Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be.

• Glent@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hate Your Father and Mother

  “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.” Luke 14:26

  Calls people hypocrites and fools and then says not to call people fools or they'll go to hell. Matthew 5:22, Matthew 23:17
  
  Tells people not to wash their hands (especially important now) and why aren't they killing disobedient children. Mark 7
  
  Kills a fig tree because it's got no fruit, even though it's not in season. Mark 11:12-25
  
  Tells his disciples to steal a donkey because god said it's ok and they do it. Matthew 21:2
  
  Gets anointed with expensive oil and fed by his disciples and people despite not working he's just walking around preaching. When someone suggests that they sell the oil to the poor he says the poor will be there forever you've only got me today. Matthew 26:6–13, Mark 14:3–9, Luke 7:36–50, John 12:1–8 (has this woman kissing his feet and crying on them to cleanse her sins, this is very reminiscent of egotistical cult leaders like Jim Jones and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh who would have people pampering them)
  
  Sends a herd of pigs over a cliff to their deaths by casting out demons. Mark 5:13
  
  Calls a non Jewish woman a dog when she wants him to heal her sick daughter, says he's only been sent here to help the Jews, only when she begs and calls herself a dog does he help (does the miracle anyway but is still is a dick about it) Matthew 15:21-28
  
  Gets mad when a leper wants to be healed. Mark 1:41
  

  9.Throws tables up and trashes a temple being used by money changers and people selling their merchandise, though it’s not a building owned by him, calls them robbers (if this story had any credibility he would have met some resistance and been killed) Matthew 21:12-13, Mark 11:15-18

  Tells people to hate their mothers fathers etc. and hate themselves in order to follow him and he's not here to bring peace but a sword. Luke 14:26
  
  All the verses he preaches about hell and that people that don't believe in him are going to hell. John 3:36, Revelation 21:8
  
  Ignoring his mother and brothers when they come to see him. Luke 8:19-21
  
  Speaks in parables to confuse people. Mark 4:12
  
  The whole end of the world speeches, they are just pure evil, e.g. pregnant women may not escape, and hope the end of the world isn't on a sabbath day. Mark 13:17
  
  To the man burying his father tells him to follow him and leave his father behind and let the dead bury the dead,not very loving and compassionate Matthew 8:21-22
  
  Says I've come not to change the law of the prophets, this included slavery being ok, rape victims marrying their raper, stoned to death for homosexuality and working on the sabbath he didn't condemn any of it (there's the famous verse from John where he says he who is without sin cast the first stone but this wasn't added until several hundreds of years later so most likely wasn't a teaching of his) Matthew 5:17
  
  Lies to people saying if they pray they can move mountains yet prayer is shown to be ineffective, to add to this at the end of Mark jesus says people who believe can habdle snakes, drink poison without dying and cure sick people with their hands. (Ending of Mark wasn't added for hundreds of years) Matthew 17:20-21, Mark 16:17
  

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• themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Jesus Christ had a lot of teachings, one of which is that all humans are imperfect. All fall short, and let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Does that mean you aren’t a Christian, since you’re expecting perfection of Christians?

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  • MapleEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Perfection, no. An effort, yes. I am an atheist and live in a country with actual religious freedom.

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    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’d argue that anyone claiming to be a Christian believes they are making an effort to follow the teachings of Christ as they understand them.

      I’m not sure why you think where you live is relevant, but OK.

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      • MapleEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If “Christians” had read GMs understood the Bible instead of just accepting what bad abroad had told them it says they would probably be better Christians.

        Where I live is is relevant as an atheist I have actual religious freedom which means that the Christian prohibition against judging others does not apply to me. I am free to judge that false Christians are horrible people.

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