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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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  1. All posts must contain religious cringe. All posts must be made from a religious person or must be showcasing some kind of religious bigotry. The only exception to this is rule 2

  2. Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.

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[–] elephantintheroom@lemmy.ml 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Comparing Trump to Jesus... imagine being that delusional.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It’s a nested cult within one or more cults depending on the individual.

[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or we could skip the crucifixion and bury him hoping he'd revive after 3 days.

[–] elephantintheroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

To bury him again, I hope?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't their book say something about false idols?

[–] elephantintheroom@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, something about gold plated ribeye steaks if I remember correctly.

[–] pubquiz@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Said it before, and I'll say it again: Excellent!!! When is the crucifixion?

[–] Rumbelows@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Did Jesus also commit adultery with a porn star, use campaign funds to hush it up and then lie about it?

Or does the analogy not carry that far?

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you believe that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, then I think Jesus would have been cool with a porn star. That said, adultery and embezzlement/theft were things he was definitely not cool with.

PS: There is a Christian conspiracy theory that postulates that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' lover or a very important figure in the fight against the establishment, but because that lessened the mythology of Jesus and empowered women, she was edited to be a removed that Jesus rescues rather than a woman he admired.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's not a conspiracy theory. It's based off the lost gospels that were found in the Nag Hammadi Library [The Gnostics]. This theory might be from the Gospel of Mary but it might be another one.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s from the Gospel of St. Thomas.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right you are! Only drop the Saint. The Gnostics believed in self-actualization not in divine intervention.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but he’s typically referring to as St. Thomas or Doubting Thomas.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By Catholics. The reformers don't believe in Sainthood.

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with anything? It’s meant as a clarification. Catholics don’t believe that the book was actually written by him either.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because it's not called "The Gospel of Saint Thomas," it's "The Gospel of Thomas."

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s one and the same. Again, it’s for clarification. The book is supposedly written by the Thomas that was an apostle of Jesus.

[–] gbuttersnaps@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From the wiki article: "Most modern scholars do not consider the Apostle Thomas the author of this document and the author remains unknown."

Unfortunately it doesn't look like that is very well accepted

[–] dpkonofa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is surely meant in the same way that scholars don’t actually consider any of the gospels, including Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, to be written by the actual apostles they’re named after. All of them, including the Gospel of Thomas (don’t want to confuse the pedants around here!), are meant to be written as if coming directly from the apostles, hence why they’re named the way they are. Modern scholarship acknowledges that none of them can possibly be written by any of Jesus’ contemporaries but that doesn’t mean that most modern Christians know or care about that. They’re the Gospels of each of the people supposedly credited to them.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I read “embezzlement” in your comment and for some reason, my brain shouted “enshizzlement” instead. Not sure what it’s trying to tell me.

In orthodoxy they completely removed her

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jesus was clapping prostitute ass cheeks tho

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't forget the foot fetish.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You are assuming that when Jesus asked his followers to eat his flesh, he meant cannibalism.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wait a second what foot fetish

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, Jesus accepted the sentence without profuse whining.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

And asked God to forgive the people, not demand retaliation against them.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These two situations are superficially similar so they're exactly the same!

Tries to stick triangle into circle hole

[–] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

You say that and immediately thought of the “It goes in the square hole” video

[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

They are both shapes, so it fits!

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

No, You don't. You are literally ignoring the teachings of Jesus.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago
[–] nul9o9@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I still can't believe how much blasphemy these nutjobs spew.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

What is WRONG with these people?

[–] noxy@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

put text in giant image instead of just posting the text

almost as stupid as backing trump