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    KC Complains A LotMichael Harriot
    6/15/18 7:05pm

    Despite the fact that Micah Johnson, who killed five Dallas police officers in 2016, was never connected to any organizations, Robert Jeffress, the head of one of the largest congregations in the area, condemned Black Lives Matter and said he was sick of preachers disrespecting police because “the New Testament says in Romans 13:4 that law enforcement officers are ministers of God sent by God to punish evildoers.”

    *blinks*

    *rereads the chapter*

    *blinks*

    *rereads the chapter again*

    ...So did God make it so white people could read, but couldn’t comprehend anything they read, because I’m pretty sure Romans 13:4 doesn’t mention anything about police by allowed to shoot unarmed people.

    This would explain much about how white people work.

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      Manitos, The Tiny Hands of TrumpKC Complains A Lot
      6/15/18 8:58pm

      Robert Jeffress:

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      Manitos, The Tiny Hands of TrumpKC Complains A Lot
      6/15/18 9:00pm
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    ArchAngelic45Michael Harriot
    6/15/18 10:59pm

    Good read I must say. The biggest humor in all this religious nonsense is that the character Jesus was anti religion and anti establishment. And who was Jesus anyway, who came up with that name? Isn’t it Yashua, why was it changed, and who started Christianity? Wasn’t “Jesus” a practicing “Jew”? Hmm something isn’t right here! lol I must admit the whites that land on the evil side tend to be quite the crafty little devils, they accosted the beliefs and traditions of darker hued peoples twisted the shit around and used it as a weapon against them that’s cold shit right there I gotta say.

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      AnkhesenpaatenArchAngelic45
      6/15/18 11:51pm

      Yup. The name ‘Jesus’ is a Latinized transliteration of the Greek pronunciation of the Hebrew ‘Yeshua.’ Greek because that was the most common language of the day, Latin because that was the audience to whom they were trying to sell this new religion, and Hebrew because they couldn’t *quite* figure out how to completely hide the fact that they were borrowing from the Jews, who were, when the books were being written, more or less THE most hated people on the face of the planet. Nothing in the creation of Christianity ever got much less convoluted than that. Fun, eh? :)

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      Hoodwill_huntingArchAngelic45
      6/16/18 7:52am

      I assume (non-academically) that Jesus is a mix of Juno and Zeus, for the Roman and Greek gods, respectively.

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    CascadiMichael Harriot
    6/15/18 7:22pm

    Michael, it doesn’t help your argument that Christianity is pro-slavery that your first cited example is the Church excommunicating someone for aiding in the practice of slavery.

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      Old white guyCascadi
      6/15/18 8:26pm

      You missed his point. He isn’t saying Christianity is pro slavery. He’s saying that for centuries, people have used the Bible to excuse or enable their racism. As they do with any group they don’t like (gays, Jews, kneeling football players, Canadian prime ministers, etc).

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      Not Enough Day DrinkingCascadi
      6/15/18 8:46pm

      Hardly.

      But the church of this country is not only indifferent to the wrongs of the slave, it actually takes sides with the oppressors. It has made itself the bulwark of American slavery, and the shield of American slave-hunters. Many of its most eloquent Divines. who stand as the very lights of the church, have shamelessly given the sanction of religion and the Bible to the whole slave system. They have taught that man may, properly, be a slave; that the relation of master and slave is ordained of God; that to send back an escaped bondman to his master is clearly the duty of all the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ; and this horrible blasphemy is palmed off upon the world for Christianity.

      For my part, I would say, welcome infidelity! welcome atheism! welcome anything! in preference to the gospel, as preached by those Divines! They convert the very name of religion into an engine of tyranny, and barbarous cruelty, and serve to confirm more infidels, in this age, than all the infidel writings of Thomas Paine, Voltaire, and Bolingbroke, put together, have done!

      Frederick Douglass

      July 5, 1852

      http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/

      The church (collective) is almost always on the wrong side of history. Siding with the oppressors against the oppressed.

      From the crusades, to the inquisitions, to the witch trials, to the native american genocide, to slavery and the Nazis. The church gives its thumbs up as the most horrible crimes in history happen with church’s tacit or explicit blessing.

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    macoog95Michael Harriot
    6/15/18 9:30pm

    Ezekiel e-i-e-i-o. Let’s govern based upon a book of unproven stories written a bazillion years ago.

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    PossibleMisnomerMichael Harriot
    6/15/18 7:52pm

    Wanna see another fun instance of someone warping the Bible to their own corporate, capitalist whims?

    Ezekiel 4:9 Bread. Says on the label that the bread is from a recipe from the Bible, something for maximum healthiness, etc. And sure enough, the recipe is in Ezekiel 4:9. However, the recipe contains ingredients, and cooking instructions, which are found in Ezekiel 4:12.

    “Eat the food as you would a loaf of barley bread; bake it in the sight of the people, using human excrement for fuel.” 

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      ChalkylovestoskiPossibleMisnomer
      6/17/18 1:30am

      To be fair, later in the chapter, the Lord relents and lets him use cow dung instead 🤙🙄

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      PossibleMisnomerChalkylovestoski
      6/18/18 4:33pm

      It is the recipe for literally the shittiest bread that I know of.

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    iculookinMichael Harriot
    6/16/18 2:45am

    I still have no idea why so many people subscribe to mistranslated Bronze Age thinking in the 21st century. The church is and always has been a vector of control in order to help dominate a community.

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      Bosserdeticulookin
      6/16/18 1:37pm

      Because they all failed Logic 101. The burden is on proving God exists, not to prove that he doesn’t.

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      YetanotherCorporalTrimaccounticulookin
      6/16/18 7:00pm

      Also, Paul is the worst. Quoting Paul is like announcing that you’re an asshole.

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    Mercenary ChefMichael Harriot
    6/16/18 2:27pm

    I’m not going to search through pages of my own responses, but a few weeks ago, I had posted something regarding how kingsand rulers in Europe had used the Bible to establish a dogmatic rule. One in which they believed themselves to be ordained by God to rule, and were thus infallible. I recall some troll getting in his feels and trying to get me to cite sources and have proof.

    I now direct him/her/it to Michael Harriot’s above article, and subsequently the article regarding The KKKeebler Elf’s misquoting of the passage.

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      ThirdAmendmentManMercenary Chef
      6/16/18 2:46pm

      That’s the Divine Right of Kings. It’s a well known fact.

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      Mercenary ChefThirdAmendmentMan
      6/16/18 5:19pm

      See, that’s what I thought. Apparently some ‘Christians’ don’t know the history of their purported religion.

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    TurkeyandPastramiMichael Harriot
    6/15/18 7:45pm

    This is the best piece of material published on this site.

    And before anyone chimes in, yes, I meant, this whole Deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel, all of it.

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    FredCee71Michael Harriot
    6/16/18 2:50am

    I’m so done with anyone using any religion as a “badge” to claim higher moral ground. Fuck what you believe or worship; show me your faith is worthy of my respect by how you apply it to your fellow human beings; especially those who don’t look like you, speak like you or even believe the same things as you.

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    Cali4lifeMichael Harriot
    6/16/18 4:19pm

    “I never talked to anybody. I never gave rules. I never gave land. Maybe he was my son maybe he was my daughter maybe he got married and had kids. I don’t look like Chad and I sure as hell (Iol) don’t have mansions here, Jesus (yes dad?).

    I really don’t care. I never authorized any of that shit you dummies are doing and saying in my name.

    TlDr: Keep my name out of your stupid mouths.”

    God (probably).

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