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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.

  3. No direct links to religious cringe. To prevent religious bigots from getting our clicks and views directs links to religious cringe are not allowed. If you must a post a screenshot of the site or use archive.ph. If it is a YouTube video please use a YouTube frontend like Piped or Invidious

  4. No Proselytizing. Proselytizing is defined as trying to convert someone to a particular religion or certain world view. Doing so will get you banned.

  5. Spammers and Trolls will be instantly banned. No exceptions.

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Oh yes, I totally believe that they were really going to donate $7600, yep. And now they're definitely going to give $7600 to St. Jude's. Yeah right. I'll bet they've never given a dime to anyone and don't leave tips either.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Yeah I heard the Ron Howard narrator voice in my head saying "...he wasn't".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In my country, saying "I bet they don't leave tips" is a compliment and "I bet they leave tips" is an insult.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I bet you don't leave tips. :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

People downvoted you for living in a society. People downvoted you for existing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

They leave those fake $100 bills with Jesus quotes, which are as good as the real thing!

[–] [email protected] 97 points 4 months ago

The turd that posted that likely had a mommy and daddy and look how they turned out. A poster child against opposite sex parenting.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago

They weren't going to donate shit. They just saw an opportunity to try to shit on someone else, and fabricated a lie.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So a sick child will learn a lesson?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No the sinners will learn a lesson the baby is just acceptable fallout of the lesson...I fucking loathe the way some people think

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So wait a minute they care about embryos in wombs but when born it's fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

They don't really care about embryos, it's just a way of punishing women.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Yup punish the "sluts" with parenthood and poverty, punish gay people with children dying from cancer, punish the heathens by hanging and burning them on pyres. The only thing they want in this world is hell for everyone, and deep down they know there's no god to give it to them so they have to do it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I love the 'deep down they know there's no god' as I've heard the exact opposite thing from theists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

They're not worried what a god thinks, only their congregation. There's so much "behind the curtain" sinning that they certainly don't act like there's an omniscient god judging them.

Hell, they do more sinning than me and I've dabbled in satanism.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

The unborn are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.

-Pastor Dave Barnhart

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Only if the parents are heathens(or they need anything that cant be achieved by sending thoughts and prayers™) Then it's gods punishment and they get to feel okay about condemning a literal baby to death.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

This is how we fix all problems the human race is encountering.
Although, I'm pretty sure the bible has more to say on (and can be interpreted as against) the fun homosexual activities, rather than 2 homosexual parents

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can do what you want with your own money, but it costs nothing to keep your bigoted opinions to yourself. Also, the quotes around "hateful" trigger me a bit. It wasn't "hateful", it was straight-up hateful.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it costs nothing to keep your bigoted opinions to yourself

I used to not understand the concept of opportunity costs but now I'm beginning to believe that there is such a thing even when spouting disgusting, obnoxious, dogshit opinions. Like, some people in the world are losing out if they don't take an opportunity to slander and disparage someone else.

They're lower than dirt.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The most fake, hypocritical, entitled mother fuckers I have ever met have all been extremely religious.

Fuck religion.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Were they all Christians, or were they of a variety of faiths?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't know about them, but I've seen plenty of Jews like this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well, that's two religions, which are both part of the same family and are even arguably the same religion. That data doesn't tell us anything about Shintos, Haudenosaunee, Sihks, Maori, Hellenists, Aztecs, realists, pantheists, Buddhists, Celts, or any number of other religions I could name.

The problem is that people go their whole lives where the only religious people they interact with are Abrahamists, so they think Abrahamism is representative of all religions. But that's an extraordinarily sheltered viewpoint, and no good has ever come of dismissing foreign cultures out of hand with no relevant data.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 4 months ago

Could you imagine being all powerful and creating same-sex attraction (or at least allowing it to be possible), but being so butthurt by it that you have to give babies cancer?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We need to PROTECT BABIES!

-That person.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Well not those sinful babies of course

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

Says the divorcee who spent all of their child's formative years trying to block the father from having custody.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No hate like Christian love.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Yes, that is the title

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I doubt they were going to donate, just an asshole who felt like being an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Interesting stuff in Matthew. If every Christian lived as if the book actually mattered, the world would be a much nicer place.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I mean, I get that this is basically the last standing GOP policy, but to read those verses correctly, you have to remember that "to suffer" is another way to say "to put up with," and he's talking to his disciples, not the children. He's just saying "Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm well aware. I'm making the joke that they think they should be making kids suffer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I gotcha. :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It doesn't mean "to put up with", it means "to allow".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master

To think of all the churchgoing slave owners with Jesus “literally” saying this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

That is why they selectively read from passages - both amongst themselves (ignoring the parts where they were commanded to help others) and those they had read aloud to their slaves (there is where they read all those other passages!).

Picking and choosing whatever people would like to believe - e.g. "God wants me to be RICH!" - is a very lucrative business model for pastors/priests/ministers. And quite a comfortable one for the believer too. None of those pesky "commands" like how the worker deserves his wages.

It is exactly like how on January 6 the self-styled "patriots" rose up to "defend" American democracy. Jesus / God's message - Love One Another - is fantastic, too bad the religion part gets in the way of it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

i dont usually get mad at these but this one achieved it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

If they didn't want to donate, they could have said nothing. This is the worst sounding rejection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Ah, but at least they sent their prayers - that'll make everything better /s

Seriously though, how can people live with such vitrol in their hearts towards people who've done literally nothing to hurt them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Bigots call themselves lots of benevolent things. They're still just bigots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

be a shame if somebody found out who they were and beat the shit out of them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That is so anti-New Testament that it hurts. People like this can go straight to hell. Atheists are fine, but this asshole goes to hell.