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  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldtoAtheist Memes@lemmy.worldChristian roulette
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    Turning the other cheek isn’t incompatible with eye-for-an-eye.

    The principle behind eye for an eye justice is that the sentence must fit the crime, instead of brutally excessive. Like cutting off people’s hand for stealing a loaf of bread.

    Turning the other cheek doesn’t negate the law, it forgives the consequences of that law. It says “hey, I see you’re starving, here’s a second loaf.”

    Incidentally, a man who is starving and the merchant not giving him bread was murder. But details.

    Another way of saying it, is that Jesus simplified the law. Because they were too dumb to follow the first ten, Christ gave a simpler set of two:

    Love god. Love your neighbor.

    This doesn’t negate the 10, but encompasses them.

    Edit: to the point about slavery, exodus 21… all sorts of beautiful laws. Like, Hebrew women who are slaves don’t get to go free in the sixth year… and clearly being okay with dudes selling their daughters into slavery.


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    So, the question I have, is where do the proceeds go, and how much is that guy making off it?

    If the money for the merch goes to, say, feeding the homeless or even just the church’s general budget, I see it as a fundraiser, and not particularly offensive.

    If the dude is pocketing the profits…. Yeah, fuck that dude.








  • Nope, I don’t consider an article that quotes a, and I quote, “hindu nationalist” for his opinions on her work a valid source.

    it’s more than you dropped.

    And in any case, there’s plenty of reason to suspect that- even relative to 1950’s Calcutta, India, standards of care were low. Like most people Teresa was likely a mess of good and bad. Catholics and christians in general will usually ignore all the bad and assert that the good is all there is when it comes to one of their own. Which is hilariously idiotic, and for example, precisely how we wind up with an asshole like trump in office.

    Just because some one happens to have particular religious and political views doesn’t immediately mean they’re lying. because the Catholic church and it’s massive army of defenders would never, ever lie. or conceal the ugly realities.

    And about her penchant to try to convert most everyone she met - that’s a natural behaviour of someone who knows that a christian convert that dies in grace will have a pleasant afterlife, and not just “in the self preservation interest of the church” - remember that a christian convert contributes to the church’s survival for as long as they live, not if they’re dying from sickness.

    You need to brush up on the difference between belief and knowledge. Christians believe a thing. A thing they cannot possibly actually know, because there is exactly zero tangible evidence for an afterlife.



  • there’s just so much there

    The highlight: one of her core beliefs seems to have been that her patients didn’t actually need medical care, rather, that they only needed to feel wanted by god, and to die in peace. when criticized in places like the Lancet she responded:

    There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering.

    but then, turned around and sought medical care for her own ailments (severe heart conditions.) in modern American hospitals.

    So she’s a typical example of the hypocrisy of the christian faith.

    Oh, and her “Miracles” were faked.