MAGA: We need to run the country based on the Bible

Leviticus 19:34: The foreigner who resides with you must be to you like a native citizen among you; so you must love him as yourself

MAGA: Not that part

Deut 27:19: "Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner."

MAGA: Or that part

@QasimRashid The second part of your fantasy does not check out. Justice would be deportation.
8 U.S. Code § 1158 - Asylum

LII / Legal Information Institute
@Piejacker875 @QasimRashid This xenophobia is one reason I stopped going to church.
@Piejacker875 just the latest in a long series of bad takes on your profile, reply guy pie
@QasimRashid
"Angel Studios was, until 2021, known as VidAngel. Founded in 2014, the company was owned by a well-known Mormon family—Neal Harmon, Jeffrey Harmon, Daniel Harmon, Jordan Harmon, and Benton Crane. Neal Harmon is the current CEO."
https://breeadail.substack.com/p/angel-studios-vs-the-chosen-corruption
Angel Studios vs. The Chosen: Corruption Behind an Industry built on Imago Dei?

Recent reporting shows a glimpse of years-long inner tensions and ongoing legal fighting between Mormon-owned Angel Studios and now Mormon led "The Chosen".

Bree A. Dail
@Robert_Vinson @QasimRashid I've always been a bit amazed about angels that show up and validate what you wanted to do or were doing already. Or new "translations" that mysteriously change dramatically depending on what the translator was paid to confirm.

@rayhayes @QasimRashid
As the song goes:

🎶🎵
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste
I've been around for a long, long years
Stole million man's soul an faith
🎵🎶

@Robert_Vinson @QasimRashid
Joseph Smith makes Trump look honest by comparison. I have never understood how any normal person could buy into the program, meaning, I don't understand how non-Mormons simply accept Mormonism as a legitimate religion instead of a 200 year running scam. It began as a combination con game and child sex/polyamory cult, and its holy book makes claims of an ancient N. American civilization provably false. Mormonism is no better than Scientology.
@QasimRashid Acts 4:34-35: “There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.”
@michaelgemar @QasimRashid
Matthew 25:35-36: "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me"

@sabik
Leviticus 25:39: If a countryman of yours becomes so poor with regard to you that he sells himself to you, you shall not subject him to a slave’s service.

Deuteronomy 15:11: For the poor will never cease to be in the land; therefore I command you, saying, ‘You shall freely open your hand to your brother, to your needy and poor in your land.'

Luke 6:37: Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.

@QasimRashid

Russell Moore in an interview with NPR:

“It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — “turn the other cheek” — [and] to have someone come up after to say, “Where did you get those liberal talking points?” And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, “I’m literally quoting Jesus Christ,” the response would not be, “I apologize.” The response would be, “Yes, but that doesn’t work anymore. That’s weak.” And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we’re in a crisis.”

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192663920/southern-baptist-convention-donald-trump-christianity

@ericjmorey @QasimRashid It's wild how he paints the pastors as the victims here.
@ericjmorey @QasimRashid The American folk religion that calls itself Christianity has never been all that Christian, this had and has a lot to do with slavery, and it's not even slightly Christian now. What we're seeing is a bid to become the official, enforced by state power, imperial religion. (In large part because the aftermath of WWII left the US exercising imperial hegemony without the institutions to do so which warped its existing institutions into autocratic and absolutist shapes.)
@graydon @ericjmorey @QasimRashid So what is actual Christianity?
@sentientmortal @ericjmorey @QasimRashid Technically it's the folks who know and believe the Nicene Creed.
@graydon @ericjmorey @QasimRashid There technically weren't Christians before 325?

@sentientmortal @ericjmorey @QasimRashid Before 325, there was no basis for taxonomic identification of Christian beliefs. Even the folks identifying as Christian didn't agree as to what that meant.

Lots and lots of beliefs have called themselves Christian; taking their word for it requires you to consider Copts and Cathars the same thing. That's not practical or productive.

@graydon @ericjmorey @QasimRashid Not sure that folks identifying as Christian agree to what it means now. Doesn't stop the search for the true believers.
@ericjmorey @QasimRashid
Dismissing the Sermon on the Mount as "those liberal talking points" shows that US evangelicals now spend more time watching Fox than reading scripture.
@ericjmorey @QasimRashid the teachings of Jesus have always been subversive though.
@QasimRashid The number of parts of "the perfect book" they reject is longer than the ones they embrace in reality
@QasimRashid MAGA prefers the White parts of the Bible, which they made up.
@QasimRashid Made me think of this. Memer unknown.
@DukeDuke @QasimRashid
That's an advantage of the sheep and the goats; it's Gospel

@QasimRashid

And there she lusted after her lovers whose genitals were as those of donkeys and whose emissions were as that of horses. - Ezekiel 23:20

All the bullshit and nonsense listed verse by verse:

Skepticsannotatedbible.com

@QasimRashid

I keep waiting for those literalists to get incensed about #Usury & declare the long overdue #Jubilee

 

@QasimRashid The other day on that other site I quoted Deuteronomy 10:19: "So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt."

I got back, "Only if it's LEGAL IMMIGRATION!"

Funny, I can't seem to find any exception for immigration laws in that verse.

@bishop6 @QasimRashid

Even then they don't do it. When I was in the USA legally on an H1-B I wasn't allowed to vote, claim social security or change jobs, contrary to Leviticus 24:22

You shall have the same rule for the sojourner and for the native, for I am the Lord your God.”

@QasimRashid Don’s great at it. Trump has used the King James to wipe ketchup from his chin; hold upside down as an ethical shield; hide his Playboys in; hit Rudy with and for his Epstein girlfriends to stand on. What a fucking scoundrel.
@QasimRashid Then he said, “Beware! Guard against every kind of greed. Luke 12:15 But their idol Gordon Gecko says "Greed is good" or god in some minds.
@QasimRashid If fundamentalist Christians are going to ‘not that part’ some of the Old Testament, it makes it hard to justify Creationism. If they get to decide which bits of the Bible they follow, they’re not following the Bible, they’re a cult.

@QasimRashid

...and today I heard this complete narcissist, recorded at a rally in Indianapolis, say:

“You can’t stay at home,” “[Even} if you’re sick as a dog and you say ‘darling I can’t make it…’

“Even if you vote and then pass away it’s worth it."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-iowa-caucus-dog-b2478520.html

Trump urges Iowans to vote even if they are ‘as sick as a dog’ and die afterward

The former president said that even if people ‘passed away’ shortly after voting it would be ‘worth it’

The Independent

@QasimRashid ok but new testament ... Mark 12:31 Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater ...

No still not that one either 🙄

@QasimRashid Today I saw a thread on twitter/X that made me quite angry. It was in response to Musk's latest rhetoric (which he tends to do more often for some dumbass reason). It was literally calling for force deportations when you can, pressuring others to leave voluntarily, and then social and political pressure to 'procreate.'

all the replies were the same unhinged "We need to bring back segregation," "rescind citizenships from people who got here through H1B because they probably bribed the politicians" and the whole "Jews did this" and all that.

A similar thread was a lot of "x people died while crossing Rio Grande" - "Good" "Maybe stay home" "Maybe that'll deter them." Absolutely deranged.

I am an immigrant, I love this country a lot - it is home afterall, but people like that absolutely make me lose faith sometimes.
@QasimRashid Luke 6:30 Give to everyone who asks you, and if anyone takes what belongs to you, do not demand it back.
@QasimRashid
Matthew 25:40: Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me

@QasimRashid Romans 13:10
Leviticus 19:18
Matthew 22:36-40

MAGA: Definitely not those parts.

@QasimRashid I believe, beliefs should be respected. & believers be held to account/judge themselves on their own beliefs. Picking and choosing works until it doesn't. Many people don't even realise they can rule themselves with their rules. It seems we prefer to live by no rules and no consequences. Reality is unforgiving and beliefs and laws form a part of all of our realities.

@QasimRashid personally I love this quote:

John: 21:37 Pope is allowed to hide pedophiles and support AIDS spread in Africa as he's chosen by God and he cannot be sentenced by law. Amen.

Truly great book. I love it. #atheism #god #christianity

@QasimRashid but don't get me wrong. I'm not only speaking about Christianity. Islam is even worse xDD their prophet was a pedophile.

Now people claim that he was not as "Aisha reached puberty, which was considered adulthood in ancient Arab society". Well this only changes allegations from pedophile to child abuser #islam #atheism

They also kill people who try to escape Islam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam

And there are countries who still so that.

Apostasy in Islam - Wikipedia

@QasimRashid Any relation that MAGA has to basic human decency is purely coincidental.