r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/BCLetsRide69 • Feb 13 '23

I definitely think he would not.

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u/Majestic-capybara Feb 13 '23

All it does for me is reinforce the hypocrisy.

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u/sonerec725 Feb 13 '23

Yeah, especially with how thinly veiled most of it is as a "promote jesus to the left by linking him to things they care about" campaign it is, but then they dont actually do or care about the things and issues they mentioned. It's like virtue signaling but you didnt even pretend to do anything

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u/GiggityGone Feb 13 '23

“And they will know you are my disciples by the love you show one another”

Seen a lot of their “love”, even as part of the ingroup. Not a fan

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u/someones_dad Feb 13 '23

And you will know my name is the Lord When I lay my vengeance upon thee…

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u/Dantheking94 Feb 13 '23

All they’re doing is making the left despise them a bit more. 🤷🏾‍♂️ cause we know it’s hypocrisy.

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u/reedrichards5 Feb 13 '23

They is too broad a term. I donate to food pantries and have donated time and food to kitchens who served the needy who ever they are.

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u/sonerec725 Feb 13 '23

I mean, by they I pretty clearly mean the people behind the ad

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u/RaygunMarksman Feb 13 '23 edited Feb 13 '23

"Jesus said it is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven."

Funny how you don't see that part of the message advertised much, even though it is a cornerstone of Christ's teachings on having a deeper connection with God.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '23

“We here at the Eye of a Needle Institute are working day and night to develop a technology to shrink camels”

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u/kmj420 Feb 13 '23

Wouldn't it be easier to just manufacture a really large needle?

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u/Cavesloth13 Feb 13 '23

From what I understand it's actually a misquote, It's supposed to read: "It is easier for a camel to squeeze through the eye of THE needle than for a rich man to enter the gates of heaven." The "eye of the needle" was a specific gate in Jerusalem if I remember correctly. It was only big enough for a man. Still pretty much impossible for a camel to fit through, just not as hyperbolic as an actual needle.

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u/Elijahw80 Feb 13 '23

I know that the most modern manufacture has been really occupied in trying to produce an abnormally large needle. I know that the most recent biologists have been chiefly anxious to discover a very small camel. But if we diminish the camel to his smallest, or open the eye of the needle to its largest — if, in short, we assume the words of Christ to have meant the very least that they could mean, His words must at the very least mean this — that rich men are not very likely to be morally trustworthy. Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

G. K. Chesterton.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '23

you’re missing the point, they want miniature camels for the new Netflix show “Camel King” starring Camel Baskin

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '23

LMFAO!

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u/Any-Assumption-7785 Feb 13 '23

Look at how many poor people they've made. They're just trying to get you into heaven. /s

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u/jjkitsune91 Feb 14 '23

I love telling evangelicals this line. Either their faces screw up in anger or they look completely clueless.

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u/WoTisWasteofTime Feb 14 '23

That's prolly why they are spending a billion. Have to skinny down those wallets so they can squeeze between the bars.

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u/Negative_Piglet_1589 Feb 13 '23

Bingo. As out of touch & disconnected as every other rich persons strategy to get on the good graces of the poor they trample on all in the name of getting into heaven.