*phrasing*

Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.

The Bible says the exact opposite, saying you shouldn’t be a hard person, but God will turn you into a soft one. Religious people are so stupid sometimes.

Unless you're Job. Fuck that guy and his herd animals and wives.
- Don’t forget all his dead kids
Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
Some transitions encourage us to be "meek" as well.
- "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
  In some translations it's"humble" or "gentle".
Sometimes?
- Shhh I was trying to be nice
- The show Scrubs sort of changed my perspective on this. Religion has its place as a thing for people to grab on to in order to give them the strength to make it to the next day.
  The problem comes when religion is used to oppress others.
- I was gonna say "It's kinda a prereq"
Yeah I think if you go back to Genesis you'll see that God pretty clearly wanted a naive vegan nudist roommate.
- Don’t we all?
You think these people read the Bible?
- It’s very selective. They know Bible stories from Sunday school and have been told a few passages.
  It’s a really complicated anthology of books written across 1000ish years (earliest being fragmentary bits of poetry preserved in altered context, most of it being 400 BCE on). Tons of it is related to distant political struggles or cultural norms, stuff so hopelessly distant from us and written in hard to understand language (especially with this KJV only-ists.)
  Then, you add 2000 years of history, pop culture, and interpretation. It’s a really difficult text and it’s difficult for anyone to understand without getting a lot of support and context. The context is often presented in a misleading way, pick your denomination and flavor of distortion

If Jesus came back, these dipshits would have him crucified way faster than those nerd ass Romans.

He would be called an anti-semite as soon as he criticized the mass murdering of his countrymen in Palestine.

Was Jesus “hard?” Not from what I’ve read. He was a kind, gentle, caring soul who avoided confrontation, never harmed anyone, and preach forgiveness, compassion, and love.

The right wing and their obsession over “manliness” is so pathetic.

Well there was that one time he started flipping tables and whipping people. But that was against grifters selling shit in the temple, so...
- Yeah. He lost his temper once but that’s the exception proving the rule.
- Yeah, when asking "What would Jesus do?" it's important to remember that extraordinary violence might be one of the answers.
And chased merchants out of the temple while brandishing a whip and kicking down their tables.
Americans got such a hard on because he "said" something like: trade your tunic for a sword and interpret that as "jesus told me to get some guns"

- Try right click > open in new tab or something

....No? That's literally the exact opposite of what the biblical God expects of men.

Jesus says that men should be compassionate, selfless, giving, and loving. That they should help orphans & widows, the sick & injured, people in prison and even..... foreigners.

Christianity has been invaded & commodified for even more horrific purposes. And I could not be more disappointed in anyone who believes this slop. Because the ones who believe this are the ones who never read the Bible and takes everything at face value.

And a pastor or someone successful claiming to be a "Christian" would never lie! Right? .....RIGHT???

They can no longer discern the wolves from their flock, and God will not have mercy on them.

Hallelujah, holy shit.

A truly devout Christian would work alongside Marxists as they have similar goals
I'm gonna steel-man this. I don't think that being "hard" means being an asshole. It can mean having strength of character. Courage in the face of fear, that kind of thing. You can be that kind of hard and also be compassionate.
Having said that, it is pretty shitty to assign that to a gender. Anybody of any gender can have a strong character. Also, I haven't read the article this is referring to, so it could be full of toxic masculinity for all I know.
- You can be sensitive while also being bold. You can be kind while also being firm. You can be helpful while also being strong.
  None of these things cancel each other out.
  Unfortunately, the shittiness of "BEING A HARD MAN" typically embodies a lot of shitty stereotypes about """masculinity""": must limit your emotions, never apologize even if you're wrong, don't do """girly/sissy""" things, etc. It's garbage.
  A man who lets his nieces paint his nails and isn't ashamed of that isn't less of a man. A man who cries during romantic movies isn't less of a man. You know the drill.
Have you read the Old Testament? Genocide is pretty "hard" I'd say.
- I'm a formerly of the faith. I've read it all an uncountable amount of times.
  The New Testament is kinda of a "new era" for the tone of Christianity. The sacrifice of Jesus was the old ways being re-written and ushering in the new way. His death made it so people no longer had to make blood sacrifices and offerings in order to be forgiven. It really is a beautiful story.
  The absolute selfishness and barbarism endorsed by many modern-day "Christians" would make Jesus weep.
  Luckily, Jesus also promises that they will get what they are owed in the end.

The virgin Mary isn’t gonna be a virgin forever with that kinda talk.

I WANT HIS SAVIOR SEMEN ON MY FACE

- Holy golden shower
- No thanks. Far as I can tell, I'm not missing any pieces other than my appendix. And that tried to kill me so I'd rather he not put another one in.

IF YOU HARD YOU HARD

https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Temple_of_Vandora i sure am

nothing manlier than animal exploitation and a total disregard for climate change.

The hard, true man Eric conn is a rancher with a blog. Doing God's real work of desissyfying America, one substack article at a time.

The world needs more hard men like this guy with his online journal!

Right? The hardest men I've ever known LOVED to write self-help articles for people they looked down on in their spare time. 🙄

Most men I know are doughy as fuck.

Get thee to a gym. Stop eating crap.

I think what cracks me up is this Eric Conn dude is probably a keyboard warrior working a desk job or something. I highly doubt he's out busting his ass herding cattle and building fences then making some self righteous post on xitter.

I'm built for comfort not for speed

This might be the best thing I've seen on Lemmy.

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