• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    This is the great thing about Christianity.

    Their holy book is so vague and so contradictory (even the four gospels don’t agree on details) that you can pick and choose whatever the heck you want to justify your worldview. It’s a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ religion.

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            There’s also the type that says you have to shill money out for churches instead of poor people

            On that note it’s fucking baffling to me that elderly people making fuck-all from their pension see this giant pretentious building with expensive wall paint and gilded pictures and think “I better donate to that”

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      And before Christianity, the old testament and Judaism was the same way. It’s almost like all these religions purposely steal whatever local belief a particular culture holds at the time, and then twists it however they can to benefit those in positions of power.