• norimee@lemmy.world
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    The piece, titled “There’s Nothing Loving About Dolly Parton’s False Gospel,” […]

    “Parton’s version of love, which includes condoning immoral sexual behavior (‘be who you are,’ she’s said), is unaligned with God’s vision for humanity,” Andersen writes.

    This is not a “Sorry, I didn’t mean it that way, I just framed it wrong.” This person meant exactly what she said.

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      God’s vision for humanity

      You know a religion is utter bullshit when its followers use phrases like this.

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        They don’t even follow their own religion. Christianity is about being nice and kind to people. Which seems somewhat incompatible with these peoples world views. Of course it was also incompatible with the whole religious crusade thing, so perhaps it’s not surprising that they still think like this.

        It’s generally the atheists who know more about their religion than the religious.

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          If all or even most of Christianity’s followers were actually kind, generous people, it would be harder to criticize, but it’s so blatantly just another hateful cult like the rest of them.

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        God’s vision for humanity

        Translation:

        Our cult leaders’ vision for humanity

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          Its always weird how people can be so conceited to think that “God’s vision for humanity” perfectly aligns with “the way I want things to be done”

          When you have no disagreements with god, then you are absolutely full of shit.

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      I’m an atheist, but I was raised Catholic and went to a Catholic high school. People like this honestly amaze me. If there’s one message that’s repeated over and over in the new testament, it’s “love everyone, regardless of anything about them, and treat them with kindness.” People like this are somehow unashamed to say “Loving everyone is wrong because it condones sinful behavior.” And so many will nod their heads with that.

      I’m happy to see that when they use a person like Dolly, who actually lives the values, as an example of what they mean, people will say “Hey, wait a minute…”