If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

[mildpeach@mstdn.social]

@Strandjunker I always am amazed that any ‘CHRISTIAN’ would be stupid enough to second guess their savior. Disciples? Of course! Clergy? Of course! But Jesus himself? Gotta wonder at the ego…

[hnapel@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker

There's lyrics from no less than two songs that come to mind:

Tim Rice: "Why you let the things you did get so out of hand. You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned. Now why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land?"

John Lennon : "The way things are going, They’re gonna crucify me."

Just to say, if J6 had come here and now, they would *certainly* have crucified him.

[kbm0@mastodon.social]

@hnapel @Strandjunker Webber lyrics were Tim Rice actually.

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@Strandjunker was it that tossing money-changers in the Temple on their ears that gave it away?

[hnapel@mastodon.social]

@kbm0 @Strandjunker

Thanks, this means I have so far lambasted the wrong person for writing about Maria Magdalene that she 'had so many men before, in very many ways' (clearly implying she was a slut), but Webber must have condoned it, absolving me!

[vonxylofon@witter.cz]

@Strandjunker I would hazard a guess a large portion of self-described Christians don't actually believe in Jesus.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@vonxylofon @Strandjunker

oh they believe in *a* jesus

their jesus carries an AR-15, worships plutocracy, and hates trans people and immigrants

of course, that has nothing to do with the actual Jesus

so they are fake Christians, hewing to bigotry and ignorance and hate

a cult of violent morons

[bazurk@social.lol]

@Strandjunker

West said it best. They took the street out of Jesus. The relatable part. Love and peace.

[jeremy_pm@mastodon.nz]

@Strandjunker

The New Testament contains many references to Jesus warning of false prophets. The concept of Zionism did not yet exist and was going to take about another 2,000 years to threaten humanity.

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@Strandjunker
yeah people, too badass for you if so. stay away from him .. #oohwait.. #prplXprpgnd

[aars@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker !

[captivesteel@mastodon.nz]

@Strandjunker

I don't hate the Pope because he's supposedly 'liberal'.
I can't stand him because his is the organisation that keeps untold wealth behind locked doors, shuffles paedophile clergy from place to place instead of excommunicating them, & has been responsible for just as much violence on earth as Trump and Hitleryahu.

It's always the same shit, just with a different Pope.

All the right words, none of the action to back it up!

[beachbum@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Strandjunker Right! Liberal and an immigrant.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@liquor_american @vonxylofon @Strandjunker

no

misapplication of the No True Scotsman fallacy

there is no appeal to purity and generalization in my statement

i am simply saying here you have this group that defiles what Jesus teaches. and i am excluding them from a valid definition of Christianity for doing that. it's a classification, not purity, not generalization

no True Scotsman would be if i said this is the only way you can be a Christian, and exclude them on that basis. not what i did

[gustodon@mas.to]

@benroyce I call him Casey God.

[jnk@masto.es]

@IDoodle @Strandjunker believing in a religion is not a requisite to comment on their myths. We can talk about Jesus as depicted in the bible, without believing in him, and respecting other people's beliefs all at once.

[susibryant@mastodon.social]

@mildpeach @Strandjunker

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@benroyce @vonxylofon @Strandjunker Mammonists, really

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@fazalmajid @vonxylofon @Strandjunker

Exactly

[uriel@x.keinpfusch.net]

@Strandjunker if you are thinking Jusus was a liberal , you are more MAGA than you think