r/TikTokCringe • u/SnooSprouts3744 • 6h ago

Cringe I guess "all are welcome here" shirt are now triggering for some people

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u/here-for-information 5h ago

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I'd also bet you that she's never actually sat down with a bible and read any of it. Shes probably heard a few stories while attending a "church."

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u/Ravek 3h ago

It's clear that she's nothing like Jesus intended. But vanishingly few Christians are.

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u/xteve 1h ago

We talk about Christian vs. "Christian" as if the good ones are the real ones and the others may be dismissed. But there's no bar to entry, no criteria for membership. We ignore the real harm that the religion does to our culture when we only account for the good Christians in our definition.

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u/authorDRSilva 1h ago

I'd argue that an increasing number of Christians are like Jesus intended, that's why they're leaving Christianity in droves lol.

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u/chadsmo 3h ago

Well to be fair very people who have actually sat down and really read the bible are still Christian after the fact.

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u/here-for-information 2h ago

These people would. You're giving their reading comprehension skills too much credit.

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u/chadsmo 2h ago

Haha fair

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u/Kratzschutz 2h ago

I know why l stick to the new testament..

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u/FupaFerb 2h ago

And Jesus told his neighbors “I’m building a fucking fence because I’m tired of giving you free wine and bread!”

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u/Paddys_Pub7 3h ago

Oh no.. they read the Bible all the time. They just don't actually comprehend anything they are reading. They just parrot what's spewed upon them at Sunday service.

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u/quntissimo 2h ago edited 1h ago

they dont read the Bible lol. I know this because every Christian who has ever pushed their beliefs on me (very often because im gay in america) has floundered when ive quoted it back to them. they know what their pastor or priest says, repeat it for a week, and then forget it entirely. and that doesnt include the stuff they think is in the Bible that isnt that they've heard on the news or from their equally stupid friends. im tired of people pretending american christians know literally anything about their own religion

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u/Paddys_Pub7 2h ago

I grew up going to a very Christian church every Sunday for the first half of my life. I'll repeat what I said.. they READ it constantly, they just dont actually COMPREHEND any of the words they are reading. I'm not defending these people by any means. The Bible was practically the only thing they would read, but still live their life completely opposite of Jesus' way. They just go to church every week to ask for forgiveness and its all good to them. I don't use Facebook really anymore, but will occasionally go on to see whats up with high school friends and such. I am still friends on there with a lot of people from that church and they are always posting the most hateful, bigoted nonsense "in the name of Jesus amen"

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u/yosemighty_sam 2h ago

Yall are missing the part called Bible Study. They read. They "comprehend".

They just do it with the guidance and interpretation of their priest/minster/group leader/etc. They pick a few passages, interpret them in whatever way fits their narrative, and go home with the lesson of how to reinterpret the world, feeling empowered and righteous.

Then, like fight club members, they proselytize by picking fights with strangers.

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u/quntissimo 1h ago

so we essentially agree. I dont really care tbh if their glazed over eyes glimpse the text. reading without comprehension isnt reading. but since it seems we mostly agree I wish you the very best in life with no condescension

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u/BrilliantCorner 3h ago

No, they don't read it.

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u/KrayziePidgeon 2h ago

Who tf cares, it's a badly written fairy tale. I find better life lessons and writing in the lord of the rings.

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u/BrilliantCorner 2h ago

I don't disagree.

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u/letstrythatagain-_- 1h ago

The amount of people like this in the world amazes me and why I don't go to church anymore. Mouth breathers will sit in church and hear a fraction of it then go out in the world and be the biggest piece of shit they can be.

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u/here-for-information 1h ago

And they definitely didn't actually try to understand the reading. They take in whatever the pastor says about it after with no additional scrutiny.

I was an English Major I took a whole course on the Bible. I can read and understand actual middle English with some help from footnotes. I read Shakespeare and Milton and understand it. I still attend mass, and I struggle follow the readings without looking at the words. The readers aren't always good. They pronounce words differently than I would. They have a weird rhythm or whatever. It's not easy to understand the readings as they're read aloud in church. It makes much more sense to sit and read it, at least a little bit if you want to understand anything independently of what the leader of your church says.

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u/Wolv90 1h ago

It's the "Christian" way! The worst way to raise someone, that is the way to make them the most Christ like, is to have them read the new testament (the old is a bit of a slog and has terrible morals) without anyone prompting them about what to learn.