A Christian family member just posted an apology to God that the opening Olympics ceremony used an image of da Vinci's Last Supper. I've never once seen her apologize for most American Christians supporting a lying, unethical, dangerous, narcissistic, adulterer who violates every tenet of her faith.

I do not understand faith that is obsessed with the meaningless and not the vital. Stop obsessing over symbols and start raising your voice about what matters in our spiritual and physical world.

@augieray it's entirely performative.

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And posting an apology?

What social media platform is God scrolling?

Blatant virtue signalling IMHO

@augieray Trump-supporting Christians are all about power, not theology.

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This is actually the genius of the fascists types (including most churches.). If you concentrated on the actual substance people would disagree over that substance (what is charity, really? It's not always clear) but even more they would actually have to DO something (What? Stop mowing my lawn and volunteer at a homeless shelter??).

So get the people all tied in knots (on Xhitter and the like) about our "culture" and how the "left is destroying our way of life." No substance needed, each believer fills in the gaps for the authoritarian leader in their own minds.

@augieray to paraphrase Jim Kirk in #StarTrek 5: "why does God need an apology?"
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Other Christians are hand-wringing because the opening ceremonies were too secular.
@Nazani @augieray Clearly less secular Olympic opening ceremonies should praise the Greek pantheon..
@markmevans @augieray Yes, at the end of the ancient Greek games a procession carried a couch from the temple of Hera to the temple of Zeus, which I think is a cute & saucy touch.

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It's actually really easy to understand: focusing on the meaningless and trivial requires very little thought or effort and results in little to no pushback from (likely male) church authority figures who probably have a vested interest in society's status quo. Focusing on the meaningless and trivial means you can publicly demonstrate how pious and devoted you are to the group without making anyone uncomfortable or being labelled a troublemaker.

Yes, I see it all the time.

@augieray These cultist assholes yak about how holy they are when actually are cruel, exclusive, bigoted, criminal, and hypocritical.

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Let’s just say that if ā€œtheirā€ god is revolted by guys in poom poom shorts and stilettos, it’s probably not the same god who said Ā« love one another. Ā»

@augieray It's legitimately not even supposed to be the last supper. It's a recreation of a marriage celebration between 2 Greek deities but the culture starved American boomer population genuinely thinks the olympics are a christian ceremony even though it originated in ancient greece under hellenism. These people drive me crazy with how stupid they are because they ruin it for everyone else.
@Chaussettes @augieray like the Christians didn't steal everything from the Greeks and Egyptians and pagans anyway
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WTF, that was Dionysus, not Christ. Wrong religion. Are they normally that clueless?