• Flying Squid
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    8710 months ago

    Imagine if just one person burned one Trump flag somewhere public.

    We’d never hear the fucking end of it.

  • @tyler@programming.dev
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    6210 months ago

    “We make no apologies for saying God hates pride or pride flags as it’s an agenda that harms children and undermines parental authority, and the only backlash we see is coming from radical Democrats, the fake news media, and weak Republicans who bow down at the feet of leftist cancel culture," he said.

    These people literally have never even opened a Bible. God doesn’t even hate Satan, it’s pretty dang explicit.

    • Flying Squid
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      2710 months ago

      Why would they open a Bible when it’s full of woke liberal ideology?

    • UnfortunateShort
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      1510 months ago

      Imagine thinking you have authority over your children’s sexuality and gender. That would be kind of a pro-abortion argument tho.

      • @pivot_root@lemmy.world
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        810 months ago

        Why imagine? That’s exactly what they think. And abortion can be dismissed as going against God, whereas conversion therapy is just correcting their gay kids.

      • @Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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        610 months ago

        In the conservative household children do not have agency. They are simply the father’s progeny, and are expected to carry on their ideals and generally act in ways that please them.

    • prole
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      Someone’s never read the Old Testament. God is described there with such petty human emotions as “jealously.” Dude committed genocide regularly.

      He killed Job’s family and ruined his life to make a point to Satan. Cool stuff.

      I don’t know how you define “hate,” but by most criteria, the god of the Old Testament was an evil piece of shit.

      • @WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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        410 months ago

        The parts they skip regarding loving thy neighbor and some part about baring false witness against thy neighbor? The part where Jesus hung out with those who were considered sinners and loved them, he preached to turn to God but he didn’t actively try and fuck them over? How about not worshipping others over God (like Drumpf)? How about the part where it talks about performing how to perform abortion (not the way we should, but it doesn’t list fetuses as being humans to save)? How about the part where God is the one judging humanity (not sure he left a clause allowing humans to pre-judge)?

        There’s probably more, but I am not religious. The moral here is, God gets to have say - not bum fucks who interpret his word. Bum fuck’s job is to talk him up on the mortal plane before he gets tired of his science experiments and wipes us all out.

        • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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          The parts they skip regarding loving thy neighbor

          Yeah and who is your neighbor? Because in Matthew (where this is mostly covered) Jesus is clear by his actions that kindness was for your group or outsiders of your group that profess their loyalty first. Sure he helps the Caanite woman with her son but only after she groveled. He says as much himself he was sent for the lost sheep of Israel first.

          Anyway this is just the Bible if you look at the works of Augustine and Tertullian you will find true Christian love of your neighbor is saving someone from hell, by torture if needed.

          some part about baring false witness against thy neighbor?

          Not seeing the relevance

          The part where Jesus hung out with those who were considered sinners and loved them, he preached to turn to God but he didn’t actively try and fuck them over?

          Yeah he spent time with the outcasts but he didn’t approve of what he did. Look at the encounter with the man with leprosy (at that time in place they viewed leprosy as a punishment from God for sexual sin). He rebukes him (Mark) and tells him to see a Pharisee to repent (Mark, Luke, and Matthew). No where does he say the law isn’t valid and the punishments arent valid. In fact he argued the sexual rules aren’t restrictive enough! Both in the Sermon On the Plain and the Sermon on the Mount.

          How about not worshipping others over God (like Drumpf)?

          Multiple passages in the Bible talk about how rulers are ordained by God.

          How about the part where it talks about performing how to perform abortion (not the way we should, but it doesn’t list fetuses as being humans to save)?

          Old Testament. These are Christians.

          How about the part where God is the one judging humanity (not sure he left a clause allowing humans to pre-judge)?

          No just no. Bible is consistent about few things but is consistent about this. Shamans are allowed to judge people. Don’t even try that 7th century forgery in John.

          There’s probably more, but I am not religious. The moral here is, God gets to have say - not bum fucks who interpret his word. Bum fuck’s job is to talk him up on the mortal plane before he gets tired of his science experiments and wipes us all out.

          Ok? And I am an atheist. That doesn’t mean I don’t know what the major Christian documents say.

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            Don’t care to argue about a book where people pick and choose which passage is relevant to them. The entire thing is about turning to God, not persecuting others which is what many Christians do through the power of electing leaders who will write shitty laws for them.

            • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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              110 months ago

              Well you might not care about it but not caring about a problem doesn’t make it go away.

              Based on Bible and all the major thinkers of Christianity have written my conclusion is not that Christianity has high ideals or even harmless ideals that the people aren’t living up to. My conclusion is that they have terrible scary evil ideas that the population is able to overcome.

              But even if you were right. Even if Christianity really only preached that people should follow God. That would still be a devastating bad idea, shifting the focus on earth and humans to skydaddy.

      • @tyler@programming.dev
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        010 months ago

        That God hates anything. Literally the entire point of the New Testament is about God’s love. These people aren’t Christian in the slightest if they say that God hates ANYTHING.

        • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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          010 months ago

          I see. So when that couple was killed because they didn’t give enough money to Paul that was love? When Jesus and him talk about gnashing of teeth in hell that was about love? When Jesus tells people to disdain their own families (including their own children) and follow him that was love? When he tell his followers that his enemies will one day be murdered and cast at his feet that was love? How about Revelations, and the slow rape torture of Jezibel watching her rape children being murdered, was that also love? When Judas dies a gruesome slow death in Luke and Matthew was that love?

  • Rhaedas
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    3110 months ago

    If they want to go buy some flags and burn them, then go ahead. But they want to burn the flags of others, and that’s a no-go.

  • @HogsTooth@lemmy.world
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    2610 months ago

    I have a flag inside an upstairs window but between the window and the shades so everyone walking down the street can see it. It’s been there for over a year. Anybody with a problem will get laughed off the property. Anybody who continues to have a problem will test our Stand Your Ground laws.

  • @BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    1810 months ago

    It really shows how small minded conservatives are. They have no hobbies or interests other than being obnoxious. I’ve never seen one of them say anything remotely intelligent and they contribute nothing but pain to civilization. It’s unfortunate COVID didn’t take more of them out.

  • BOMBS
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    1710 months ago

    Quick! Someone start a non-profit selling Pride flags to cash in in the latest conservative dipshit movement.

  • A Phlaming Phoenix
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    1510 months ago

    I bought a bunch of little pride flags to stick in the ground around the neighborhood and a banner for my front yard when I saw this a couple days ago. Fortunately I live in a great city for queer folk, but you go just a mile north or east of here and it gets ugly pretty fast.

    • BOMBS
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      610 months ago

      I visited Colorado ~4 years ago. I remember thinking the people in Denver were impressively nice, especially us being from Florida. But, once we got to our Airbnb a few miles outside of the city, things were different. The Airbnb owner, while still nice enough to meet with and welcome us to his property, just had to talk about politics. It was that victim complex where he was being told what to do by the liberals and blah blah blah… One of the ways he was getting back at them was by encouraging all visitors to feed the wild deer, something that was allegedly made illegal by liberals to control him. Maybe he thought we would care about his politics and even agree with him because we were light-skinned from Florida, I was in the military, and my traveling partner was a cop, but we had far left political views and never asked him to begin with. It made us not want to talk to him anymore.

      • A Phlaming Phoenix
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        510 months ago

        Yeesh. Colorado has a lot of rural space with a lot of folks who think like that. The borders between the liberal city/college types and the MAGA country types can be pretty thin.

    • @Dkarma@lemmy.world
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      310 months ago

      It’s actually genius to find a bigot and just stick one pride flag in their yard every day to drive them nuts.

      • A Phlaming Phoenix
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        110 months ago

        We have One Particular Family who ran Trump and Tina Peters campaign yard signs for months back in the day, but who have conspicuously shut the fuck up since all the convictions and such. Their back yard butts up to public space where I plan on dropping at least one. I won’t mess with their private property, but I will put a flag down behind their house.

  • @Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    1210 months ago

    So they are OK with “willful destruction of other peoples’ property”? That could lead to interesting conclusions…

  • @GiddyGap@lemm.ee
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    How anyone can be member of the LGBTQ community and a member of the Republican Party at the same time is beyond me.

    • JackbyDev
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      410 months ago

      Burning flags you own are your first amendment right.

      • /home/pineapplelover
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        410 months ago

        Title made it sound like you’re allowed to burn every pride flag in sight. So yeah, I thought that was always allowed. You could set fire to your own belongings, what’s new?

        • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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          210 months ago

          Burning flags you don’t own is definitely arson. In this case a slam dunk hate crime conviction as well.

            • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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              210 months ago

              Yeah that’s pretty much the definition of a hate crime. They’re doing it specifically to scare and intimidate people of certain groups. I hope the charges stick.

              • @afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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                210 months ago

                I agree. It’s really not that different from say spray painting KKK on a black church. It wasn’t the act it was the intention and the goal.

  • @Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    510 months ago

    Fuck republicans, first for the bigotry, and second for not making a flaming gay pun when they call for burning pride flags.

  • UristMcHolland
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    510 months ago

    I would like to see more American flags at Pride celebrations. Own that shit