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[–] [S] 150 points 1 year ago (8 children)
  • [–] 141 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "I hate you guys, kill yourself" said Jesus probably during daylight saving time because he didn't sleep enough.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The only difference between a religion and a cult is time

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago

    I've heard the distinction described as "it's a cult when the founder is still around making stuff up, it becomes a religion after he dies and his followers are left to continue doing that in his name."

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Apparently started from a hate ministry in 2021... Dude named James White on Twitter.

    "When you start with man as image-bearing creature of God, you can understand why sympathy is good, but empathy is sinful.

    Do not surrender our mind to the sinful emotional responses of others."

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I don't get it, "image-bearing creature of God"??

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    I think his point is that humans are meaningless little things made just to be in the image of "God" and should "get over themselves" since it's all about God and not at all about humanity.

    Seemingly, that somehow doesn't apply to having him shut up and stop making it about himself.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, I came across some article he wrote. He basically said if he hates someone, they deserve it because god says so, and if anyone disagrees with him, they are making it about "them" and not Jesus.

    He evidently (understandably) got blowback on Twitter back in the day, and wrote some word vomit that sums up to "No no, you don't understand, what I said is not as bad as you think it is (it's sooooo much worse)"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Every time I see that I'm so skeeved out. Like I understand needing to close your heart's empathy to deceivers. It's something I've had to do with abusers who play on pity. But this is language that you use to prepare people to do evil

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    Notably, I don't think folks would consider Christian teaching would not explicitly declare that you should hate (that part is usually just implied).

    Generally what they say is that while you shouldn't just yield and let "bad" people walk all over you and society, you shouldn't "hate" them either.

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