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What's the worst present you've ever received? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It can be low effort, passive-aggressive, insulting or derogatory towards your convictions.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was given 30 quarters that had letters and numbers on each one in a black velvet pouch. If you put them in a certain order, it had a message. The quarters went in year order. The message was a Bible passage according to Matthew. It was when Judas was given 30 silver for betraying Jesus.

The context, I told one of our friends that the gifter was trying to get with his wife while he was deployed. He denied and then made me feel like shit to insinuate such a thing. Turns out, it was true.

I still have the quarters so I could give them back some day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Wasn't Judas the one who did the denying? So by referencing this isn't the gifter calling himself Judas and not you?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not a Christian, but it was Peter who denied Christ, and Judas betrayed him to the authorities. So in a way, OP is kind of like Judas, if Jesus was a dudebro who liked sleeping with deployed soldiers' wives and felt crucified if you told on him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I'll take being Judas over a dudebro any day!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Definitely

[–] [email protected] 8 points 15 hours ago

No, it was Peter who denied Jesus three times. Judas gave Jesus up to the Roman government by kissing him to show them who Jesus was.