Here’s a better message for Catholics in the army:
You swore an oath to defend the US and its constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. A domestic enemy is actively soiling the office of the president, and rather than defend us against him, you continue to follow his orders. Stop doing what’s easy, and start doing what’s right.
Those people would be mad if they could read… but one of the reasons they join is because reading wasn’t so great
That’s not a failure of their own. I got straight As and graduated college and have been working with people with only highschool education. I can tell you that it’s the system. Older people can definitely learn new things if they’re attention couples with a similar push from the educator’s side.
Hilarious that the church thinks it can step in and dictate which killings their god endorses
I mean thats kind of how that church works.
With a commandment stating “though shalt not kill” you’d think partitioning good kills from bad kills would be a non-starter
With a commandment stating “though shalt not kill” you’d think partitioning good kills from bad kills would be a non-starter
Brother, have you picked up and read a Bible? Like even just Exodus?
Edit: I forgot that the fall of Jericho is the Book of Joshua, not Exodus, although timeline-wise, in the grand scheme of things, it’s still basically right after the Commandments, which was what I was getting at.
Joshua and the Promised Land fucking up my perception of how the Bible flows narratively.
I was raised baptist. There’s a difference between events of the bible and what christians are commanded to do. Frankly I don’t give a rat’s ass anymore.
Well yes, religion exists within society and that society’s pressures determine which interpretations and philosophies are amplified and which are silenced.
have you picked up and read a Bible?
The things full of contradictions. It’s a horrible book to claim to base your morality on.
There’s nothing in the Bible about molesting choir boys.
I mean… its still the Catholic church we’re dealing with here…
That’s been doctrine since 2018.
American Catholics should also be prohibited by doctrine from voting for political candidates who support the death penalty. The death penalty is carried out on behalf of the government. You know, “of the people.”
Voting for a death penalty candidate is a form of participating in the executions that come from that vote. If the executioner refuses to do their job, the government will find someone else.
Compare that with abortion, it’s only allowing others to get abortions. If an expectant woman refuses to get an abortion, that’s the end of that. It’s just her choice.
I will also point out that anti-abortion protestors often carry signs that say things like “what if Jesus had been aborted?” He wasn’t, obviously, so that’s just a weird hypothetical.
But he was arrested, put on trial by the government, sentenced to death, and lawfully executed via crucifixion by the Roman government. His death was completely above board from a legal and political perspective. So you’d think Christians in general would be more firmly against the notion of lawfully executing criminals.
How DARE he tell his Pro Life congregation to be Pro LIFE!
It’s not contrary to the church’s teachings.
Evidence in support of my position: Centuries of the Pope being totally fine with mass executions and murder. Also, Holy Bible. Yes, it does say “do not kill”, it also says “kill”.
For example, it says to honor your mother and father, and it says that parents should murder their disobedient children by stoning.
Then, it says “don’t kill.”
So, it’s more like ‘don’t kill*’. But they had not invented asterisks yet.
It’s almost as if different people wrote different parts of the Bible, and it’s a contradictory mess.
Anyway, if you can’t follow orders, don’t join the military. Following orders is, like, the most important part.
Yep. Turns out “the” bible is a Rorschach blot and you pretty much get the morals and ethics you had in you before you came to it.
Explains why you have things like Quakers and extremist right wing bloodthirsty crazies using it as their source. Explains why Jefferson did his own edit and basically excised it down to the red letter stuff.
I think that’s just life/humans. Same ideas apply to the average Lemmy post.
The Red Letter thing is wild, I only stumbled upon that gem of US religion a few years back.
Of course the Bible is self contradictory. The only christian denominations that care about that are the protestants and their “sola scriptura” doctrine. Catholics, orthodox, Armenians, Copts, etc dgaf.
If they’re still in the military, that’s their choice. Most of these fucks want to fight for cheetohead. Otherwise, they would have looked to change their career in the last 10 years.
How many divisions does the pope have?
And they are intimidating…
Getting my ass beat would be too embarrassing to risk.
no, see, the bible prescribes stonings, not firing squads.
What the Bible and what the Church teach are two different things, and rightly so. Only in evangelicalism is the Bible the inerrant word of God.
Who threw that?
