• AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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    This shit only flies as long as it isn’t a Muslim doing it.

    Reminds me of Valarie Hodges in Lousiana like a dozen years ago. Where she stopped supporting religious vouchers for school cause an Islamic school wanted to use them and she didn’t realize that could happen.

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      That’s pretty much the entire operating model of the Satanic Temple. Either you’re getting a Baphomet statue to go with it, or you’re losing that Jesus one.

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    I don’t think people really understand what’s comming. Everyone’s like “so now everyone can talk about their respective religion, haha”. But where I see this going is only the one right religion being acceptable in near future and everyone who’s making clever remarks being outlawed and prosecuted. The fact we’re not there yet makes the obvious progression to that none the less scary.

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        For anyone else who also doesn’t recognize this, it’s a greeting phrase from the TV show A Handmaid’s Tale.

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      I don’t think you realize that christians aren’t as popular as they were before. There are a LOT of others and non religious. I don’t think christians are going to enjoy the process as much as they think.

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        Frankly, I’d never hire or do business with a fundie. It’s hard to put my finger on it, but there’s something about their desire to enslave or kill nonbelievers that makes me uncomfortable.

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        True Christians find all this behavior disgusting. It is just capitalizing on a faith for profit and control while bringing harm to those that can’t pay the admission fee and/or have the wrong skin color.

        What’s going on is religious terrorism/extremism, and taking advantage of the dumbs to enable it.

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          I do genuinely feel bad for the people who actually attempt to live by the words of Christ. They will be hit in the backlash much the same as other Christians, undeservedly.

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          You misunderstand, when they inevitably try that, and try to continue the “Christian nation” shit, there will be a backlash, and the violence will likely get out of control. I would not be at all surprised to see a concentrated effort to murder Christians by mobs. Christians have gone so long without facing ANY BACKLASH whatsoever for their continued depravity. It will happen and they will cry about how much of victims they are.

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            I’m pressing X. The christo part of christofascism is well embedded. Just like with this epstein thing, if the ‘deep state’ under trump tried to rid themselves of the christian part by not enforcing the law in christians’ favor, they would rattle a significant part of their base. Also, we are LITERALLY seeing an entire segment of our nation (something like 40+ million strong) be targeted by this administration, and the most we can do is filming the masked guys doing it and having some city walk-arounds to show our irritation.

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    Every job I’ve ever had, my coworkers and I have pretty openly discussed the ‘taboo’ shit like religion and politics. We can generally keep the flames under control, and if shit does start to heat up we’ll change the topic knowing that the conversation isn’t going anywhere at that point… but ultimately it’s been a consistent point of growth for pretty much everyone involved.

    Coming from the Trump regime, I can only assume it means “convert your non-christian coworkers to christianity, and other application of this policy will get you fired” so, 100% fuck this shit. Coming from less of an absolute shitstain traitor, I’d actually be in favor of this kind of rhetoric. Maintain policies requiring professional behavior and prohibiting harassment so that those who don’t want to discuss it are empowered to shut the conversation up; but in a consensual setting, sure I’ll hear you pitch coming to Jesus or w/e - so long as you’re equally receptive to my counterargument.

    That’s not how it’s gonna work, so again, fuck everything about this, but fuck if it doesn’t hint at a nice sounding ideal.

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      My I introduce the reverse loophole.

      Blaspheme against the holy spirit, that piece of shit.

      Doing so is the only unforgivable sin. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars. Straight to hell with you and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Not even their god. By blaspheming against the holy spirit, that fake garbage, you are putting up the shield against christians. They can’t save you, you have no reason to convert, it is a waste of their time…please leave me alone.

      Now, if anyone can give me reverse loopholes for other religions, that would be great.

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          Technically that doesn’t even work with christianity. You have to very specifically blaspheme against the holy spirit, who is most definitely a child rapist on the Epstein list. You can call their god whatever name you want, deny Jesus, worship any form of metallic idol you want - you still can get through the door to heaven. It takes a special kind of statement - like saying the holy spirit isn’t even real and only exists because whatever man made it all up was accused of copying off of some other religion and just made up even more bullshit so their “nuh uh” had more weight.

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            That’s not what the blaspheming of the Holy Spirit is at all.

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              Oh, it isn’t? What’s your definition if not Merriam-Webster’s? Or do we look to the holy spirit for the definition? Because in my understanding that thing can’t even spell much less string together a coherent definition of what it means to blaspheme.

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                Traditionally, blaspheming the holy spirit is taken as denying the existence thereof. As soon as you believe in it and convert to christianity, the sin no longer exists and is ‘forgiven.’ The reason it is “unforgiveable” is because you literally cannot ask for forgiveness and to “receive christ in your heart” without believing in it.

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      I agree with you. On surface, it is a good thing. But again, this is Trump speaking.

      I think maybe someone should convert Trump to Christianity.

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    I’m sure a lot of people are re-thinking their religious beliefs after the fucking devil was elected.

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    THANK YOU TRUMP for allowing me to FINALLY share the Teachings of ALLAH with other Government Workers!

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      I know it’s intentional here, but I cringe whenever someone says ‘Allah’ in an English sentence because it’s just the Arabic word for God.

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        But doesn’t muslims also consider arabic to be the holy language and therefore the correct way and only way to refer to allah?

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          Ah yes, the age old source of disagreement. The nuance of what God/Allah/Elohim/Bagavan/Deva/Dingir/Wakan Tanka/Kami/Hunab Ku/Baiame/Netjer……… is and isn’t. The biggest source of discord used by the greedy to aim humans against each other. When in reality it should be the binder of humanity. It’s like fighting over the description of what a perfect apple tastes like. Every time we fall in that trap, we widen the gap.

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    Time to found Epsteinology, a religion based around the release and realization of the Great Nefarious Files to bring about the Grand Awakening and destruction of the Orange Menace for the good of all Humanity.

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    I’m sure when atheists and satanists start proselytising there will be outrage - “we really meant Christians should allowed to bother their co-workers not you guys”

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      I bet you a coke this is to fuck with the FFRF and MRFF, two great orgs trying to keep religion out of our gov.

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    “Fascists enable Christian Nationalist Karens to abuse coworkers on the government’s funds.”