Texas Granny thinks Christians are being laughed at

There's a Sears lingerie catalog inside it

The second most unrealistic part is the guy on the left holding the phone with his fingers fused together

Can't believe people would treat a cunt like a cunt

It's also a religion self-defense. If you tell people early on that their faith will be "tested" they are much harder to reason with because all they are hearing is "Satan is trying to take Jesus away from you" instead of the logical arguments against these made up stories.

Which is ironic because the progressive ideal is to leave the concept of "normal" behind entirely and embrace new different things instead of excluding those who are different.

if what’s normal changes, they’ll have to change to be normal. Or even worse, they’ll be excluded from the normal.

Based on how much time I spend voluntarily associating with any openly conservative family members or coworkers these days (none), my anecdotal evidence is that this is already happening.

They are bringing it on themselves, but there's really no point trying to tell them that.

i care that they're christians. i grew up in the bible belt south in the 80's. fuck these people. they wanna ruin my life? i'll gladly return the favor.

Ezekiel 23:20

Please mark that NSFW. I read it out loud on the bus and almost got arrested

I know of this lust

For the lazy:

###Ezekiel 23:20 (NIV)

There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.

That's because it's not worth reading, it's very derivative and essentially it's just a rehashing of Life Of Brian anyway.

It's got a lot of good stuff. Like, "the worker deserves their wages", no wait let's throw that out, and "take care of the poor & needy", no let's ditch that too, and "your breasts are fiiiiine gurl", no wait let's never read that out loud ever, anywhere.

My favorite is "be skeptical - test everything", oh no wait no let's redact that too... (I just realized how that doesn't mesh with the most important verse of all: "just do whatever we tell you, no questions asked, capiche?")

The hilarious part is not that they are reading the Bible - it is that they are not! Likewise for the Constitution that they showed up on January 6th to "defend".

My SO grandma reads Bible explanation books. Stuff is wild I read some and it talks about aliens and dimension compacting and all kinds of sci-fi stuff but packaged in a very weird way.

Nobody does. But I've seen plenty of people who walk around with them to pretend that they do.

I read it out of spite because of how often any random nonsense in my high school English class would be call a metaphor for Jesus and I wanted to be able to call BS on it when appropriate.

Suggested to my mother that she might want to read it sometime, seeing as she taught catechism classes for the local church and she gave me the most confused look and asked me why on earth she would want to do that. The very same lady who insisted I had to continue attending mass and catechism classes until I got confirmed right up until the nun in charge expelled me from their catechism program.

I did. I'm also an atheist. It's actually quite interesting from an historical perspective.

Not in Texas but Oklahoma, and I grew up "Christian" and there was definitely one asshole in high school that just wanted to be that atheist asshole. Like obnoxiously mocking. anyone that mentioned anything about religion.

I'm pretty non religious now and heard that he has since 'found religion' but also believed the COVID vaccine was a government conspiracy. So tables have turned a bit there, or maybe he's just dumb.

I get that, but pretty sure the scene isn't on a plane if that's what you're implying.

I live in Texas and I'm laughing. All the way to the grave. Pls send help.

this. i strive to make them feel as uncomfortable and unwelcome as i can, because, they are. get your stupid fucking ideas out of my society. NOW.

Revive Nero!

They don't need anyone laughing at them, someone telling them that someone else is laughing at them is enough to feed their victim complex.

It goes much deeper than that, imho: "every accusation is a confession". It bespeaks how they make fun of the ones that they do not agree with - and therefore imagine that the "other side" simply MUST be doing that to them (regardless of any evidence yay or nay to that effect).

But to answer your question: yes there are a lot of "city folk" inside of Texas - mostly Austin and Dallas - but since they are concentrated into those areas, the state overall votes along with the rural base. Except that they fear that their children even in the rural areas are leaving Christianity in droves, so that too.

Mostly though, it is a "truthiness" statement - not meant to be factually correct so much as to evoke an emotional response. e.g. the Holy Bible, which they claim to revere, says things like "judge not, let you be judged in return" applied to non-Christians but also has enormous punishments for Christian LEADERS who are caught in things like infidelity especially with under-age children, both of which need to be swapped 100% in reverse in order to match their actions as depicted in this meme. As in, maybe people aren't making fun of you b/c you follow the Bible, but b/c you claim to but then don't?

Thanks for the waste of energy, I guess?

Plot twist he's hiding a hentai comic inside the Bible!

God must've of spent a lot of time getting hands to work right as seen on the guy in grey to the left of Bible boy.

To be fair, that stylistic choice was made by the AI. Their prompt was probably "man sits with Bible being laughed at" or something equivalently trite and uncreative/lifeless.

I mean, if a Christian or other religious person goes into an atheist community and is shocked to find their belief being ridiculed there, I don't know what to tell them

But do they make fun of people just reading the Bible?

I consume a lot of atheist entertainment, and the ridicule is always directed to some harmful action being perpetrated by a religious nut. I've never heard them make fun of someone for just reading the Bible. A couple of the atheist podcasts have read through the whole Bible themselves.