Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
Maybe, but that's what the whole book is about. Very much recommend it.
edit: I recently saw a tweet or something that was like, "The state tells us we have to read The Grapes of Wraith at 13 and then gets mad when we understand it at 26."
Eh. I kind of have more disdain for "christians" who aren't doing shit like that tbh. You really believe that billions of people are going to face brutal torture for all eternity and you haven't devoted your entire life to converting people?
the more effective way of converting people would also be to actually practice what they preach re: charity, earthly posessions, treatment of the poor, outcasts, sinners, etc.
Ugh, I used to have this mindset as a kid and my parents didn't bother asking me to tone it down because "Eh that's technically what they teach at our missionary based church."
My dork ass didn't convert a single child, thank fuck.
That’s because the god of capital is more scary than the god of abraham. One of them will just watch you suffer while the other actively inflicts suffering. So you gotta please it first
How about the drive-by proselytisers that are calling you to repent and turn to Jesus in the comments of a video about a cute animal or Oblivion NPC dialogue
Let there be no compulsion in religion, for the truth stands out clearly from falsehood. So whoever renounces false gods and believes in Allah has certainly grasped the firmest, unfailing hand-hold. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing.
It surprises me that while Tim Tebow had John 3:16 written on his eye black strips, no linebacker in the league posted something like this on his strips. Would have thrown him off his game better than any defensive scheming, at least while he was in college. He was terrible in the NFL
If I was cashed up when my prefrontal cortex was still a work in progress, there's a good chance that I would have gotten a tattoo saying "Leviticus 19:28". I still think it's a funny idea because it's one of those deep-trolling things that really tickles my sense of humour.
Part of this is because I'm autistic and I just mask all the damn time so I can play things incredibly straight and I can do a convincing job of it, so I'd go for the longest con Andy Kaufman-style joke where I'd be quietly adamant about my Christian beliefs to non-Christians and to Christians I'd wax lyrical about how this was the verse that converted me because it made me realise that we must turn away from pagan practices and recognise that this body we have been given is itself a sacrament and that we must treasure it as we would anything that God has had touched.
I would leave everyone baffled and I'd be dying of laughter internally the whole time.
And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow. So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son...." (II Kings 6:28-29)
Astrology people used to bug the shit out of me, but now I find it a pleasant way to learn about someone. It's kind of like a gateway to just talk about your personalities for a bit.
I don't believe any of it, but I'll share my sign and (usually) she will make some calls about my likes and dislikes and I'll say what's true or not. Ask her sign and questions about her. See if we'll get along or not.
Idk it's a nice way to just chat, I guess. Prefer it to other small talk. Could make a friend from it, too.
Eh, I'll give my sign, but then people keep asking more intrusive questions like the exact hour I was born so they can tell me my rising and setting sign or whatever. It just kind of seems obnoxious to do when you know the person you're talking to doesn't believe in this.
To me it's the same as someone who keeps brining religion into a conversation when the know the person they're talking to is a non-believer. You know I don't believe in this, you could respect that fact and leave the topic be.
yeah but you could also just have a regular conversation and get to know someone that way instead, without the magical thinking predestination nonsense
Nah, the hate for astrology is partially made up of internalized misogyny. We have to overcome it. It is just as fake as the economy. We just are taught to resent it because it is girl coded. Girls can have a little bronze age mysticism as a treat.
Nah it's still woo woo crap that's often a gateway to other more unhinged pseudo-mysticism shit like the crystal healing. Plus modern astrology has got more to do with early 19th century occultism than it does any ancient tradition from Babylon. It was originally crap for bored rich white dudes who wanted to pretend to be special wizards.
in america there's a brand of bread called ezekiel 4:9 which is the verse with the ingredients list. the company has a canned response that they use clean and sanitized stainless steel ovens and natural gas to bake their bread, not cow dung or human excrement, if you happen to have read any of the verses after 4:9 and grew concerned.
that's zeke 23. song of solomon is about how his bride's hair resembles a flock of goats flowing down mount gilead and her breasts are like young twin gazelles bouncing through the fields.
Recently I've stumbled upon a YT channel called "Good fight ministries" or something of that sort and it was all about how transgenders and celebrities are satan so pretty average stuff, using bible verses way out of context to twist them to be a condemnation of Hollywood directors (using clips of them talking about being inspired as proof of possession) and singers I've never heard of (Jesus famously said grammies are evil i guess), but this then led me down a rabbit hole of crazy "Christian spiritual warfare" videos where schizos and grifters bang on about defending yourself against demons that posses you at night, with one lady claiming some sort of ghoul was "strumming" her spine at night. Unironically all these people need Jesus.
The most concerning thing is that these spiritual warfare videos often have tens of thousands of views, maybe hundreds or millions if it’s general enough and doesn’t dwell into the illuminati trangender cabal lol
Back when people were debating against gay marriage, and using bible quotes as justifications, I used to have Leviticus 11:10 memorized to quote back at them. (It's the shellfish one)
5 "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.
6 But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
I honestly hate that shit. And it's always really unnecessary and cringe. Instead of that idealism, people should be dropping quotations waking those around them to the inevitability of revolution. That's what's really important anyway.
I don't have to tell you, comrades, about the times and material conditions. Because you yourselves all know that the new day of the revolution will come like an FBI raid in the night. And libs think there is peace and security under the ruling ideology but then they're caught unaware when sudden revolution comes upon them, and then kinda like birth pains come upon birthing people there's no escaping! But you, comrades, are not idealists for that to surprise you like a raid, because all of you are comrades of the new day and peace, we're not of the ruling ideology or oppression. So then don't let us fall asleep to material conditions like some other do, let us stay woke and stay grounded. Because those who are reactionaries are reactionaries serving the ruling ideology, and those who are revisionists are revisionists serving the ruling ideology. But since we belong to the new day, let's stay grounded, and embrace the power of solidarity and struggle, and for a flag the Red Banner of liberation. Because the science of history has made it clear that the future holds not our oppression but our liberation through Marxist-Leninism so that whether we're woke or chuds we can be free. That's why we should encourage and build up each other, as we're all doing. But we're asked, comrades, to hold solidarity with those who are working class among us, as well as those who actually practice Marxist-Leninst theory and struggle session us or tell us to touch grass. We should hold them very highly in solidarity because of their work. But be chill among ourselves on Hexbear. And we're urged, comrades, to criticize the lurkers, encourage the anxious seldom-posters, help the shitposters, be patient with all of them. See that none of you repays a bad post with a downbear, but always seek to reply to one another and to all. Laugh at bits always, post without ceasing, give upbears in all circumstances, because this is what the Admins at Hexbear wish for us. Don't logout. Don't hate reading theory, but test everything in praxis, stick to what's Communist, and abstain from every form of lib.