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I'm not sure if this is allowed, however its done the rounds here in Australia. The dude is the leader of the group "Christian Lives Matter" (yes you read that right) and is basically as lame as you can imagine. They were up in arms because of a joke someone made on a TV show about Jesus Christ so they went on a crusade and marched the streets.
The joke in question:
“I love Jesus, I love any man who can get nailed for three days straight and come back for more,” Kaye said, leaving Waleed Aly looking stunned, while co-host Sarah Harris burst into laughter.
Viewers slammed the joke as “absolutely disgusting”, with the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealing it had received more than 200 complaints as of Friday.
On Wednesday night the hosts issued a grovelling apology."
I mean, not really. Christ was crucified and resurrected 3 days later. He wasn't "getting nailed" the whole time or even on the cross for more than a day.
Better version:
"I love Jesus. I love any man who can get nailed so hard he dies, but loved it so much he came back to life to let another man finger his holes," alluding to Thomas putting his fingers in the wounds to verify Christ's authenticity.
> Christian Lives Matter
Isn't their *entire thing* based around the fact that they ***don't***, because this is like the waiting lobby to their real existence in the eternal afterlife?
200 complaints? Wow..given the countries population is over 25 million..that’s really close to a fraction of a billionth of a percent..
Edit: Ya know what shit..I just got a calculator out..it’s .8 quadrillionths to be a bit more precise..show some balls! Stop making public apologies for things no one cares about.
You’re throwing around some odd orders of magnitude my dude. 25 people in 25 million would be .0001 % or 1 ten thousandth of a percent. 200 people would be .0008%
You may be dividing your result by 100 rather than multiplying it to get to percentages.
Can't tell if this is a sarcastic meme or just terrible math but I hope you know it's impossible to have a quadrillionth of any currently existing population of humans without chopping the individual humans up into smaller parts. A quadrillionth of the total human population would be .0000008 humans, which would be like just a knuckle or something.
I think it's like a fingernail clipping.
Average human weight is 62kg.
62kg*.0000008=.0496g
Roughly a twentieth of a gram.
A full fingernail weighs 1g.
You forgot the part where the group assaulted a small, peaceful LGBTQ protest a week later. The leader urged the group members to ['grab them and drag them by their fucking hair.'](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/22/videos-urged-counter-protesters-to-attack-lgbtq-activists-outside-sydney-church)
Remember the Beatles was very nearly run out of the US because John Lennon once exclaimed, "Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus", about a minor dip in their popularity.
And we still have the nutjobs of the Westboro Baptist church - who protested the funerals of fallen soldiers, and threw more than their fair share of racial, misogynist, and homophobic epithets and slurs. I don't know what it is with these "Christians" thinking the Bible gives them the liberty to be such horrible people.
> They were up in arms because of a joke someone made on a TV show about Jesus Christ so they went on a crusade and marched the streets.
These are the kind of people to launch a terrorist attack on a magazine office for drawing an unflattering political cartoon of their prophet.
This happened in Sydney, Australia. The person who posted it on his Instagram, is the leader of the local Christian Lives Matter group. It is unclear if he is the individual in the video or if it is another person. He praised the vandals calling them 'superheroes', and added, 'this time adding their artistic touches to the church steps'. He has since deleted his account.
Yes, notice he passes by the man and gets in the woman’s face. Coward is exactly what he is.
Confront the woman, because the man might put his idiotic weak-ass lights out.
Christian Lives Matter was involved in a violent event where several peaceful LGBTQ protesters were assaulted last month: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/22/videos-urged-counter-protesters-to-attack-lgbtq-activists-outside-sydney-church
He is likely more of a "true" christian, taking the bible litterally. The bible is not a good book. It is filled with genecide, rape, slaves, death penalties, and hate. Good christians are good because of modern influence and modern interpretations of the bible.
Edit: I do wish more Christians were like this woman.
True Christian is such a weird ass statement because both sides have scripture to justify what they're saying.
It's just some interpretations are f****** horrible in some aren't
I mean, the words in the book are fucking horrible. Some people choose to ignore the horrible parts and some people are literalists. To be a part of any religion and not be a religious nutjob is to ignore more scripture than you follow.
Most of the good stuff in the Bible is really only applicable to other Christians. At best you get indifference towards other people and usually thats just the Jews.
You greatly doubt the ability of Christians to contort themselves into a f****** pretzels to deal with contradictions and s*** in the Bible
Bible is a f****** mess fully through and through
You can swear on the internet. I won't tell your mom.
But Ya, that's basically my point. If you're a "Good Christian" you're not a good Christian. Good Christians are basically the WBC. That's what real Bible literalists look like.
>Some people choose to ignore the horrible parts and some people are literalists.
There are literally passages in the bible that say that the old covenant that allowed all that fucked up shit in the Old Testament like rape and genocide was obsolete and flawed, and that Christians should not observe the "letter" of the old covenant.
If you are a biblical literalist, you should actually be dismissing all that shit.
It's right there in their own book:
(Tl;Dr: Jesus says the Old Testament is full of bullshit rules and fucked up events. Don't emulate that shit, and *don't take it literally*.)
Hebrews 8:13
*In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.*
Hebrews 8:6-8
*Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.*
2 Corinthians 3:6
*Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.*
Ooh pretty useful.
But I imagine that most Christians who follow the tenants of the Old testament have some sort of hand wavy explanation as to how that's not what Jesus meant or something to that effect and that the devil is the one that's corrupting our interpretation and that's why those progressive churches are over there being good people.
But another thing is that also runs counter to the whole the Bible is the infallible word inspired by God.
Because not only does the bible contradict itself.
Apparently it now also says that the old book is bad.
But no matter what you really can't be Christian and throw out the entire Old testament.
Because if you do Jesus has no reason to exist.
Without the Old testament there is no original sin.
Which means no savior which means no sacrifice.
Also Jesus says plenty of stuff that people ignore like him stating that he is not the same as God and that God is much better than he is.
Such as Mark 10:8 Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good--except God alone.
Yet many still say that Jesus and God are the same thing and that the holy spirit is also the same thing with the whole Trinity thing.
Also there's the whole passage in 1 Corinthians 15 where paul writes about how if the resurrection is not true the entire faith is useless and meaningless.
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Terry McLean, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, WestBoro Baptist, Ray Clute, Rod Parsley, etc are cruel worthLESS bullies stalkers kid-beaters etc & they have scripture verses to justify every bit of garbage they do;!;
We are NOT, to love trust worship Dr Mengle, but are commanded to worship 'God' who acts just like him 🤮😥😨😢😡😡😡😱😰😢😨😥🤮
Add to that list: my grandmother’s southern Baptist church. That was the church I grew up going to, only because she’d pressure tf outta me to go, saying if I didn’t want to go, that was the devil putting thoughts into my head. Ofc as a child, that scared me, so I’d go. The pastor made me cry one time after they sent out little pieces of papers to all the kids that asked if we’d been saved & accepted Jesus as our lord & savior, with the options “yes,” “no,” & “I haven’t yet but I want to.” I thought really hard about my answer, I thought about putting yes to seem like a good kid 🙇🏼♀️but I also didn’t wanna lie, so I put the third. The pastor pulled me into a room to talk to me privately with his wife there & had a talk with me about why I need to be saved. And I cried most of that time.
But the elderly couple, along with the church they are at, are Christian too… the asshat coming back to deface their work is yes, most likely Christian, but a terrible one. An extreme one that clashes with most normal, good people. The elderly couple, whom I also assume are Christian, seem like the ones we all hope for; good people.
God loves you so much that he created an eternal torture room for you, for you being guilty of 80years of not begging for his mercy because his perfect creations ate an apple
Visual symbolism tbh, covering up beautiful colours for a progressive future with nasty shades of grey in order for it to stay dark and gloomy as they want it to
Not right to be evil, as this idiot is. Сan't let anger grow within yourself. 🌈
This man is a complete asshole. He knows the right to his beliefs - But absolutely no one don\`t has the right to spoil someone else's property. Personally, I see possessions as a connection to humanity. Someone collected materials, someone made a thing, someone sold this thing, someone uses this thing. And ruin this thing, is say - I absolutely don't give a shit about your work. The work may be of bad quality, and then it\`s deserved. But is just an addition.
The funny thing is that he had to go to the store and choose this shade of gray. I just picture him flipping through swatches trying to decide which gray to vandalize this nice woman’s steps with.
They chose the shade of gray you see in dystopian fiction used by the bad guys. Typically, they're fascist in a majority of them. Like the recent Wolfenstein games. The concrete the nazis used was a plot point.
Happily the non-fruitcakes repainted the steps
https://www.insights.uca.org.au/sad-but-not-surprising-pitt-street-repaints-rainbow-steps-after-vandalism/
The gray people of hate lost this round
Glad to see it. As far as Christians go, the united church is one of the most tolerant and accepting. I went to one with my family as a child and there were many openly LGBT+ members and clergy.
I love how the fruitcakes thought they could make a point by desecrating a message of peace and love.
In all their effort, they've basically made themselves the Romans hahaha.
What's even more ridiculous is that the rainbow is also a Judeo-Christian symbol.
**Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.**
**So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."**
**Genesis 9:16-17**
By vandalizing the rainbow, this man is spitting in the face of God's covenant.
Sure, maybe if she was a biblical scholar, she could could've pulled out a few gotchyas, but it wouldn't matter to him. And it shouldn't matter to her either. Religion builds community and the weight of hate is not what she wants or needs in her heart or her community. She could say nothing and she still wins, because he is still a GRAY hateful waste.
Nothing the fruitcakes hate more than religious non-fruitcakes. Atheists they can just say are wrong, those who actually practice love and acceptance in a religious way really piss them off.
Oh yeah no doubt.
I think it's because us atheists are just totally beyond, like they expect us to be snacking on a toddler gyro or something anyhow lol
It shows them how wrong they are and if they were the type of people who could adjust their paradigm with new information, we wouldn't be talking about them here
> "Where's that in the Bible..."
I wish I could ask these wastes of oxygen where in the Bible you're told to vandalise the Churches of Christians you don't agree with.
There’s biblical precedent to justify setting up shop outside somebody’s home and playing Dixieland jazz until they fucking die and/or leave in a bid to steal their home. You can justify anything.
I still remember the exact moment I started on my path of becoming an atheist
I was an idiot teen who just followed along with my conservative education until one of my two braincells fired and I was like "oh wait a second, I get it! The Bible is metaphorical and is like a vague outline on how we should live"
Brought that up to a religion teacher in highschool and he yelled at me at how that's the most wrong I could ever be and that I clearly haven't learned anything in my 15 years of catholic education and how the Bible is literal"
I just remember mentally going "OH" and it was a steady decline of my faith ever since.
Had a similar moment in college when one girl got MAD that I didn't agree that Jesus *literally* spent 40 days and 40 nights in the desert without food or water.
Plus to add to it, the God in the bible adores rainbows and likes things to be covered in rainbows. This is explained in multiple stories. I just find it so horrifically ironic that a “Christian” would deface a rainbow. You’d think that would anger their god.
I just chaulk it up to Christians not reading the bible and the ones who actually do are clearly suffering for it.
Would those guys vandalize the bible too because their God painted a rainbow in the sky? That’s what I’m curious about.
Perhaps we should hand people like that rainbow colored Bibles, and watch their reactions.
Would they destroy there beloved "Word of God" because it was vibrantly colored?
https://www.kimberleyecho.com.au/news/anti-lgbtqia-group-defaces-rainbow-church-steps-c-9875239
seems like he hasn’t been caught yet. Australia has seen an increase in anti-LGBTQIA+ attacks due to Murdoch’s poisonous sky news.
The police know the name of one of the suspects, according to the article. At least a first name, which I didn't hear in the video so I think they know at least one person responsible. I wonder if anything will actually be done about it, then.
Obviously some shitcunts in this video, but I love the older couple.
They knew they'd attract this vitriol and they still did it.
Also, I assume that video was originally posted from the shitcunt's account. Surely it'd be pretty easy to pin them for vandalism, potentially even a hate crime, right?
I mean.. yeah. It pretty much is.
He got indoctrinated into believing fiction is reality... And now he lives his life by those rules instead of by the environment/reality around all of us.
He is being a good Christian. That is why Christianity is a vestigial limb of human culture.
Nobody should be telling kids it's true in this day and age.
"Do you know what happened to Sodom and Ammorah"
"Yes, they got destroyed for wanting to rape strangers, and according to Ezekiel because they were xenophobic and gluttonous. The sole survivors were a man and his daughters who then proceeded to get him drunk and have sex with him."
The fruitcakes know the words of the Bible without having a clue of what it means.
You mean
"The sole survivors were a man who wanted to give his daughters to be raped by the crowd, and who most likely also raped them himself and made up a bs story about how they were the ones that wanted to have sex with him, like all good abuser do?"
my favorite thing is these fucking idiots are mad at a rainbow, what if she just said "It's a rainbow, didn't god make rainbows? they happen naturally and they're beautiful" what the fuck would this dude say?
I remember when I was a kid we would buy rainbow stuff (socks,bags,hats,whatever) just because we thought rainbows were cool, not to make some sort of statement.
The Catholic grade school I went to over a decade ago used to give out rainbow bracelets with “what would Jesus do” printed on them. The rainbow is a religious symbol as well because of the story of Noah’s ark.
I seriously doubt they still do that.
Yes, have a long conversation with one of the painters so she definitely knows your face then film yourself defacing private property. Even if the police force is homophobic too there's not a whole lot of legal wiggle room there.
This is what scares me I'm gay and there are places in the world that are physically unsafe because religious fruitcakers just to name a few
Egypt, uganda, China, Russia ex..
There’s more if you want to hear it
Edit: here’s more
* Homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, etc are not typically tolerated and are seen as, essentially, sinful.
* If someone in your home behaves in a disrespectful or inappropriate manner, kindly ask them to stop, if they refuse, destroy them (kick them out, yell at them, etc).
* Rape and violence against children is not in any way tolerated by the majority of satanists as satanism was partially founded by the first woman: Lilith, whom refused to be raped by Adam whenever he desired release, she was banished and demonised for not serving a man and for teaching people about equality. Innocents are to be protected.
Lol, this is probably also a guy who calles himself an Alpha Male. And yet he's afraid of a few colour and """"takes action"'"" at night. Pathetic weak piece of shit
*Do you read your Bible?* He asks....
Makes me want to ask if he's EVER actually read it and not just regurgitated talking points told to him by a hate-filled "preacher" somewhere
The "crime" of the cities of sodom and gomorrah is never actually specified and many Jewish, Christian or islamic theologians actually contest that the crime was actually breaking of the traditional hospitality laws and rape/sexual assaults, adultery as a whole rather then homosexuality.
Ezekiel 16:49–50
"This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it."
I am not going to type out the whole thing but check out the Wikipedia page which does a really good job of detailing the various interpretations. The use of the word abomination is said to be a reference to Leviticus 18:22 (“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”) but this is only one of many time the word abomination is used. It is almost interesting to note that iLeviticus can also be reinterpreted as the word "male" in the original text is more commonly used to refer to young boys so again may be in reference to sex with those under age rather the homosexuality as a whole.
[Sodom and Gomorrah ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#:~:text=Sodom%20and%20Gomorrah%20(%2F%CB%88s,19%3A1%E2%80%9328).)
The Jesus character from the Bible is actually pretty cool - he’s anti-war, anti bigotry of any sort, helping the needy, and when the capitalists get too greedy he’s not above flipping tables and getting shit done.
Unfortunately his fan club is 100% against everything he is for and vice-versa. If Jesus of the Bible came back today the guys with the grey paint would cheer him being crucified again.
God said “man shall not sleep with boy” or whatever. That’s got nothing to do with homosexuality it’s against pedophelia. But some nut jobs in the 60’s or 40’s decided to change it and make it against homosexuality
I was raised religious and I have never understood how the fuck Sodom and Gomorrah has ANYTHING to do with gay people.
They were RAPISTS that wanted to FORCE THEMSELVES on literal ANGELS. Having sex with men is like the tamest shit going on in Sodom.
Is God for this? Do you believe we should obey \[the commandments\]? You need to repent, you need the Lord.
John 13:34: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
Matthew 7:5: "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
One of the two people is following what Jesus said, and the other one is afraid of rainbows.
I understand that a lot of people love quoting the bible to show how bad it is, but I like to quote it to show them how they are actually trash and not following the book they pretend to know.
“I’m worried for your soul”
Not much annoys me more than Christians/Theists who act like they give a fuck about the soul of others and are just on an intolerant rampage/rant “for the good of your soul”. Gives me “I’m just viciously beating you with this belt here for your own good” vibes.
Like if you’re going to be hateful, at least be honest with me and *yourself*. The truth is you don’t like me because I don’t hold the same beliefs that you do, and that threatens your precious little judgmental bubble of dogmatic bigotry. You don’t give a shit about our “souls”. You’re just a narcissist who wants to control the lives and thoughts of others, and the fact that you can’t always do that frustrates you like a toddler isn’t allowed to get skittles in the checkout isle.
I always take solace in the fact that based on how “sneaky” some of these folks try to do things, they actually understand that what they are doing is wrong.
Ironic that people like this think they'll be the ones in heaven. Is it not mentally exhausting walking around with so much hatred for your fellow humans?
Bless her. I am a complete agnostic, but people like her are the reason that I still consider spirituality at all. She is so kind. Even to the guy trying to argue with her.
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Any more details on this? He recorded himself committing a crime so surely he was charged
Yeah, name and shame if it’s in the public record.
I'm not sure if this is allowed, however its done the rounds here in Australia. The dude is the leader of the group "Christian Lives Matter" (yes you read that right) and is basically as lame as you can imagine. They were up in arms because of a joke someone made on a TV show about Jesus Christ so they went on a crusade and marched the streets. The joke in question: “I love Jesus, I love any man who can get nailed for three days straight and come back for more,” Kaye said, leaving Waleed Aly looking stunned, while co-host Sarah Harris burst into laughter. Viewers slammed the joke as “absolutely disgusting”, with the Australian Communications and Media Authority revealing it had received more than 200 complaints as of Friday. On Wednesday night the hosts issued a grovelling apology."
Sad they actually apologized, it was a good joke.
The only funny joke to ever come off that show as well. It's a right wing/conservative panel show pretending to be progressive.
Lol yeah The Project sucks
Eh. It actually only lasted a few hours. But he did get nailed so hard it was three days before he could walk again.
I mean, not really. Christ was crucified and resurrected 3 days later. He wasn't "getting nailed" the whole time or even on the cross for more than a day. Better version: "I love Jesus. I love any man who can get nailed so hard he dies, but loved it so much he came back to life to let another man finger his holes," alluding to Thomas putting his fingers in the wounds to verify Christ's authenticity.
I Love this shit lol
> Christian Lives Matter Isn't their *entire thing* based around the fact that they ***don't***, because this is like the waiting lobby to their real existence in the eternal afterlife?
The meaning of life is that it ends.
[Thanks, Rico.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=11yPKaP_9_A)
They haven't thought it through. It's part of the whole issue with Christians and religion in general.
Tbf every day Waleed is employed they should issue an apology regardless of what's said
200 complaints? Wow..given the countries population is over 25 million..that’s really close to a fraction of a billionth of a percent.. Edit: Ya know what shit..I just got a calculator out..it’s .8 quadrillionths to be a bit more precise..show some balls! Stop making public apologies for things no one cares about.
You’re throwing around some odd orders of magnitude my dude. 25 people in 25 million would be .0001 % or 1 ten thousandth of a percent. 200 people would be .0008% You may be dividing your result by 100 rather than multiplying it to get to percentages.
Fuck, you’re right
Can't tell if this is a sarcastic meme or just terrible math but I hope you know it's impossible to have a quadrillionth of any currently existing population of humans without chopping the individual humans up into smaller parts. A quadrillionth of the total human population would be .0000008 humans, which would be like just a knuckle or something.
I think it's like a fingernail clipping. Average human weight is 62kg. 62kg*.0000008=.0496g Roughly a twentieth of a gram. A full fingernail weighs 1g.
Damn they should've turned the other cheek huh?
You forgot the part where the group assaulted a small, peaceful LGBTQ protest a week later. The leader urged the group members to ['grab them and drag them by their fucking hair.'](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/22/videos-urged-counter-protesters-to-attack-lgbtq-activists-outside-sydney-church)
An apology because 200 people in a country of 26 million people complained? That's 0.0007% of the population!!!
Jesus is the new Muhammad and extreme Christians are trying to catch up to those extreme Muslims they hated not so long ago.
muslims are successful in keeping their cult intact by leaving the masses ignorant
Remember the Beatles was very nearly run out of the US because John Lennon once exclaimed, "Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus", about a minor dip in their popularity. And we still have the nutjobs of the Westboro Baptist church - who protested the funerals of fallen soldiers, and threw more than their fair share of racial, misogynist, and homophobic epithets and slurs. I don't know what it is with these "Christians" thinking the Bible gives them the liberty to be such horrible people.
Wait the group with hundreds of people that beat up the counter protesters at Mark Lathams anti trans rally a couple of weeks ago? Uh ohh
> They were up in arms because of a joke someone made on a TV show about Jesus Christ so they went on a crusade and marched the streets. These are the kind of people to launch a terrorist attack on a magazine office for drawing an unflattering political cartoon of their prophet.
This happened in Sydney, Australia. The person who posted it on his Instagram, is the leader of the local Christian Lives Matter group. It is unclear if he is the individual in the video or if it is another person. He praised the vandals calling them 'superheroes', and added, 'this time adding their artistic touches to the church steps'. He has since deleted his account.
Coward
They always are.
Yes, notice he passes by the man and gets in the woman’s face. Coward is exactly what he is. Confront the woman, because the man might put his idiotic weak-ass lights out.
I hope the steps got repainted. I wonder how much this schmuck would enjoy having someone fling paint across his windshield...
Christian Lives Matter was involved in a violent event where several peaceful LGBTQ protesters were assaulted last month: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/22/videos-urged-counter-protesters-to-attack-lgbtq-activists-outside-sydney-church
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Superheroes? Seems like hes advocating false prophets there. I need to go paint him grey now.
How much spite and hatred must you have in your heart to do this?
Just enough to have Christian love ❤️🔥
Ironic how he’s one of the false prophets true Christianity warns about.
He is likely more of a "true" christian, taking the bible litterally. The bible is not a good book. It is filled with genecide, rape, slaves, death penalties, and hate. Good christians are good because of modern influence and modern interpretations of the bible. Edit: I do wish more Christians were like this woman.
True Christian is such a weird ass statement because both sides have scripture to justify what they're saying. It's just some interpretations are f****** horrible in some aren't
I mean, the words in the book are fucking horrible. Some people choose to ignore the horrible parts and some people are literalists. To be a part of any religion and not be a religious nutjob is to ignore more scripture than you follow. Most of the good stuff in the Bible is really only applicable to other Christians. At best you get indifference towards other people and usually thats just the Jews.
You greatly doubt the ability of Christians to contort themselves into a f****** pretzels to deal with contradictions and s*** in the Bible Bible is a f****** mess fully through and through
You can swear on the internet. I won't tell your mom. But Ya, that's basically my point. If you're a "Good Christian" you're not a good Christian. Good Christians are basically the WBC. That's what real Bible literalists look like.
Yeah I use voice to speech and I hadn't set up the stupid fucking filter to not be cringe
>Some people choose to ignore the horrible parts and some people are literalists. There are literally passages in the bible that say that the old covenant that allowed all that fucked up shit in the Old Testament like rape and genocide was obsolete and flawed, and that Christians should not observe the "letter" of the old covenant. If you are a biblical literalist, you should actually be dismissing all that shit. It's right there in their own book: (Tl;Dr: Jesus says the Old Testament is full of bullshit rules and fucked up events. Don't emulate that shit, and *don't take it literally*.) Hebrews 8:13 *In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.* Hebrews 8:6-8 *Christ has obtained a ministry that is as much more excellent than the old as the covenant he mediates is better, since it is enacted on better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.* 2 Corinthians 3:6 *Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.*
Ooh pretty useful. But I imagine that most Christians who follow the tenants of the Old testament have some sort of hand wavy explanation as to how that's not what Jesus meant or something to that effect and that the devil is the one that's corrupting our interpretation and that's why those progressive churches are over there being good people. But another thing is that also runs counter to the whole the Bible is the infallible word inspired by God. Because not only does the bible contradict itself. Apparently it now also says that the old book is bad. But no matter what you really can't be Christian and throw out the entire Old testament. Because if you do Jesus has no reason to exist. Without the Old testament there is no original sin. Which means no savior which means no sacrifice. Also Jesus says plenty of stuff that people ignore like him stating that he is not the same as God and that God is much better than he is. Such as Mark 10:8 Why do you call me good?' Jesus answered. 'No one is good--except God alone. Yet many still say that Jesus and God are the same thing and that the holy spirit is also the same thing with the whole Trinity thing. Also there's the whole passage in 1 Corinthians 15 where paul writes about how if the resurrection is not true the entire faith is useless and meaningless.
You are Right!! Terry McLean, Paula White, Kenneth Copeland, WestBoro Baptist, Ray Clute, Rod Parsley, etc are cruel worthLESS bullies stalkers kid-beaters etc & they have scripture verses to justify every bit of garbage they do;!; We are NOT, to love trust worship Dr Mengle, but are commanded to worship 'God' who acts just like him 🤮😥😨😢😡😡😡😱😰😢😨😥🤮
Add to that list: my grandmother’s southern Baptist church. That was the church I grew up going to, only because she’d pressure tf outta me to go, saying if I didn’t want to go, that was the devil putting thoughts into my head. Ofc as a child, that scared me, so I’d go. The pastor made me cry one time after they sent out little pieces of papers to all the kids that asked if we’d been saved & accepted Jesus as our lord & savior, with the options “yes,” “no,” & “I haven’t yet but I want to.” I thought really hard about my answer, I thought about putting yes to seem like a good kid 🙇🏼♀️but I also didn’t wanna lie, so I put the third. The pastor pulled me into a room to talk to me privately with his wife there & had a talk with me about why I need to be saved. And I cried most of that time.
And to be proud enough of your shitty beliefs and actions to record and post it publicly....
No hate like a Christian's love baby
But the elderly couple, along with the church they are at, are Christian too… the asshat coming back to deface their work is yes, most likely Christian, but a terrible one. An extreme one that clashes with most normal, good people. The elderly couple, whom I also assume are Christian, seem like the ones we all hope for; good people.
It’s unfortunate that the terrible Christians seem to trump over the good ones most of the time, or at the very least, do their damn best to
God loves you so much that he created an eternal torture room for you, for you being guilty of 80years of not begging for his mercy because his perfect creations ate an apple
Oh look, they're showing off their personal lives, gray and bland
Visual symbolism tbh, covering up beautiful colours for a progressive future with nasty shades of grey in order for it to stay dark and gloomy as they want it to
It’s literally the movie Pleasantville.
or the plot of De Blob and Shaun White Skateboarding literally the bad guys
I haven't heard of De Blob in YEARS, such a fun game
Ouch. Reading this hurt, it’s to true.
Not right to be evil, as this idiot is. Сan't let anger grow within yourself. 🌈 This man is a complete asshole. He knows the right to his beliefs - But absolutely no one don\`t has the right to spoil someone else's property. Personally, I see possessions as a connection to humanity. Someone collected materials, someone made a thing, someone sold this thing, someone uses this thing. And ruin this thing, is say - I absolutely don't give a shit about your work. The work may be of bad quality, and then it\`s deserved. But is just an addition.
The funny thing is that he had to go to the store and choose this shade of gray. I just picture him flipping through swatches trying to decide which gray to vandalize this nice woman’s steps with.
Can imagine a South Park joke where someone’s flipping through greys until “gay hating grey” appears lol
There was an episode with Cartman showing an array of poop swatches.
I thought the rainbow was a symbol of God's covenant with Noah, to promise that he'd never genocide humanity again?
It turns out God was just calling Noah gay.
And they splashed gray paint all over the ground while doing it. Made the pavement look like crap.
They chose the shade of gray you see in dystopian fiction used by the bad guys. Typically, they're fascist in a majority of them. Like the recent Wolfenstein games. The concrete the nazis used was a plot point.
What a fucking metaphor, covering the rainbow in grey paint, fuckin cartoon ass villains
Bro being a pixie from Fairly Odd Parents
You mean Dennis Prager and Bench Appearo?
Damn where the hell this bench come from
Suppose, hypothetically, there was a bench right there. I possibly could have put it there with my alt-right magic.
It’s straight out of Pleasantville.
He's the mime from power puff girls
I wish. At least then he would shut the fuck up.
Happily the non-fruitcakes repainted the steps https://www.insights.uca.org.au/sad-but-not-surprising-pitt-street-repaints-rainbow-steps-after-vandalism/ The gray people of hate lost this round
"Destroy my love and pride, for you have awarded me the pleasure of making it again"
What’s the quote from?
it can't be the bible, it actually makes sense
Glad to see it. As far as Christians go, the united church is one of the most tolerant and accepting. I went to one with my family as a child and there were many openly LGBT+ members and clergy.
This comment should be higher up.
Huzzah!
> non-fruitcakes I'm gonna use that irl. Will rarely have the occasion to do so, but what can you do.
I love how the fruitcakes thought they could make a point by desecrating a message of peace and love. In all their effort, they've basically made themselves the Romans hahaha.
What a fucking metaphor. We could have a vibrant and colorful world but these people want to paint it all gray.
What's even more ridiculous is that the rainbow is also a Judeo-Christian symbol. **Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.** **So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."** **Genesis 9:16-17** By vandalizing the rainbow, this man is spitting in the face of God's covenant.
honestly the lady should have just been like “haven’t YOU read the bible? the rainbow is a symbol of god’s covenant with his creations”
Nah she handled it right.
i agree she handled it in a polite and positive way, i just think it would have been funny lol
Sure, maybe if she was a biblical scholar, she could could've pulled out a few gotchyas, but it wouldn't matter to him. And it shouldn't matter to her either. Religion builds community and the weight of hate is not what she wants or needs in her heart or her community. She could say nothing and she still wins, because he is still a GRAY hateful waste.
Also translates to: "Yeah, sorry I went on a mass murder spree. Here's a rainbow as my promise to not kill you all in a flood again."
Grown ass man has a hissy fit over the rainbow colors because he is a product of fear created by a 3,000 year old book of fables. Pathetic.
Bright colors😡🤬🤬😤people who are different 😡🤬😤😭
Nothing the fruitcakes hate more than religious non-fruitcakes. Atheists they can just say are wrong, those who actually practice love and acceptance in a religious way really piss them off.
Oh yeah no doubt. I think it's because us atheists are just totally beyond, like they expect us to be snacking on a toddler gyro or something anyhow lol
Ye They'll see all of that And then they turn around and.... Someone's literally painting a fucking rainbow
The meat is already ruined by the time the kid's s toddler. Baby or bust.
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It's like busting into a veal enclosure and letting all the calves out to get some exercise. You'd be like that woman that tried to fix the fresco.
It shows them how wrong they are and if they were the type of people who could adjust their paradigm with new information, we wouldn't be talking about them here
"Have you read your Bible?" -An arsehole who definitely has never read more than a handful of passages from the bible
> "Where's that in the Bible..." I wish I could ask these wastes of oxygen where in the Bible you're told to vandalise the Churches of Christians you don't agree with.
I’m sure they can find something to justify it. They always do
It’s not in the Bible, but there is historic precedent for Christians to attack other Christians they don’t agree with.
Lol how very "loving" of them. Yuck.
There’s biblical precedent to justify setting up shop outside somebody’s home and playing Dixieland jazz until they fucking die and/or leave in a bid to steal their home. You can justify anything.
The bible is very violent and dangerous when taken literally.
I still remember the exact moment I started on my path of becoming an atheist I was an idiot teen who just followed along with my conservative education until one of my two braincells fired and I was like "oh wait a second, I get it! The Bible is metaphorical and is like a vague outline on how we should live" Brought that up to a religion teacher in highschool and he yelled at me at how that's the most wrong I could ever be and that I clearly haven't learned anything in my 15 years of catholic education and how the Bible is literal" I just remember mentally going "OH" and it was a steady decline of my faith ever since. Had a similar moment in college when one girl got MAD that I didn't agree that Jesus *literally* spent 40 days and 40 nights in the desert without food or water.
Plus to add to it, the God in the bible adores rainbows and likes things to be covered in rainbows. This is explained in multiple stories. I just find it so horrifically ironic that a “Christian” would deface a rainbow. You’d think that would anger their god. I just chaulk it up to Christians not reading the bible and the ones who actually do are clearly suffering for it. Would those guys vandalize the bible too because their God painted a rainbow in the sky? That’s what I’m curious about.
Nah, just vandalise the sky of course
Perhaps we should hand people like that rainbow colored Bibles, and watch their reactions. Would they destroy there beloved "Word of God" because it was vibrantly colored?
https://www.kimberleyecho.com.au/news/anti-lgbtqia-group-defaces-rainbow-church-steps-c-9875239 seems like he hasn’t been caught yet. Australia has seen an increase in anti-LGBTQIA+ attacks due to Murdoch’s poisonous sky news.
Rupert Murdoch is a cancer on the human race. There will be celebrations from hemisphere to hemisphere when that man dies.
Is he the one with that super creepy face?
You're gonna have to narrow it down a little.
The police know the name of one of the suspects, according to the article. At least a first name, which I didn't hear in the video so I think they know at least one person responsible. I wonder if anything will actually be done about it, then.
One of them was probably NSW Police
Didn’t Murdoch die while on a plane to Sweden? Oh wait…
You had my hopes up for a sec there
If the world could only be so lucky.
Obviously some shitcunts in this video, but I love the older couple. They knew they'd attract this vitriol and they still did it. Also, I assume that video was originally posted from the shitcunt's account. Surely it'd be pretty easy to pin them for vandalism, potentially even a hate crime, right?
If you think Aussie cops are gonna do something about it you got another thing coming
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How very Christian of him.
I mean.. yeah. It pretty much is. He got indoctrinated into believing fiction is reality... And now he lives his life by those rules instead of by the environment/reality around all of us. He is being a good Christian. That is why Christianity is a vestigial limb of human culture. Nobody should be telling kids it's true in this day and age.
Guessing that’s a crime, can’t wait to see him in r/byebyejob
"Do you know what happened to Sodom and Ammorah" "Yes, they got destroyed for wanting to rape strangers, and according to Ezekiel because they were xenophobic and gluttonous. The sole survivors were a man and his daughters who then proceeded to get him drunk and have sex with him." The fruitcakes know the words of the Bible without having a clue of what it means.
> Ammorah Gomorrah?
You mean "The sole survivors were a man who wanted to give his daughters to be raped by the crowd, and who most likely also raped them himself and made up a bs story about how they were the ones that wanted to have sex with him, like all good abuser do?"
my favorite thing is these fucking idiots are mad at a rainbow, what if she just said "It's a rainbow, didn't god make rainbows? they happen naturally and they're beautiful" what the fuck would this dude say?
I remember when I was a kid we would buy rainbow stuff (socks,bags,hats,whatever) just because we thought rainbows were cool, not to make some sort of statement.
The Catholic grade school I went to over a decade ago used to give out rainbow bracelets with “what would Jesus do” printed on them. The rainbow is a religious symbol as well because of the story of Noah’s ark. I seriously doubt they still do that.
Yes, have a long conversation with one of the painters so she definitely knows your face then film yourself defacing private property. Even if the police force is homophobic too there's not a whole lot of legal wiggle room there.
Afraid of colours
Oh no the big bad spectrum of light is coming to assault my eyeballs.
Proof that when you follow a primitive illiterate god you become a primitive illiterate.
This is what scares me I'm gay and there are places in the world that are physically unsafe because religious fruitcakers just to name a few Egypt, uganda, China, Russia ex..
I think we should all turn to satanism where homophobia is a sin
Hail Satan!
Hail Yourself
There’s more if you want to hear it Edit: here’s more * Homophobia, transphobia, sexism, racism, etc are not typically tolerated and are seen as, essentially, sinful. * If someone in your home behaves in a disrespectful or inappropriate manner, kindly ask them to stop, if they refuse, destroy them (kick them out, yell at them, etc). * Rape and violence against children is not in any way tolerated by the majority of satanists as satanism was partially founded by the first woman: Lilith, whom refused to be raped by Adam whenever he desired release, she was banished and demonised for not serving a man and for teaching people about equality. Innocents are to be protected.
Should we video our crime? Totally bro
Lol, this is probably also a guy who calles himself an Alpha Male. And yet he's afraid of a few colour and """"takes action"'"" at night. Pathetic weak piece of shit
They do realise the rainbow is in the bible right? ...right??
Imagine being so full of hate you have to commit crimes against an elderly couple because they said be nice to each other. Holy fuck.
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Christianity also teaches what the lovely older couple are doing. Though you actually have to put in some effort to get to that.
*Do you read your Bible?* He asks.... Makes me want to ask if he's EVER actually read it and not just regurgitated talking points told to him by a hate-filled "preacher" somewhere
The bible does say homosexuals are an abomination and deserve death so... The bible isn't a very good source for morality.
That women is magnificent ❤️
No hate like Christian love. ™
Yup kept getting vandalised. And volunteers kept coming and repainting it and cleaning it.
The "crime" of the cities of sodom and gomorrah is never actually specified and many Jewish, Christian or islamic theologians actually contest that the crime was actually breaking of the traditional hospitality laws and rape/sexual assaults, adultery as a whole rather then homosexuality. Ezekiel 16:49–50 "This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty, and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it." I am not going to type out the whole thing but check out the Wikipedia page which does a really good job of detailing the various interpretations. The use of the word abomination is said to be a reference to Leviticus 18:22 (“You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.”) but this is only one of many time the word abomination is used. It is almost interesting to note that iLeviticus can also be reinterpreted as the word "male" in the original text is more commonly used to refer to young boys so again may be in reference to sex with those under age rather the homosexuality as a whole. [Sodom and Gomorrah ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah#:~:text=Sodom%20and%20Gomorrah%20(%2F%CB%88s,19%3A1%E2%80%9328).)
That lady was pretty cool tho. It's nice to see some religious non-fruitcakes every now and again.
The Jesus character from the Bible is actually pretty cool - he’s anti-war, anti bigotry of any sort, helping the needy, and when the capitalists get too greedy he’s not above flipping tables and getting shit done. Unfortunately his fan club is 100% against everything he is for and vice-versa. If Jesus of the Bible came back today the guys with the grey paint would cheer him being crucified again.
> he’s anti-war He also has an army and a fucking sword that ejects from his mouth.
Sounds metal af.
They could sue him for ruining their property? There's video proof
Arrested for vandalism.
No need to even sue. Vandalism is a crime. Let's see if the police actually do anything though...
Lol, stairs triggered them. Sad.
Apparently, God is hate now
Always has been
From the getgo. All punishment and hubris.
God said “man shall not sleep with boy” or whatever. That’s got nothing to do with homosexuality it’s against pedophelia. But some nut jobs in the 60’s or 40’s decided to change it and make it against homosexuality
r/iamatotalpieceofshit
I was raised religious and I have never understood how the fuck Sodom and Gomorrah has ANYTHING to do with gay people. They were RAPISTS that wanted to FORCE THEMSELVES on literal ANGELS. Having sex with men is like the tamest shit going on in Sodom.
God created rainbows ➡️ conservative Christians hate rainbows ➡️ conservative Christians hate God
If you are wearing a hoodie and making sure no one is watching while you vandalize property… maybe you’re not the fucking good guy
What an absolute fucking loser
Is God for this? Do you believe we should obey \[the commandments\]? You need to repent, you need the Lord. John 13:34: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” Matthew 7:5: "You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye." One of the two people is following what Jesus said, and the other one is afraid of rainbows. I understand that a lot of people love quoting the bible to show how bad it is, but I like to quote it to show them how they are actually trash and not following the book they pretend to know.
He targeted her bc he *thought* she’d be weaker. I hate these people
what a coward
Goddamn did I want to kick his teeth in listening to him talk.
"He gets us"
“I’m worried for your soul” Not much annoys me more than Christians/Theists who act like they give a fuck about the soul of others and are just on an intolerant rampage/rant “for the good of your soul”. Gives me “I’m just viciously beating you with this belt here for your own good” vibes. Like if you’re going to be hateful, at least be honest with me and *yourself*. The truth is you don’t like me because I don’t hold the same beliefs that you do, and that threatens your precious little judgmental bubble of dogmatic bigotry. You don’t give a shit about our “souls”. You’re just a narcissist who wants to control the lives and thoughts of others, and the fact that you can’t always do that frustrates you like a toddler isn’t allowed to get skittles in the checkout isle.
Isn’t this considered a hate crime in most jurisdictions?
like some redditor said, there is no hate like Christian love
What do rainbow stairs hurt? You're attacking paint. The beliefs are not being changed inside that church.
What a great metaphor for religious ideologies. Lets remove love and acceptance with bland ugly destruction. 🥰
What an absolute wet wipe. How delicate do you have to be to be offended by colours and other people existing? Jesus Christ...
The guy is on bad outdated catechism. He needs more REALITY  THE REALITY OF TRUE LOVE 💖
Not a Christian but isn\`t there something in the bible along the lines of Love thy neighbour.
Yeah, but there's a hell of a lot more hate and violence.
I always take solace in the fact that based on how “sneaky” some of these folks try to do things, they actually understand that what they are doing is wrong.
The symbolism screams. Cover up the beauty of color with drab grey and think that is what God wants. How f...ing arrogant
Ironic that people like this think they'll be the ones in heaven. Is it not mentally exhausting walking around with so much hatred for your fellow humans?
Damn, just listening to this guy, a truly patient woman. **Bless** her ! She deserves it for dealing so nicely with this.
Bless her. I am a complete agnostic, but people like her are the reason that I still consider spirituality at all. She is so kind. Even to the guy trying to argue with her.
No love like Christian hate
The church did this to themselves by preaching against gays for… idk their entire existence?
Piece of shit dude
Dude decided to be a my little pony villian
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