"Love thy neighbor, unless they're gay, black, immigrant or they think different from you, then harass then and make false allegations and boycott every woke media" - somewhere in the Bible.
also remember how jesus helped and fed poor people? well that's commie bullshit, we don't do that here
I think that was in Shitforbrains 24:7 or was it Propaganda 69:420?
Either was totes there, Jesus was big on hating thy neighbor.
Christianity and capitalism aren't compatible but no one is ready to have that conversation
Christianity is the perfect religion for capitalists. They can do all the harm they want while they’re alive and all they have to do is ask for forgiveness to go to heaven.
I'd argue against that. Your average North American christian church, on the other hand, has been molded to support this kind of attitude.
If any of the stories are true*, it's the active, practicing red-letter Christians who will get into heaven. Everyone else (see: the majority of church goers) get to burn with the rest of us. Remind followers of the idol of the church of this often, at every opportunity.
*I personally don't believe they are, but still find value in Christian thought that's actually wrestled with (and the people that do so) rather than just parroting the agendas and corruptions of others.
Christians say they are all about helping people. Until faced with the proposal that we make helping people the baseline system of how things work.
Oh no. They want charity to be something they can pat themselves on the back for doing in tiny amounts when they choose. They want to feel superior to those they are helping - not just…. help them.
This is why, even though churches do a lot of charity work, they and their conservative members are a bunch of hypocritical assholes who are determined to keep the poor poor.
If we fix the system, structurally, so that everyone has clothes to wear, how are they going to make themselves feel superior and gracious by collecting ratty old clothes into grocery bags?
The corporations (Pinocchio) make everything appear anything other than the assassination of all life on Earth. Global warming, Microplastics, AI, any way it can happen as it is explicitly their objective and nothing less.
I've had this exact same epiphany after having arguments with my parents about politics... Like, "You made me this way!"
It's very sad. I'm fortunate that it was the opposite for me. Born into a hyper-conservative Catholic family, then when 3 out of 4 of their children wound up LGBTQ, they realized that God might have been telling them something. They're extremely and refreshingly Christ-like, and total allies. They treat my same-sex fiancé as their full-blown in-law.
I think it's more that Christians are mad that they would be helping others who don't share their same belief system.
"He's not hurting the right people"
I've been in and around Christian communities my whole life. There is truth to what you say - someone being Christian increases the likelihood that other Christians would be willing to help them.
But by and large the prevailing attitude is even more disappointing and unchristlike. People are simply selfish and only want to serve themselves, keeping every penny they have earned regardless of those in need around them.
The rich don't get rich by giving it away, and this is well known amongst the rich themselves. Some may even give on a personal level, giving them a visual alibi for using their resources politically to actively oppose legislation and policy that benefits those less fortunate. To me this is even more evil.
Help the homeless? Are you insane?? There's so many of them!
No, no, if you help the homeless, they won't help themselves and will instead get a free ride, and that'll just encourage more people to become homeless. That's real conservative logic right there.
Can we not divide Twitter posts into race on Lemmy? Also can we let Twitter die in peace?
Does anyone know the origin story of /r/blackpeopletwitter and /r/whitepeopletwitter?
Thinly veiled racism.
Yeah, this comment is pretty ratio'd, but I agree. Especially back on reddit, /r/blackpeopletwitter was obviously a bunch of white teens cosplaying as black. It was gross
Maybe it's asking too much, but I'd love if Lemmy versions of popular Reddit subs like this would encourage posting and upvoting fresh and original content instead of the same recycled undated reposts.
This one hits worryingly close to home
Love is the sister to hate. It's very easy to convert one to the other. "Love" your enemies. Love is the Christian codeword for hate. God "loves" you with the intensity of 1000 suns. Climate change is god's love.
Being anti-socialism is caring about people.
