#religious hypocrisy

[porterdavis]

This is a real stumper

'Religious' people are drawn more to support an immoral, philandering, convicted sex abuser over a religious, devout Catholic who has been married to the same woman 47 years.

I don't get it.

#christo-fascists #religious hypocrisy

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

#toonholechris #christmas #christianity #santa claus #imaginary friends #lord and savior #our lord and savior #religious hypocrisy #religion #religion is a mental illness

[imagine-all-the-people]

Her appearance on SNL in October 1992, days after the release of her third album, “Am I Not Your Girl?” Singing an a cappella version of “War,” the Bob Marley protest song, she tweaked some of the lyrics to reference child abuse and then raised a photo of Pope John Paul II as she reached the final line: “We have confidence in the victory of good over evil.”

In silence, she tore the picture of the Pope into pieces, then stared into the camera and urged listeners to “fight the real enemy” before tossing the scraps onto the stage.

Sinéad died today… she was 56 years old.

07/26/23

#truth #sinead o'connor #religious hypocrisy #rip

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #memes #shitpost #kyle rittenhouse #alt right #fascists be like #sociopaths be like #psychopaths be like #david koresh #jim jones #adolf hitler #charles manson #cult leader #branch davidian #jonestown #nazis #maga #manson family #religions #religious hypocrisy #mental illness #mental health #Vernon Howell #true crime

[tabernacleheart]

Through [all of Scripture], God [tells us] that it is just as important to be righteous inwardly as it is outwardly. We cannot say we love God and others when we fail to help people who are within our power to help. Just as James 1:27 tells us, true religion includes helping orphans, widows, and those who are in distress. James goes on to write that faith without works is a dead faith (James 2:26). In short, faith is both believing in the Lord and doing the things He has told us to do. Take some time to think about your own life: how much time do you prioritize on your own spirituality versus serving others?

Youversion

#this hits hard #i am tragically guilty of this #religious hypocrisy #true christianity #charity #christian service #love thy neighbor #Youversion #Spiritual selfishness #James 1:27 #faith without works is dead #Good works #Justice #James 2:26 #social justice

[digital-nihilism]

Pro hypocrisy

#pro life #christianity #Christians #god #religion #nihilism #atheism #religious hypocrisy

[tomorrowusa]

It's Sunday. Today is the day of the week when far right Christian Fundamentalist Nationalists worship their one true Lord and Savior – Donald Trump.

#the far right #christian nationalists #sundays #religious hypocrisy #christian fundamentalists #republicans #donald trump #election 2024

[its-all-down-hill]

#truth #religious hypocrisy

[sleepyleftistdemon]

Every time I started copying this article for this post, I kept adding the next paragraph and the next paragraph. It’s a very good read.

#religious hypocrisy #satanism #christianity

[geezerwench]

Not even the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit

Charity

Joy

Peace

Patience

Kindness

Goodness

Generosity

Gentleness

Faithfulness

Modesty

Self Control

Chastity

#the beatitudes #the ten commandments #the sermon on the mount #“christians” #christianity #christians #religion #Kurt Vonnegut #religious hypocrisy

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

A GOP candidate in Oklahoma is getting attention for comments he made several years ago when he justified the death penalty by stoning for gay people. When asked recently about it, he didn’t disavow his previous comments.

Scott Esk, 56, is running in the Republican primary runoff election tomorrow [today, 8/23,] for a seat in the state house, and local media is bringing up some extreme comments he made in the past. He’s not handling them well.

In 2013, Esk was commenting in a Facebook conversation about the Pope saying that he couldn’t judge gay people. Esk posted some Bible quotations, including the part of Romans 1 where the Bible says that a long list of people who sinned is “worthy of death.”

Another person asked him: “So, just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?”

Esk responded: “I think we would be totally in the right to do it… Ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

A year later, a journalist asked him about those comments. He said it was “totally just” to kill gay people.

“What I will tell you right now is that that was done in the Old Testament under a law that came directly from God,” he said at the time. “And in that time, there was, it was, totally just came directly from God.”

After those comments, he put out a long video where he claimed he “sets the record straight.” In those videos, he claimed he has “compassion on anybody in the grips of an insidious addiction, such as homosexuality.”

“Any Christian should be in the position to say that this is sin or this is good. If we don’t make that distinction, we’re not going to help people,” he said in the first video published in 2015.

In the another video, which was from earlier this year, Esk called a local TV news report on his comments a “hit piece on the fact that I had an opinion against homosexuality.”

“Well, does that make me a homophobe? Maybe some people think it does,” he said. “But as far as I and many of the people, the voters of House District A7 are concerned, it simply makes me a Christian. Christians believe in biblical morality, kind of by definition, or they should.”

He said that he is not in favor of “expanding the death penalty in Oklahoma for homosexuality,” he just wants everyone to know that gay people are so offensive to his god that his religion wants them dead.

“The fact is, that it’s much more offensive knowing what obscene things homosexuals do with each other than it is for somebody to hold the view that it is indecent,” he said in the second video.

Now that the runoff election is tomorrow [today, 8/23], The Oklahoman asked Esk about those comments to see if his opinion has changed at all.

He refused to do an interview and pointed The Oklahoman to the two videos.

“I’ve stood up for what is right in the past, and I intend to in the future and I am right now,” he stated. “That’s got me in trouble. The media are not my friends, as far as I’m concerned.”

Earlier today [Yesterday], Esk posted a video to his YouTube channel entitled “Scott Esk sets the record straight for the 3rd time,” in which he calls The Oklahoman piece and a piece by News 4 “hit pieces” and says that the media is against him because they want his opponent Gloria Banister to win.

He also responded to being fired from his job as a data manager in 2011 because he was arrested after he allegedly threatened and harassed the leadership of his church. In the video, he calls those church leaders “snakes” and makes some opaque references to the divorce and custody battle he was going through at the time.

Whoever wins the primary tomorrow will run against the Democratic winner in November. The seat is currently held by state Rep. Collin Walke (D), who is retiring.

#us politics #news #lgbtq nation #2022 #2022 midterms #2022 elections #Oklahoma #Scott Esk #the bible #organized religion #religions #conservative christianity #radical christianity #religious hypocrisy #tw homophobia #republican homophobia #fuck homophobia #The Oklahoman #Gloria Banister #Rep. Collin Walke #video #Vimeo

[the-happy-man]

Jerry Falwell Sr was a homophobic televangelist whose endorsement helped Ronald Reagan (a divorced former Hollywood actor) beat Jimmy Carter (a Baptist Sunday school teacher) in the 1980 presidential contest and launch a conservative project that culminated in the demise of the constitutional right to abortion.

#newer news from nowhere #midterms #jerry falwell jr. #christian hatred #religious hypocrisy #devil worship #homophobia #the parasite one percent #p1p #liberty university

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“Why is it when I ask a Christian why they oppose same-sex marriage they say ‘because it says so in the bible’, but when I ask that same person why God allows people to own other human beings as slaves I get a twenty minute lecture about the social economics of the day, cultural and societal changes over time, and a breakdown on the nature of the history of language and how the certain meanings of words don't necessarily translate?”

Xians pick and choose their morals because they know their bible is complete and utter bullshit too.

#christianity #bible #bible study #bible bullshit #homosexuality #same sex marriage #slavery #god likes slavery #slavery in the bible #chattel slavery #bible nonsense #religious hypocrisy #christian hypocrisy #religion #religion is a mental illness

[imagine-all-the-people]

Ha! 😬

#truth #funny #funny not funny #religious hypocrisy #this is america #America #americans are stupid

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

#us politics #2022 #twitter #tweet #judge reed o'connor #texas #PrEP #prep drugs #hiv/aids #std #@PrEP4AllNow #chris geidner #chris stedman #@mynameisjro #fda #food and drug administration #religious freedom #organized religion #religious hypocrisy

[tabernacleheart]

The [paralyzed] man’s eight-and-thirty years of illness had apparently been brought on by dissipation. It was a sin of flesh, avenged in the flesh, that had given him that miserable life... and so Christ comes to him again with this solemn warning: ‘There is a worse thing than eight-and-thirty years of paralysis. You fell once, and sore was your punishment. If you fall twice, your punishment will be sorer.’ Why? Because the first one had done him no good. So here are lessons for us. There is always danger that we shall fall back into old sins, even if we think we have overcome them. The mystic influence of habit, enfeebled will, the familiar temptation, the imagination rebelling, the memory tempting– sometimes even, as in the case of a man that has been a drunkard, the physical effect of the odour of his temptation upon his nostrils– all these things make it extremely unlikely that a man who has once been under the condemnation of any evil shall never be tempted to fall under its sway again. And such a fall is not only more criminal than the former, it is more deadly than the former. [I assure you] there is no blacker condemnation; and if I may use a strong word, there is no hotter hell, than that which belongs to an apostate Christian. [And so we Christians must take heed, for behold, we also] have been made whole. ‘Sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto you.’ And turn to that Lord and say, ‘Hold Thou me up and I shall be saved.’ Then the enemies will not be able to recapture you, and the chains which have dropped from your wrists will never enclose them any more.

Alexander MacLaren; Commentary on John 5:14

#jesus christ #a vital warning #remember this #Alexander MacLaren #John 5 #John 5:14 #Addiction #Sin #Temptation #The struggle against sin #Spiritual warfare #i can attest to this #Do not despair #Fight the good fight of faith #This is very relevant to my life lately #Recovery #Apostasy #religious hypocrisy #The terror of sin #The wages of sin is death