• dhork@lemmy.world
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    I hate that when guys like this who wear their faith on their sleeves get found out, it’s all about “repentance and healing”, privately, and never about actually paying the secular penalty for what they did. Ask for repentance not only from God, but from those people you harmed, by admitting what you did publicly and accepting the punishment. And part of healing is spending time in the slammer to reflect on what you’ve done.

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      Religion isn’t about not doing bad things, it’s about being forgiven for being a bad person. Religion is the justification.

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        Yeah I committed fraud systemically for the last 12 years by making my employees work before and after they clock out. But it’s OK because I talked to my own personal Jesus and he said they’re cool with it.

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          Jesus, Yahweh, Allah

          It’s all the same human toxicity being concentrated and used to abuse and oppress people.

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            Religion just makes all of that abuse easier by telling the victim they are “a sinner” before if even happens

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      19 hours ago

      For those curious about what the Christian Bible says on the matter:

      Romans 13:1-2
      “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.”

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        You are forgetting Romans 13:2.5 , in which Paul added

        “Unless the government is full of Liberals, fuck those guys, amirite?”

        I’m sure that’s in the Trump Bible…

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        Which they would then quote out of context as “there is no authority except for god”.