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Fascists are more concerned with knowing all the lore and doing the cosplay correctly than understanding the context of the message or living the virtues as a modern person
Which the Bible explicitly calls out. Can't be bothered to research it in the scripture right now (I'm an agnostic these days) but it says it's better to revere God privately and mean it than to make a whole performance out of your faith just to look good.
Hey, fellow former Christian! Do you also find it infuriating that we know more about Jesus' teachings than literally every politician who claims to be a Christian?
Matthew 6 is all about this. People think the Sermon on the Mount was just the beatitudes, but Jesus spent more time talking about how wrong it is to make a show of your faith.
Matthew 6:1-4
And it keeps going.
Verily, and thank you for the quotation! 🙏😅
Unfortunately, it's a classic case of self-contradiction. Both old and new testaments are full of calls to openly and explicitly praising God.
Cases in point:
God instructing Joshua to have the Israelite army, led by priests carrying the Ark of the Covenant and blowing rams' horns, march around the walled city of Jericho.
The Great Commission in Matthew 28:19–20: "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations..." and Mark 16:15: "Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation."
it really isnt
do not brag about your prayer, thus staying away from pride
but help as many people as you can physically and spiritually
1 Timothy 2:
Bonus sexism later in the same chapter:
Keeping in mind this duty of love, and building on the preceding verse (21) that introduces this passage in Ephesians—“Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ”— John Paul II interpreted these passages slightly differently: in a context of “mutual submission.”
Although there’s an apparent contradiction in such language, since two people or things can’t be “put under” each other in the same respect, in this understanding we can interpret submission not as an ordering of authority but as the mutual regard and self-giving love that both husband and wife must practice in marriage. Paul is simply expressing that idea in two different ways, corresponding to the analogy of marriage with the relationship between Christ and his Church.
also, the first verse is just calling everyone in the world to pray
Absolute bullshit. The bible is relentlessly misogynistic.
I just showed you how it is not
No, you didn't.
Why does Eve get the blame for the snake's lie when both she and Adam agreed to eat the fruit?
Why are women expected to be submissive to their husbands? You disgustingly pretend it's a two-way street, but it's not. The bible disproportionately favors men.
Why can't women preach?
Why were daughters considered property?
Fucking liar.
Genesis 3:
Explicitly, Eve gets the blame, and Adam is chastised for listening to a woman.
No, it is not. The old testament includes many laws for women that do not apply to men, such as being compelled to marry their rapist.
1 Peter 3:
Does he mention husbands in the same chapter? Why, yes! And it confirms that women are inferior:
Stop ignoring misogyny. Stop serving a death cult.
But it has always been wrong. So why does it continue?
They were. They were bought and sold. Non-virgins were treated like defective goods.
The more you defend the heinous shit, the more intolerable you reveal yourself to be.
Adam is at fault for being tempted into sin.
Verse?
1 Peter 3:2 as they consider with fear your chaste behavior.
Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be bitter toward them.
It has not been wrong
Verse?
No, he's at fault for listening to his wife. Is Eve at fault for listening to the snake? No, she gets blame directly.
Stop defending misogyny.
Read your own goddam bible. And again, use full sentences. I have to do twice as much work figuring out what verse you're even asking for. Fucking shitstain.
Deuteronomy 22:
Do you know how I found that? I typed "rape victims sold to rapists verse" into a search engine. So easy, even you could probably do it.
Women feared their husbands beating them, raping them. Husbands feared their wives... withholding sex. That's what you call a 2-way street?
Uh huh. Which shows a distinct difference compared to the language of the verse immediately before that one:
That's verse 18. Does verse 19 say, "husbands, be in subjection to your wives"? Lol, no. Misogyny plain and clear.
It is absolutely wrong to assume that a person cannot teach due to their sex or gender.
Use your words. Fuck it, use a search engine. But the passage I already quoted above from Deuteronomy is one example. It doesn't matter whether christ came to "fulfill" these heinous laws, why were they ever written at all?
Genesis 3:14 And the Lord God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, you are cursed among all living things, even the wild beasts of the earth. Upon your breast shall you travel, and the ground shall you eat, all the days of your life.
This isn't rape, just having sex outside of marriage with a non virgin
That verse implies that the husbands, impressed by the righteous behavior of the wife would turn to Christ.
Only men can become priests but women can become nuns, and by extension have leadership roles in the church. There are 3 or above women in the council that vets bishops.
Mark 10:5 But Jesus responded by saying: “It was due to the hardness of your heart that he wrote that precept for you.
Let's see what the rest of the bible has to say.
2 Corinthians 11:
1 Timothy 2:
Deuteronomy is describing a rape scenario. If you think this is consensual, you are more dangerous than I thought. Read that whole chapter.
She deserves to be stoned to death because she didn't scream loud enough while being sexually assaulted?
What a wild interpretation. Silly me, I was reading the actual words.
How about the rest of the bible?
1 Corinthians 14:
1 Corinthians 11:
Same chapter:
1 Timothy 2:
Ephesians 5:
Can you find as many equivalent verses for the men? And I mean equivalent, not false equivalences.
How stupidly sexist. Why hasn't this been updated now that we know women are as capable as men?
Did god harden that heart, like he did with pharaoh? Free will is impossible if god knows what will happen and creates everything. But apparently even that wasn't good enough because he's really bad at planning ahead, so sometimes he directly intervenes by changing our minds to suit his needs.
https://thegospelcentral.org/2025/11/21/women-silent-in-church-why-paul-was-actually-rebuking-a-quote-not-making-a-command-1-cor-1434-35/
https://catholicexchange.com/why-are-only-men-allowed-to-become-priests/
It is still baseless sexism, intolerable.
these links explain why it isnt
Hey FUCKFACE.
Can women teach in the same positions as men?
No?
THEN IT'S FUCKING SEXIST.
Apologetics do not alter reality. Stop making excuses for misogyny, you hateful coward.
women and men are different. Not worse or better, different. This is something that modern physiology agrees on.
Just owning the sexism?
You are a bigot.
You serve a death cult.
Your beliefs are intolerable.
I'm glad humanity is outgrowing superstition. Catch up or get left behind, we're done letting you kill us.
there is no sexism
read the links I sent you
Hey fuckface: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/23311659
You are misogynistic.
Fuck you.
women and men are different and have different bodies, yes
why do you think we need to have seperate clinical trials for men and women?
Slimy shitbag.
The fuck does any of that have to do with forbidding women from speaking?
Your misogyny is unacceptable.
Your beliefs are intolerable.
Paul was quoting a sexist phrase, this isnt a direct command, he rebukes this quote in the next verses
So women can be preachers, then?
https://lemmy.today/comment/25774028
they cant be priests for the reasons provided in the link I sent you
Sexism. Misogyny. Fuck you.
https://zenit.org/2026/04/14/the-2026-boom-in-conversions-to-catholicism-statistics-context-and-interpretations/
Bye bye, bigot.
https://catholicreview.org/pew-u-s-christianity-downturn-leveling-but-catholics-suffer-greatest-net-losses/
Rot in shit, death cultist.
I'm not christian, but that's not really a contradiction. According to the bible the best case scenario is for you to proclaim your faith to others while truly following the scripture. The part you're replying to just means that the "following the scripture" part is more important.
The old testament is a constant call and refrain of prophets and kings denouncing a lack of piety, rallying the people to some triumphant reform, getting too comfortable, abandoning piety, and collapsing the society. Sometimes you get this cycle in a single generation. Other times it is used - for instance, with King David - to explain how sins of the patriarch doom the kingdom centuries later.
So much of scripture is people not following scripture and reconciling with the consequences. And then new people coming in to reaffirm and reform the old laws.
How does anyone follow a scripture that contradicts itself?
Add the Communists too.