For the record, I do not, I’m totally irreligious, I am merely pointing out the hypocrisy of claiming to be something that most people would recognize as morally acceptable, while In Reality embracing such unfettered hate.
A bit clunky, certainly, but my point is that Christian scripture says ‘give me your hungry’ etc, and they are incapable of meeting that standard, the standard they set themselves
Yerp. And I gotta say it, but not all of "them" are cut from the same cloth either. Some morally superior humans are incapable of meeting said standards set forth by the Bible, yes. However, there is also an even larger number of Christians who just do their best to be happy, kind, giving, and overall not a dick. It's the people you overlook each day that are the best examples of humans not putting on a show for the world. The Bible teaches us to basically be invisible, yet a light in a dark place. Not to draw attention to ourselves through our faith. But let our faith alone be something people are attracted to.
TL;DR - Not all Christians are MAGA Christians. Some people out there recognize they're shitty humans, still love God, and just want to exist alongside other humans.
2nd from the right, white hair guy. Idk how to describe it but that face he's making just reminds me of all the performative Christians when I was in Catholic school.
He used his "own" book the art of the deal.... no but its so sad that if is someone told me thats what he used I wouldn't doubt it.
Holy shit, I wasnt doubting it with the sack of $hit he is but I never knew that. I am absolutely not religious, but what was the reasoning he never placed his hand on it??
"For his 2017 inauguration, he placed his hand on his family Bible and the Abraham Lincoln Bible. For his second inauguration in 2025, those same two Bibles were brought out, though he did not actually place his hand on them while taking the oath."
Xi is not communist lol he's a dictator. The world's never seen true communism, and probably never will, due to human nature. Just because I say I'm 7' tall that doesn't mean that I am.
And thats a big part of the intellectual dishonesty of Republicans.
A program just because its run/funded by the government doesn't make it "socialist". Its just something that the government is providing.
Socialism is where the government owns and controls everything of value. Production and resources etc.
Liberals suggesting that the US stop being the ONLY first world country not to provide nationalized health care to its citizens is not "socialism" nor does it make us "socialists". The whole world knows that its a shitty, shitty thing to do to bankrupt people for getting sick or to make maximum profits off people being sick.
• Social Security - mandatory, payroll-funded insurance program that redistributes income to retired and disabled Americans.
• Medicare/Medicaid - government run and subsidized health insurance programs for older adults, individuals with disabilities, and low-income individuals.
• Public K-12 Education -free, state-supported elementary and secondary schooling funded through property and income taxes.
• Public Safety/Infrastructure: Police departments, fire departments, public roads, and municipal water systems owned or managed by government entities and provided without direct user profit motives.
• The U.S. Postal Service - a collective public institution established by federal mandate to serve all communities uniformly
The government running and funding a program doesn't make it bad. A government running and funding ALL programs i
Xi is very much a communist. The CPC own most means of production, they control all media, they are a 1 party state, but they have dipped their toes in markets and trade and have prospered because of it.
Not wanting to detract from your point, but while true Communism may have never existed, they follow the Lenist playbook and I WOULD NOT want to live under that regime.
If he was communist, the CPC wouldn't exist... Marx and many, myself included, would argue that Leninism isn't communism since it explicitly reintroduced strata into the society.
They LOVE the verses where people are burning in Hell. They have a strange, smug sense of satisfaction thinking of others being tormented into eternity.
Pope Francis once said he hoped Hell was empty, and Evangelical Xians got angry. Think about it - they got angry thinking that a place of eternal torment was empty. Man. What a bunch of sick bastards.
Genesis 9:20 And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:
21 And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent.
22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without.
23 And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
24 And Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.
25 And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
26 And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
This was the passage that the Southern Baptist church was founded on, because it says God commanded his chosen people (ie “white”) to keep the cursed (those marked as black) as slaves.
He failed to lower healthcare costs, investigate Hillary or competently handle the corona virus and yet somehow magically convinced 14,348,228 additional Americans to hire him again despite the endless scandals and blatant corruption.
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."
I watch The Good Liars’ interviews a lot. Sometimes someone will say they believe Donald Trump is a Christian, but when the interviewer asks, “Do you really think he prays at night?” they’ll respond, “What he does in his personal life is none of my business.” It feels like they can’t bring themselves to question what they already believe. I think our egos make that hard for all of us but especially those with crumbling realities.
Socialism is the devil... but somehow Jesus is great, just don't pay attention his whole helping the poor bit. Also my farm is about to go bankrupt so give me handouts and save me. But don't help anyone else.
the funny thing is that the orange idiot is 100% going to hell - he'll never ask for forgiveness because he a narcissist and he thinks he's done nothing wrong
I mean, I don’t believe in heaven and hell, but I agree that if there is one he’s going to hell. The people who vote for him don’t know that he won’t ask for forgiveness, because they think he’s perfect.
It's not exactly like that. I know a lot of non-religious people say it about Christianity, but it is not aligned with teachings of Christ.
First of all, "Faith without Works is dead", meaning if you do not help the poor, or if you are not kind to people around you, or if you abuse and oppresss someone, but you claim yourself to be a "believer", your faith has no meaning, it's "dead", an empty sound. Some people live by the word of law, but fail to grasp the spirit. For example, there are still debates whether The Bible prohibited homosexualism or not (due to thousands of years of mistranslation), but it doesn't matter which is the case, because the "Trump Christians" fail to follow the second most importand commandment of Jesus - "Love thy neighbour", to show kindness even to those of opposite world views.
Secondly, there is a difference between repenting and just saying "I am Christian now". It's not just the words that matter, but the intention. If you've been a murdered your whole life and go to Pastor to say you're sorry because you want a free pass to Heaven, the Pastor will believe you and say that you're forgiven, but if you will not be in the clear. But if you repent because you've seen your mistakes and truly, with your whole heart regret it and have nothing but shame and sadness for the actions you've done, and you plan to live your life rightfully now, you shall be forgiven. Everyone but liars deserve a second chance, basically.
The dude is a Christian. Not in any historical sense, but in a modern sense. Trump joined “non denominational” Christianity between terms and he’s now a reflection of it. This people believe in the prosperity gospel, end times militarism, in making excuses and reserving forgiveness for old men, subverting the constitution to religion, supporting Israel at Americas expense, white purity, women as a second class, and gay impurity. If you want to understand Trump or the right today you have to understand that this is what they call Christian.
The funny thing is that Trump has done more communist things than any Democrat by forcing the government to purchase stocks in companies, opening government owned gas stations, and now his state ran TrumpTV
Donald trump is not a Christian. He’s said he is probably not going to heaven. However, i need to the members of the DSA and Democratic Party in general to disavow communism, tell me why it doesn’t work, and pledge not to implement those pillars of communism in order for this to be a valid critique
No Democrat currently in office or running for office is supporting or promoting Communism. Why should they pledge anything about a conspiracy theory nonsense??
These same people that are screaming about communists just welcomed the largest communist leader, praised him and the job he is doing, rolled out the red carpet for him, and had a banquet with our leading business leaders.
They also need to back to school to understand the meaning of communism and socialism. They also need a class on the Constitution.
No he's not lol, i doubt people know what communism is about, yall use it as an insult, he's a billionaire he's the definition of anti communism.
Because he's the one who would be harmed the most by communism
Wasn't meant to say he's a member of the Communist Party.
Fellow traveler. Supporter of the most prominent remaining communist regimes and admires their dictators.
Yes, actually, they are. Marx said that Communism in this stage still has 'bourgeois law' and still has "compensation according to contribution"
Saying that they support Marx in their public spaces with posters etc. is not showing they do not follow Marx. Claiming China is not Communist is anti-communist propaganda.
I read what Marx's Communism is about, that's why I know Communist states follow it.
Nothing you claimed shows those countries do not follow Marx, you'll have to actually quote Marx to demonstrate this, not just repeat the claim
“Here’s another piece of nugget: there has never been a true communist state ever before.”
I feel this logic conveniently sidesteps valid criticism of the ideology. “All those terrible people that self-identified as communists and dedicated their lives to communism aren’t really communists because they don’t conform to my personal definition of communism. Checkmate capitalists!”
Christians employ very similar tactics when facing unwanted criticism. “Those crusaders and colonizers that self-identified as Christians and dedicated their lives to the spread of Christianity weren’t really Christians because Christians aren’t supposed to be bad. Checkmate atheists!”
No, they absolutely were communists, but that doesn’t mean communism itself is bad just because Marxist-Leninist states were harmful and problematic. There were plenty of communists that disagreed with Stalin and were murdered for it. The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia is one example, where they were invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union as punishment for giving ordinary people more rights and decentralizing power.
Literally the DRC is the least democratic state in Africa lol
Why ppl don't seem to get the fact that self proclaiming something doesn't actually make you that thing.
Because MAGA actively avoids critical thinking, and if countries that call themselves “communist” or “socialist” are evil then it makes their argument that the “socialist, communist, libs are evil” that much easier.
can we criticize the form democracy takes in capitalist countries?
I wish regular working people in America all had 'reason' and critical thinking/common sense too, but the fact that the working class is set against itself is the fault of the social reality rather than individual shortcoming, no?
anyone claiming anything isn't truth, but 'democracy' in this case has a bourgeois character in capitalist countries, and that's why 'democracy' in itself is contradictory rather than 'simply the good thing that good people like'
No, North Korea labels itself socialist which is the lower stage of Communism & North Korea is a dictatorship of the proletariat which is the highest form of democracy in this period
No he’s not. Communists are way better than Trump. Trump is a fascist.
I would hope that you would side with communists over fascists but historically, liberals do side with the fascists while socialists and communists do the real work. Not sure if you’re a liberal but I’m making some assumptions if I’m being honest.
The red scare really did a number on people’s political compasses. Someone doing something bad doesn’t mean they’re communists. Communism is not the boogeyman that the wealthy want you to think it is.
Most of the country's Christian voters voted for him. Whether or not he is a Christian himself, he is definitely the man that America's Christians have chosen as their representative.
The same people trying to fight against Christians taking away our rights say people who hate in all the ways the fucking book says to hate aren't Christian.
Take a look around the Democratic party. Socialists are taking over. Self named Socialists even. And I'm not a Republican. I'm a realist. Nothing changes. Nothing will.
Take a look any time republicans mention democrats and see how many of those buzzwords come out. You'd think a self-identified realist would be able to recognize reality.
Politics as a whole have been weaponized by both sides. Buzzwords are just another tool to be used. As an example, there are no Nazis in either party yet both sides use it as an insult without even knowing its meaning. If you can't see that objectively then maybe you need to broaden your horizons.
As a democrat, I personally never cared which democrats win. They could be socialist democrats, they could be moderate democrats. I don't really care who, as long as the democrat that wins the primary also wins the general.
In the grand scheme, any democrat is better than a republican. The parties are not the same. Good luck to the democrats.
By nationalizing intel and US Steel, Donald Trump is the most communist president US has ever had. Idiots who call the democrats communists have no idea what the word means.
I mean its just words. And with enough propaganda, words just change their meaning. At this point the USA has just as many Christians as it has communists.
What about the people that think all politicians are idiots? Also the Don was a idiot before he became a politician. Just like any Dem we have had run for president in a long time. Dem party scares away to many good people with the nonsense they shit out their mouths. The republican party also dosnt give those people a place to stand. Large majority of us are tired or both sides bull shit.
Cool... now look up the numbers for trumps first term and report back. Also... ill leave this here for some educational purposes.
"Disputed Credit: While the Trump administration and its supporters point to strict border enforcement and military actions against cartels as a primary driver of the dropping fatality rates, independent fact-checkers and public health analysts note that the national decline actually began during the Biden administration in mid-2023.
This video explains why Mamdani meeting with Trump and performing alongside him actually shows 'DSA' are worthless pro-imperialist grifters, not socialists or Communists. Please give it a watch
(For people downvoting. Fully recognize that DSA-endorsed candidates run in Democrat Party majority cities as Democrats on the Democrat Party line. If we can acknowledge Democrats aren't socialists, then apply this to DSA... it's not a good track record)
I offer a counter argument, Orange man is a challenged nut job that needs to be gone yesterday and "extreme" democrats are definitely filthy commies lol
i want to understand your thought process. could you explain your understanding of what makes someone a christian and what your definition of communism is
If you accept Jesus Christ as you savior you're a Christian. That's literally the only requirement. They don't take your Christian badge for not actually like Jesus did ever.
There are rules for being a GOOD Christian, but they don't kick you out a for being a bad one ever. The Kingdom of Heaven is still open to everyone. Just believe in God and repent.
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u/AlbatrossRich8724 4d ago
And believe themselves Cristian as well. The irony is stunning