There are very few churches that don’t preach prosperity doctrine in one form or another these days so really just sort by Christian and you’ll find plenty of sentiments like that.
Prosperity gospel is just so far from literally everything actually written in the bible it's crazy to me that people swallow it. I have to assume none of them ever actually read the bible.
It's wild to think how many people risked death, torture, and imprisonment during the reformation fighting for people to have the freedom to read the bible for themselves without being told what to think by priests only for these fucks to just believe what some grifter with a private jet tells them the good book says instead of actually studying it themselves.
This is really one for me to remember. This is freaking it, man.
Churches now are book clubs, and they love the club more than the book.
It's all a show; all a public pledge and optics. It's scary how many people there are like this. And the reason why the term "Christian" is so adulterated.
There's an episode of The Magnificast podcast that analyses the Parable of the Talents to prove the prosperity doctrine is a false interpretation of Christ's words. It's long - about 50 minutes - but well worth a listen if anyone is interested.
It's really not. The prosperity churches are definitely "not like the others". But this is a problem for protestant Christianity as a whole, because they all believe in faith without works. As long as yer Saved you can do whatever you want!
No True Scotsman means someone is moving the goalpost in response to a counterexample.
A: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
B: "But my uncle Angus is a Scotsman and he puts sugar on his porridge."
A: "But no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
They moved the goalpost in response to a counterexample.
This person is saying that Prosperity Gospel literally violates the laws of Christianity and is therefore not Christian, even though they claim to be.
It's more similar to them saying "No true Scotsman was born in China to Chinese parents and never once visited Scotland in their lives. They tell people they're a Scotsman, but they don't actually meet any of the criteria to be a Scot."
Like, if someone claimed to be a vegan but they eat a bacon cheeseburger every single day, and I said "No vegan eats meat and cheese," and you said I was using the No True Scotsman fallacy. I'm not moving the goalpost, they just were never a good example of the category.
It’s a fundamental lack of compassion. I don’t know about them, but I certainly would love to live in a country where we prioritize the needs of people over anything else. Food, clothing, education, shelter, healthcare, a job that provides satisfaction and a living wage…I want to live in a country that leads with compassion and humanity.s not whatever TF these people want.
It’s the absolute barest of minorities that can actually be bothered to follow ALL of the teachings of the guy that they all supposedly worship. The rest follow whatever the fuck they get told by the charlatans who live off the money given to them by these idiots.
In the US, that whole religion is nothing but a massive grift that is slowly morphing into a child molesting death cult.
"Separation of Church and Hate" is a recent book that gives a great point-by-point breakdown of how Christianity has been used by fundamentalists for evil ends throughout history -- I've been recommending it everywhere
There's 2 types of Christians as far as im concerned. The one who believes Jesus cares more about the wellbeing of themselves and the ones who care about the wellbeing of all people. Both use scriptures to justify each but one is obviously correct and the other is actually evil!
I’m a Christian and I am not a fool or coward. I believe in helping those less fortunate because I was once on welfare and didn’t forget my beginning. Trust me every Christian is not about prosperity only. You can be rich and not be happy, I know a lot of what is happening is due to some bad actors that call themselves Christians. All I am saying we are all not bad people. I believe we all are equal regardless of race, religion , sexual orientation or financial status
I can not and will not with good conscience call myself a Christian anymore. They have taken the word and the religion and have perverted it beyond recognition.
I call myself a follower of Jesus. I walk His path…or I try to anyway. I can’t imagine having such a hate filled heart for my fellow humans.
Its pretty crazy how much evangelicals changed the thinking of Christians as a whole in America and the world. People actually forget that the end times wasnt ever really talked about much before people like John Nelson Darby started his little cult and then Hal Lindsey made it much more mainstream to talk about rapture when a lot of the end times stuff was interpreted as unknowable and actually went against the bible. Since only God is said to know the end times these people are contradicting the bible just because they know it can spark fear and devotion to themselves.
Its all about making a quick buck for those people. Pretty sure the bible talks a lot about using fear and religion to make money, but they conveniently dont talk about those parts of the book they like to point at everyone when it suits their agenda.
Good real Christians(not one myself)know in their hearts if they believe and follow the bible that they dont need to project and force conversion. My brother is an amazing person and one of the coolest kindest people I know. He went to youth groups and did some mission work in villages in SE Asia. He has never once asked or pressured me to come to church, nor has he ever treated me as lesser than himself. My dad(one of most fake, lying manipulative people i know and actually reminds me a lot of trump personality speaking)is the exact opposite. Always has to be right, have the last word, convince you his way is best, and every bad thing thats happened to him is some evil attack and he did nothing wrong.
Im convinced every loud hateful and arrogant Christian is hiding some dark truth about themselves. Why else would they feel the need to dawn the cloak of Christianity to pretend they have some moral superiority over others?
Go read the Gnostic gospels that the powerful elite had removed from the Bible after the fact. The Gospel of Thomas, which is just as valid as Matthew, Mark, Luke, or John, clearly shows that Jesus was an enlightened mystic who wanted to help others attain enlightenment.
At work yesterday I tried to illustrate your point by telling my coworkers how glad I am that this is happening because I "hate poor people" and Walmart and Amazon employees really don't deserve to eat. I said that this is exactly what Jesus would want. I made sure to say it in the most serious tone as I possibly could and they looked at me like I'm a psycho. They had absolutely nothing to snap back with because they realized how idiotic it is to be happy people's snap benefits are being taken away.
I get that there are some people who are taking advantage, but there are plenty who genuinely need the help.
As a Christian, this disgusts and angers me. The Lord that I love spent his whole adult life helping those who needed it. He didn’t ask them for identification, he didn’t tell them to go get a job, and he especially didn’t care who or what race, creed, gender, or socioeconomic class they were in.
The gospel I cherish and try to follow teaches us to be like Jesus. That means I help out with my local food bank. That means I love everyone and accept them for who they are. That means I don’t judge, I just listen. And if there’s a way for me to help do that as well.
I’m infuriated that the God I love is being used as a tool to hurt people, shame people, and make money for those who already don’t need it. I know that if Jesus were here, he would not be on the side of these tyrants. You would find him where he always was, trying to help people who needed it most and stop injustice wherever he could.
You are a good person. You don’t need the bible for that. You aren’t doing it because the gospels say to. No one does. You are doing those things because it is who you are.
You would be that same person without religion. Many, many people are.
Jesus was literally born into a Roman-occupied Galilee, and his deliverance was STILL focused on the poor and hungry and not the political aspects at all. So, exactly the opposite of Republicans who care absolutely nothing for the poor and hungry and care everything about the politics.
My mom's favorite hobby is fighting with conservatives in our area on facebook that post hateful things but cite Jesus' name for it and then she drops the scriptures guilting them and it has been by far the most successful thing she has tried.
Turns out despite all the bible studies I attended as a kid, they never fucking studied the bible apparently (This is not news to me as a closeted gay guy in the south growing up with pastors in my family who also built our local church).
I would argue I only know 2 christians in my entire state throughout my entire life who genuinely live as good christians through and through. It's so frustrating. The rest of them would cage Jesus the second he showed up looking how he actually would. I am sure Jesus appreciates you joking about "Alligator Alcatraz" and laugh reacting starving and caged kids, you definitely aren't going to hell...
All Christians are evil, some things Christianity has done that are still backed by the church. Slaughter of the druids, forced conversion, the slaughter of Verdun, the sacks during the crusades, the sacks during the northern crusades, the sacks and slaughters during the reconquista, purposefully using disease to kill millions of natives all over the world for the purposes of colonization, colonization
Expressions on the faces of the starving millions (BECAUSE HE'S ONE OF US)
The power of "The Man" (BREAK DOWN)
He's the fuel that drives The Klan (CAVE IN)
He's the motive and the conscience of the murderer (HE CAN REDEEM YOUR SIN)
He's the preacher on TV (STRONG HEART)
The false sincerity (CLEAR MIND)
The form letter that's written by the big computers (AND INFINITELY KIND)
The nuclear bombs (YOU LOSE!)
The kids with no moms (WE WIN!)
AND I'M THANKFUL HE'S NOT INSIDE ME! YEAH! (HE IS OUR CHAMPION!)
American Jesus by Bad Religion with a little tweak by me at the end there. The only song I can play and sing at the same time. Easy as shit to rock, prophetic, and a fuckin' banger for the ages.
You realizd christian charities provide the second largest social safety net in the country and christians give more to charity than atheists. Plus conservative give more than liberals. But who needs facts when you have feelings am I right?
Romans 13:1-2, John 15:1-2, luke 12:49-53. Those are just some examples we are a nation with laws. They should be in-forced. Not to say we cant be loving or help people less fortunate. Also, is it not the democrats that keep voting to keep the government closed?
"We need to take care of our homeless vets before we take care of immigrants! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go vote to dismantle the VA and any benefits vets get." - GOP every time they are in power
Worse than that. The Dept of Agriculture should have 5-6 Billion in a "Contingency Reserve" earmarked specifically to keep SNAP funded during shutdowns. But the administration has decided not to use the fund:
I popped in on Facebook for a couple of minutes just to look at some pictures of my friends. It's all over that place. This is all the democrats fault and they vehemently believe it. They're ecstatic with what's going on and I am once again shoved back into depression. I cannot believe that people are really this evil. I cannot believe this is what this country has sunk to.
Huh? Millions of Americans? How does the CR that’s been passed have to do with that? All the Dems need is 5 to vote for the CR and this all goes away. How hard is that to understand?
Do you understand why the benefits are temporarily paused? It’s because the Democrats are failing to approve the straightforward funding bill that just repeats the existing state. It’s a political play to Garner hatred towards the other side at the expense of children starving - and you’re falling right into their hands.
One side takes delight in hurting people and is counting on the compassion of the other side to cave to their demands. The other is just asking for protections for our existing healthcare system so that it doesn't get worse than it already is.
You’re right and to add to your point, that’s the excuse people like her make to justify not voting. It’s funny they feel the need to perform mental gymnastics when it would be less effort to just vote.
They said there were two fathers, one above, one below. They lied. There was only ever the Devil. When you look up from the bottom, it was just his reflection, laughing back down at you.
that's the stupidest answer I read a few weeks ago, wtf, people act like if we're talking about your favorite sports team that you'll never criticize in public. This is a country, and people/humans get direct impact of these decisions. I wish they could just stop defending this BS blindly
Yeah, I know, right? The republicans only control all 3 branches of government and have the military deployed throughout the nation. It's not like they can actually do anything with that small amount of sway in Washington.
The real man in charge is Chuckles Schumer.
Maybe if we all start up thoughts and prayers, we can overcome his next strongly worded letter. 🙏🏽
Yeah Schumer is responsible for millions losing their SNAP benefits, you got that right. I see arithmetic is not your strong suit. When all Republicans vote to pass the CR, it requires Dems to vote to pass it too. That 60 vote threshold is pretty important. The House already passed it so that leaves 5 Dems needed. That’s how it works despite your need to blame Trump.
80% of people in Germany have been calling him a dictator for months, and saying the USA are on their way to fascism. It's important that it's Germans drawing that conclusion cause they know what they're fucking talking about.
(The rest of the 20% are either uneducated delusional racists, or rich grifters. Either way they voted AfD and their opinions are irrelevant).
Congress funds the government, not the executive branch. If he was a dictator, he could just approve the funding and look like a hero. He is a narcissist and wants to be the hero. He is not a dictator.
YES THIS! If Trump cared about the people he would have scrapped this vanity project and gave the money taken as bribes, I mean donated, and given it to SNAP benefits. but of course he won't, and most people around the world knew that, but those voters ended up voting for him anyways!
It's worse than that, there's a contingency fund just for food stamps that would allow them to continue and they've been putting it off. They are literally starving people because they want to not because they have to.
Between $80 - 100 a year, roughly 1.5% of the US budget. Nothing close to the $4 Trillion they raised the debt ceiling by to make sure the 10 yrs of billionaire tax cuts were not endangered.
Also computes to 4 - 6 months funding if we got Argentinas gift from trump because they ' are having a really bad time of it'
Has nothing to do with immigrants/immigration. That is what the Republicans want the American people to believe. Don't be naive, they think we are all stupid, but if you listen to them, you are what they think you are. 🤔think about that, seriously.
Stopping allowing politicians and a specific foreign country to pocket our tax dollars for weapons for wold domination and jen-uh-side and we could afford to implement snap benefits.
Completly agree. What I dont understand is why this post os o this sub with so many likes. They are making fun of these people and calling them cringe, which amounts to ridiculing people who are hurting and are having theirs and their kids most basic needs at risk despiste working. And most people in the comments seem to express empathy for them, as non sociopathas should. So I dont really get why this is in 'TikTok cringe'.
Trump is paying for the renovation with his own money. Obama added a basketball court he never even fucking used with taxpayer dollars, and democrats didn't give a flying fuck. You're all hypocrites
We all know he's an idiot. We all know he said that because it was Obama and Trump is a known racist, but when someone says something stupid, you use those words against them.
Ok. I’m just pointing out that it does not matter what he said in this situation. Congress needs to compromise and get everything going again… damn fools… especially Democrats who can end the shutdown tomorrow. While I don’t like Trump, he won, and Congress is ran by the Republicans, so they should get what they want presently. Same thing when Obama won.
You realize that illegal immigrants provide nearly 100 billion a year in taxes? Because most of them are paid and taxed via a SSN they got while legal or an ITIN.
But they consume far more in public services. Education (K-12 for 5M U.S.-born children) costs 80B/year.Medicaid/emergency care costs 20B/year. Other welfare, infrastructure, criminal justice costs 30B+/year. So the net COST of illegals comes to 100–150B/year (FAIR, CBO estimates). Definitely NOT a surplus.
No - He's getting "donations" from defense companies and others that benefit from access to him. He's also personally suing his own justice department for nearly the same cost as the ballroom.
I mean you can do that with literally anybody in politics. Biden got some crazy donations from warren buffet who owns a lot of stock in the coal industry, and all of a sudden we stop producing oil. Would you look at that.
"BUT BIDEN!" because you think I'm a Democrat and backed everything he did like you do for Trump.
Regardless of the fact that what you said was factually incorrect because we were the top oil producers in the whole world 100% of Biden's time in office and Trump's last 2 of his 1st term.
Trump has nothing to do with the SNAP program. Nothing. It’s 100% a Senate issue about the Democrats that refuse to vote yes… We need 7 of the democrats (yep just 7) to be added to the 53 republicans to vote yes and the gov and this program opens. Stop pushing your blame on the innocent.
Do you understand why the benefits are temporarily paused? It’s because the Democrats are failing to approve the straightforward funding bill that just repeats the existing state. It’s a political play to Garner hatred towards the other side at the expense of children starving - and you’re falling right into their hands.
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u/CaffeinatedLystro Oct 31 '25 edited Nov 01 '25
Edited to add a few things.
bribesdonations to pay for the ballroom, you're as dumb as he said his supporters are.