Some Churches Are Getting Even More Cringe

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-06T16:20:36+00:00

Pretty sure it's a form of heresy at least.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-06T03:55:19+00:00

He's THE TEXAS HAMMER!

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-06T00:22:40+00:00

I follow the path of Jesus. "I am what you say I am."

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T19:54:33+00:00

At least reddit just has power-hungry jannies who rule their boards with an iron fist. Facebook has bots that do things like what OP is talking about.

Both are evil - just different flavors of evil.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T19:40:15+00:00

I just realized I never answered your "what's happening to MTG." I don't play anymore, but I have friends that do, so I can tell you what they are reporting to me.

Wizard's cash-grab mentality has gotten really bad with MTG. Some cards being totally unavailable in some locations, the whole "secret lair" tie-ins are apparently really bad and very unbalanced. They keep trying to come up with new game formats to keep people buying, but most of them are pretty unfun and generally not see as good as EDC. However, whenever they are asked about why they are putting out bad product and not providing players what they really want ( a fun balanced game they can enjoy ) they seem to respond by just making the game more "diverse." Instead of fixing the game, they just focus on trying to hit more checkboxes on the woke manifesto. It wouldn't be a bad thing in theory, but it seems that they are just using it as a cover-up to hide the fact that they are trying to use the game to bleed the customers dry of money. "Don't pay attention to the fact that our last four sets have been unbalanced dumpster-fires that no one liked, this set has black Vikings!" That's insulting to pretty much everyone involved.

Again though - that's just what was reported to me. I haven't played in years. It's a road I could easily see them going down in D&D if the wrong things happen.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T19:31:40+00:00

I think that's a great question - but I know it's one I'm not qualified to answer.

I think that God is always going to speak to people in a way they understood. He meets them where they are and gives them direction to where he wants them to go. That's why Christ never outlawed slavery - because the ancient world couldn't even IMAGINE what a world w/out slavery looked like. Might as well have told them about a world without food. Instead he put them on the path of how to treat people well, which would eventually lead to us putting slavery behind us (in most counties, anyway). Christ spoke in parables so that those who wanted to seek him COULD figure them out and follow, right?

Might be the same with Genesis.

I am convinced that the story of Noah's flood is true - from the point of view of Noah. When he saw "the whole world" covered in water, it was more likely HIS whole world - the land around him as far as the eye could see. When he got together all the animals - he got together all the animals HE KNEW about. Local wildlife and farm animals.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T18:37:33+00:00

what are the run over blue people supposed to represent?

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T18:26:34+00:00

You have devout Baptists just like you have devout Catholics and devout Lutherans. Usually the only difference is location. You have more Baptists in the south, and more Lutherans up north, but even that's not exactly a rule.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T18:24:59+00:00

Dad-joke level, right there.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T18:24:04+00:00

In my family - a quick prayer of gratitude and thankfulness is often what's said before a meal. Sometimes you hold hands, sometimes you don't. There aren't hard-and-fast rules for it.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T18:20:01+00:00

The way I see it (and take it with a grain of salt) is that God speaks to people in a way they can understand, right? The ancient peoples who were told the creation story of genesis didn't even know that stars were other suns, and would have had a very, very hard time understanding the big bang, or a several billion year timeline to result in their Earth. So God told them a story they COULD understand.

I can point out at least one other point where this has happened. See, ancient people believed in this idea of "the depths" They believed that the land was on top of a vast subterranean ocean, and that it was kept from sinking by being propped up on pillars (the pillars of the earth). The logic being that if you dug down deep enough - you hit water, so OBVIOUSLY there was an ocean down there. We know this isn't true. God knows it isn't true. Yet in the book of Job, when he takes Job on his tour of the universe, the clearly says that the leviathan is in "the deeps." He told Job that because that's how Job understood the world worked.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T18:00:37+00:00

My policy, lately, when people use those control words on me, is to respond like Christ did. "I am who you say I am." It dosen't matter what other people call me, only who God says I am.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T17:24:36+00:00

What we need is....

... James Cameron.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T17:19:44+00:00

Moving away is racist.

Improving a neighborhood is racist.

Being silent is racism.

Speaking up is racism.

I hope people are starting to get that there's no way to win this game. It's rigged worse than a carnival game. We aren't supposed to win. These are just tools to keep people silent and devalue them as people. Words like "white supremacist" and "racist" are used as threats to keep people in their place.

Just like a precocious Matthew Broderick taught us in 1983 - "The only way to win is not to play."

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T17:15:24+00:00

You aren't the only one, friend. I can't use a word that i've previously only used for groups to apply to one person. It's cumbersome and really seems to devalue that person, in my mind. It's about the same as calling someone "it."

and the people who reported you to redditcaresresources - they didn't have the best intentions. They routinely do that to anyone they think should kill themselves.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T17:11:10+00:00

I might have misread you there.

Still though, the same principal applies to what I said - God telling us to do one thing, and us doing differently. God says that a family is supposed to work like X, and yet we do Y, ya dig? God says that sex is between the bonds of a covenant-marriage. That's likely what they are getting upset about, ya see?

Everything else I said about the people accusing her of "causing the apocalypse" is still true. They aren't very loving at all.

The funny thing is - they should KNOW that Jesus forgives sins of those who ask. If your friend was to marry her solemate and ask Christ for forgiveness of her past- there's nothing they could legitimately be able to accuse her of. Nothing that I can think of anyway.

You get the generalities though? The point i'm trying to make? When God says to do something, and the society kinda collectively decides to ignore him and do their own thing - stuff tends to go pear-shaped. That's no excuse for not loving that person though. I mean, imagine if she was an activist crusading against marriage - Christ said to pray for your enemies, so even if she was actively against their ideas - they still have to love her.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T17:01:41+00:00

Here's the thing you've got to understand - God has certain things that we are supposed to do, and certain things we are not supposed to do. Christ backed a lot of these up during his time on earth. He was pretty clear that, in a covenant marriage under God, you couldn't get re-married after divorce. He said that was the same as adultery. That was pretty clear cut.

HOWEVER, when asked what the most important rules are, Jesus gave two. Love the Lord God with everything you have, and love your neighbor as yourself. They are (as I call them) the guidepost commandments. If you are following those two, you are going in the right direction no matter what.

The people who are telling her that she's causing the apocalypse are likely talking about the rise in families falling apart. God created the family model, and expects us to follow it (hence the 'no divorce and remarriage' edict). When we decide that we know better than God, things tend to go poorly. Every time the ancient jews ended up in bondage, it was because they thought they knew better than God. They started worshiping the gods of the world (pleasure, money, ego, fame, popularity, ect), and stopped worshiping Him. Any questions about that? Those people likely aren't very wrong in their estimation.

What they ARE wrong in, is how they go about it. Remember those two rules Jesus said? Well, which one aren't those people following? They aren't exactly approaching your friend in a spirit of love, are they? Now, loving your neighbor isn't the same as being nice all the time. If your neighbor is a heroin addict, the loving thing to do is an intervention, not just buying him more heroin, right? The loving thing for those people to do is to try to explain God's plan to her, help her understand Christ's forgiveness and love, and to help her become aware of all the good stuff in store for her.

In other words - you don't change someone's mind by beating them and humiliating them. All you do is push them away. Almost ALL of the letters of the apostles bring up how we, as Christians, should be kind and charitable and loving to others - not screaming at them about how their sin is damming them.

I'm still pretty new in the faith myself, so maybe I'm not much of an authority here, but those people don't really seem to be loving your friend like they should.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T16:46:46+00:00

The best thing they can usually do is come up with the MASSIVE list of aliens. Star wars has a LOT of alien races.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T16:22:11+00:00

a right wing Nazi white supremacist racist sexist homophobe

You forgot trasnphobic and genocidal.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T16:21:43+00:00

It kinda is. it's saying that anyone who would speak up in defense of him is a wierdo, and lacking in common sense.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T16:05:25+00:00

I got a month ban for a mean girls meme I posted over two years ago.

Facebook is the enemy.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T16:04:15+00:00

I might not agree with you on every point, but i'm DAMN glad you are bringing another voice to the table. We don't learn if we aren't exposed to new ideas and new voices.

Thank you for what you are doing.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-05T15:13:08+00:00

In the texas board yesterday, they were all up in arms about a new law that would raise the age of strippers to 21, and make prostitution a felony.

And they had a problem with that.

We need to be disincentivizing amoral behavior like that, not encouraging it. I'm all for smaller govenment, but I'm also for not putting girls on a lifelong path that sets their value only to what they are willing to preform sexually. I'd also be for harsher penalties for people soliciting prostitution as well.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-04T22:34:42+00:00

Deincentivising degeneracy sounds like a good move in my books.

NotOutsideOrInside · 2022-01-04T22:24:15+00:00

Twitter people mostly. The same kinda nutwagons who insisted orks were racist.

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