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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

God calling Moses to set the oppressed people free? No, it's trump calling meatheads to bomb the oppressed people.

[-] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

Biblical god was all about genocides.

Deuteronomy 20:

16 But of the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes; 17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you;

Exodus 17:

14 Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.” 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name “Yahweh our Banner”. 16 He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”

1 Samuel 15:

3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

Ain't no hate like christian "love".

[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Oh that's fine then, we don't need to blame trump or his cronies at all. They're obviously just earnestly following their deeply held religious convictions as best they can in a confusing world.

/s

[-] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 3 points 21 hours ago

We certainly don't want to pretend the bible is worth following. My christian mother voted for trump. It's a death cult. I don't think people outside the bible belt realize how bad it is. I am staggered by the inability or unwillingness of the average person to call out false beliefs when all lives are threatened by them. Things cannot get better as long as magical thinking is tolerated. There is no accountability.

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