• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    13 days ago

    Most Christians here in the United States don’t have the first clue what Jesus actually said.

    I know a few personally, and even when I quote Bible verses at them, they ignore them and end conversations with shit about how they will pray for me.

    Like… To who, bitch? You prayin’ to Satan or something? Who is going to punish me for caring about other people?

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      13 days ago

      Like the part of the bible where it says “don’t oppress the foreigner, as you were once foreigners in Egypt?”

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        13 days ago

        More specifically, it says to welcome them into your home. Meaning, offer them guest rights.

        But it also says not to oppress or mistreat.

        Multiple times for each. If people get pissy about quoting the old testament, there are half a dozen examples from the new testament as well.

        In fact, one of the only mentions of an eternal punishment in the Bible, if for people who reject the poor, immigrants, and prisoners.

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        13 days ago

        American Christians know they aren’t Jewish. Like it’s seriously a whole thing for them where Israel needs to be restored to some biblical state in order for the end times to come, but Jews aren’t going to heaven because they will be consumed in the war of the rapture or some bullshit. American Christians are literally a death cult.