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[–] 45 points 5 days ago (3 children)

It's explicitly Biblical text that God endorses slavery (Ephesians 6:5) and opposes homosexuality (Leviticus 20:13), though. If that seems strange to you, it's because you aren't a Bronze Age patriarch trying to portray your material interests as aligning with the will of the perfect and infallible creator of the universe.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago

    They actually have One Simple Trick for this: just read the bible with a critical lens! Pick and choose whatever you vibe with! Discard anything uncomfortable! It’s all metaphor anyway!

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  • [–] 19 points 4 days ago

    Jewish holocaust survivor dies and meets God, and on meeting him decides to break the ice with a holocaust joke, breaking down laughing in the process. God tells him he didn't think it was very funny, man says "Well I guess you had to be there."

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  • [–] 16 points 4 days ago*

    Wenn es einen Gott gibt muß er mich um Verzeihung bitten

    -Written on the wall of a cell in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

    If there is a God, he will have to beg my forgiveness

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  • [–] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    noooo you don't get it, if god freed the slaves what about the slave owners rights?? They should have the free will to own other people and stopping them is cruel!!

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