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.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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”.

  • Shanmugha@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    “Christians” also stole this land and genocided people who had lived here since long before they came. Those who don’t like this should return to where their forefathers came from, no?

    • scout10290@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      Didn’t the Christians have slaves that they brought over fight too? I’m sure some of them had different religious beliefs.

    • BussyGyatt@feddit.orgEnglish
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      1 month ago

      No, because, you see, after a certain amount of time the land just defaults to the ownership of whoever currently occupies the land, morally speaking 🥰. Why yes, I do happen to be the current occupant of the land, why do you ask? Oh, the amount of time? That depends, of course!

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    “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.

    • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      What if it isn’t rage bait but a simple slice of the prevailing idiots point of view who think the US was founded a christian country?

  • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    People don’t read. Paraphrasing:

    • Jesus (J): “Why would you call me ‘good’? Only the Father is good.”

    • 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.”

    • 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.”

    • M: “Those who hoard gold and silver and don’t spend it in the cause of God, give them news of a painful retribution.”

    • 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.”

    • M: “The righteous are those who suppress their anger and pardon the people. God loves the good doers.”

    • cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      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)

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 month ago

        100%! Thanks for the very important correction, my cat woke me up at 3 am and I started posting half asleep, lol (and you know exactly what the J-man was talking about! 😁).

      • ThirdConsul@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Interesting fact: in… 2010-ish a Vatican historian priest released a book where he explained that Jesus was a jokester. A lot of his sermons in the Bible were haha funny for the people at the time.

        Do you know what we call a dude traveling from city to city with an entourage making people laugh? :)

        A comedian.

        • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Humour is a sign of intelligence! And yes, the ‘camel’ is a play on words, as gamla in Aramaic means both rope and camel, and also a callback to Jewish oral tradition/Talmudic teachings where it’s an ‘elephant going through the eye of the needle’. 👍

  • it's not often that shit just works@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    As Jewish person my school literally had propoganda posters on the wall explicitly justifying genocide and blaming Palestinians for their own deaths

  • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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.