This poetgirl on Instagram says some off the wall shit.
Some of these old bitches have totally lost their mind and just spread misinformation.
This is more than mildly infuriating for me but I wasn’t quite sure where else to post this lol.
“If God truly does exist, he more so loves the atheist who questions the world around him than the Christian who blindly follows.”
Thomas Jefferson
50% of the Founding Fathers were agnostic or atheist. My question is: why does she hate America?
I bet her poetry is ground breaking. I love God God loves me I love flowers God loves me!
https://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/0205/tolerance.html
The Founders of this nation explicitly included Islam in their vision of the future of the republic. Freedom of religion, as they conceived it, encompassed it. Adherents of the faith were, with some exceptions, regarded as men and women who would make law-abiding, productive citizens. Far from fearing Islam, the Founders would have incorporated it into the fabric of American life.
Great share.
People don’t read. Paraphrasing:
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Jesus (J): “Why would you call me ‘good’? Only the Father is good.”
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Muhammed (M): “Our Lord has decreed mercy upon Himself, so to anyone who commits sin out of ignorance and then repents and amends, He is Forgiving, Merciful.”
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J: “It’s harder for a camel to go through the eye of the needle than it is for a rich man to enter Heaven.”
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M: “Those who hoard gold and silver and don’t spend it in the cause of God, give them news of a painful retribution.”
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J: “You have been told ‘do not murder, for whoever murders will be judged for it’, but I tell you anyone who is angry and insults their brother will be judged for it too.”
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M: “The righteous are those who suppress their anger and pardon the people. God loves the good doers.”
I know you’re paraphrasing and probably from memory, but you have one inparticular completely backwards- It is EASIER for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Meaning, of course, a camel cannot pass through the eye of a needle, and therefore a rich man will never get into heaven, because in order to get rich he must have been selfish and greedy, which is ungodly. (I’m a heathen, so idfk what I’m talking about, but I learned this proverb from my religious ex-partner, and I think it’s lovely)
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Poetgirl53 forgot the whole actually follow the commandments part.
Every time someone tells me about the ten commandments, I ask them to name all ten. They can never name all ten. On the flip side, if somebody starts talking about UBI they can usually say what all three letters stand for.
God, fucking Christians. We need a slur for them or something so badly. I’m so sick of them.
Comedian James Acaster offers “crizzos” in one special. That’s got some zip to it.
We always called them bible thumpers
I refer to them as Fundies (i.e., Fundamentalists). That seems to cover all the obnoxious christians.
I prefer the term “Christian” (as a slur)
I started trying it out, it doesnt have the same zip as like, cross licker or whatever
The crucifix is an implement of torture and execution, upon which the titular Christian god was executed to fulfill a blood oath. Executionists, torturers, blood magicians, nailers, death cultists, the forsaken (Psalm 22)…
Being shephered by a higher authority is also a common theme. Sheep is right there, although some actually use that directly.
Another common theme is the second arrival of their god, starting the end of the mortal realm and the death of all mortals. Death cultists again, apocalyptics, doomsdayers…
There’s lots of heinous things in their book, but most reject them or are unaware. You could call out lots of things there.
I like saying “CHRIST-ee-en”. It really pisses them off although it obviously shouldn’t.
I just don’t want their pedophile religion forced on me and my kids. Full stop.
… which one?
Are we talking about the Christians who very explicitly opposed the concept of a religious state? The ones who put that concept front and center in their Bill of Rights?
Who didn’t even necessarily believe in a conventional god, just some kind of hands-off universe creator?
Jesus would hate his followers. They have zero understanding of the message. But that’s ok, cause he wasn’t the Messiah, nor was he a historical figure, so nothing lost there.
But Jesus’s message is that He will come back and murder everybody who doesn’t bow to Him; He is called the wine press, and people are the grapes and their blood is the wine.
It’s possibly the worst religious message ever, I suggest that you ignore it.
“If Muslims don’t like it, they should return to their native countries!” I cry, as I rubber stamp another billion dollar check to bomb the Levant.
Lots of folks in the US don’t really have an understanding of religion as a separate thing from nationality.
They think of “being Christian” as “being like the other white people in my neighborhood growing up”. End of thought.
So drinking beer, watching football, and hating taxes are all “Christian things” to them.
So when they say “Christians — and only Christians — died for this country”, they’re 100% correct, according to their understanding of “being a Christian”. Cuz to them it basically just means “being an American”.
There’s really no way to convince them otherwise. It’s like telling someone that Velcro is really called “hook and loop”.
You’re basically saying: Christians don’t read the bible, they just act like their peers and all the bad habits that can go with that.
wellllllll…
Except Frenchmen and Africans also fought and died for this country.
My mom once asked if my Jewish girlfriend celebrated Thanksgiving. When I scoffed, she reminded me that there weren’t any Jews on the Mayflower.
I reminded her that there weren’t any Catholics either.
In fairness, Thanksgiving wasn’t made a national holiday until 1863. By then, the US had plenty of Catholics, in no small part thanks to the Irish Potato Famine of the prior two decades.
It also had plenty of Jews, thanks to the Napoleonic Wars and the then-recent string of wars along the border of the Ottoman Empire.
Hell, it might be worth pointing out that the Mayflower was the product of the 30 Years War (of which the Hell on Earth podcast miniseries does a really excellent job of documenting), which also produced a sizable exodus of Catholics and Jews to the New World. So, it seems they’ve got as much of an excuse to celebrate 17th century Settlers Colonialism as anybody.
Nice. You gave her the burrrnn. Good job. We need to really start correcting much of this type of misinformation out there when people say it one day many many more will believe it.
It’s a fight against windmills. There’s a certain type of person who’s just totally resistant against learning new stuff. They got their opinion and that’s truth and screw everything else.
You might correct one thing, but by the time you did that they already dug up three new pieces of garbage.
It’s so frustrating.
You might correct one thing, but by the time you did that they already dug up three new pieces of garbage.
So we should display religious things of only the original occupiers of the land? I don’t think she’s going to be happy with the conclusion there.
The basis of most modern day US Republican policies is simply might makes right.
I for one am all for this plan. Schools would be a lot cooler if they were decorated by the local Native American tribes.
Haven’t you heard? “European whites” are actually natives now. That’s literally what those fascists on Jubilee said and were cheering for.
They will just change the reality if we let them.
Never underestimate the kinks of people.
As long as someone beneath me gets hurt at least a little bit…
Right!
Well, it’s a secular country, and that means freedom from religion. I don’t give a shit about your Christian bullshit, and if I saw that garbage posted in my child’s school, I’d tear it down myself.
