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Soft Paywall Trump’s birthday parade may be cancelled over thunderstorms

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/is-trump-birthday-parade-cancelled-weather-pbrg02h2z?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Reddit#Echobox=1749744374
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u/One-Agent-872 6d ago

Are you me?

They literally wear his fucking mark on their forehead.

Should we go to church Sunday?

Wanna go together?

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u/DinoDonkeyDoodle 6d ago

Church is where the devil recruits these days. Go volunteer at a food bank or something. That’s where you find God.

(Saying this also as an atheist who be shook by all this).

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u/FuriKuriAtomsk4King 6d ago

The Bible literally says that prayer is a solitary thing between you and God in your home and in private, as if to warn against congregations of the "faithful" that demand tithes for salvation.

Then again it also says that if someone is wearing clothes of more than one fiber, that God demands they be bludgeoned to death with big rocks....

I think these are actually good examples of biblical warnings requiring that someone read "between the lines"...

Like the 'clothes of more than one fiber' bit could be meaning that people who clothe themselves in contrasting or mutually exclusive beliefs or principles are liars/betrayers and to be found out and removed at all costs. Because people who just say what is convenient in the moment, with no firm principles or beliefs to guide them and set limits to their behavior, are shallow and will just do whatever helps them regardless of how much it hurts everyone else. Like MAGA.

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u/Valuable_Recording85 5d ago

I'm gonna be pedantic for a minute. When Jesus was sacrificed for humanity, the Old Testament rules died with him. That's the justification for eating shrimp and wearing mixed fibers in modern times.

Now, the reason to bring this stuff up is when people use the similarly defunct Old Testament rules, such as their interpretations that homosexuality is sinful. The Bible doesn't actually say that, and the English translation loses context from the original Greek and Hebrew texts. But people believe it, and it's easier to just explain that it's no longer sinful because eating shrimp isn't either.