According to them:
Mutilating your genitals for sky daddy in your head- good and normal
Surgery to be your true self - Deranged
I hate this hell world.
Job: “Thanks for giving me back everything you took from me in that bet with Satan, but can you please bring my dead family back to life?”
God: “We haven’t established that lore yet.”
God: I replaced them, what’s your problem?
I constantly reference Job for exactly that logic. Early Christianity saw family as property first.
when one person believes a delusion, it’s schizophrenia. when millions do, it’s religion
True, when enough people do something it gets normalised, no matter how crazy.
They had it with opium, and we have this thing with the hard drug alcohol.
Whats even funnier is that in the original (Jewish interoperation) god does this as a joke. Yes god literally makes a bet with angels over if he’ll acturally go through with it. Then said angels go down to earth to attempt to sway him because they wanted to win the bet.
How exactly is the Jewish interpretation different from the Christian one? I thought the Christian Old Testament was identical to the Torah. I ask as someone who was raised Methodist.
The Torah is only the first five books of the Old Testament. Depending on what branch of Christianity you go by, the Old Testament contains 39-49 books. But that’s only a small nit.
I’ve never heard of that particular interpretation of the Abraham story, being raised Catholic. I also can’t find any sources that say that the Jews believe that the Abrahamic Covenant started as a joke between God and the angels, but then again my quick search might not have had the right keywords.
I wouldn’t trust anyone who misspelled interpretation twice.
interpenetration
My keyboard app doesn’t have working spellcheck. Sorry that every other Android keyboard is spyware.
The difference is that the Jewish interpenetration developed both before and after Christianity started, so its not really possible for them to be the same.
Once you start learning about some newer iterations of Christianity like Mormonism and Seventh Day Adventism, where there are actual accounts of their prophets, you do realize how these people were either really good con artists or just insane.
Why not both?
Well hey, when your invisible friend says kill, you kill.
I’m just wondering what kind of parents name their kid Abraham. Like “We’re gonna name him after that guy. Yes, that one.”
And then he grows up and frees the slaves. Go figure.
i read an interesting article the other day about how some neurodivergencies gave rise to religion in primitive human communities. i wish i still had it, very interesting.
All religions suck. Even if you make a religion that’s normal, people will make it weird.
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2.5 billion
Honestly less. How many are just going along with it because its the easiest path?
that would be, 95% of them
I think so as well. If they could just see how hard they make their lives by listening to the few who mainly use it get away with their crimes.
i’ve never met a christian that practices what they preach… even if they do good things, it’s half assed and symbolic….
like feeding homeless people garbage while screaming bible shit on a megaphone…
I know all too well. Many of them do it for the attention. My parents got up in church every sunday and pleaded for everyone to pray for me. I remember so many times my dad would get right up in my face screaming at me at the top of his lungs. Every cuss word except the one that starts with F would fly out of his mouth. After all that is where he drew the line. Never of course when anyone other than my mother would see. They always made a big show of any kindness they did for me. Only for them to take it back when their audience had left. There are so many of those types that gravitate toward power that there is no hope for most of them. They are either their fools or their tools but one thing is for certain anyone who really believes is being manipulated by those that just use it for their own gain. I have never in my life felt further from decency than in the congregation of a baptist church.
But no worries the kid as a sleep during the decision making. Right? I don’t recall exactly from last time I read the book.
And they’ll keep on circumcising their sons while unironically screaming about anyone who respects trans rights being out to surgically mutilate all children. What a world.
That seems somewhat antisemitic, if you ask me. Not all jews are anti-trans.
They didn’t say anything about jews being anti-trans.
Didn’t even say anything about Jews. Most people I’ve meant who are pro circumcision and follow an Abrahamic god are not Jewish.
But Americans that circumcise(which I did not know happened), don’t do it for religious reasons. And Muslims don’t believe in the story depicted, so this by elimination only applies to Jews.
Ah yes! The famous three branches of abrahamic faith: Judaism, Islam, and America.
Jewish scholars often recognize 8 genders.
There are Jewish TERFs, but they tend to also be alt right Zionists.
Sorry, m8. Here, I’ll fix it.
trans rightspalestinian rights
There, should be kosher now.
It is not. There are enough Jews that don’t support the actions of Israel for your comment to be definetly antisemitic.
Just not enough to stop the genocide. Work on those numbers.
As a Jewish person the vast majority of religious Jews are extremely transphobic and also incredibly homophobic. So no its acturally not inaccurate at all, most Rabbis will genuenly complain about Trans people mutalating and indoctrinating people while doing that themselves.
Not all circumcised are Jews. Most aren’t in fact.
In the US circumcision was the norm for the longest time. Thank John Harvey Kellogg for that. I don’t think it’s recommended anymore.
It’s probably still a lot more uncommon than being uncircumcised because “well I guess it should look like mine or most of the others”
Aesthetic and looking like the father is a big reason women still support doing so.
How would women feel if men said the same thing about cutting theirs up for aesthetic reasons?
But the only religion that holds to this story of Abraham, and circumsises is Judaism.
Muslims reject the Torah, or the Old Testament, and Christians are under no obligation to circumcise so this only applies to Jews.
And Americans do it
because they are weirdfor cultural reasons.Christians are under no obligation to circumcise so this only applies to Jews.
But they still believe it.
Believe what?
The story of Abraham
Dude. Wipe your computer screen clean, open your eyes, and notice the text in the meme about 4 billion people who think nothing is wrong with this: Christians are invoked directly in the post.
From what I understand it’s also still the standard in the US. Originally popularised because it would keep boys from fondling themselves which, of course, would make Sky Daddy angry.
But if that’s not the case, I’d happily stand corrected by someone more knowledgeable on this topic.
Wait… you mean we’d fondle ourselves even more if we were uncut??? When do you guys ever sleep???
It"s a hard life 😔
… but that woodwork needs to be done. 😞
I would say that Christians are not required to circumcise themselves, since jewish law only applied to Jews before Christ, and it actually made sense to do so back then, for hygienic reasons.
I was unaware Americans do this, but first I would say that that practice is clearly not connected to Abraham, that is portrayed here, in any way, even if what you say is correct. And it is a cultural practice, not a relgious one, and even if it was, as you say, motivated by religious views.
But I… am not sure how circumcision would prevent anyone from touching himself, so I am highly sceptical of that claim.
Finally, I will say that it would be unfair to transpose the beliefs of an obscure american sect of Christianity on the entire Christendom. Especially since there is literally no religious requirement for Christians to do so.
Cirucmcision was commonly promoted as a means to keep boys chaste in the US and was a popular “treatment” promoted by Kellogg at the time (yeah the cereal guy).
Christians may not be required to do it but we’ve got a few tens of millions at least who do do it out of social cohesion reasons and that’s enough of a “reason” for them.
Here’s a quote by Kellogg on how a circumcision should be ideally performed by the way.
the operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic [to] have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases.
Dude was whack job, American af and not Jewish. Kellogg encouraged parents to tie their children’s hands to their bedposts or to circumcise their teenage boys. An even more aggressive tactic saw the foreskin of a young man’s penis sewed shut to prevent erections. For young girls, he recommended pouring carbolic acid on their clitorises.
So no, saying some shit about circumcision being genital mutilation ain’t antisemitic in America. Most people who do it aren’t Jewish, it has a long history of non-Jews doing it and most of the people circumcised in America were done so by non-Jews.
In fact approximately 58.3% of all newborns in the US get circumcised despite any religious affiliation were still happening as of 2010. Recent days could change but not drastically enough to change the point.
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/circumcision_2013/circumcision_2013.htm)
So shut up about it already.
But they are not doing it because they are Christians. The vast majority of Christians don’t do it, and atheist americans do it too. This is just a quirk of america, that is religiously coloured because that is what america is like.
And the comment I responded to was talking about people who circumcise for religious reasons.
So it is you, who is wrong.
I’m rubber you’re glue.
lmao mfw I remember why I stay away from atheist spaces. Just the most sweaty debate bros ever.
Seriously! I just read this and I was like, fuck, I remember being 16 too
But I… am not sure how circumcision would prevent anyone from touching himself, so I am highly sceptical of that claim.
The idea was, if I’m not mistaken, that without foreskin sensitivity & pleasure decreases. So that way there is less ‘risk’ of boys engaging in sexual activities, other than for reproductive purposes.
Wow. If I was prompted to come up with the stupidest notion right now, I would hardly make up something dumber.
The Jews at least had a normal reason to do this(hygiene), this is ridiculous. Do you still do this?
I’m pretty sure it started with some chick named Mary cheating on her spouse, and then “Uh, no, it’s uh, it’s… MAGIC! Yeah, I got pregnant from magic! But the magic was a person you see, named uhm, looks over at pet dog, named do- uh no, g-o-d, his name was God! God gave us a magic baby! Yay!”
Mary was a teenage girl that was being married off to an older man who was already widowed with children (at least, I think that’s the Catholic claim. “Perpetual virginity” and all that means that Jesus shouldn’t have siblings…)
I think rationally she was a teenage girl that was raped by a Roman soldier, and considering that not being a virgin on your wedding night was the kind of thing that, at least on the books, could get you killed…
If Mary lied, that was a really smart move.
That’s the new testament. Pretty modern and woke stuff compared to the old testament which is the common root of Abrahamic religions.
And that tells a lot about the state of the whole thing, really.
don’t forget the part where she got her fiance/husband totally snookered and/or dosed with magic mushrooms or something; and then appeared to him pretending to be an angel telling him to shut the fuck up and go with it.
(or maybe she got a friend to be the angel?)
Edit: also, can we talk about how if the story is real… there was no chance that Mary could give meaningful consent?
Well, the whole virgin Mary is later stuff. Joseph was the father probably. If there was any Jesus at all - the “objective” historical mentions we get are not really very first-hand, so it’s all kind of clouded.
So, like, To go with more modern names, it’d be like some guy named Michael having a kid they named Braiden. In that particular time and place Yoseph was a super common name; as was Yeshua.
Which suggests there were many, many people named “Yeshua Bar Yoseph” which is part of the reason we have “Yeshua of Nazareth”
In fact, there was probably more than one Yeshua bar Yoseph from Nazareth, even if it was a small town. just like how there’s Braiden, Brayden, Braeden, Braidyn. It’s probably a good thing I’d never have kids because I’d name them all Zathras
For religion rape is a feature not a bug
The power of women. She and few schizophrenics changed the whole society.
A lovely test of one’s faith is whether they’ll stab and burn their child on command.
By the way, if someone is constantly testing you, that’s abusive. Run. Away.
Gabriel: what else could a test to see whether someone would stab and burn a child possible be!?
God: a test of obedience and faith!
Gabriel: a test to see if someone has faith in voices in his head that tell him to murder children IS A PSYCHOPATH TEST!!
God: well I’m sure there is something more psychotic than obeying murderous voices in your head
Gabriel: well, I can’t think of much
omg 💀
As they say, if you talk to God, that’s praying, but if God talks to you, that’s schizophrenia.
If you talk to god, you are an idiot and if he talks to you, you are a schizophrenic idiot.
If someone finds comfort in talking to God, then they’re comfortable. If it produces a desirable result, then it’s desirable.
Calling others morons for disagreeing with their way of life, however, solves nothing. I was a Reddit atheist at one point, and I’m glad I’m no longer one.
And if it produces nothing but example after example after example of negative results? What is it then?
Thinking that it’s a one-size-fits-all solution. In some people, it helps. In others, it hurts. If people found their own faith, instead of having it handed to them at birth, the world would look a whole lot different now.
Perhaps, it would even be a good one.
