Strong How do you do fellow kids vibes.
I never noticed till someone pointed it out but in the full frame he's carrying 2 skateboards, just adds to it
Ok, that's hilarious.
One for each foot.
What makes it better is that they are both his and he was a skater at the time... so he knows exactly how uncool this is.
A skateboarder and a New York city firefighter and a noted philanthropist?!? Is there anything Steve Buscemi can't do?!?
90% of r/genz are just old guys asking the most eggregious questions and answering eachothers, when they arent LARPing
r/GenZ and r/teenagers are two of the most heavily astroturfed subs by conservative firms that are literally paid to carry out propaganda in an attempt to convert more younger people to conservatism.
This has been known and well documented for years at this point.
I still remember the r/teenagers post about deporting all democrats
Lmao what
I require context.
I can't help but chuckle. This came way out of left field smh
No, that’s probably where they want to send the demos
To be fair this is exactly what you'd expect a teenager to say
I feel like people on Reddit are somehow not aware how dumb teenagers are and the stupid shit they say for shock value.
I read an AITA post last week or the week before that was supposedly by a kid who was being ignored by her father and his new family after he remarried. It was so obviously not written by a teenager.
Approx. 0.01% of aita posts are non-fiction
Okay now replace "teenagers" with "conservatives trying their best to propagandize young people"
Yes teenagers on the other hand are the time tested bastion of utter rationality.
My favorite permutation of this, from those that have come through my feed, is "hey everybody I stopped jacking off forever, not jacking off changed my life, ITT we never cum (female age 16)" and then three hundred responses in the next 20 minutes are all like "yes I am also an adolescent who is very enthusiastic about having zero orgasms, that is an excellent number in my indubitably teenage opinion"
No-fap is definitely part of the alt right pipeline at this point, but in general it does seem like the younger gen have a weirdly prudish streak.
Other than the conservative weirdos, I honestly don’t know how much it’s prudish and how much it’s kids not feeling pressured to go quicker than they’re ready. Because it’s fairly new how much the pressure has lessened, it wasn’t long ago that most kids felt a good bit of pressure regardless of gender
They pretty much destroyed the sub and left it in a most pitiful and saddening state
Could you link to some of that documentation? I’m very interested
Just had a scroll of r/GenZ , went into some comments and sorted by controversial. Saw a lot of mccarthyism, doesn’t bode well.
Conservatives thinking teenagers are as tech illiterate as they are and wont see through that bull shit shows how out of touch they can be.
God damn, that hurt to read. Not because of what you said, but the cringing of knowing there are old people trying to pretend they’re the younger gens.
It's really just conservatives pretending to be anything else.
They will always claim to be from a different, more commonly liberal group, or to have actually been on the left until some recent moment showed them how wrong they were! Then you check their post history, and they're always a middle aged or older white guy who's been worshipping Trump since 2016.
Reminds me of the time the mods in /r/drama blanket-banned all posters in /r/teenagers for being underage, and then got a whole bunch of messages from people contesting the ban because they're actually 35+ years old (with creepy AF comment histories).
https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/djdmd9/we_banned_all_of_rteenagers_and_it_turns_out/
US Christians have a massive persecution kink which pairs really oddly with their oppression kink that they clearly have.
Their entire concept of religious and personal freedom is their ability to control the freedom of other people.
that's basically the entire concept of religious freedom in a nutshell tbh
Which version of religious freedom? (And especially which country)
Considering that in developped countries it more or less means freedom to not be persecuted for your own faith. But also the freedom of others to have their own faith.
Your faith ends with your faith. As long as nobody's faith infringes on others (and is legal) you are allowed to do what you want.
At least in the Netherlands
fr this is how it should be. idc what the hell you believe as long as it doesnt actively harm other people... and then we got a lot of christians in the usa actively harming people that arent straight or cis... for existing. ffs
Or well.. the priest thing
In theory, this is how the USA is. In reality, lots of Christians push for the religious freedom to make everyone else a Christian and try to punish anyone who doesn't conform to their personal idea of Christianity.
I mean in Louisiana they are likely to pass a law the 10 commandments must be in every classroom! How the fuck did that pass?!?! Thankfully the group that demands equality in religion & claims Satanism is fighting bk. I would love to see the 10 commandments right next to some cool looking demon statue in every classroom!
They don’t mean what the US founders meant by religious freedom. That’s the same as your Netherlands version.
What they mean is what religious freedom means for the US Christian demographic.
Christianity has been the dominant culture in the US for a long time and only recently is seeing the shift towards the more “hands-off” approach Western Europe has developed with respect to major religions.
As a result, compared to the position of privilege and power Christianity enjoyed in the US, a move towards equality seems like oppression or persecution to the Christian majority.
You have taken way too much of your worldview from conservatives. Religious freedom is one of the most fundamental aspects of a civilized society. That doesn't change just because conservatives are nutjobs.
That's pretty on brand for Puritans who "fled" England because the Protestants there weren't persecuting the Catholics hard enough for their liking.
"If I can't oppress everyone who is different from me, then I'm the one being oppressed!"
"My religion tells me I should convert everyone, so preventing me from doing so is oppressing my religion!"
Not just that but also "I should have the right to punish anyone who doesn't convert. If you don't let me punish them, it's still oppression!" Hence why they are anti-choice, anti- universal healthcare, anti-welfare, etc.
Exactly. Both things feed into each other. For these people, life is a zero sum game. For one group to gain something, some other group obviously has to lose something.
Well, as society becomes more accepting they do lose something. The ability to make crass and bigotted jokes without suffering any consequences for starters. "What? Can't anyone joke around anymore?" vibes. The rights and freedoms of others are objectively more important than some dude's ability to make tone deaf jokes, but they do feel like they are losing since the world is changing in a way that forces them to change along with it (lest they get swept away).
"That mean gay hurt my ankle while pushing my foot off his throat. I'm a victim!"
They like to switch.
White Christian men think they have it harder than any other people in history
A specific portion of U.S. Christians. Meanwhile my dad is all jazzed about the new Pride Shield the Episcopal Church just put out.
A specific portion of U.S. Christians
Yep, the loud ones sadly ruin it for everyone.
It's not just the "loud ones." The evangelicals are organized and made sure to get themselves situated in the GOP to push their ideals. Sure it's not "all Christians" but it's hardly just "a couple of crazies." Entire sects are focused on pushing towards a theocracy.
Yeah. The quiet ones are sometimes more dangerous. They'll be all nice to you and them vote for the people who want to murder you.
I think it makes perfect sense. Their worldview is based in rules and order, and they can't really fathom that someone else would advocate for liberty. They must be propogating oppression because that's how the world works. But their ""oppression"" doesn't align with my ideas of what should be oppressed, so it's bad.
They believe in "objective morality". As in their values are undebatably correct. That is somehow both proof of God 's existence while being valid because it supposedly comes from God.
Of course they hate any disagreement.
If you've ever read Descartes he makes that exact arguement. Logic exists because of God, and logic determines that God must exist. "Good" exists because of a "good" God, and the existence of "good" implies God must be "good". Nevermind that under these presumptions an evil God could simply enforce a "false" logic, and hence a flawed morality.
It’s a perfectly fascist religion in that way. It’s both unbelievably strong and yet constantly on the verge of falling apart and the devil taking over.
I found some on reddit recently that was claiming straight white people are the most oppressed people in the USA haha.
Starting to think the "fed to the lions by the Romans" story may have just been made up or someone at the time found out afterwards that one or two of the dozens of people in the ring might have been X-tians and they've been using it to garner sympathy to play the victim card.
The authors poorly disguised fetish:
If every Christian acted like Christ no one would mind Christian. But they act like the Pharisees and pretend Jesus is still on their side.
"So, are you gonna be an actual 'wash the feet of AIDS patients' Christian, or the typical 'spit on single mothers going to a women's clinic' American Christian?"
Amen
No hate like Christian love
That's... actually a really good way to put it. That's not all Christians though, not by a long shot.
Agreed. But it is the modern American church. This is the direction and path the religious leaders of our nation have chosen. And Trump is the golden calf they worship.
As a practicing Christian in an organized religion, it’s the reason why I tell people that, no matter how much they think they dislike organized religion, I dislike it more. The fruits I have seen from my own religiosity has made my life better, and trying to share that with others is infinitely more difficult when evangelicals have bastardized these same beliefs into something hateful. It’s like no one read that part in the Bible where Christ said that the first great commandment is to love God, and the second is like unto it, to love everyone else. I take that love very seriously, I try to do everything I can to love and support everyone I can, it’s the primary reason I so staunchly support LGBTQ+ rights, why I so strongly condemn racism, and other things like it. It doesn’t matter to people how much I stand for these things, some of them might hear that I’m Christian and assume I’m a hateful person because of the way that others have acted. I believe that a lot of Christians will have a lot to answer for someday.
You're a real one, God bless you mate
That is the idea, yes hahahahaha.
Nah, but I really do try.
Yes, unfortunately. Christianity in the US is viewed with at least some disdain in Christian communities elsewhere, such as from my own experience ones in East Asia (Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea, etc.) and the UK. They're pretty much as far from God as they can be, laced with politics and hatred towards other groups despite God telling us to love our neighbours. And even, I never understand the point of persecuting others for Biblical sins, like - God literally sent his own son Jesus to bleed and die for us to forgive our sins! Thats ALL sin! We should have no part in persecuting those who we view as sinful, and just do our best to spread the word to those who want to listen! Literally, did they forget the parable of a woman being stoned by Pharisees for adultery or what not and Jesus told them "he that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone"?
To be honest, it's not that they forgot. More like they ignore it. They pick and choose what Parable to use and ignore others. You should see the mental gymnastics they go through regarding the verse "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye or a needle than it is for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God. Ultimately, they just use Christianity as a way to be superior to others and pick choose when to use the Bible. Probably couldn't even tell you the ten commandments while talking about what good Christians they are.
As an atheist who supports the LGBTQ community.
Idc what you believe, as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others
Wasn't Christ the one that stopped the crowd from lapidating a woman? Wasn't he the one that wanted people to mind their own business because everyone is a sinner and they shouldn't judge others?
Most "Christians" know nothing about their own religion, they are the crowd with stones and Christ wouldn't be on their side.
He also told his followers to sell all their property and give the money to the poor.
'Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.'
For those who're rich and Christian i have bad news for you guys, you gonna burn.
Thats how i understand Christianity... many here believe in God and Jesus, noone has a problem with LGBTQ...
That's actually good for you and your community, but I can assure you that problem is also present in a lot of "christians", catholics included.
I literally went agnostic because of them, I used to be a catholic Christian.. the ipocrisy, the hate that was not said directly but shown with their actions was just too much for me to handle.
That's the rub though.. a lot of these folks seem to think that their religion gives them the right to dictate how other people live their lives. And if you dare to disagree with them their persecution complex flares up.
George Carlin (RIP) put it best:
A: "Do you believe in God?"
B: "No"
A: bang you're dead.
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A: "Do you believe in God?"
B: "Yes"
pause
A: "Do you believe in MY god?"
B: "No"
A: bang you're dead
So THAT'S what that one Xavier renegade angel scene was referencing
It was a reference to the Columbine shooting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassie_Bernall
"It was reported that Bernall had been asked whether or not she believed in God, and she said "Yes", before being shot during the massacre. However, investigators concluded the person asked about their belief in God was Valeen Schnurr, who survived the shooting."
And then they made a movie about her to capitalize on the tragedy.
And it wasn't even her. The actual "girl who said 'yes'" was Valeen Schnurr .
And just to add to thar, Valeen Schnurr survived the shooting. She was asked that question and she said "yes" to believing in God, and when one of the shooters was about to shoot her fatally, his gun jammed, and she was able to escape.
So, not only was someone's death (Cassie Bernall) used as a propaganda point for a certain type of Christian to glamorize martyring oneself, but the real story, which could be interpreted as a young woman's faith shielding her in a crisis, is completely overshadowed by the myth.
A lie can spread halfway around the world before the truth has time to put its pants on, indeed.
You'd think the truth would make for better propaganda for them as her survival could be spun that her miraculous luck was divine intervention (though why God didn't go Ezekiel 25:17 on the shooters is another matter rather than just saving one person).
My personal take away is that most Christians don't actually believe and that the Cassie v Schnurr thing proved it.
Capitalism 😍
Skipped over the book her mom wrote. Also to capitalize on the tragedy
So just everyone remotely involved being awful people
Damn
You left out the punch line!
A: "My God has a bigger dick than your God!"
I feel like this one needs to go one step further:
Do you believe in my holy book's version of God?
Since Judaism, Christianity, and Islam all worship the same God
To quote a fairly well known joke:
"Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian."
I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant."
I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912."
I said, "Die, heretic!" And I pushed him over."
I love Emo Phillips. <3
That's actually the funniest part if either one of them complains about the other.
For example some over the too christians complaining that some islamic women are wearing hijabs, while the bible itself says that women should wear a headscarf... you know, like nuns.
And all of them believe in the old testament if I am not mistaking it. It's just that over thousand of years with millions of different translations with billions of different believers things got changed, added, deleted or straight up mistaken with resulted in those different religions and books. Honestly, the real original religion probably doesn't exist anymore which started it all. Yet everybody thinks they are in the right.
Gnostic christians dont really believe in the old testament. They're my favourite flavor of christians, got a very interesting history, and they're basically the only form of christianism that openly realized god is an asshole in the old testament, leading to their defining belief which is that the old testament's god would be a false god that only rules over the material realm called demiurge, wereas the snake that talked to eve and god in the new testament would be the actual god
The New Testament & the Koran are fan fiction for Judaism.
I'll take it given how much of an evil piece of shit god is in the old testament
"My God has a bigger dick than your God."
A: “Do you believe in my god in precisely the same way that I do?” B: “No” A: BANG you’re dead
Yeah if they really lived up to their humility values, we’d NEVER hear from these people or any mention of what they believe in but in practice somehow we do all the time… curious…
I'm not religious, so I could be entirely wrong about this, but from what I've read of the Bible, it seems to be something that only dictates how its followers should live their lives.
It's wild to me how they try shackling others to the Bible when they themselves think Jesus is too liberal and/or woke now.
You haven't read enough of the Bible then. The Old Testament is some gnarly shit (chattel slavery, genocide in God's name, sexual slavery, capital punishment for infidelity and homosexuality are all approved).
And no, Jesus never abolished any of it, in the Sermon on the Mount he very clearly states all the old commandments and laws are still in force.
Jesus: “I came not to change the law, but to fulfill it.”
Christians: “Sabbath on Sunday it is.”
Yeah, there are a lot of things in Leviticus especially that are very similar to common practices in Islam, except most Christians ignore them. The Bible requires you to wear at least three tassels on your clothing and tells you what to do if you find mildew in your house, but I doubt many of these fundamentalists have read enough of the book to know that
They have a persecution complex. Their entire faith is centered around it.
Thats the problem people dont understand most religion literally believe in stopping other people from what they want to do. That is the problem . Religion is a scam that has infected people like a parasite and needs to be terminated.
Freedom of religion as a social concept is a product of enlightenment thinking which was pretty notoriously critical of organized religion and outright condemned by the religious nutters of the day.
Enshrining that in the Constitution was at odds with how the rest of the Western world was conducting itself to that point. Pretty much every country had either a formal state religion or a religious/government integration that made a religion a de facto state religion.
So it's not like these people care about separation of church and state and letting others live their lives. That's a neoliberal enlightenment concept. These folks, and their spiritual ancestors, would absolutely love to punish anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.
That’s an everybody thing though, it’s only the obnoxious ones you encounter because people who are accepting don’t make it a big deal. It’s also important to remember how you phrase something totally affects how defensive others become.
Saying you are an atheist or that you apply fact based principles to your worldview is only triggering the assholes. Telling the Catholic their imaginary sky daddy is why the world sucks and they are idiots is obviously going to make every one of them defensive.
Sadly that's what much of organized religion, especially monotheism, is all about though. Proselytizing, evangelizing, judging and commanding others how they must live a "good" life under threat of persecution or eternal punishment.
The religious people who believe their gods love unconditionally and people should live and let live in peace are cool. The ones who believe their scriptures prove that life is a mortal struggle against unclean unbelievers, lest they bring about the apocalypse for their chosen in-group, are not.
I still find it cringe to believe things without full analysis and evidence
Yeah I feel like if more people actually read the bible in its entirety and didn't get it twistedly read to them, there'd probably be less Christians. The bible is full of issues both in validity and in morality
Totally agreed. Most Christians have not read the Bible, and reading the Bible is one of the most common reasons people cite for leaving the faith. If they didn’t force the religion on children, and only allowed adults who have read the Bible to convert, Christianity would be only a few hundred people around the world.
As a non atheist, non religious mom, I'm the same way with my son. I was indoctrinated from birth and was not given a choice. My son has one. I don't mind if he chooses it in the end, but most don't- not without the indoctrination as a child. My family, on the other hand, is pissed at my child-rearing.
Fully agree, I despise religion and only see it as a way of controlling people, but I won’t ever shit on anyone else’s beliefs as long as they’re not harmful.
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What's funniest is this idea that kids would be Christian in order to rebel against their parents - and Christians are celebrating it.
Like, isn't the whole point of the religion that people actually believe it, and don't just adopt it as a FU to their parents?
"They don't actually believe in Jesus or share any of our values, but they're calling themselves Christian, hooray!"
It's the weirdest shit.
Not only that but Christianity is big on honor thy mother and father… so not sure how you would rebel in this scenario.
If either of my kids "came out" as Xtian, I'd be looking for a new therapist for the younger. He's very impressionable and he's been a Pastafarian since preK so I would suspect the Xtian therapist of grooming him. We live in an area where secular therapists are hard to find and one that is taking new patients may as well be a unicorn. I wouldn't unhouse either of them but I would insist that they not bring any of the traditions into my house. No hunting witches or setting apostates on fire. No torturing pagans even if he did leave toothpaste in the sink. You can eat what you want but please don't pretend the bread is human flesh. You know that creeps me out.
My 5yo son came home saying he "knows there is a god, his name is Jesus". And tried to tell us we needn't be sad anymore about those who died (his grandfather and our dog for example) because there is the afterlife and whatnot. We told him it was nice of him but that we couldn't believe in sweat stories just because it made accepting things easier, as it would be lying to ourselves. And that I preferred his first idea of building a time machine so we could see them again.
I still don't know to this day who TF told him that. But I made sure to tell him the stories of the main religions, in between stories of witches, fairies and dragons, and santa claus. Hopefully he'll make the link.
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But at least they have a father AND a mother ! /s
"Family will always be there for you :)"
I do know a girl who went super Christian I think as a way of rebelling against her motorcycle riding rock n roll parents. But they never tried to force her to be like them or were mad at her choice of being Christian (aside from getting married/divorced 3 times by age 25...).
How the hell did she manage to get 3 people to marry her and then promptly divorce her before she was 25
I'd imagine she was one of those no sex before marriage types and the guys, in a state of post but clarity, realised that it just wasn't worth it if they had to put up with her.
She was definitely no sex before marriage, but also she didn't pick guys she was really compatible with, she would go for guys who were a "project", that she could "change" and "make better". And that's just setting youself up for failure.
Oof yeah that's not a great mindset to enter a relationship with somebody, setting herself up for disappointment. People are who they are and if they are going to change they have to want to, you can't force it to happen. And it really sucks when you come to realise that it isn't going to happen. Like it's a real hit to the ego in a psychological sense, can really take you out at the knees and destroy your self confidence.
I love how Christians think they are on the fringes of society and counter cultural
I also like how they think any acknowledgement or even the implication of an idea tgat goes against their particular distorted view of Christianity amounts to them being oppressed and victimized.
Your rights aren't infringed upon just because someone tells you to love thy neighbor.
Yes, it's like a pervert complaining that his rights are infringed because he can't masturbate in the middle of a restaurant.
Exactly. They can proselytize all they want in the appropriate place. That place would be church.
They can proselytize anywhere they want but they shouldn't act surprise or victimized just because others are willing to point out how full of shit they are.
It’s even worse than that. Their religion tells them to love thy neighbor. So, even when you just ask them to hold themselves to the reasonable ideals they themselves claim to subscribe to, they act like it is persecution.
It’s the lamest, weakest, shit I’ve ever seen.
Taking all the covid precautions to protect themselves AND those who are immunocompromised is a great example of that, but they wailed like banshees when asked to do it.
I work at a gas station that cooks the hot food in the store. This is important. I have a coworker who went on a whole religious rant at work cus she was told to take off her like 1.5 inch cross pendant at work and made up this whole store of how its cus they saw it as a hateful symbol.... no bitch it's a rule for handling food. Your necklace could dangle into the food. I read the new uniform. It never mentioned holy symbols. You literally have a massive cross on the counter and a little sculpted Jesus super glued to a part of our equipment
"But loving my neighbour means I have to convert them and I have to tell them they are sinners bound to hell. You know, so that I save their soul. Oh and I can't be wrong cause it's in the Book (well in the parts I cherry picked)".
Litterally what a moron told me two weeks ago.
You believe ? Fine by me, the universe is too complex for me to tell you you're wrong, whether you believe or not.
But if you start forcing your beliefs on people, gtfo.
As an American who does believe in Jesus, American Christianity is far, and I mean far away from what Christianity is supposed to be about. The core philosophy of Christianity is treating everyone equally. No exceptions.
American Christianity is about forcing your beliefs onto others, and oppressing those who go against them. It’s supposed to be the religion of love, but Americans turned it into the religion of hate.
The average American Christian will tell people “I love you! Unless you are gay, trans, aren’t Christian, do drugs, have an abortion, or lose your virginity before marriage. Real Christianity is about accepting everyone desoír any flaw you perceive them to have.
It’s part of their origin story which they tell to themselves a few hundred times until they forget that it happened 2000 years and the last time they were an oppressed minority in the west was 17 centuries ago.
That is a very common tactic a lot of evangelical communities use.
Framing themselves as the Opressed Other. Ever wonder why they often send young kids and teens out to proselytize in public? To their friends?
They know it's not going to work 99% of the time in converting others. It's to reenforce the idea that "others will reject you. The world is sinful, they don't want to hear the truth/ don't want to turn from evil. If your Christian, they will reject you. The church is the only safe place."
The ones that go around the universities asking you to join their bible study are insufferable. They commented on my husband's graphic tee and said something like "to me that's like a cult" because it had some norse ruins on it from God of War. Felt so plainly rude when THEY were the ones to come up to us. They were the ones wandering around trying to get random people to join their stupid fucking bible study. To me that feels more cult-y
Oh it is very cult like. It's a cult tactic - do what you can to reenforce that the cult is safe, and others are unsafe.
The proselytizing in public is a tactic to give a confirmation about their preset ideas about being a victim.
It’s similar to how stuff like Fox News keeps telling rich older white men that they’re the most oppressed class in America.
Hell of a thing how Christianity is being forced into politics and being used instrumentally to take people’s rights away or to legalize discrimination.
“Oh no, the most dominant thing is being oppressed again.”
And I love how Christian adults think that kids turn Christian without indoctrination
Also, there are so many stories of Christians disowning their kids and family for being LGBT+. Never heard of a SINGLE story of an LGBT/Atheist family disowning a child or family member for becoming Christian.
Have heard of people disowning their Christian family members that harrass the fuck out of them though for being atheist or LGBT+.
They view anything in society they don’t agree with as a direct attack on them and their beliefs. That’s how they can “get away” with being on the fringes of society despite there being a Christian church on almost every block
Not being able to forcibly mass convert, rape, kill, and castrate has made the fundies and trads do a sad.
There are 4 reasons for posts like this:
Divisive rhetoric to keep Americans fighting each other.
“Christian” “influencers” trying to draw followers to their pages.
Con artists looking for those “oppressed” “Christians” so they can take advantage of them.
Engagement bait to further study online discussion and learn how to manipulate it.
Meanwhile in reality the parents would be like "ok yeah that's fine" if they weren't already some form of Christian.
Yes, in Christian circles this is very uncommon. Not the fact that parents will be angry for their children for being Christian, but for the fact that the parents are atheist or liberal or whatever. Whenever we hear stories about this, parents trying to repress their Christian children oftenly do it because they follow a different religion, and even then that isn't very common.
As someone who considers themselves somewhat leftist, I agree. If I ever have a child and they decide to be religious then fine by me; they too are free and allowed to have their own beliefs
Because all Christians are hetero and anyone who isn't hetero sacrifices babies to satan. 
Wait, so that's why all my child sacrifices haven't borne fruit?
Well the opposite of being a Christian is being a Satan worshiper. They don't understand the concept of non belief
That's the same thing to them. You either believe in their specific brand of religion, or you're evil.
Lesbian Christian here— who can I sacrifice my babies to??
- "anyone else?"
- 0 upvotes
so the answer is no, no one else
We know you’re Christian. We named you
Usually it's the other way around lol
If religious bigots didn't have projection we wouldn't hear from them much
I got told to go back in the closet. Yesterday! During pride month lol people are awful.
“Therefore it is my belief that your immortal souls are going to be tortured forever in a fiery underworld after your physical body dies! Love you!”
ah yes, my scheduled rage bait so believable it made god cry, thanks reddit.
I take "Shit that never happens 400"
"How crazy would it be if we were treated the same way we treat queer people?" And yet the irony is nowhere to be found with OOP
As someone who has hippie parents that fully support LGBTQ+ rights and left wing politics, this is nonsense. My parents wouldn’t care if I was determined to be religious. I choose not to be because it’s a waste of time.
But of course, that’s “reality”.
Normally it’s the other way around…
Hi, Christian! I'm dad.
Are we surprised that they think in black and white? I know christians who support lgbtqi... It shouldn't be one or the other. It's like their brains can't handle anything more than caveman level thinking.
Most all atheist or agnostic lgbtq+ supporters are all for people choosing their own path in life and spirituality. The person who made this post is actually telling on themselves by assuming that others are like them: unaccepting of other views.
If your initial reaction to atheists is that they hate you for your religion, then you're probably the one who hates others for theirs and just projecting yourself on them.
To add to it - The Church of the Satanic Temple SPECIFICALLY supports letting all others choose their religion. Thinking that it has anything to do with Satan (that guy who isn't really even in the Bible for more than a sentence) or that it is somehow against Christianity shows a complete lack of research and understanding.
According to my experiences about half of Pride supporters are already christians.
When your parents are way cooler than you.
Honestly my worst fear as a parent is that my kid will be a huge bigot
Why christians think everytime they be repressed?
Well...
Im agnostic.
My son telling me he was gay made me laugh, mostly bcs he thought I didnt allready know 😂.
Would be less ok with religion. Their choice ofc, ill support that. But sexuality is something your born with, religion is a choice. A set of rules that are twisted to suit whoever is using them. Why is everyone allways super religious after being cought done something wrong?
Believing in a higher power outside religion would make more sense to me.
Yeah we dads pretty much always know.
Im the mom though 😜
Give me a f-cking break. They choose to whine like this about liberal Atheists despite the fact coming out as Christian in many Muslim-majority countries can be a lethal mistake. Yet they don't ever bat an eye to a truly persecuted and suffering Christian in Saudi Arabia. No they look at the liberal nearby.
That's what happens when your belief system is centered around hate and intolerance...
You post memes projecting how your own people behave onto others cause it's unacceptable to acknowledge satanists and gay people are more morally aligned with your religion(compassion , tolerance, acceptance) than nearly everyone that labels themselves a member of your religion.
I'm a christian but my family isn't. They like to mock me from time to time but other than that we are fine
Pagan mum, atheist dad, when I was curious about Christianity mum offered to take me to church, and got some books to read with me. I decided it wasn't for me. Never been pushed to believe anything they do. Same would go for my kids if I were to have them.
Except the gay parents won’t kick the child out onto the streets for their views
I feel that what most people percieve as “christians” are american protestants who paint Our Lord as a white blonde guy with blue eyes waving an american flag. I tell you, they paint a wrong picture.
Christian persecution complex on full display in this thread.
Funny how american protestants, the same group that started five, five, which hunts has this kind of persecution mania.
Re.inds me of a "comedy" bit some dick hole named JP did. No one cares if you're Christian, people do care when you're being a bigoted asshole or trying to force your religion on others.
um, my Christian church celebrates Pride Month and has people going to Pride marches every year. Not sure what the poster is going on about.
lol I love it. Being an atheist makes it even funnier.
I love how this completely leaves out that there are indeed lgbt+ folks who are Christian. Just not the self-victumizing bigot type that this was definitely made by.
Aw, the Christians are playing pretend oppression again.
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