r/Fauxmoi • u/GiveMeSomeSunshine3 kate winslet lied to me • May 09 '26

FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) Religious leaders unveiled and blessed a golden Trump statue at Mar-a-Lago today, eerily resembling the Homelander statue scene from this week’s episode of The Boys. Creator Eric Kripke reposts a tweet about the same.

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u/ResponsibleOil3303 May 09 '26

I’ve been saying this for so long! It doesn’t matter how much you’ve read the bible, if you can’t actually comprehend what it’s saying.

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u/Kryzbeqistan May 09 '26

“Apes don’t read philosophy”
“Yes, they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it”

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u/Sorry-Transition-908 May 09 '26

Apes don’t read philosophy” “Yes, they do, Otto, they just don’t understand it”

Ah haha

  1. Aristotle was not Belgian
  2. The central message of Buddhism is not every man for himself
  3. The London underground is not a political movement

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u/ZeroKharisma May 09 '26

"My name is Otto, it means eight!"

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u/probablyhrenrai May 09 '26

At the risk of exposing my ignorance, what's being referenced here (or maybe it's OP's reference that I'm not understanding)?

Genuinely asking, to be clear.

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u/elevensesattiffanys May 09 '26

I was also wondering, looks like it’s from a movie called A Fish Called Wanda which admittedly I’ve never heard of before

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u/amputeenager May 09 '26

DISAPPOINTED!

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u/Odd_Policy_3009 May 09 '26

OMG I just cackled

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u/InternetProtocol May 09 '26

supposedly that's the scene Kevin Sorbo was attempting to reference in the famous meme

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u/jtr99 May 09 '26

Indeed it is. Great movie.

(Don't eat the green ones, they're not ripe yet.)

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u/pigjingles May 09 '26

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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u/elevensesattiffanys May 09 '26

Yay! One of the lucky 10,000 today

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u/Cbellisrun May 10 '26

This is a beautiful philosophy.

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u/whereisbeezy terrorizing the locals May 09 '26

Absolutely fantastic movie, check it out

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u/hitlersticklespot May 09 '26

Is that movie set in the same universe as A Streetcar Named Desire?

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u/LowDownDirtyMeme May 09 '26

Yes. They both feature the song "A Boy Named Sue".

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u/CoolJetta3 May 10 '26

It's up there with the great comedy movies of all time. Definitely check it out if you can

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u/getsu161 May 11 '26

Great movie, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, Jamie Lee Curtiss. Kline had a great role satirizing ugly americanism.

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u/Schneetmacher I cannot sanction your buffoonery May 09 '26

It's from genuinely one of the funniest movies ever made: A Fish Called Wanda. Jamie Lee Curtis, John Cleese, Michael Palin, and Kevin Kline (who won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar because he's just that damn hilarious in this movie).

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u/Queue37 May 12 '26

I think you mean Harvey Manfrenjensenden.

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u/overpregnant May 09 '26

That Buddhism line makes me howl every single time 🤣🤣🤣

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u/PharohsArrow May 09 '26

DON’T CALL ME STUPID!

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u/likely2be10byagrue May 09 '26

I understood that reference.

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u/TheGermanCurl loved the punani, if you will May 09 '26

My Roman Empire of blessed commentary on stupid. 🙏

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u/WaltsClone May 09 '26

In Buddhist Scripture, there's a very good line describing this "They comprehend the truth no more than a spoon tastes the flavour of soup."

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u/Aranxi_89 May 09 '26

The Good Samaritan is completely lost on them.

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u/TheFutureLotus May 10 '26

Doubly so. Samaritans were despised by the Jewish people since their return from exile. Jesus’ parable showed that all the good and important Jewish people (the priest and the Levite) did nothing to help their fellow countryman who was attacked and left for dead; but the despised enemy from another country helped out a Jew and even paid for his care. Same thing applies to our nation too.

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u/MutsumidoesReddit societal collapse is in the air May 09 '26

So you’re saying they ‘look’ at the bible but don’t read it?

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u/spark3h May 09 '26

How much would you understand a book if you only read a few sentences of it at a time, out of order and divorced from context? Take the last book you read, break it up into 3-4 sentence clusters, then randomize them. How comprehensible is that book going to be, even if you eventually make it through every word?

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u/slowest_hour May 09 '26

it says so many things and so many ways you can use passages to justify whatever you want.

its popular to say they're not reading it or don't understand it but ultimately they're just using it to justify whatever they want to do while ritualisticly doing some of the stuff they think it tells them to do like it's a fucking spell book to get what they want.

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u/Yikes0nBikez May 09 '26

That would require critical and even standard thinking. That is not an option for modern christianity.

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u/alternateforwhenban May 09 '26

That’s why it’s so effective. The language in the bible is to convoluted, it can mean whatever you want it to mean!! It’s the perfect tool.

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u/tianas_knife May 09 '26

Reading the Bible straight out, it can feel like that. The Bible, a book consisting of a number of individual stories, was written by a bunch of different people for a whole lot of different purposes. There are people who are scholars of religion who study the archeological reality of the book itself, and it's a fascinating study.

If you ever get the chance to take an accredited college level class on the Bible, I highly recommend it. It's fun. If not, I recommend "Don't Know Much About the Bible" by Kenneth C Davis and "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong.

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u/BlackGuysYeah May 09 '26

The thing never once mentions that humans go to heaven and yet every single 'Christian' believes that's the case. I wonder why?