I’m not saying Christianity correlates with stupidity, but...

[SumJongGuy]

Cash hoard found in the walls of Joel Osteen's church. The lord works in mysterious ways.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/relig...r-cash-toilet/

It's a Christmas Miracle!

[highangle]

It's a Christmas Miracle!

"I can't believe how anointed we are!"

[MagnificentUnicorn]

Some kids at school have been giving my 1st grade son a hard time because he doesn't "love God." Nothing serious, but he's heard it enough that he's getting annoyed.

My wife is suggesting he say polite things about how they should respect each others beliefs. I see no need for him to be polite in this situation if he doesn't want to be. Sometimes it's appropriate for even a seven year old to tell people to fuck off.

Tell him to kick them in the balls and ask them “where’s your god now?”


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[dunfree]

Cash hoard found in the walls of Joel Osteen's church. The lord works in mysterious ways.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/relig...r-cash-toilet/

not terribly mysterious that the lord told Joel not to pay the reward

[frorider]

…,

[SkiBall]

You see that in Chatsworth?

[El Chupacabra]

^^^ For when the DMV rejects your application for license plate "JIZZLORD"

[Mazderati]

It's a revival of abuse. Lots more mysterious work by the lord on the Southern Baptist circuit.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...buse-of-faith/

[neufox47]

I imagine almost every major religion with zealous followers has this problem. It makes kids especially vulnerable.


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[LongShortLong]

I imagine most every human culture has this problem. I've long suspected the Catholics and Boy Scouts are taking the heat for publicizing and fixing a problem everyone else is hiding.

[::: :::]

Can’t have culture without cult

[plugboots]

Wait.
The Catholics are fixing the problem?
Nope.

[jackstraw]

[SumJongGuy]

Temporary threadjack to the serious side:

End of the day it's the bigotry and especially homophobias that correlates with stupidity. I'm not active in any organized religious group at present, but did appreciate the experience of being raised in the Episcopal Church back in the 70s when minorities and gays were already treated fully equal in every aspect including marriage equality. My first clue that a church group is fucked is seeing that they don't have any women leading worship. If there isn't a female full pastor or reverend or priest on staff I'm out. If there are no married gay couples in active membership I'm out..

We're pretty agnostic/atheist these days as a family.. i.e. some believe in a higher power but not exactly like any holy book.. some don't believe at all. We're all adults with our own beliefs.

No back to the jokes...

[TBS]

Can’t have culture without cult

And you can't have manslaughter without laughter

Religion is like a penis
- It's OK to have one
- Its ok to be proud of it
- It's not OK to whip it out and flaunt it in public
- And it's not OK to force it on kids
(sorry if this was posted upthread)

[heckacali]

And you can't have manslaughter without laughter

Religion is like a penis
- It's OK to have one
- Its ok to be proud of it
- It's not OK to whip it out and flaunt it in public
- And it's not OK to force it on kids
(sorry if this was posted upthread)

Add....

- everybody thinks theirs is the greatest
- lots of bad decisions have been made because of them
- if yours gets excited over crucifixion, maybe dig deeper into your psyche on WTF is going on there

[sb]

The TGRs never fail to fail.

Cattyon.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

https://twitter.com/mattxiv/status/1630652444320444417

Next they'll be claiming there's SEX written on Ritz crackers and satanic backward masking in Led Zeppelin songs.

[Mazderati]

"More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability, according to a long-awaited state report released Wednesday that revealed the scope of abuse spanning 80 years and accused church leaders of decades of coverups.

The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland. Some parishes, schools and congregations had more than one abuser at the same time — including St. Mark Parish in Catonsville, which had 11 abusers living and working there between 1964 and 2004. One deacon admitted to molesting over 100 children. Another priest was allowed to feign hepatitis treatment and make other excuses to avoid facing abuse allegations."

https://apnews.com/article/baltimore...313a246566638c

[skaredshtles]

"More than 150 Catholic priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore sexually abused over 600 children and often escaped accountability, according to a long-awaited state report released Wednesday that revealed the scope of abuse spanning 80 years and accused church leaders of decades of coverups.

The report paints a damning picture of the archdiocese, which is the oldest Roman Catholic diocese in the country and spans much of Maryland. Some parishes, schools and congregations had more than one abuser at the same time — including St. Mark Parish in Catonsville, which had 11 abusers living and working there between 1964 and 2004. One deacon admitted to molesting over 100 children. Another priest was allowed to feign hepatitis treatment and make other excuses to avoid facing abuse allegations."

https://apnews.com/article/baltimore...313a246566638c

[XXX-er]

I imagine almost every major religion with zealous followers has this problem. It makes kids especially vulnerable.


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not the Dudeists cuz if anyone cares

its like whatever man

[frorider]

A woman nicknamed “the Saint” has mysteriously vanished from a small lakeside town near Rome where pilgrims have flocked for years to pray before a statue of the Virgin Mary that she claimed shed tears of blood.

Maria Giuseppe Scarpulla, originally from Sicily, and her husband reportedly fled Trevignano Romano last week after a private investigator triggered a judicial investigation against her based on his alleged finding that the blood stains on the statue came from a pig.

The bizarre story began in 2016 when Scarpulla, known to her followers as Gisella Cardia, bought the statue at a Catholic pilgrimage site in Medjugorje, Bosnia. Upon returning to Italy, she claimed the Madonna wept tears of blood and was communicating messages to her.

Mysteriously vanished you say? Hmmmm.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

...correlates with evil:

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...ut-nazi-crimes

[frorider]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...ackdown-hoaxes

Apparitions of the Virgin Mary and weeping statues have been part of Catholicism for centuries, but the age of social media has prompted the Vatican to issue a crackdown against potential scams and hoaxes.

New rules issued on Friday say that only a pope, rather than local bishops, can declare apparitions and revelations to be “supernatural”. The document, Norms for Proceeding in the Discernment of Alleged Supernatural Phenomena, updates previous guidance issued in 1978 that is now considered “inadequate”.

lol. They haven’t really thought this through have they.

[Cisco Kid]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ar...ackdown-hoaxes



lol. They haven’t really thought this through have they.

Please educate me on what you see.