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And that’s basically it!
“MY GOD HAS A DICK!! IT’S BIG AND VEINY AND THROBBING AND NOBODY’S GONNA TELL ME DIFFERENT!!!” - Evangelicals, apparently.
Turns out they also don't like it when you say that. It's like pick a lane people
Uh oh, Mike Johnson better contact his son...
You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.
Deuteronomy 32:18. This is the lot that would insist that men cannot give birth, right?
That's a really poor translation. It sounds more like God gave the "you" reproductivity.
Arguing over fictional characters is super constructive
While I agree that part is silly, at least Talarico is using his belief to try to implement much-needed change.
Lotta folks that actually bother to vote are Christian, so I think he's Texas' best bet at turning blue.
I have no opinion on if God is NB. But he's very clearly in a same-sex union with Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Throuple
The Father, The Son and the Holy Spirit, gaymen.
God is dating his son???
That really isn't that weird in the grande scheme of things
or particularly unusual for deities
I've had a pastor argue it a number of years ago and it did make sense at the time, it was based on how God referred to using a feminate city name or something similar
Newsflash, dipshits: God doesn't have a penis or a vagina. God isn't human.
So you're saying God is so non binary that they are non gendered?
God is nonbiological so no gender. Or all genders. If God is in everything, then there are some bacteria with 23 or so sexes, so God possesses genders beyond the scope of human consciousness.
Sorry about the correction, but that number isn't right on two levels.
1: bacteria didn't have sexes. Sometimes they will exchange plasmids via a direct pilus or will pick up strays in the environment.
2: that number is often cited from a book describing certain slime molds (which aren't molds) as having that few, when almost every species we found have something in the 100's. But what I think is cool is that some species of actual fungi have something like 72,000 compatible sexes.
Yes, this. And an attack helicopter.
Ungendered. Degendered. Omnigendered?
Polygenderous
One of the basic problems with theists is that they have no idea what God is.
"God is love." In what way? God is just an emotion related to a chemical reaction in the brain?
"God is all powerful." Can he microwave a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it?
"God is omniscient." If everything in the future is already known, then what's the point?
It just goes on and on. Either God is some vague impossibility, or he's exactly the same as a human male, somehow. But a human male is not the same as God, so that can't really be right. But nobody can even give a real framework as to what he could be.
If you can't describe God no matter how hard you try, then what the hell are you believing in? That's the basis for ignosticism.
And iirc, they are referred to using terms for both male and female in the original language of the text.
I am not a religious person (but was raised catholic) - I wouldn't have issues voting for him based on that article - he seems far better informed regarding the word of christ than any of those screeching republican harpies, and seems to have the best in mind for the citizens of his state.
What in the ever loving fuck is wrong with the GOP?
I think it'd take less time to write down the things that aren't.
Ya got me curious on what would be on that list. I got nothing coming to mind.
Cute animal in the logo.
And they also... No, that's actually it.
They aren't smart and they lack critical thinking skills. And that's just their voting base.
The ones that are smart are also rich sociopaths and psychopaths that are actively trying to excise empathy from their entire party.
Okay... so follow my logic. God made man in his image, then some time later, made woman in mans image. Therefore, we should at least expect God to be as different from a man as a man is from a woman. I would in fact argue that we should expect God to be even more different, as going from a mortal being to a different mortal being is less of a jump as going from a immortal omnipotent being to a mortal being.
Further to the point, the only canon contact he's made with humans was as... wait for it... a burning bush.
The bearded old dude was after Rome finally decided that Christianity was cool, and they decided to update his pfp to Jupiter. And it stuck.
Hear me out: none of this matters. Just another distraction from the world being run by greedy psycho billionaires
God is a hermaphrodite. There. I said it.
So is my cat, who I worship, so that checks out.
Cat in question, who is very deserving of worship.
Why does a politicians views on magic sky daddy matter to anyone anywhere at any time?
Because magic sky daddy is the most important thing to many people in many places, all the time. Because they've been conditioned to believe that if someone doesn't hold the correct views on magic sky daddy, they'll suffer for all eternity, and so they live in constant fear that they or their children might become misled by the incorrect views on magic sky daddy. This stuff is deeply internalized.
And that's a part of the material conditions we operate in. We ignore them at our peril.
How can they be so sure God is male though? Have they checked God's genitals?
God is not allowed in the women's bathroom.
So do all your sinning there, he can't see you!
The pedo protectors can say whatever they like. Judging by the last 100 or so special elections, the independents have finally woken up and are done with the GOP.
I hope you are right, but I doubt it... this is texas after all, they will shoot themselves in the dick and call it a circumcision
So the GOP is upset that some people believe in something that has no scientific backing, eh?
Literally one of the oldest Christian positions about God is that God is not a dude. This should not be controversial. Folks like Saint Augustine of Hippo would agree wholeheartedly with the assertion that God has no gender binary. This is because if God has a gender that gender is "God."
Why are you booing him he's theologically correct?
Christianity tends to be patriarchal. No point getting clever about it... Followers of "faith" aren't philosophers. They believe in unreason.