You have to understand that I’m not trying to defend the Democratic party here. It’s just important to be clear that both sides are not even close to being “equally out of their minds.”

Do I really need to go into details here, or is it not just self-evident based on the past 6 months?

This shit is a cancer to liberal democracy.

The Supreme Court recently ruled on that case with the football coach, so I can’t say that I really give a shit what the current jurisprudence is on the issue.

But I’m done with the partisan stuff, and think both sides are equally out of their minds.

Look, I can get behind the general sentiment of your comment, but this is just wrong and it’s dangerous to keep pushing this lie. Ain’t nothing equal about it.

I’m saying support a new party altogether.

Yeah, simple as.

Jesus condoned slavery. And the Bible was later used as a means to justify the continuance of chattel slavery in the US. The Bible is explicitly pro-slavery and pro-genocide.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Just to be clear, the “justice” being referred to here is literal genocide performed by the Israelites.

Same. Also: alter calls, laying on hands, speaking in tongues…

Fucking cringe.

Why would I lie about something like that?

At least it will go down in the history books as being big and beautiful.

Isn’t it so awesome that you can just make anything mean anything?

Did you click the link? Every other translation is a single sentence. This is one single verse translated in The Message according to Bible Gateway. Why would they do that?

That said, it’s one of the more trustworthy translations available, though plenty of grains of salt are still required.

According to whom?

Since you’re not discussing in good faith

OK, what? Holy shit what a cop out…

I know exactly what you meant, and I’m tired of seeing this “no true Christian” shit everywhere. You don’t get to disown these people.

Edit: Who are the 5 additional people that upvote a Christian comment calling other Christians “infidels.” What fucking site am I on?

Shit man, are the ISPs running the sewers now too??

Nice.

The Bible tells you that you get to decide who is a Christian or not?

I’m afraid not, sir/madam. In fact, I believe it says precisely the opposite.

I didn’t say they aren’t allowed to pray, just not in government buildings. It’s literally the first fucking amendment (plus tons of contemporary writing from numerous founding fathers).

They are absolutely praying… Lots of embarrassed Christians in this thread desperate to distance themselves from their own religion.

Not to mention all of the slavery stuff…

Not a single Christian among them.

You don’t get to decide this, regardless of how embarrassed you may be.

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

Ezekial 23:20

(side note, while looking up this verse it brought me to biblegateway.com where it shows dozens of translations basically in a list, and here is what the MSG (The Message) version translated that one single sentence into:

“Her sister Oholibah saw all this, but she became even worse than her sister in lust and whoring, if you can believe it. She also went crazy with lust for Assyrians: ambassadors and governors, military men smartly dressed and mounted on fine horses—the Assyrian elite. And I saw that she also had become incredibly filthy. Both women followed the same path. But Oholibah surpassed her sister. When she saw figures of Babylonians carved in relief on the walls and painted red, fancy belts around their waists, elaborate turbans on their heads, all of them looking important—famous Babylonians!—she went wild with lust and sent invitations to them in Babylon. The Babylonians came on the run, fornicated with her, made her dirty inside and out. When they had thoroughly debased her, she lost interest in them. Then she went public with her fornication. She exhibited her sex to the world. “I turned my back on her just as I had on her sister. But that didn’t slow her down. She went at her whoring harder than ever. She remembered when she was young, just starting out as a whore in Egypt. That whetted her appetite for more virile, vulgar, and violent lovers—stallions obsessive in their lust. She longed for the sexual prowess of her youth back in Egypt, where her firm young breasts were caressed and fondled.

https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Ezekiel 23%3A20

How fucking creepy is that? First of all, the entire concept of this “translation” just seems like outright heresy, but what the fuck even is this?? Did the dude just read about massive dongs and it got him all horny so he wrote some Bible fanfiction in the middle of his “translation”?

Absolutely wild.

Edit: For people who don’t click the link: This is one single verse according to Bible Gateway. This is not an entire section, this is the verse I quoted above as translated by the dude who makes this “translation.” Or maybe Bible Gateway is wrong I dunno. Almost like having 3000 translations of your holy book dilutes it.

Edit: Because apparently people think I’d lie about something like this…

If you googled a single verse (this verse), and you saw this come up, how would you have reacted?