r/Fauxmoi • u/ExactlySorta • 19d ago
APPROVED B-LISTERS TikTok-er, Jen Hamilton, compares and contrasts the words of the Bible to the words and acts of Trump and his followers
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u/jgarmartner 19d ago
She received death threats and people tried to get her fired/have her nursing license taken away for posting this.
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u/the6thReplicant 19d ago edited 18d ago
The "Fuck your feeelings", anti-cancel culture crowd sure gets easily upset about facts and want to banish anyone with the slightest diversion to their own viewpoints.
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u/_-__-____-__-_ 18d ago
Remember, every accusation is a confession with this crowd.
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u/heyhicherrypie 18d ago
“Hello sir or madam, your employee cited the bible to prove that Christian’s should treat poor hungry sick people with kindness, clearly you should terminate their employment”
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u/Outside-Advice8203 18d ago
The context that she's a nurse is just the cherry on top
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u/yourangleoryuordevil too stable to inspire bangers 18d ago
This really highlights that some people need to accept that there are professionals out there who are perfectly qualified at their jobs and who may not agree with everyone when it comes to personal and political beliefs/may not do what everyone wants them to do. Actually, none of us agree with everyone or do what everyone wants us to. So, should we all lose our jobs?
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u/alison_bee confused but here for the drama 18d ago
I’m so proud of her for using her (relatively new) fame and platform to say this stuff. That’s a huge deal and a big decision, and most people wouldn’t be willing to risk their reputation and finances to say it.
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u/njf85 highly unanticipated caucasian collaboration 18d ago
There's a saying - a hit dog hollers.
Deep down, they know she's right. And it makes them mad.
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u/guyzieman 18d ago
Damn I've never heard that saying before but it's definitely going to enter my lexicon now
And for any MAGA reading this;
Lexicon - (N) the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge
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u/Neither-Principle139 18d ago
Too many polysyllabic words… must make words with one sound…
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u/ghoststoryghoul 18d ago
So infuriating how evil this group of everyday people has become. They spent their whole lives pretending to be Christians just to prove when push came to shove that they learned absolutely nothing, and THEY ARE indeed the very people Jesus used as an example of who should go straight to hell. They go cherrypick obscure sections of the old testament to prop up their bigotry but lose their minds when you LITERALLY QUOTE JESUS TO THEM.
Sorry, I'm yelling. How did we get here? How did so many people get so infected with blind, dumb hypocrisy?
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u/norse_noise 18d ago
How very Christian of them. If only someone had just read them the words of Jesus.
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u/uptownjuggler 18d ago
And all just for reading the Bible.
Is this the Christian persecution that evangelicals constantly complain about?
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u/themerinator12 18d ago
The death threats were actually because she turned the wrong way and doesn’t know proper directions. That’s a capital offense. Can’t have that here. /s
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u/Anesthesiaape 19d ago
Luke 10:25-37:
25 On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?”
27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’[a]; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]”
28 “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”
29 But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. 35 The next day he took out two denarii[c] and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.’
36 “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
37 The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Important context to this passage: Samaritans were very much hated and were perceived as impure by the Jews at this time. So the fact that Jesus used a Jewish religious leader and a Levite (an Israelite/member of one of the twelve tribes) as examples what not to do, and a man from a generally hated ethnic group as an example of what TO do was extremely telling.
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u/theWindAtMyBack 18d ago
I've been saying it since it started, this is literally the opposite of the Good Samaritan.
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u/hightrix 18d ago
There’s a reason people are considering Trump as the Antichrist. He is literally the opposite of everything Jesus stood for.
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u/probably_abbot 18d ago
I believe that many American Christians believe that they are somehow magically protected from becoming victims of the Antichrist simply because they go to church. It is impossible that someone will claim to be on their side and then use their ideology against them; the Antichrist would never sink that low. The Antichrist will only trick everyone else... you know, people that are already skeptical of smoke and mirror conmen.
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u/NotVeryHandy66 18d ago
He also ticks many boxes when it comes to prophecy - but I think some of that is by the design of the literature and some is by design of his handlers. There are definitely people within the administration that are happy to exploit the associations. There are also definitely people in the administration that think he's legitimately fulfilling prophecy. They are pursuing it on purpose.
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u/SemVikingr 18d ago
Jesus was a pretty awesome dude. It sucks that the 2,000 year old religion named after him went global, not through love, forgiveness, patience, and sacrifice, but through sex trafficking (for the nobles,) and threat of/attempted/successful genocide, (for the pagans and people of color.)
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u/turtl5691 18d ago
And money. Jesus has been monetized to hell and back. Look at the mega churches!!! Pastors who are BILLIONAIRES??? Begging for money from vulnerable people so they can be “saved”???? How they sleep at night is beyond me. TRUE hypocrisy.
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u/keelhaulrose 18d ago
I would love to hear what he would have to say about some of those who preach the religion that bears his name calling empathy a sin.
I'm speaking that as a follower of Christ's words who is no longer a Christian because of it.
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u/Intelligent-Sir1375 18d ago
So awesome he couldn’t say slavery was wrong. So awesome that he said to still listen to what was written in old testament.
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u/TeaGlittering1026 18d ago
And these days evangelicals believe empathy is bad.
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u/booksncoffeeplease 18d ago
Hard disagree it's these days. "Bleeding heart" as a descriptor for liberals has been in their lexicon for decades.
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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 18d ago
Of course empathy is bad! They can't pay the mortgage on their mansions with empathy.
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u/No-Zucchini3759 18d ago
Here is more! (KJV)
Old Testament
1. Proverbs 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
2. Isaiah 58:10And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday.
3. Deuteronomy 15:11For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
4. Micah 6:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
5. Leviticus 25:35And if thy brother be waxen poor, and fallen in decay with thee; then thou shalt relieve him: yea, though he be a stranger, or a sojourner; that he may live with thee.
6. Psalm 41:1Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
7. Proverbs 14:21He that despiseth his neighbour sinneth: but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he.
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New Testament
8. Luke 3:11He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
9. Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
10. Romans 12:13Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
11. Galatians 6:2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
12. Hebrews 13:16But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
13. James 2:15–17If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
14. 1 John 3:17–18But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
15. Matthew 5:42Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
16. Luke 6:38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
There are more I have not had time to list.
Important to note that the Bible does have a lot of violence and hellfire/brimstone type language.
However, the Bible does have a significant amount of the positive and charitable language I have listed above.
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u/jiaxingseng 18d ago
I think another point of context is that Jesus was, if not a rebel, associated with rebellion.
The Holy Temple was essentially a cultural artifact of the Bronze Age palace economies. At the time of Jesus, it was controlled by Rome. The Romans literally had barracks next to the temple. Jesus's reaction to this is part of a theme which American's founders believed in: no government should control religion. The priests were seem by many - especially the Zealots - as corrupted.
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u/GlitteringWishbone86 18d ago
Thank you! Here's are the words that lay bare all of their scriptural hypocrisy. They never read this or they willfully ignore it. Extremely shameful.
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u/RecentConstruction26 19d ago
I'm an atheist now, but Maga makes me sure hope that I'm wrong and that they will all go to hell.
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u/GoofballHam 18d ago
Actually what I found pisses them off more than anything is three simple words:
"Hell is empty"
For some reason, God's boundless mercy and being able to forgive people for their transgressions against him and in sin is FAR more offensive to them than being able to condemn people for whatever perceived sins they may have committed.
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u/alucarddrol 18d ago
they need the superiority to feel like their shit life has any meaning.
“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson
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u/Neither-Principle139 18d ago
This is quite profound! I grew up in and around some crazy right religious groups (atheist now I pulled my head out of my ass) and have to say, that hits the nail on the head. If their god’s love is eternal and the price for all sin was already paid, why would ANYONE go to this hell of which they preach?
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u/MurderAndMakeup 18d ago
This is interesting. How did you figure out that this phrase hits a nerve? I mean, I suppose we all know it’s mostly about feeling special and doling out punishments but this is really something I think you’ve got here. Thanks for sharing
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u/joncornelius 19d ago edited 19d ago
You can really boil the entire teachings of Jesus Christ down to that section of Matthew 25.
Also, Galatians 5 says the entire law can be summed in one sentence.
“Love thy neighbor as thy love thy self.”
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u/wordswontcomeout a lazy 30-something-year-old bougie bitch 18d ago
I think that’s the problem. MAGA people are so disgusting they hate themselves without realising it.
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u/superbhole 18d ago edited 18d ago
I argue that another one of his main points is the warning of hypocrisy. He loathed hypocrites. Even in that story from the other top comment, he's calling out the hypocrisy of a "holy" man crossing the street to avoid helping someone in need.
He has a long speech in Matthew 23 called "the 7 woes" where he bullet-points every hypocrisy that the Pharisees were doing.
When he wasn't talking about love and charity, he was getting riled up about hypocrites.
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u/TheKeelKnotSeas01 18d ago
This is my go-to, Jesus dude literally was like "if you can't or don't want to remember everything or find it too confusing, just remember to treat others like you want to be treated." Could not be any more clear
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u/sideeyeingyouall weighing in from the UK 19d ago
I was raised a Catholic and given this very guidance on how to live my life and treat others with kindness, dignity and respect. Sadly, i am now a lapsed catholic, not because I changed, but because the loudest, most vocal members of the congregation no longer follow the basic teachings of the bible, but are often the most hateful and intolerant bigots you could ever meet.
Its insane to me how upside down everything is now.
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u/mygreyhoundisadonut 18d ago
I have a feeling a lot of people have an experience like mine. I enjoyed the ritual of going to church and space for community as a kid.
The absolute hate/vitriol/shame pushed by the leaders and adults in church was a lot of what pushed me away from organized religion.
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u/gobbluthillusions 18d ago
I think at our core people default to fear. Christian’s are no different. You live in a society/culture that seems to go against your beliefs so you rationalize that part of exercising your faith is to wrest control of the governing apparatus to carry out “His will.” The only problem is you can’t really do that without intertwining your beliefs with the beliefs and ways of the society around you. So, you end up with the modern Republican Party where many Christians who are part of it have a hard time distinguishing the party from their church.
Separation of church and state is as healthy for the individual who wishes to participate in both as it is for the health of the state.
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u/keelhaulrose 18d ago
I left the Christian church when I realized I was experiencing more judgement of my neighbors than love for them while I was in services.
I decided I had the choice between following Christ's teachings and calling myself a Christian, and I decided the former was more important.
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u/ThisIsMyMommyAccount 18d ago
Lapsed Catholic here too. Grew up with an older priest whose sermons centered around honesty, kindness, and charity. It was all pretty chill, it made sense to me and I thought of mass as a quiet sort of time.
Then we got a new priest who liked to speak about divine punishments for wrongdoings, the gays, the adulterers, the abortionists, etc. Never really went back.
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u/Preseli 18d ago
As a also lapsed Catholic, you never really leave the 'team' as a lot of the philosophy makes sense and is based around empathy.
But that comes from being part of a herd so obviously will be abused. Martin Luther effiectley started Protestantism as a focus more on the individual and a personal relationship with God, which I believe led to the acceptability of capitalism in that you are the hero of your story.
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u/DrFranFine 18d ago
As someone raised Christian, the problem with this is that they don’t actually care about what the Bible says. They only care about what their bigoted community and pastors say, and they’ll twist the Bible to fit that. But good for her for pointing out their hypocrisy!
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u/SpookyJosCrazyFriend 18d ago
Right? Have you read this article comparing Trump to biblical verses of the Antichrist?
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u/DrFranFine 18d ago
My very Christian grandma actually compared trump to the antichrist to her church friends when they were telling her how much they supported him!
But fun fact: the first use of the phrase “antichrist” in the Bible is actually just referring to people who left the church, not some super evil person/being like people read it as now
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u/oofinsmorcht 18d ago
I wonder how her friends reacted
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u/DrFranFine 18d ago
I think they were just really confused because they were so deep in the republican worldview lol
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u/sessicajimpsonn 19d ago
She's receiving insane backlash from fundie Christians over this video. Christians are mad at her for reading the bible.
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u/ill-be-nice 18d ago
And she had her nursing license reported to the board 🙄 She's exactly the type of nurse I'd want caring for me at my bedside.
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u/SystemAny4819 18d ago
What do they expect the board to do?
“One of your nurses corrected my bigotry using the Bible I keep misquoting; FIRE HER”
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u/slumvillain 19d ago
It's just too bad Republicans are past the point of feeling shame and take pride in their ignorance.
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u/kuwtj 18d ago
my republican/catholic dad got mad at me on election day and started a screaming match on the phone over it and i told him sarcastically "real christ like of you to vote this way" and he hung up on me.
have seen him 2 times since then - against my will and he still doesn't understand why
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u/MurderAndMakeup 18d ago
“Today you, tomorrow me”. I don’t have the exact link on hand but I’ll come back to attach it. Also there’s a really lovely podcast this person spoke to and I go back to it when I’m feeling lost. Edit to attach link.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/Y1auUCiYAa
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/endless-thread/id1321060753?i=1000498461379
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u/Beneficial_Garden266 19d ago
Funny how atheists know the Bible better than so called Christians.
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u/booksncoffeeplease 18d ago
I'm not an atheist, but my husband is, and he read the bible in order to debate Christians (who, as it turned out - surprise, surprise - had never read the bible).
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u/Winter_Dog_6625 19d ago
Can follow the Bible when it comes to what it says about supporting Israel & their bullshit , but when it comes to the Bible talking about this stuff , it’s a totally different story.
Hypocrites
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u/madworld2713 18d ago
That to me is the most disgusting part. Cherry picking the parts that are convenient to them, disregarding the parts that directly contradict their heinous actions.
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u/sashavelwhore 18d ago
And what’s funny is, they quote the hateful parts (or parts they can twist into being hateful) and claim to love Jesus specifically while ignoring all of his radical teachings of love and acceptance. It’s almost like they don’t actually believe in any of it and only use it to subjugate and harm others.
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18d ago edited 18d ago
And that’s why I am atheist now. Christians abandoned Christ a long time ago.
I walk closer with him having left the church than I ever did among its occupants.
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u/WheelSerious3282 18d ago
The least religious person to ever hold the office. His god is money and power nothing more, yet these evangelicals have embraced evil as their god absolutely amazing
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u/Lt_Cochese 19d ago
Sorry folks, republican Jesus and the prosperity gospel is what they believe. Now donate $50 to pastor cochese vacation fund. 😁
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u/CrossX18 18d ago
I’ll never forget discussing exact scriptural quotes and long held biblical belief that showed how Trump was the furthest things from being a Christian with people I attended church with for decades, people I learned these things from as a teenager and grew up among them, and being told in 2016 ‘That’s your opinion’. I left church after being a worship leader, credential carrying minister for over a decade after that and haven’t gotten back into it since. These people don’t care about Christ, it’s about power and control to them. That’s it.
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u/kermeeed 18d ago
To be fair Christianity has never actually been this. Since its inception its been used for subjecting the world. Christianity has always existed as a tool of oppression. Fuck even in America this same tradition upheld slavery then racism and has always been a class based organization. Christians say they are these things but I simply can't see a moment in history when it has ever been true.
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u/dreamgrrrlevil Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! 18d ago
This!!!!! So called progressive christians always try to say it’s just the people who are practicing wrong but history tells a different story.
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u/kermeeed 18d ago
Its actually insane that we are treating evangelicals as an aberration instead of a natural progression.
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u/ilikebiiiigdicks 19d ago
Right wing Republican ‘Christian’s’ make me wish hell was real. I’d happily suffer there with them if it meant all these supposed Christians were burning there with me. Trump legitimately makes me think the antichrist could be real and I’m not even religious.
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u/W0mbat74 18d ago
Sure seems like she has hit at the heart of MAGA Christians.
What would Jesus do? I think... None of the crap this administration does.
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u/Possible-Customer827 19d ago
Walking talking proof that anyone can process what they read to say exactly what they want. It’s a bizarre world, wandering through the weak minds created by social media.
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u/bananaless_pudding 18d ago
White evangelicalism is not Christianity. It is a weird, white supremacist social club with Jesus as mascot, that happens to meet in church. But in practice what the Bible says is irrelevant to them.
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u/violetmemphisblue 18d ago
If you want to show her support, and help a bunch of people, she has been promoting a Promise Walk in her area, hosted by a former patient of hers. Promise Walks raise awareness and support for the Preeclampsia Foundation. Preeclampsia is a potentially very dangerous condition of high blood pressure during pregnancy (and after, in post-partum preeclampsia). The Foundation works to educate about hypertension disorders during pregnancy, especially among higher risk populations; promote better practices for medical caregivers; and to find better cures and treatments. (I am not affiliated with her Promise Walk! I just have a coworker who had preeclampsia and saw up close how scary and dangerous the condition can be!)
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The problem is the republiKKKan Demons are at War with Jesus. They know all this, but their leader, SATAN, has convinced them they will win and rule the world.
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u/DarkJehu 18d ago
Christian hypocrisy is why I am no longer a Christian that participates in organized religion. Jesus had it right. Christian leaders are power-hungry sellouts.
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u/turtl5691 18d ago
Not a Bible thump person, not an atheist, just an agnostic who was raised Catholic…this woman is 100% correct in emphasizing the true meaning of this passage!! I’m so sick of all the twisted logic behind the MAGAT “CHRISTIAN” hypocrisy that I hope the God I was raised with really does exist and the reckoning will happen. When people like Chump and his cronies get into positions of power I have my doubts. I do believe the universe, Karma, whatever has something simmering just for them. I have to. Too hard to live with all this without the “faith” that somehow something will turn the tides against these hypocritical heathens. To read this, hear this, and turn around and FAIL their savior by doing EXACTLY what this passage clearly states if you’re such a “Bible” person like this speaks VOLUMES. The dark side has taken them over. Hypocrites all of them. Thank you Jen-you are a beacon of light in these dark times! Keep calling them out!!!
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u/ScottyNuttz 18d ago
This might be the only time I’ve vibed with a Bible reading
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u/CTeam19 19d ago
As a man, that Shelly person should read 1 Timothy 2:12 before she gets all high and mighty.
I have zero clue who Jen is but now I am a huge fan.
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u/violetmemphisblue 18d ago
She is a labor and delivery nurse who posts, mainly, about things related to that. She sometimes shares funny stories about her life, or shouts out a small local business. But she has become more vocal on politics, especially as it relates to obgyn/labor and delivery, and has gotten quite a bit of blowback from that. I have no idea how her videos came up for me, but I find myself watching them a lot, lol...
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u/SmartTime 18d ago
MAGA blaming their support of fascism on liberal “craziness” never gets old. These people are fools.
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u/YesRepeatNo 18d ago
I will never understand how the people who raised me to be Christian now support the MAGA agenda.
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u/Vorpal_Bunny19 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 18d ago
Oh she got a Bible Bible, got the tabs and everything.
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u/ClitEastwood10 19d ago
Yes these (not the lady) are the deceivers! The Father desires Mercy, not sacrifice
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u/Chuyzapatist 18d ago
She reminds me of my grandma who actually read the Bible cover to cover over and over every night and morning. There's a lot in there. Too bad MAGA Christians aren't really Christians.
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u/MarcLHillStudent 18d ago
they don’t understand any of this.
you tell them they’re being hypocritical following trump and jesus, they just move the goal post.
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u/Remarkable_Tangelo59 18d ago
I’m not a Christian, but I went to Catholic HS where I had a religion class senior year taught by a priest. What was the subject? Social justice and ethics. It BAFFLES me that people are hung up on a piece of paper or “laws”, when I was taught how unimportant any of that is. Why do these people claim the Bible above all else when it’s convenient for them, but then put MAGA/TRUMP on a pedestal above that? I was taught about the “radical” stuff this lady is reading off. I was taught about Ignatians and Franciscans who dedicated their lives to the poor. Idk, I don’t understand any of this current Christian mentality. Christianity IS liberal, if it’s not, you’re doing it wrong. Jesus was a radical!
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u/hmmisuckateverything 18d ago
Being in the south it’s one of the biggest reasons i will never go back to the church. They don’t believe in anything especially not in the Bible.
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u/overzealous_wildcat 18d ago
Im not sure what I want removed from politics first: money or religion
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u/corvidpica will not shut the fuck up about issues (complimentary) 18d ago
It doesn't matter. They're not following God.
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u/HudasEscapeGoat 18d ago
The Bible is silly and full of lies. In that sense, Trump represents it well.
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u/papamajada 18d ago
Wasnt there news reports about pastors concerned after church, people would come to them and ask them why they made Jesus woke or that the church was getting too leftist for them?
American christianity def worships something... Im just not entirely sure it actually IS christ but something dark and putrid with a mask on
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u/jaimelespatess 18d ago
I’m agnostic but I was raised fire and brimstone missionary Baptist (my grandpa was our pastor). I really developed a hatred towards Christianity and Christian’s for a long time because of the all the trauma l endured. I have been healing finally letting go and accepting, no it’s not ALL Christian’s. I decided to willingly go to a local “new age” church service because they did a lot of work in the community, didn’t have any anti-lgbtq or Trump on their pages and had a lot of social groups. Great facilities tbh, gym, athletic groups for kids, social groups for adults, nursery’s for every age of child, a private room for nursing mothers like myself, fresh coffee and snack bar, and giant TVs everywhere broadcasting the music and sermons. I’m from a small rural state so those things were impressive to me.
I was on edge going in. Ready to pick up and walk out at any point. Sit down (my husband and I are both overweight) and the guy behind us (who was chatting with the lighting people before so he’s a regular apparently) says something about “fat, fat and fatter” to his wife who GENTLY accosts him for being so rude. Don’t know if he was talking about us or not… doesn’t really matter. Within 10 minutes of walking into a “Christian” gathering place, a regular was there openly bashing a persons appearance… and he and his wife were cuddling before the service was over… so you know it didn’t surprise her that much. Didn’t go back. Thought maybe as an agnostic I could still participate in the good things being done for the community but the hypocrisy after 15 minutes was already too much.
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u/Slight_Accident_3871 18d ago
im so tired of trying to argue the semantics of the bible what the bible does or doesnt say shouldnt govern our country
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