Religion general

I forgot that when writing at about 2 AM; I was more focused on what I wrote. I do know about the Ophanim angels in the book of Ezekiel.

I’m not sure the “winged humanoid” one is biblically accurate, it just seems to be a much later thing used as a way of expressing a sort of “this person’s light as a feather (metaphorically)” idea. There’s nothing I saw in the Bible that says they had wings and a halo:

The 3 that went to Abraham’s tent, then 2 went to Sodom - Doesn’t say they’re winged, and the men of Sodom didn’t ask Lot “where are the angels,” they asked “where are the men you took in?” not realizing who they were asking about.

The 1 in the book of Joshua that faces Israel with a sword (accurate translation?) in hand, Joshua went up to “the man” and asked him “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”

The 1 at the end of the book of Judges (if I’m remembering right) who announces about the birth of Samson to his parents, he’s also referred to as “a man.” It seems they’d have known if he were an angel, if he had obvious wings; or if not, they’d have said something like “strange winged man.”

I noticed that some accounts on Twitter proudly call themselves “Orthodox”, “Catholic”, “Traditionalist”, etc. They put up crosses and flags on their usernames, and they always complain about “teh evil West/Joos/libruls” going against God and Jesus.

People like them are why I stopped being a Christian - they always talk about “you unbeliever, you will go to hell, you must bow to Jesus or die!”, so I don’t want to associate myself with these losers. They are no better than jihadis and Hindutvas.

Do they belong to the alt-right?

Christian Nationalists, or members of the Christian Identity movement tend to act that way. Or just your standard
Christian brand of neo-Nazi.

The alt-right before the Alt-right existed.

This shit is so mind numbingly frustrating and asinine( for a number of reasons). Why are their people who still believe that witchcraft is real and that it actually works in the 21st century?

Every time friends of mine say they are Christians, it shakes me deep inside and I feel like throwing up. Not because they are Christians. After all, they are my friends and also family. But Christianity as such, apart from the inner dichotomy, is pretty much the last religion I would voluntarily join.

And yet, it deeply depresses me to have to look these people in the face, smile, and pretend to even begin to bring this religion as utter contempt. Of the 1-2 positive arguments they can make in self-defense. Uch. :-/

I don’t know where my personal grudge against all things Christian comes from. And it doesn’t involve individuals either. On the contrary. It’s more like a great many (too many for my personal taste) are in a cult and I’m watching from the outside and just thinking to myself, Okay. Good for you. And all the others act as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Funny fact: It’s not. It never will be. But it’s nice that I’m tolerated as an outsider. Which is not the case. But meh, okay. I might as well talk to left- or right-wing extremists about their respective political beliefs. Has just as little sense. I could rather try to convince a stone that it is a rabbit and would expect more success from it. But with all mutual tolerance… I will never understand what Christians find so great about Christianity.

Maybe someone can enlighten me about it. Because I had to learn the formulas, explanations and even the history at school. Was even forced to do so. But I didn’t really understand that today. Especially as someone who is much closer to nature and does not like this “one god” thing. Wasn’t it such a thing of the Romans, their internal wars and a certain council that plunged us as Europeans into misfortune several times over the next thousand years?

The belief in when you die you will be reunited with your loved ones again and live forever and a god that punish all the bad people and looks after you is a comforting thought even tho it’s never been proven to be true. There’s probably more reasons than that as to why christians believe in christianity hope my explanation helped you understand it a little.

Part of it too is that “One” in ancient definition has more to do with “United” and “Unity” than it does with just being singular. So many translations, and yet so many don’t get all of the significant but sometimes easy to miss details…

30 pieces of silver for betraying Jesus would be around $748 today. That’s assuming that a piece of silver is equal to one ounce and an ounce of silver is worth $24.94. If I were Judas, I would’ve demanded at least 30 pieces of gold. Gold per ounce is worth $1,919. So 30 x $1,919 = $57,570.

Happy Easter, whenever that will be this year…

Ramadan Kareem to the one or two guys on this website.

@tehwatever
Ramada Mubarak to you too.

Happy Ramadan, my friends. Been working at a seafood restaurant, and this time my coworker told me to wait and not prepare the drinks until iftar, when the Malays can start eating.

The whole idea of jesus or god or whatever coming back one day is makes no sense when you think about it. why would he need to come back after a certain period of time(he was suppose to come back in the lifetime of the people he was talking too)just to fix the problems of the world; what could possibly prevent him from just fixing shit immediately instead of later isn’t he “all powerful”. I think “the second coming of jesus” is just to keep the faith in jesus alive or maybe to keep christianity alive perhaps?

Thank you, take care.

@Hali the Emoji girl
Wouldn’t the same apply to Islam and Judaism since they’re all Abrahamic?

I’m talking about Christian fundies not Islam and Jadaism fundies but yeah it can apply to them too.

Eid Mubarak broskis, and for the malaysian and xinjiaporen out there happy holiday.

@tehwatever
Eid Mubarak (one more day left for me tho)

Selamat Hari Raya!

In Malaysia it was moved earlier to today.

I missed Beltane, again.

Too many holidays to remember.

Seems like a nice problem to have, if you asket me.

@HorsesandMuchMOAR
@poecillia-gracilis19
It’s a recurring joke that we muslims would never agree on anything, not even on the day of celebration.

I’m agnostic. I believe the existence of god or divinely inspired text is not currently, or never will be knowable.

A feel like most atheist firmly denies the existence of god or the supernatural, because they care more about the power of their argument than the truth. The truth looks like a weak argument, but acknowledging a lack of information is the foundation of science. Perhaps some atheist can’t tell the difference between rejecting the assertion of god, and rejecting the possibility of god.

People might deny god on the basis that something all present, all powerful and invisible cannot exist. That’s demonstrably wrong, space is all of these things. So saying such a thing cannot exists is a lack of abstract understanding. Space can be a creation of, or a part of gods body, or even a construct of gods mind. Of coarse our reality can also be a program on some aliens computer, but that alien would be our god, or at least one step closer to god than we are.

The true nature of reality will likely humble science and religion alike.

People tend to lump atheism with anti-theism.

Atheism is “I do not believe in any god.”. Nothing more, nothing less.

Anti-theism is “I do not believe in any god, because the idea itself is stupid.”.