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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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  1. All posts must contain religious cringe. All posts must be made from a religious person or must be showcasing some kind of religious bigotry. The only exception to this is rule 2

  2. Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.

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[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We're pretty much comparing cow shit will bull shit here, it's true

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 55 points 1 year ago

They are both standing on their vanquished enemies

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah so turns out, lots of major religions stand on or once stood on “kill the enemies of our beliefs”

Maybe it’s time we put down the fucking tomes and pick up the pens.

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I get what you're saying. We should start our own cult. ~One with hookers and blackjack.~

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know what? Forget the blackjack.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

There is still the refractory period to consider.

[–] Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

And kill our enemies?

[–] stevedidwhat_infosec 3 points 1 year ago

Do what you will, unless it stops me or my friends from doing what they wanna do 💜

[–] Anamnesis@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how "economy" is the very base of the Christian's power here, lmao

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago

I bet their Jesus guy would've loved that

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Christian "dark ages" quite literally didn't end until they reestablished normalised contact with the Muslim east, which GAVE them mathematics, advances in medicine and science.

In return, the Christian West crusaded...

Literally the opposite of what this idiot is claiming.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Lol pretty telling that there's no math book on the Christian side. Almost like they're aware and just acting in bad faith

[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Middle Ages were also called “the dark ages” for a reason…

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

The crusades, the Spanish inquisition, the dark ages, and more recently the Rwandian Genocide.

The KKK. Rev. Fred Phelps. America's speaker of the house. Shit even flat earthers are all Christians.

If it wasn't for the dark ages humanity would be 900 years more advanced.

Oh and let's not forget the Salem Witch Trials.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This makes me wonder how well the aztecs would have done if they had to interact with different religions

[–] alternative_factor@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They interacted with Catholics and got genocided. As for other native faiths, I don't really know much but they were very much an empire and treated other peoples very poorly.

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I mean something like if budists landed on their shores or similar

[–] Crampon@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guys didn't fuck around.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sacrifice_in_Aztec_culture

The mightiest culture has always held the weaker ones down.

There is some misconceptions flying around that indigenous people have been one with natur and lived in peace. Never happened.

[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I remember reading a book on the Astec empire and its fall by the spanish was a sum of perfectly aligned random events, based on their system of beliefs. They could have resisted the invasion and records by spanish soldiers of the time on how the astecs were fierce and fearless warriors exist.

The astecs just stopped resisting at some point and either got assimilated or slaughtered and their civilization wiped out.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I thought the books represented the ideas that Christianity has killed (or tried to anyway). 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I think it represents what they "appropriated" from other cultures, including middle eastern ones

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Christians are so dumb and it’s been their entire existence unfortunately. They helped the Roman Empire crumble, their half of it devolved into the Dark Ages for a long time and when it got too much the worst ones moved to America and that’s how we got Trump.

[–] NIB@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Sweden is very non religious.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

History?? Like Islam has no history? Has not contributed to humanity at all? Omg… And Christianity must be standing on the wrong side of that book...

[–] dumbass@leminal.space 9 points 1 year ago

Just comparing their kill lists.

[–] ManinJustStartHere@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why dont they chose peace?

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HopeOfTheGunblade@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, it seems like TST is mostly self promotion out front and shittiness behind the scenes, they just have a shorter history. I wish we had an org that was what TST claims to be.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wish we had an org that was what TST claims to be.

https://www.spaghettimonster.org/

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

What if someone can't eat gluten? Are they still accepted with their rice/corn noodles?

[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are the book titles in different languages??

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Edit: misinterpreted your question. Not sure why.

[–] venoft@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Technology and science, please. Open a history book...

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m so fucking embarrassed to have ever been Christian. I’m glad I turned 18 and grew out of it, but… man.

[–] enbyecho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This hymn gets sung quite a bit in churches:

"Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war. Christ the royal master leads against the foe. Forward into battle, see his banners go"

And they don't mean it ironically. Or metaphorically.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well .. the bottom book is where all the skulls are compressed (among other things).
All the wars, spreading the religion, & political consequences are in that book.

They both have the same book (everything does). War is for profit, regardless of the title. If there would be no economical gain, no actual wars get started.