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Dr. Amy, Psy.D.Jesus died for my sins and I’m going to make sure he gets his money’s worth
GinevraCat@dramypsyd *Bows deeply*. ..exits your exalted presence backwards.
Mees 🔻@dramypsyd I salute your piousity!
Adam Jacobs 🇺🇦@dramypsyd Better make sure your sins are original then
ShnoofleBear /ʃnuːfɛlbɛːr/@dramypsyd Guy didn't even stay dead, what exactly did he sacrifice? A weekend?
@ShnoofleBear It was an amazing weekend though
@dramypsyd Not for him, according to the tales...
Klarname 🌈Actually he just skipped a weekend 🤪
lemgandiGreat discussion in _Debt: The First 5000 Years_ ( David Graeber, Melville House, 2011) about the equivalence of money debt and sin.
So yeh, you're not far off.
JoeHenzi@lemgandi @dramypsyd I do love this reading, but I've actually found a deeper connection to Christ through Graeber. Chris the Redeemer - it is a commercial transaction. But intended to wipe debts of all sorts. When I look around at folks like Talarico, I see that this is a political movement against the usage of money as a factor to marginalize and dehumanize mankind.
One on hand, there is Trump. And on the other, there is Jesus - who commands us to pray for not only those who owe us debts but our debtors (ultimately to remove the shackles of debt entirely). Trump is bearing false witness to remove a regulator who controls interest rates (another sinful activity...).
The Sermon on the Mount is a dangerous political message, even one that would take down Gavin Newsom. Blessed are the poor, they'll always be with you.
Shame to those who use Christ to perpetuate cycles of crime and economic violence. It is the opposite, it is an attempt to remove the yoke of the axial age thrust upon us. Money is not a tool that feeds the needy - it is a tool to remove the access to the corners of the fields god commands us to leave for those who need it. It is man who warps these things - people who support a figure like Trump. Wild.
Heh! Very thoughtful!
I personally myself find most Christians baffling. But I appreciate your take on this.
@lemgandi @dramypsyd If Christians are talking to you about abortion or homosexuality they are not anymore
R.L. Dane 
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@JoeHenzi @lemgandi @dramypsyd
I've been enjoying reading your toots, but I gotta say, I don't agree with this.
Plenty of people are peeling off the blinders. They're learning to be decent humans and value humanity, not just being "a good Christian."
There were plenty of times in the past when I thought that abortion was the biggest issue of the day, the gravest injustice. I wasn't any less of a Christian then, just less of a human, less of a complete person.
@rl_dane @lemgandi @dramypsyd You're right, they are bad people, this makes sense.
EDIT: blinders though, I'm sorry lol, this is funny
@JoeHenzi @lemgandi @dramypsyd
It was very different 15 years ago. It's become a hellhole today. I don't have any fb/twitter/instagram/reddit accounts anymore.
@JoeHenzi @lemgandi @dramypsyd
The beauty of the fediverse is that you have a lot of control over your experience.
Adding filters and unfollowing doomboosters has done a lot for my mental health.
@rl_dane @lemgandi @dramypsyd ohhhh, trust me - I'm going to use these tricks just to keep myself from pointing out how terrible people are becoming.
@JoeHenzi @lemgandi @dramypsyd
It's honestly far more complex than even that.
You can be a great person in your interpersonal relationships, but be an absolute heel in your political world, because you utterly fail to see the repercussions of your ideological bent, or how the policies you support negatively affect so many people.
People fail time and time again to spot their own cognitive biases. Survivorship bias is huge among conservatives, as well as simply not understanding that people who look different than them will have a wildly different life experience, even if all other variables were replicated.
The real tragedy of the current situation is that people who are overall good can have a terrible effect on the world at large.
I couldn't engage. They were mislead into thinking abortion was important - they *were* less of a Christian. Christians aren't supposed to care about that - at all - and they are to value humanity, they are decent humans. The comment they are not or that others are more capable of this is stupidity. The confusion is Christians and Christianity. There are hateful bigots who are Christians - but that's not the teachings. Any more than Bin Laden represented Islam.
Religious people don't have blinders on. Bigots do. Saying religious people have hate is being a bigot too. It is not the teachings. Those people are bigots.
nanowizA(wo)men
Netraven@dramypsyd shamelessly stolen from an ancient greentext:
It's catholic canon that in the garden of gesthsemane jesus christ saw every sin committed by human beings which means that he watched a guy blasting rope to waluigi hentai and still decided to sacrifice himself for humanity. asbolute legend.
Hot Dog Water, will not complyHe died so that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. And the free clinic.
Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤@dramypsyd
Jesus died‽ I bought some tacos from him in his food truck only a few days ago.
Jesus died‽ I bought some tacos from him in his food truck only a few days ago.
MrGrumpyMonkey@sloanlance @dramypsyd Take this ⭐ and this comment. I met him the other day delivering food to a resident. He seems to be alive and well.
ᴺⁱˡᶻ 🍸My sins are seemingly so insignificant, that nobody had to die for them. Am I doing it wrong?
C.S.StrowbridgeApparently Grigori Rasputin belonged to a sect of Christianity which believe this. Jesus died for our sins, so it would be rude not to sin.
Project 1789@dramypsyd
You wouldn't want Jesus to die for nothing would you?
Nobody wants that on their conscience.
Also, he really only interrupted a long weekend for our sins. I suppose it was the Easter long weekend but still?
More seriously.
If you could be crucified knowing you would resurrect & save all humanity & be worshipped as a god for thousands of years, would you do it? I'd do it in a heartbeat.
John Safran did it for a comedy sketch.
Trigger warning.
John Safran's Race Relations - Ep 8 The Crucifixion
Arapalla
Catherine is not complacent@dramypsyd “Jesus died for somebody’s sins but not mine”
Patti Smith
Patti Smith
Mark Wyner Won’t Comply 
Joshua Kevins@dramypsyd I don't think there is something that we can pay him let's only praise him
Max Leibman@dramypsyd I mean, if he went to so much trouble, it would be rude to stop now, right?
James M.@dramypsyd right? Don't let his sacrifice go to waste!
katzenbergerWould you please be so kind to not use up the whole quota for humanity…?
@katzenberger I make no promises
Paul_IPv6if jesus died for my sins, i'm quite confident that he seriously questioned the sanity of *both* of our life choices.
Darth Osler@dramypsyd do something more original than the seven deadlies
Do sins from the old testament
Have a catfish and pork chop sandwich, etc
Amy Maybe@autolycos @dramypsyd Get a tattoo! Wear cotton and wool together!
Carsten Franke@autolycos @dramypsyd we should start a research group and develop novel sins.
The Orange Theme@dramypsyd *cracks knuckles* His death will not have been in vain!
ginoputrino@dramypsyd I feel like you could build entire ethical and legal frameworks out of that idea.
Jonathan Lamothe@dramypsyd I had a cousin who used to say, "Jesus died for my sins, so if I don't sin, he died for nothing."
@dramypsyd reading through these comments, it seems I may have found my people.
Ben Rush@dramypsyd @lisamelton I dunno, I'm kinda with Tricky on this. In his song "Somebody's Sins" he wrote "Jesus died for someone's sins, but not mine."
Human Brain Enthusiast@dramypsyd so that’s how that works!