you may kill that Israeli, westerner or arab because they are subhuman unbelievers/desert rags.)

      The commandments are very clear and there are no exceptions possible according to the book. But we made those up anyway. Which is weird. Here we have the guiding principles of being, given to us by god and we choose to disregard them. Sometimes even in the name of god/allah/Jahweh.

      Disclaimer: not an active Christian. Just had to go to a lot of sunday school in my day.

    • @SuperCub@sh.itjust.works
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      Because there is an afterlife where you will live for eternity, so just accept fate and follow god’s plan for you—god has a plan for everybody.

  • @selokichtli@lemmy.ml
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    16 months ago

    I wonder why Jesus used the hair split in the middle. How’s that called in English? Is it a symbol of his views of the world compared to the fascist views of his father? Yahve must use the big sweep across.