“There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.” -Ezekiel 23:20
I thought that line was in Song of Solomon hold up
schlong of solomon
like a mule it was
:data-laugh:
all politics is sexual pathology. the whole chapter is an incel rant about early 6th century bce geopolitics.
Beat me to it lol
So noted.
“Then two hexbears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the libs.”
2 Nerds 4:20
Amen
That’s what those kids get for being uncivil.
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
I guess that Grapes of Wrath passage is based on this.
Maybe, but that’s what the whole book is about. Very much recommend it.
edit: I recently saw a tweet or something that was like, “The state tells us we have to read The Grapes of Wraith at 13 and then gets mad when we understand it at 26.”
Damn that goes hard. James 5 for those wondering, had to look it up.
Eh. I kind of have more disdain for “christians” who aren’t doing shit like that tbh. You really believe that billions of people are going to face brutal torture for all eternity and you haven’t devoted your entire life to converting people?
the more effective way of converting people would also be to actually practice what they preach re: charity, earthly posessions, treatment of the poor, outcasts, sinners, etc.
i mean if christans built like a dual-power shadow communist system i might consider reevaluating my beliefs
Ugh, I used to have this mindset as a kid and my parents didn’t bother asking me to tone it down because “Eh that’s technically what they teach at our missionary based church.”
My dork ass didn’t convert a single child, thank fuck.
That’s because the god of capital is more scary than the god of abraham. One of them will just watch you suffer while the other actively inflicts suffering. So you gotta please it first
How about the drive-by proselytisers that are calling you to repent and turn to Jesus in the comments of a video about a cute animal or Oblivion NPC dialogue
The religion with the most annoying followers
I grew up in a borderline cult, so i like to drop funny bible verses just to take the lord’s name in vain
I doubt the people you are talking about are doing the same, but i suggest learning a couple funny verses to throw back at them
The one with a bald man and rude kids is a good place to start
You got a top 5 or something?
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Let there be no compulsion in religion, for the truth stands out clearly from falsehood. So whoever renounces false gods and believes in Allah has certainly grasped the firmest, unfailing hand-hold. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
~ Quran, 2:256
It surprises me that while Tim Tebow had John 3:16 written on his eye black strips, no linebacker in the league posted something like this on his strips. Would have thrown him off his game better than any defensive scheming, at least while he was in college. He was terrible in the NFL
If I was cashed up when my prefrontal cortex was still a work in progress, there’s a good chance that I would have gotten a tattoo saying “Leviticus 19:28”. I still think it’s a funny idea because it’s one of those deep-trolling things that really tickles my sense of humour.
Part of this is because I’m autistic and I just mask all the damn time so I can play things incredibly straight and I can do a convincing job of it, so I’d go for the longest con Andy Kaufman-style joke where I’d be quietly adamant about my Christian beliefs to non-Christians and to Christians I’d wax lyrical about how this was the verse that converted me because it made me realise that we must turn away from pagan practices and recognise that this body we have been given is itself a sacrament and that we must treasure it as we would anything that God has had touched.
I would leave everyone baffled and I’d be dying of laughter internally the whole time.
my brother literally has “leviticus 19:28” tatted on his asscheek
Death to America
A man after my own… uhh asscheek, I guess?
yeah he really fucking hates religion lol. too many sunday mornings ruined by having to go to mass i guess
Death to America
In times like these it’s important to remember Matthew 21:17
‘And leaving them, he went out of the city to Bethany and lodged there’ ?
this is exactly what I needed to hear this morning
Back when people were debating against gay marriage, and using bible quotes as justifications, I used to have Leviticus 11:10 memorized to quote back at them. (It’s the shellfish one)
Leviticus 11:10
At least our Jewish brothers are consistent with eating no seafood… (not to justify the anti-gay marriage thing)
Ezekiel 4:15 NIV: He replied to me, “Look, I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you can make your bread over that.”
https://www.foodforlife.com/product/breads/ezekiel-49-sprouted-whole-grain-bread
in america there’s a brand of bread called ezekiel 4:9 which is the verse with the ingredients list. the company has a canned response that they use clean and sanitized stainless steel ovens and natural gas to bake their bread, not cow dung or human excrement, if you happen to have read any of the verses after 4:9 and grew concerned.
Surely there are dozens of other bible verses that referenced bread that also didn’t mention feces
for normal wheat bread, yes, but this bread is made from a mixture of wheat, barley, millet, spelt, lentils, and beans (although obviously this was long before the columbian exchange so it means fava or chickpeas, not black, red, pinto, etc.), basically whatever could be scrounged together during a siege.
ezekiel is being commanded to eat this bread as penance for and in solidarity with the people of jerusalem who are besieged by the babylonians. that’s why he’s supposed to cook it over feces, because the people in jerusalem don’t have access to cooking fuels, either.
but i guess whoever founded the company just thought it sounded tasty and decided to ignore everything else.
Jaysus wept…
Smoke 4:20 heh heh heh
They’re up there with “astrology people who insist on know everyone’s sign and don’t desist when you tell them you don’t believe in astrology.”
Nah, the hate for astrology is partially made up of internalized misogyny. We have to overcome it. It is just as fake as the economy. We just are taught to resent it because it is girl coded. Girls can have a little bronze age mysticism as a treat.
Nah it’s still woo woo crap that’s often a gateway to other more unhinged pseudo-mysticism shit like the crystal healing. Plus modern astrology has got more to do with early 19th century occultism than it does any ancient tradition from Babylon. It was originally crap for bored rich white dudes who wanted to pretend to be special wizards.
Yes, but now it is for the ✨️ girls ✨️
Which would probably go farther in terms of pissing of the old dead wizards than us just ignoring it.
If girls wanna have a little mysticism as a treat couldn’t they just do goofy witchcraft shit? Not the shit dead eugenics wizards came up with that argued everyone’s personality is determined by their birthday?
If nothing else it seems kind of depressing to argue that everyone’s fate is sealed by when their parents boned, there’s some dark implications to that.
This is part of the goofy witchcraft stuff. The idea that we are connected to the universe and our lives are special, and the rules can be figured out to make them better. Those are all reasonable comforting things to want. It is less determinative than class consciousness. Less useful as well but it’s fine you know.
I just find it really disrespectful to make a bunch of assumptions about someone’s personality based on when they’re born. Okay I’m a fucking Cancer, maybe the actual particulars of my life have caused me to be way different than my star chart says I should be? Maybe you should get to know me first before wiping out calipers to measure my fucking skull. If you like magical shit why not just play a ton of D&D or write a fantasy novel rather then try in inject this shit into your real life?
Call me a stick in the mud but I just find it very insulting to my individuality and agency that so many people insist that my personality was formed by a fucking sky crab. Yeah sure have your fun with it but if I say I’m not into it, accept that, and don’t try and blame my distaste for it on the fact it’s slightly more popular with women than men (there are astrology dudes fyi and if anything they’re more obnoxious).
No, you see there are only 12 types of people and it’s totally good and okay and just fun to reduce things to that
The biggest parts of our personality are formed by factors outside our control. It is simply more fun to live a fantasy.
There have been studies that show when you are born can have effects on your personality. More how it relates to the school calender and how old you are when you start classes.
It isn’t disrespectful. You are welcome to not like it. It is ultimately harmless however.
Astrology people used to bug the shit out of me, but now I find it a pleasant way to learn about someone. It’s kind of like a gateway to just talk about your personalities for a bit.
I don’t believe any of it, but I’ll share my sign and (usually) she will make some calls about my likes and dislikes and I’ll say what’s true or not. Ask her sign and questions about her. See if we’ll get along or not.
Idk it’s a nice way to just chat, I guess. Prefer it to other small talk. Could make a friend from it, too.
That’s such an Ares thing to do smh my head
Eh, I’ll give my sign, but then people keep asking more intrusive questions like the exact hour I was born so they can tell me my rising and setting sign or whatever. It just kind of seems obnoxious to do when you know the person you’re talking to doesn’t believe in this.
To me it’s the same as someone who keeps brining religion into a conversation when the know the person they’re talking to is a non-believer. You know I don’t believe in this, you could respect that fact and leave the topic be.
yeah but you could also just have a regular conversation and get to know someone that way instead, without the magical thinking predestination nonsense
Death to America
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son…" (II Kings 6:28-29)
I think this proves my point
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:5
That’s great
