It's the second rule in the list (or third, depending on your flavor of christianity). Of course, it's hard to build an authority structure around a god without being able to speak on his behalf, so it usually gets twisted into "you just can't say god's name at all" and the "in vain" part is handwaved away.
The thing I like to bring up to Christians is that God is the being that is not understandable. God it amazing and far beyond our understanding.........he definitely has a penis though. Don't question that. He's a guy and has a dick. Why would you even ask?
Like come on. What are you even saying? You can't admit maybe God said he because you losers couldn't get over that question before God told you other things like woman on their period should be with the tribe. Or whatever other make believe shit you wanna believe.
The thing I like to bring up is if a being genocides an entire planet because he's pissy he isn't getting his way then he's the most evil thing in known history and worshiping that in the hopes of a personal reward makes you an evil pussy.
No, victors being the humans that wrote the story down. They wanted to control a population and indoctrinate them into their own religion, and so they told the story of the sinners across the street and how their god punished them.
Now we have a group of people who are disgruntled about how their current religion is panning out, and here comes this other guy with stories of raining sulfur and pillars of salt and goddamn this yahweh guy sounds like the kinda badass god I want on my side. I always wondered what happened to Sodom and Gammorah, and it turns out, they were doing bad things, and this guy's god had enough of it.
None of this is true. A grain fire could be the reason the city burned. A volcano. Who fucking knows. All that matters is the story that got told, and that story was used as a tool of control to convert more people to a certain religion so that the religion could have more control. It's all propaganda dressed up as holy text.
The "victors" wrote a story about the "one good guy" from the city offering his children to be gangraped instead of his guests. And you just called it a fake story so it's just not a great rhetorical defense imo but that's a separate question
it's not for pedantry's sake here, as should be obvious. what that implies is that, even if Sodom had a lot of rapists, the fictional genocidal god killed countless fictional innocents. which happens to be a common sin by that god
Damn, SatansMaggotyCumFart. The militant nutjob mods have pushed you to just reposting comics that aren't funny and so should not be discussed. That sucks.
You been alright? The psychotic moderation and cults here actually makes me look back and think the new Corpofascist Reddit is more sane and reasonable than I'd thought.
Oh, if you want to tell some totally true stories I have a community for that that I've been neglecting because once I made two posts in it I got bored and started looking for shiny things instead.
True stories about how the mods and admins on Lemmy skin babies and wear them as hats while smelling their own farts would go pretty much unmoderated and ignored. There might be some there now, idk.
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It's the second rule in the list (or third, depending on your flavor of christianity). Of course, it's hard to build an authority structure around a god without being able to speak on his behalf, so it usually gets twisted into "you just can't say god's name at all" and the "in vain" part is handwaved away.
God slays (redeems?) in that top
The thing I like to bring up to Christians is that God is the being that is not understandable. God it amazing and far beyond our understanding.........he definitely has a penis though. Don't question that. He's a guy and has a dick. Why would you even ask?
Like come on. What are you even saying? You can't admit maybe God said he because you losers couldn't get over that question before God told you other things like woman on their period should be with the tribe. Or whatever other make believe shit you wanna believe.
The thing I like to bring up is if a being genocides an entire planet because he's pissy he isn't getting his way then he's the most evil thing in known history and worshiping that in the hopes of a personal reward makes you an evil pussy.
Adam is the only animal made "in His image".
Eve by contrast was made as a companion for Adam, as a variation on him, out of his material.
That's the actual biblical explanation for why JHWH has a penis and not tits.
Nah, he spoke for himself when he burned Sodom. But, don't worry, god isn't real, so you don't have anything to worry about. Be as gay as you want.
Sodom had the habit of raping anyone who visited them.
History is written by the victors. What are you gonna do, talk about how your god burned down a peaceful city?
Victors being being God? How are you going to believe the city existed and was destroyed but not the means or motive?
No, victors being the humans that wrote the story down. They wanted to control a population and indoctrinate them into their own religion, and so they told the story of the sinners across the street and how their god punished them.
Now we have a group of people who are disgruntled about how their current religion is panning out, and here comes this other guy with stories of raining sulfur and pillars of salt and goddamn this yahweh guy sounds like the kinda badass god I want on my side. I always wondered what happened to Sodom and Gammorah, and it turns out, they were doing bad things, and this guy's god had enough of it.
None of this is true. A grain fire could be the reason the city burned. A volcano. Who fucking knows. All that matters is the story that got told, and that story was used as a tool of control to convert more people to a certain religion so that the religion could have more control. It's all propaganda dressed up as holy text.
In all likelihood the city didn't even exist
The "victors" wrote a story about the "one good guy" from the city offering his children to be gangraped instead of his guests. And you just called it a fake story so it's just not a great rhetorical defense imo but that's a separate question
cities don't rape anyone, people do
Explain Cleveland then.
care to explain? not from the US
It's a city that will rape your soul. It's only export is Soul crushing depression.
lol ok
The fictional people of sodom were fictionally rapists and thus were fictionally burned down. Are you happy now, you pedant.
it's not for pedantry's sake here, as should be obvious. what that implies is that, even if Sodom had a lot of rapists, the fictional genocidal god killed countless fictional innocents. which happens to be a common sin by that god
Damn, SatansMaggotyCumFart. The militant nutjob mods have pushed you to just reposting comics that aren't funny and so should not be discussed. That sucks.
You been alright? The psychotic moderation and cults here actually makes me look back and think the new Corpofascist Reddit is more sane and reasonable than I'd thought.
Oh, if you want to tell some totally true stories I have a community for that that I've been neglecting because once I made two posts in it I got bored and started looking for shiny things instead.
True stories about how the mods and admins on Lemmy skin babies and wear them as hats while smelling their own farts would go pretty much unmoderated and ignored. There might be some there now, idk.