You stupid socialist

I wish we could all leave capitalism.

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need. (Acts 4:32-35)

Wow, those apostles and primitive Christians completely missed the metaphor!

Right wing starlet Erick Erickson likes to wax poetic about how Jesus' parable about the good Samaritan wasn't insisting people help those in need, it was about helping only other Christians in need. There was some Bible code or some shit that went into explaining how that worked.

Pie in the Sky - Pete Seeger

:::spoiler Lyrics

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        [Chorus]
    You will eat
    Bye and bye
    In that glorious land in the sky
    Work and pray
    Live on hay
    You get pie in the sky when you die (that's a lie!)

    Long-haired preachers come out every night
    Try to tell you what's wrong and what's right
    But when asked about something to eat
    They will answer in voices so sweet:

    [Chorus]
    
    If you fight hard for children and wife
    Try to get something good in this life
    You're a sinner and a bad man, they tell
    When you die you will surely go to hell

    [Chorus]

    Workingmen of all countries unite
    Side by side we for freedom will fight
    When the world and its wealth we have gained
    To the grafters we'll sing this refrain:

    You will eat, bye and bye
    When you've learned how to cook and to fry
    Chop some wood, 'twill do you good
    And you'll eat in the sweet bye and bye
  

Yearly reminder that Mother Theresa was quoted as saying she withheld medication from children because she thought their suffering brought them closer to her god.

The most revered catholic saint in modern times wanted to increase the suffering of children with excruciating diseases because it was holy.

As someone with a lifelong genetic condition that causes chronic pain, fuck everything about any religion that would venerate that. It’s absolutely barbaric, and that mentality needs to die the agonising death it’s inflicted on others.

So the loaves and fishes were only metaphors and he didn’t actually feed the masses. Got it.

Bet he also didn’t mean to pay taxes when he said “give unto Caesar what is Caesar’s”

We never really needed it, it arose naturally when people began to question the nature of their reality and other people realized they can gain political power by giving them "answers".

Never ever need

Monotheistic Religion is a step along the ladder of class struggle. 2 ish steps ago.

no longer needs

✅ Shouldn't need.

I agree with you however it sadly is a self perpetuating cycle fueled by those who look to gain and those who accept exploitation of the working class regardless of whether it is knowingly or unknowingly.

Yeah, religion is obsolete, I'm tellin' yeah.. for real this time. We have Fortran Rust now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sVc8lkTfrk

Also, right-wing parties will lose all future elections because they are dying out of old age.. for real this time.

And Gazans were living the best time of their life when the other side of the uniparty was in control.. for real!

I'm actually a Rust user 😄

If you just take a tiny look at what is happening right now, I'd say humanity definitely needs it. Religion merely became powerless to help with it, but the need to make people behave properly definitely is there.

Christianity and Christianity are two entirely different religions. It differs between the time period, geography and even between 2 neighbours. Christianity is not a moral code but something you can interpret based on your already existing moral code.

I love the humorous and relevant username for this thread.

Man... we are surronded by non thinkers...

My dysfunctional, delusional and conspiracy-soaked parents told me all the time as I grew up, isolated and disallowed from having school or friends, that I needed to beware the world, that I must never trust others, that people were liars and crazy and that one day I would understand.

Now I do understand. After long-since having buried them all, I now know the truth they said would be so blessed and would "save" me. I now know the book they lived by was a book of ancient fairy tales with some good moral lessons and a lot of death and brutality. I know that they reason I was kept isolated was because they were mentally ill and in denial, I know that I was raised in a cult, not kept safe out in the wilderness. There will be no "second coming" there will be no "paradise" or apocalypse, I am not chosen or special other than the fact that I control my own life and destiny. And I know that THEY were the lying, crazy world that I must not trust. And there are so, so many like them still out there, to various degrees.

Honestly, taken in a vacuum it's almost a biblical story in itself. That the hardest lesson is the one you have to learn on your own as you abandon literally everything you thought you knew and hoped for. That the real world is dark, and vast and cold and we live profoundly lonely lives, brief flashes of life that are gone in an instant as we cling to a mote of dust caught around a spark in the dark, and maybe we can choose to make our world better or we can choose to make our lives better or we can make the lives of others better and that's it. We don't get better options and they're not mutually exclusive. If you're not doing those things, you're wasting time.

You.

Do.

Not.

Have.

Time.

To.

Waste.

No, they spend plenty of money and action, they just spend it to deny women healthcare, limit whom you are allowed to love, and to remove books from libraries that show the experience of any non-white person. They spend spend it to cause harm to people they don't even know for reasons they can't even put into words

what even are words?

That's what I feel like all those cartoons I watched in the 80s and 90s did to me.

My parents actually tried to be generous and helpful.

That was one of the first lessons of first communion and confirmation while being raised christian. Being a great human just isnt enough, you had to go through some church ceremonies or you'd burn in hell. Too bad for the brown people who had no contact with christianity, but I'm afraid their souls were all just doomed to burn in exquisite agony forever.

Lesson for the children: Anyone not like us burns in hell. They are lesser.

I was raised by hypocritical Jews if it helps. But then that kind of goes with being Jews. We don’t exactly follow the books unless we’re super orthodox.

they may be telling children to care about others, but only as far as "fuck you, i got mine"

An this little deity called 'cold hard cash' on the side

https://youtu.be/keQuLhwxXdo

New testament god still supports slavery

Which one? There are several schools, and each thinks its the correct one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_socialism

Are you talking about the vast majority of people who call themselves "christian"?

Only if they’re the right kind of Christians.

Can be but they are not

don’t worry 😉 material conditions’bout to fix that

That would be true if those same people weren't using it as a bad faith argument.

You dont get to claim that the US is a christian nation, founded on christianity, with a Speaker of the House saying he's the new Moses, trying to destroy every barrier between church and state, then also claim that government isnt meant to do these functions when its inconvienent.

Last I checked, the U.S. government was primarily made up of professed Christians. So shouldn't they be using their positions to care for the poor and those less fortunate?

This is exactly right. Sad that you're downvoted by those who don't know their new testament...