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Very reasonable POV.

This is rather hilarious!!!

What's the k word?

@bioemerl @jeffw

Nothing about religion is consistent. That's why faith is such a big component.

Faith that your god is the right one, while everyone else in the world is bass-ackwards.

They've been trying to breed a perfectly red cow so they can sacrifice it, since that's what Jesus needs to come back.

These are not rational people.

My wife is publishing a queer YA novel through Amazon and their family is questioning them about their salvation again. My wife and I were raised evangelical but left the church and later deconstructed. We hide that from their family. Their mother literally told them she's having nightmares about not being able to spend eternity in heaven with them. My wife finally put together why their family is so worried about it all of a sudden. It's 100% the Zion shit. They genuinely believe the end times are coming.

If I believed their god existed at all, I'd view him as a vastly worse version of how they describe Satan. Creating an entire universe full of thinking, feeling beings just to torture most of them is incomprehensibly evil.

It's consistent in its inconsistency. To take every single page of the Bible at face value is to be naive and unable to identify contradictory information.

Not strange at all, really... birds of a feather and all that.

religious people seem to know a lot about god

Until you ask some difficult questions, then they're all "mysterious ways "...

The Zionist Federation of Germany literally collaborated with Hitler himself.

Reminds me of queer people who simp for Palestine, @queermunist:

Same-sex sexual activity is prohibited in Gaza under the British Mandate Criminal Code Ordinance 1936. The relevant provision carries a maximum penalty of ten years’ imprisonment.
https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/palestine/

In the State of Palestine, there is no specific, stand-alone civil rights legislation that protects LGBT people from discrimination or harassment. Some have reported that while hundreds of homosexual Palestinians are reported to have fled to Israel because of the hostility they face in Palestine, they are subject to house arrest, or deportation, by Israeli authorities on account of the in-applicability of the law of asylum to areas or nations in which Israel is in conflict. There have also been reports that Palestinian Authority police kept files on gay Palestinians and that Israeli intelligence blackmailed gay Palestinians into becoming informants. The Israeli LGBT organization The Aguda – Israel's LGBT Task Force stated, in 2013, that around 2,000 Palestinian homosexuals live in Tel Aviv "at any one time."
In February 2016, it was reported that one of the leading commanders of the armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, Mahmoud Ishtiwi, was executed under the charges that he engaged in homosexual activity and theft. Scholar Timea Spitka stated that in Gaza, coming out is a "death sentence" because police don't act against queerphobic violence, domestic violence isn't pursued, and civil society organizations, which protect women and children, are reported to be "vulnerable to attack." Spika added, in a related article, that this vulnerability has "been exploited by Israel," noting a connection between the Israeli occupation, lack of security and protection for women and non-heterosexual people, and lack of rule of law. In 2019, Haaretz interviewed four gay men and one gay woman living in Gaza, who recounted their experiences: one man recounted his rough treatment by Hamas members, while others said they feared being arrested, outed, then forced into heterosexual marriage by their families. All four said that social media was a "game changer" in meeting other LGBTQ individuals, but some feared catfishing by undercover Hamas or Israeli intelligence agents.
In August 2019, the Palestinian Authority announced that LGBT groups were forbidden to meet in the West Bank on the grounds that they are "harmful to the higher values and ideals of Palestinian society". This was in response to a planned conference in Nablus by Al-Qaws, a Palestinian LGBT group. Following backlash, the ban was later withdrawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_the_State_of_Palestine#Civil_rights_and_government_action

Antisemitism was a thing long before Zionism, or even Nazism got rolling, you have causality backwards.