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Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Comparing Trump to Jesus... imagine being that delusional.

[–] cmbabul 11 points 6 months ago

It’s a nested cult within one or more cults depending on the individual.

[–] uebquauntbez 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or we could skip the crucifixion and bury him hoping he'd revive after 3 days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

To bury him again, I hope?

[–] Serinus 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't their book say something about false idols?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, something about gold plated ribeye steaks if I remember correctly.

[–] pubquiz 52 points 6 months ago

Said it before, and I'll say it again: Excellent!!! When is the crucifixion?

[–] Rumbelows 39 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Did Jesus also commit adultery with a porn star, use campaign funds to hush it up and then lie about it?

Or does the analogy not carry that far?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (3 children)

If you believe that Mary Magdalene was a prostitute, then I think Jesus would have been cool with a porn star. That said, adultery and embezzlement/theft were things he was definitely not cool with.

PS: There is a Christian conspiracy theory that postulates that Mary Magdalene was Jesus' lover or a very important figure in the fight against the establishment, but because that lessened the mythology of Jesus and empowered women, she was edited to be a removed that Jesus rescues rather than a woman he admired.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It's not a conspiracy theory. It's based off the lost gospels that were found in the Nag Hammadi Library [The Gnostics]. This theory might be from the Gospel of Mary but it might be another one.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nhlcodex.html

[–] dpkonofa 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s from the Gospel of St. Thomas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Right you are! Only drop the Saint. The Gnostics believed in self-actualization not in divine intervention.

[–] dpkonofa 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yes but he’s typically referring to as St. Thomas or Doubting Thomas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

By Catholics. The reformers don't believe in Sainthood.

[–] dpkonofa 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does that have to do with anything? It’s meant as a clarification. Catholics don’t believe that the book was actually written by him either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Because it's not called "The Gospel of Saint Thomas," it's "The Gospel of Thomas."

[–] dpkonofa 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

He’s one and the same. Again, it’s for clarification. The book is supposedly written by the Thomas that was an apostle of Jesus.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

From the wiki article: "Most modern scholars do not consider the Apostle Thomas the author of this document and the author remains unknown."

Unfortunately it doesn't look like that is very well accepted

[–] dpkonofa 1 points 6 months ago

This is surely meant in the same way that scholars don’t actually consider any of the gospels, including Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, to be written by the actual apostles they’re named after. All of them, including the Gospel of Thomas (don’t want to confuse the pedants around here!), are meant to be written as if coming directly from the apostles, hence why they’re named the way they are. Modern scholarship acknowledges that none of them can possibly be written by any of Jesus’ contemporaries but that doesn’t mean that most modern Christians know or care about that. They’re the Gospels of each of the people supposedly credited to them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I read “embezzlement” in your comment and for some reason, my brain shouted “enshizzlement” instead. Not sure what it’s trying to tell me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

In orthodoxy they completely removed her

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Jesus was clapping prostitute ass cheeks tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Don't forget the foot fetish.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

wait a second what foot fetish

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You are assuming that when Jesus asked his followers to eat his flesh, he meant cannibalism.

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If I recall correctly, Jesus accepted the sentence without profuse whining.

[–] Anticorp 7 points 6 months ago

And asked God to forgive the people, not demand retaliation against them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

These two situations are superficially similar so they're exactly the same!

Tries to stick triangle into circle hole

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

You say that and immediately thought of the “It goes in the square hole” video

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

They are both shapes, so it fits!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago
[–] hOrni 9 points 6 months ago

No, You don't. You are literally ignoring the teachings of Jesus.

[–] nul9o9 6 points 6 months ago

I still can't believe how much blasphemy these nutjobs spew.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

What is WRONG with these people?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

put text in giant image instead of just posting the text

almost as stupid as backing trump