Atheism

The tax exempt thing should really be reformed

You mean that's not what Jesus would do?

Let's just accept that calling someone a Christian ought to be treated as an insult, rather than pretending that the rampaging tide of assholes somehow representat an outlier.

Because of that awful genz 70s stache

You’re not delusional. You read the book, and you believe in something. No one should have a problem with that.

I don’t think the guy in the article read the book or believes in anything. Seems like he’s pretty much shit.

Jesus was a doomsday cultist who believed literally that God's kingdom was on earth as in people were going to raise from the dead.

This is the reason for his faked resurrection by his followers. To fulfill this insane prophecy and also explains why the authorities at the time were so suspect of the "prince of peace".

Without this context his story is confusing and makes no sense.

I have no ill will towards Christians, so long as they aren't moralizing hypocrites or pushing theocracy onto others. Jesus is a pretty dope figure. I admire those who follow that example. It is heretics like this that lie about doctrine and teach hate that give Christianity the taint that it has.

Christian Nationalism is quite the oxymoron, isn't it?

I'm an atheist, but that doesn't make us enemies. Not necessarily. Growing up, if someone said God bless you, I just said thanks. And if someone said Merry Christmas to Jews or Muslims, the point was that it was wishing someone well, right? And if someone wanted to say grace, I just bowed my head and listened politely.

But long about the mid-80's, evangelicals decided that just my existence, or that of Jews or Muslims or Buddhists, was somehow persecuting them even though I'd never said a bad word about them, and frankly felt more kinship to them than those traditions that were foreign to me.

Circumstances have taught me that we are all united in a struggle to survive, to lift one another up and thus lift ourselves up, and leave a better world behind than the one we entered. And that includes people with whom I disagree — sometimes vehemently.

I think faith is a dangerous thing, but for some it can be ennobling. Whatever issues I might have with doctrine and dogma, people who truly embrace the teachings of Jesus in the Bible are my brother in cause, if not in spirit ('cause I don't believe in that stuff).

Religious people want to be told how to live/think. It's the exact same with the trump cult. "Why do they keep supporting him?" I hear all the time. Well, you see, there is no thinking going on there. Just thoughtless following. This keeps them from having to feel responsible for their choices.

Beat me to it. Blatant heresy. Directly and completely contradicts biblical canon and principals from the altar. He's a liar, a hypocrite, and a vile human being. Of course Hegseth goes to that guy's church.

Two answers.

1. Yes, as a layperson, this like either a direct threat or at very least an incitement to violence. If this is wrong, lawyers please chime in :)

2. Unless there are charges, it might as well be legal. Laws, rights etc mean nothing if the enforcement behind them is corrupted. That doesn't mean there are no laws for us, but it does mean that laws hold far less weight against those in power.

His Mom is very proud!

You're thinking of Tommy Tallarico.

No but I have to remind myself every time he shows up.

That said oof guy might try taking credit for his achievements

Not so sure.. when I read the Bible God's killing people right and left, sometimes out of vengeance, anger, spite, and more. If anything the Satan guy seems heck of a lot more chill.

As in "Who will rid me of this turbulent" one? He kind of is, actually.

Many well-educated people will not get this for the obvious reason, but . . .

People who are not in rural areas have almost no idea just how HARD and for how long this Trump shit has been pushed in the churches, to the point that right now, any person of the Christian faith who also drank the Kool-Aid and is deeply involved in the "Christian" politics of the right wing is thrust into a real and immediate crisis of conscience if they even think about leaving the politics. And this is by design.

Meanwhile, James Talarico, a very vanilla, scandal-free, middle-of-the-road Christian whose actual faith appears to be genuine and unimpeachable is speaking out, saying the two are NOT the same, and in doing so is providing a very specific off-ramp for people who have confused/conflated the cult of Trump with the cult of Christ, which the politicians and propagandists did deliberately so that even the thought of leaving the cult of Trump could be punished with the fear of hellfire.

In short, Talarico is incredibly dangerous to the shaky right wing because he's specifically laying a path for anyone who wants off the Trump train to still believe they can be a Christian.

And that's why the Pharisees need him to die. But not kill him themselves, because that would be a sin. Unless God did it himself, in his mercy. Or maybe someone else might get the job done, a heretic or infidel or unemployed guy down at the Walmart parking lot. So they're not gonna sin themselves, they're just gonna pray for a holy hitman of some kind, because that's alright. But not before they dehumanize him with literally fictional language describing him as an orc and unbeliever ("barbarian") because otherwise someone might remember there's a commandment against killing somewhere, but that doesn't apply to fictional monsters and infidels, or something.

Don't come at me, I'm not a believer, just an explainer, lol