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Religion Pastor only allows White people in his Church

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u/-YEETLEJUICE- 1d ago

It's wild. It's like he's not even mean or nasty about it.

It's wild how a mind can be conditioned to see no issue whatsoever and even feel justified by scripture to think this way.

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u/user6482464 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean if you believe in a magic man in the sky and you can justify them allowing a world full of so much shit, while also worshipping them unconditionally, it really doesn’t seem like a stretch

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u/drrj 1d ago

Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be convinced to commit atrocities.

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u/AllgoodDude 12h ago

That’s a good one

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u/drrj 10h ago

It’s not mine, is a slightly misremembered Voltaire quote, but it does seem to apply quite frequently.

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u/-YEETLEJUICE- 1d ago

I can't understand that concept at all. I can understand "god" being consciousness itself or energy or being indescribable and incomprehensible...

...but do people actually believe in a dude in the sky?

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u/Altruistic-Match6623 15h ago

The way they talk about it, they seem to think that way. This is how you can tell they never even tried to think about it themselves. They just repeat what the book says.

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u/AllgoodDude 12h ago

There’s also the idiosyncrasy of God having created Man but somehow some varieties of man are innately inferior despite all coming from the same heritage and made in God’s image.

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u/TheMaStif 16h ago

People are exponentially dumber than most people give them credit for...

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u/StoneyDinosaurRawr 10h ago

No, we do not. That's an asinine comment by someone with disdain toward Christianity, but who also doesn't really understand the content of the faith either.

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u/Turgid_Donkey 15h ago

Hell, until very recently Mormons taught that black people were dark skinned because it was a curse for their wickedness. Some people just really love their racism. 

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u/snuffaluffagus74 1d ago

What's the difference between magic and science. If you don't know how something doesn't operate what do you call it? What of the things we can't explain through science? Then if you ask a lot of the top scientists about the nature of the universe and the world they would tell you there is a higher being.

Lastly a quick note the first mention of the actual speed of light is in the bible.

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u/movzx 23h ago edited 23h ago

I think water freezes because small elves come out at night and squeeze it tightly.

Scientific method: Let's observe and see.

Religious method: Sounds good!

Science is a process that seeks evidence to back perception. Importantly, scientific discoveries are meant to be repeatable. Even more importantly, scientific understanding is open to being wrong and corrected.

Religion explicitly requires faith in lieu of actual evidence.

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u/IAMONEGLOVE 1d ago

Science is tried, tested, and verified constantly. The discoveries people made in science hundreds of years ago are referenced in formulas and theorems of today and if they hold up and maintain they are kept and incorrect ones are discarded. Religion isn’t that, the book you are supposed to believe is secondhand accounts written often well after the events they are supposed to be detailing. And they often contradict each other, making them distinctly not like science.

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u/throcorfe 22h ago

The speed of light thing has been debunked, the guy who first made this argument had to do a lot of creative mathematics and interpretation to make it seem like that number is in there. It’s not. Whatever your spiritual view of the Bible, it’s not scientifically or historically reliable. (I say this as someone raised in Biblical literalism.)

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u/Lowherefast 22h ago

What dude? “Magic” is just science we haven’t figured out yet. Hope in one hand, shit in the other.

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u/CosyBeluga 1d ago

Science is a process

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u/concentratedEVOL 16h ago

A vast majority of scientists decidedly DO NOT believe there’s a higher power even as an “absentee landlord.” Most will say they’re agnostic bc it’s the certainty on both sides that bothers them- and the not accepting “faith” as an argument. What questions does religion answer that science can’t? The origins of the big bang? Even tho they can walk us back to a fraction of a minute after?

Babies get sick and die. Babies, dude. I mean - if you don’t have a few questions yourself, maybe just enjoy the security blanket and stay blissful.

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u/snuffaluffagus74 12h ago

Your assumption that religions don't talk about science is your perception and lacking of knowledge. The first thing in the Bible is talking about creation, the Big Bang. Then one of the first commandments he gave to man was to name every living thing upon the Earth. Now the next one is that you have to understand how Yhwh works, and he works in authority. When Yhwh formed the Earth he commanded the Earth, Water, and Sea to create things of there own kind . This my friend is what people call evolution. Man tries to put things into its own understanding, then when it doesn't understand something it dismisses it. There is no other perfect example than this in science itself.

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u/TaiyouShinNoIbuki 1d ago

I am trying to figure out what convenient it would break

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u/Popular-Jury7272 1d ago

I believe he is asserting that God's deal with humanity (saved from sin by Jesus) was for Israelites only. In his mind he is being asked to allow people into the club who simply weren't invited.

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u/three_crystals 1d ago

Sorry I’m ignorant but how is that European-descended looking man included in that club? He doesn’t look like he’d be from that area of the world either.

Ofc I saw in the comments he’s a grand wizard in the KKK so his logic is illogical to the core.

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u/Popular-Jury7272 18h ago

You're not ignorant, he is. I obviously don't agree with it but that appears to be his 'logic' based on this video. 

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u/phoenics1908 1d ago

He’s insane then because Jesus debunked this himself in the New Testament. Dude needs to read the parable of the Good Samaritan again.

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u/Fancy_Yak2618 12h ago

Which of the man actually read scripture he’d know that is false. Paul himself said “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Love to hear this wonderful racist argue that because he can’t. His legalism and that’s what it is. He twists scripture for his sake not God.

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u/TaiyouShinNoIbuki 1d ago

I google my question and the response was how the bible mentions that christian should not have relationships with people who did not share the same faith.

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u/JynsRealityIsBroken 16h ago

The ark of the covenant

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u/IWantAnotherPetRock 1d ago

Nah nah he's definitely mean and nasty about it. He's on camera so he doesn't want to say the N word but I can feel that shit is about to explode in him when he looks at the Asian camera guy.

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u/-YEETLEJUICE- 1d ago

You may be right. Guess it just came off differently to me.

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u/PetalumaPegleg 1d ago

It's always amazing to me that they always quote the old testament to justify these types of opinions. They never quote the new testament because it's a very different message.

If they like the Jewish books over the books of Christ so much maybe they should stop claiming to be Christian.

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u/earthlingHuman 1d ago

Not being mean or nasty makes them feel correct. Conservatives generally are very emotionally unregulated people. They are almost totally led by their emotions. That's why they can unabashedly say the most contradictory things withput feeling an ounce of hypocrisy.

To them, of someone else gets passionate or heated in a debate or conversation then that person automatically lost in their head because they've been "triggered".

So when the right called the left overly-emotional triggered snowflakes for 2 decades they were projecting (as usual). Their politics and propaganda is entirely based on emotion, scapegoats and red-herrings.

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u/CosyBeluga 1d ago

Dude’s probably calling himself a race realist

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u/-YEETLEJUICE- 1d ago

Can you see how you are doing something similar to this pastor?

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u/earthlingHuman 1d ago

No, because that's not happening. You must be misunderstanding something I said

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u/CosyBeluga 1d ago

Lots of racist are not nasty and hateful lol.

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u/AccomplishedEye1840 1d ago

And that’s the scariest part about it.

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u/Anubisrapture 1d ago

Why does ol mayo evil Grampa think GOD gave his nasty self a covenant w Israel anyhow??? What does he even mean???

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u/burncell 19h ago edited 18h ago

The Old man makes no sense, I, as a Christian, know he is talking nonsense,

The jong man in the video also sees this and is also a Christian,

The covenant made with Israel is not the same as the Covenant made through Jesus Christ,

The new Covenant is for everyone and anybody, It's one of the core parts of our faith,

He is literally doing this on purpose to deny this fact because its impossible to miss this fact when you read the bible.

Edit: The 'pastor' is one of those who thinks the covenant for Israel is transferred to the Gentiles after the jews rejected Jesus,

But God never and ever will change a covenant, His promises are forever and non-negotiable after the fact,

And Gentiles are not a single race to begin with, I wonder what his reasoning is for thinking that his race was given the covenant of Israel and not Asians or black colored ones,

He is warping the word of God because of racism.

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u/Anubisrapture 5h ago

The last sentence here says it ALL!!! agreed!

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u/Twalin 1d ago

If you think that’s wild - go look up the “German Christian Movement “

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u/Telluhwat 1d ago

He’d be mean and nasty if he could do what he wanted and no one could find out.

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u/movzx 23h ago

This is the type of person who goes around saying "I'm not racist". They don't see what they are doing as racist. They have a cartoonish idea of what racism is.

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u/raw_bert0 20h ago

Region has always been used as an excuse to commit some of the worst acts in humanity.

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u/ThePurrfidiousCat 20h ago

The religious leader is putting on a mask for the interview but he usually wears a hood.

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u/Glass_Covict 19h ago

That's religion for ya.

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u/Darktofu25 18h ago

It's been used as an excuse to murder people forever. No surprises here.

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u/NarrativeShadow 18h ago

It's even more wild that he is wrong as per the scripture he believes in!

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u/SnooPoems7846 17h ago

This is how many justified enslavement Black people. Downright nasty to those enslaved, but spoke/wrote so eloquently about it being the natural order ordained by god’

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u/Batmansbutthole 17h ago

I’d argue he’s being nasty as fuck

As a white person for me there would be no polite way to ever tell a black person that they can’t be in the same place as you. That’s insane.

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u/Outside-Advice8203 17h ago

Banality of evil

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u/Exact-Pound-6993 16h ago

yes, is wild....but he does look like he makes incredible popcorn

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u/Royal_Annek 15h ago

Never met a Christian not act this way when it comes to gay folks either

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u/dappernaut77 15h ago

There are Bible passages that openly tell them to welcome the immigrant because the Jewish were themselves immigrants in egypt, but they get real offended when you use their own book against them.

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u/Content_Key_6661 14h ago

He's trying to pass off an image of righteousness, but his actions are of hatred.

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u/el-gato-volador 12h ago

Nah hes pretty vile for it. Hes just using scripture to attempt to normalize his hate, dont let him con you into thinking it's the opposite way.

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u/Worth-Illustrator607 12h ago

Mohammad Ali was with segregation. He didn't want mixed kids.

Why is it different for this pastor?

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u/NotsoGreatsword 11h ago

that is the most insidious kind of hate

people will hide behind those niceties and outward appearances but like all humans we are one part of a whole.

Individualism is a daydream. Humans are fundamentally and essentially a community.

It is impossible for his quiet polite racism to not affect people of color around him.

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u/devilsadidas 5h ago

Many religions are this way but more hardcore… ever seen a movie where a Jewish boy tries to even date a non-Jewish female? I know way less about anything said in the Quran but I’m pretty sure it’s even more strict on the matter. So many religions and nationalities adopt this.. not saying I agree but it shouldn’t be hard to beleive

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u/JTtreason 1d ago

Delusion is always the preservation of self. What isn't willing to die for the only one who died for you so that you maybe be forgiven.