• FrChazzz@lemmus.org
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    14 hours ago

    Literally one of the oldest Christian positions about God is that God is not a dude. This should not be controversial. Folks like Saint Augustine of Hippo would agree wholeheartedly with the assertion that God has no gender binary. This is because if God has a gender that gender is “God.”

  • TwilitSky@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    So the GOP is upset that some people believe in something that has no scientific backing, eh?

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    19 hours ago

    Hear me out: none of this matters. Just another distraction from the world being run by greedy psycho billionaires

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    22 hours ago

    The pedo protectors can say whatever they like. Judging by the last 100 or so special elections, the independents have finally woken up and are done with the GOP.

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      18 hours ago

      I hope you are right, but I doubt it… this is texas after all, they will shoot themselves in the dick and call it a circumcision

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      While I agree that part is silly, at least Talarico is using his belief to try to implement much-needed change.

      Lotta folks that actually bother to vote are Christian, so I think he’s Texas’ best bet at turning blue.

    • Retail4068@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Screeching to the world over an issue you don’t think is important while ignoring the reality, that even though it’s stupid as fuck its still a problem in our reality, is also pointless.

      Did you change any thoughts in here? Did you move the needle? No. Non applicable noise. This article does however represent an irl shift to monitor.

      So your comment you see, was much more so pointless and not constructive.

      • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Did you change my mind with your comment? Absolutely not. And I’m allowed to comment about if I want, so I did. Go take your preaching and shove it up your ass, pretentious asshole.

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    Okay… so follow my logic. God made man in his image, then some time later, made woman in mans image. Therefore, we should at least expect God to be as different from a man as a man is from a woman. I would in fact argue that we should expect God to be even more different, as going from a mortal being to a different mortal being is less of a jump as going from a immortal omnipotent being to a mortal being.

    • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      Further to the point, the only canon contact he’s made with humans was as… wait for it… a burning bush.

      The bearded old dude was after Rome finally decided that Christianity was cool, and they decided to update his pfp to Jupiter. And it stuck.

  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
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    I am not a religious person (but was raised catholic) - I wouldn’t have issues voting for him based on that article - he seems far better informed regarding the word of christ than any of those screeching republican harpies, and seems to have the best in mind for the citizens of his state.

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    You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

    Deuteronomy 32:18. This is the lot that would insist that men cannot give birth, right?

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      That’s a really poor translation. It sounds more like God gave the “you” reproductivity.

      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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        That one is very clear. Semitic scripture uses parallelism liberally for emphasis. Both “yalad” and “chuwl” mean birth, but yalad is masculine as in “fathered” while chuwl means “gave birth to.” Deuteronomy 32:18 very explicitly paints Yahweh as both father and mother of all Israelites.

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          17 hours ago

          Hell, yeah. A linguist enters the chat.

          So from Semitic languages, to Latin—which also can translate feminine, masculine, and anything between as three states jusr fine—to period-subjected variations of English, up to the modern day take, it should’ve been kept quite clear. But sometimes over a few thousand years it may have been skewed. At least enough to open up interpretation in a way that interpretation aligns with one’s beliefs or desires.

          Well, I am shocked that this could happen to an Abrahamic religion /s

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    I have no opinion on if God is NB. But he’s very clearly in a same-sex union with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

      • The_Lurker@lemmy.world
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        God is nonbiological so no gender. Or all genders. If God is in everything, then there are some bacteria with 23 or so sexes, so God possesses genders beyond the scope of human consciousness.

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          Sorry about the correction, but that number isn’t right on two levels.

          1: bacteria didn’t have sexes. Sometimes they will exchange plasmids via a direct pilus or will pick up strays in the environment.

          2: that number is often cited from a book describing certain slime molds (which aren’t molds) as having that few, when almost every species we found have something in the 100’s. But what I think is cool is that some species of actual fungi have something like 72,000 compatible sexes.

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      One of the basic problems with theists is that they have no idea what God is.

      “God is love.” In what way? God is just an emotion related to a chemical reaction in the brain?

      “God is all powerful.” Can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he can’t eat it?

      “God is omniscient.” If everything in the future is already known, then what’s the point?

      It just goes on and on. Either God is some vague impossibility, or he’s exactly the same as a human male, somehow. But a human male is not the same as God, so that can’t really be right. But nobody can even give a real framework as to what he could be.

      If you can’t describe God no matter how hard you try, then what the hell are you believing in? That’s the basis for ignosticism.

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        i just believe in a giant space crustacean it’s easier and funnier. and crab sandwiches taste better than jeezits.