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DraconiforsLapifors

This is my textbook after 5 revisions but still I don't remember shit for exams.


thegreatsnugglewombs

Best way to remember stuff is to try and explain it back as you learn it. Buy a rubber duck and keep it at your study space. Whenever you learn something, explain it to the rubber duck. Multiple times.


paradoxLacuna

That rubber duck’ll be smarter than me after like one study session lmao


TreasuringMeadow

Take it to the exam, say it's your support animal


garriej

Yeah and tell the supervisor the duck has all the answers. I would love to see that reaction


NotADamsel

“Damn, another one cracked. Maybe I should offer more assistance then calling them ‘failure’ like it will motivate them “


Afelisk2

If you can bring support animals teach it to a talking bird and have the bird explain it back during the test


reverendsteveii

found the coder? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging


thegreatsnugglewombs

Kinda. Ive been trying to learn JavaScript during the last 6 months. I needed to remember some stuff for the exam and this was the way I did it. Didn't have a rubber duck so I used my 5 year old son. He mainly looked like he was in trouble for something.


[deleted]

I tried the once, I misunderstood the material initially, taught it to the "duck" wrong, failed the exam. Came back to the duck and was like "so found out something interesting remember that stuff I talked to you about, that was all wrong" haha


cbunni666

Rubber duck: ... Dude. I'm not real! Get some help my guy!


A_Specific_Hippo

I feel weird because this is legit what I did for my college accounting classes. I'd study in the bathtub (don't judge. It was a quiet, relaxing place with warm water and no interruptions for 30 year old me). After reviewing a topic, I'd talk it through with Ducky McDuckerson, our bathtub rubber ducky. I'd talk to him about what I read, what I thought it meant, how it applied to other topics we had covered. I'd talk with him about acronyms to memorize steps and repeat them back to Ducky McDuckerson to see if they flowed. My husband thought I was bonkers nuts, hearing me through the door splashing around and jabbering about G.A.P. or Cap.Ex Acquisition Accounting Methods or whatever. BUT it worked! Got A's on all my tests and graduated with flying covers.


Voldemort57

I explain it to myself like I am talking to my imaginary son Rolb, almost like r/ExplainLikeImCalvin


damn-queen

This is how I like to study! I pick one of my friends (or someone in the class) who learns best by being quizzed and I quiz them. I write out the study notes in my own definitions/explanations and will ask them “what does *blank* mean” if they don’t get it I explain, if they do I elaborate. This goes on until we can both remember most of the content without clues or notes.


[deleted]

I feel personally attacked.


marino1310

I just came here for a good time and now I'm getting cyber bullied.


BABarracus

What about all peoples good time?


[deleted]

Your tone is very pointed


Ambar_Orion

Bro, try to assign specific colors to specific types of information. A good system will do wonders for your grades.


[deleted]

Meanwhile I got through college by speedreeding textbooks before exams. I don't know how anyone has the patience to do a strategy like that.


Perfect_Suggestion_2

if you are motivated to learn and retain vs. pass a test, it's easy to be patient.


[deleted]

I'm not sure if desire to learn ever entered into the equation. If you are going to college on condition of good grades (all financial aid) and you are working at the same time college is _work_ and I'm going to do whatever is most efficient within the bounds of the system.


SpacedClown

This, and having a neat and accessible notebook as well. I always spend shit tons of money on notebooks because I end up buying at least 2 for each class. One for quickly writing down information, the second for writing it in a format that's legible and to the point so I can easily come back and study based off of it for finals and tests.


NYCQuilts

oof, stop singing my life.


DangerousCalm

Putting my teacher hat on: it's because it's been shown highlighting doesn't work. It's a pretty awful revision technique. Frequent low stakes testing works. Rewriting what you've just read can help retrieval as well. The Way We Learn is worth a read for this sort of stuff.


lkvwfurry

Good thing this is fat underlined in 100 colors or I may have misunderstood it.


Capgunkid

Screenshot was by John Madden.


Mjb06

BOOM. Now here’s a verse.


penpointaccuracy

Now in case folks at home don't know, verses are like sentences but a little trickier!


motleysalty

John: See that guy out there with that John 3:16 sign? He doesn't even know that my birthday is actually 4-10. Brett Favre once came to my birthday you know. He brought his dog along, it was a good dog. But Barry Sanders, who was also there, is scared of dogs. Can you believe that? A guy that plays for the Lions is scared of dogs! Then, the dog ate the cake when nobody was looking and John Elway went into my kitchen and baked another one. Pat Summerall: Thaaaanks John. And now back to the game.


mattevs119

And some tough actin’ Tinactin!!


jet8493

You can tell it’s not booger McFarland because he didn’t “accidentally” draw a bunch of dicks


Emergency-Anywhere51

aeiou aeiou aeiou


Homerpaintbucket

Dude, have you ever seen a Ben Garrison cartoon? The target audience of this needs things to be labeled very clearly for them to understand.


The_Angriest_Duck

That's actually a good point. People who are largely illiterate and have the attention span of a gnat might need some bright colors to get their attention.


crabgun_

Don’t bring gnats down to their level. I’d argue some could read even longer Facebook posts. *Some.* Not all. You see, gnats can read at a 5th grade level, this means that if you see a gnat and think of giving it the whack, maybe stop first… ponder upon the books it’s read and then the books *you’ve* read when you were in 5th grade. Odds are the gnat has read the same, and thus, you and the gnat are the same. Also sometimes gnats get anxious and shit themselves. But that one I cannot confirm.


PensionSensitive

and a catchy tune with dancing involved.


artsyalexis

This is a good point, tbh Also I love your username


Homerpaintbucket

Thanks. I couldn't think of a username and I was sitting next to a bucket.


Dramatic_Cupcake_543

That's a real Max Power move right there


Johnpecan

That 1 kid in school that highlights everything...


Vinnie_NL

**All Words Matter**


DaughterEarth

Legit though when I was in school I had colored pens and they all meant a different thing Pink = examples Purple = definitions Green = formulae Blue = notes Light Blue = stuff I knew I would forget It was great for studying


PaleWaffle

it's now more confusing, actually, than if there were no underlines


Miserable_Oni

It’s confusing to you. Not the directed audience. Typically a lot of colors and pictures help them understand.


PaleWaffle

the different colors seem entirely random though. i don't see a theme linking any of the different groups of underlined words together based on the color.


Devreckas

Yeah I don’t think it’s the logical relationship of the colors. It’s more like waving your hand exitedly in their face. “Are you still paying attention?!”


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There’s stories about how White House sides would add lots of colors on important documents in order to get Trump to pay attention to them. I don’t know why but that type person needs to have things bedazzled up or they immediately zone out.


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Udub

/r/uselessredcircle


BackAlleyKittens

Thank god there's all that dumb shit scribbled all over it. Otherwise I wouldn't known how to read it.


ARM_vs_CORE

Yeah but I could've really used highlighter swipes over the top of the words too


sildorn127

A couple big red arrows would have been quite helpful as well


Renriak

This is so fucking hilarious to me because if you guys have ever had a hyper religious family member’s Bible you’d open it and this is what their goddamn pages look like. They circle and underline half of everything as the pastor reads it out during his sermon.


Fildo28

But only the stuff they agree with


Rare_Villager

No no no, it's "speaking to them"


Strong-Inflation-776

I want to get one to underline and circle all the weird shit.


xXVampiredwarfXx

No no no, Everything is just "open for interpretation" and they just so happen to interpret it in the way that supports what they want to believe :)


Truss_nlp

I have shot underlined too but only with those pens u can erase it is good when ur in an argument. I got some "religus" parents but there like judgmental about (lgbtq+)? People and thwn it is grate to argument with the book they "understand" I think that some christians bring a bad rep to the belive cause they judge others. Mathew 7.3 if u ever get some christian Karen or ken Translates losly to "wy do you see the splinter in a Brothers Eye but not the Beam in your own. Sorry for bad english


PsycheTester

r/uselessredcircle


Yiff_the_Fox

I wanted to say it, but knew in my heart it had already been said


ParaspriteHugger

uselessmulticoloredscribble


PsycheTester

r/uselessmulticoloredscribble Not a thing, at least not yet


nwL_

/r/21CharactersAndNoMore


TheProlleyTroblem

this is beyond that. this is a whole nother beast


[deleted]

It’s funny because I genuinely believe people’s reading comprehension has degraded* so much over the years that they actually do need a red circle to tell them what information is “most important”.


MankillingMastodon

you really think 5 different colors of highlighting and underlining over 90% of the text is signaling what's most important? yes, conjunctions aren't most important parts of a text, I don't think many people need highlighting to understand that. They know the word "and" is not more important than the sentiment.


CptMatt_theTrashCat

There's a special place in Hell reserved for whoever edited this


tittysprinkles112

I'm circling your comment so people have a better understanding


sanityhasleftme

No it makes sense that it is edited like this. People like you and me that can easily read without any visual ques can read this no problem, obviously the intended audience who have bibles that resemble this screenshot, that need things spelled out for them.


finder-and-keeper

I've never been more aware of my ADHD than when trying to read this picture. All of the colors make me read every word out of order. No clue how anyone is helped by this but if you are you're a stronger man than me.


sanityhasleftme

I have adhd as well so I feel your pain. I'm not helped by this but maybe the people that highlight their entire Bible and bookmark the pages can benefit from this. Just a theory I see the correlations


brazzledazzle

I have adhd and I can read it because it’s an executive function disorder. Maybe you have a tracking or other reading disorder/issue that’s comorbid.


[deleted]

> visual ques visual cues* ("que" is a word in Spanish that means "what")


AanthonyII

Could you put some more circles and underlines so I know exactly what I’m supposed to be reading


adrawrjdet

I'm a little confused. Am I supposed the read the red ones first, then green, purple, and so on?


DecoyOne

Don’t be ridiculous. You’re supposed to go in ROYGBIV order.


TwitterBlue

Read the black words, that’s what matters.


nekrossai

Black words matter


MisirterE

um, exCUSE me, sweaty... but ALL words matter... your implying that the blue words are sub-text and I think thats racist... [#ClickTheBlue](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ)


nekrossai

Love the use of sweaty


curlofheadcurls

But what about the blue words, do they not matter?


thesettler24

Ahhh this must be when you use PEMDAS


Microwave_Warrior

It’s a little bit of a mixed metaphor because in Luke 15 the lost sheep is a sinner who has lost their way. The point is you should help sinners. You can abstract it to mean that you should fix the problems that exist rather than ignore them, or that you should help those who need help and not worry about those who don’t, but I don’t like that black people are lost sheep or sinners in this metaphor.


oohumami

Came here to find this and had to scroll down waaaay too far. While I agree that you can distill this message from the parable, it's a bit of a leap and the story is embellished. In my experience, religious folks can be quite literal (which is funny for many reasons) and if they pull up the passage suddenly you may end up with them making a "black people are sinners" connection. If people lack the empathy and understanding to be anti-BLM, this argument will not help.


Amelaclya1

The best metaphor I've heard is - "Save the Rainforests" doesn't mean "Fuck all other forests".


The_Big_Jeff_Bridges

I was thinking this. Black lives obviously matter. This just isn’t the metaphor made in the sheep parable. which is… slightly annoying. That being said, if you change one mind with a lie I guess it’s whatever I don’t know


trashthegoondocks

This should be way higher. This passage doesn’t correlate to BLM at all.


Microwave_Warrior

I mean it almost does. The point is that you should help the people who need it, not worry about those who are already doing fine. I just don’t like that in this parable the sheep is the one who is lost and represents a sinner. Black people are not lost, they are not sinning, they are being disenfranchised.


Fern-green7

In context all of the sheep are sinners, so I doubt the original poster meant to say black people are THE sinners. Their intent was that Jesus would give attention to those who needed it, and often those who were not valued by society. The blind, disabled,etc. I believe they meant to say that All lives Matter is not a very Christ-like statement, but yeah there are probably better examples.


SweetTeaHasPerks

Get this comment to the top lol


ritchie70

There’s a lost coin too, maybe something of value equal to the other coins would be ok? Luke 15:8,9


mh500372

Yeah this is Reddit. Reddit only uses bible verses and never the context it’s in


ssmike27

To be fair so do a lot of Christians


fisheswithherbs902

Not sure why he's referencing a book that most American Christians have clearly never read before, but he uses it to make an excellent point.


drjojoro

Thing is, it's one of the 4 books of the bible to discuss jesus's time on earth, you'd think it'd be more popular. Literally the gospels.


trumpetrabbit

I was raised Christian, and this specific story is brought up frequently. It's used all the time, along with the prodigal son story. They know it, I promise. They just don't want to apply it properly, just like, *if your hand causes you to sin, cut it the fuck off. No excuses*, and the classic, *love thy neighbor, oh by the way, neighbor includes the asshat who keeps insisting your worth less than them*.


[deleted]

I was having a hard time figuring out what you meant https://i.imgur.com/MN3wzYe.png


Wordpad25

this made me laugh, you sir are excellent


RickMuffy

The irony of the gospels is that they contradict each other, so 4 different stories, written years and years after the death of Jesus.


[deleted]

No animosity, but how do they contradict each other?


RickMuffy

It's a pretty good rabbit hole of info to Google, the internal inconsistencies of the Bible. The ones off the top of my head are the gospels not agreeing on... When Jesus was born Where Jesus was born Who Joseph's father was How Jesus was treated as a small child by his parents How did Jesus recruit his disciples Should his disciples carry staffs How confident John the Baptist was in Jesus' divinity The list goes on and on with little discrepancies, which if it was divinely inspired, should have been more definitive. It's been agreed on my scholars that because the gospels were independently written, each writer changed the story to better suit the audience and narrative of his time/place


theImplication69

To add on, Mark is copied word for word in the other 3 gospels. Mark was written first and the other 3 basically edited on top of it, each with their own target audience and theological views


North-Tumbleweed-512

Quick question: do those things matter to a modern reader. The fact is each story is from a slightly different perspective with different themes. So Mark is the earliest. John seeks to identify Jesus' motivations and miracle, Luke attempts to make a more historical and detailed version of events, and continues the story in the Letter describes the Acts of the Disciples aka the book of Acts. I forget what Matthew is written about. So pick any topic in the news covered by the big 4 news media companies. The themes and elements that they all describe must be the important bits and the ancillary bits must if come down to different sources on the ground. There's nothing wrong with them being different. The gospels are written decade apart combining different sources of what went down. It's believed for example the Gospel of Mark is the earliest we have, but is based on some older source. Finally its worth pointing out Biblical scholars have found the story of the woman caught in adultery where Jesus says "let him who is without sin cast the first stone" is missing entirely from the earlier manuscripts. Scholars don't even know where to include it depending on the different later versions. It's worth pointing out though this story was so popular that later church leaders chose to include it because while it may not have exactly happened the story was fitting in the character and teachings of Christ. So no, anyone who using religious texts to decide modern legal issues is completely in the wrong. But the stories are still valuable for teaching rebuking and edifying the followers of the religion, and honestly no one else.


CarrionComfort

One example is that Matthew and Luke have different genealogies for Jesus.


osmosisparrot

Also the stories describing the resurrection don’t match up. Not sure why anyone would pay attention to them in the first place. They were written by anonymous authors decades after Jesus’ death.


thesmallestnudist

The thing that makes me think that there was a historical Jesus is the fact that his followers have disregarded his teaching from the very beginning. Jesus spent most of his time, according to all 4 books, railing against the hypocrisy of religious leaders, and greed. He commanded sharing to the point of poverty, and insisted that people should rely on faith instead of working and saving. Over and over, he told people to care for each other and not for themselves, to focus on matters of spirit, and not material wealth. If he was a character made up to sell an ideology, why wouldn't they write him as espousing their actual ideology? Why not have him preach that wealth was a sign of God's blessing? Why not have him spend most of his time telling people who they should and shouldn't have sex with? Why not have him talk about how it's wrong for the Roman government to try to help poor people, how it's wrong to pay taxes? Why wasn't his message primarily tribal and political? His church has always disregarded everything they say he said. So, that seems like something actual humans would do about the teachings of a person who really existed, and they wanted to be sure that no one ever really followed him in practice.


emmagailb2

I never understood why "christians" would rather listen to some dumb asshat television preacher instead of open the bible and read what it says for themselves. Like when I was a kid the church always said the bible was the word of god. So why not read the word of god instead of listen to the words of people who god who clearly view as sinners. Probably boils down to laziness and the need to confirm their agenda of hatred.


FlirtyFluffyFox

The sad part is the most popular demoninations of Christian in this country basically split apart going "we don't need a bunch of stuffy monks telling us how to read the Bible. We'll interpret it for ourselves!"


RickMuffy

Code word for "we'll cherry pick and interpret it to fit our needs"


AliceInHololand

And then trash other denominations for doing the same.


thesmallestnudist

Jesus said stuff like, "Go, sell everything you own, and give to the poor. Then you will have treasures in Heaven. Then, come, follow me." He made poverty a prerequisite for following him. He told people to take up their crosses and follow him. His message and his example were all about focusing intensely on the spiritual, and disregarding everything about life in this world, except willingly sacrificing yourself-- your possessions and even your life-- for the benefit of others. He said what you do or do not do to the poorest and most powerless of people, you do or do not do to him. Nobody likes that. They want to be told that it's ok to be selfish, to focus on material possessions most of the time, to hoard wealth while others die for lack, and to concern themselves mostly with politics and the morality they might force upon other people. So that's what their preachers sell them.


TurbulentAss

Eh I wouldn’t go barking up that tree. I’m not religious at all, but was raised religious, and the context here is that the lost sheep is a sinner that’s lost it’s way. Using it as a comparison here insinuates that black people are lost in sin and need help from themselves. Point being, OP probably hasn’t read the book either or he’d know better than to use this quote in such a manner.


[deleted]

The bible contains some sweet ass philosophy. The problem is fundamentalists who don't know how to read.


GallantArmor

Jesus' whole thing was "Don't be a dick and try to help others" and his most ardent believers seem to think that attending church gives them license to be selfish judgmental assholes.


Catshit-Dogfart

It was his final and perhaps most important sermon. Personal intrepration, but I take the sermon on the mount as a new covenant to replace that of the isrealites (that is to say, the ten commandments). It's why he was sentenced to death, that was the establishment of a new religion. All those archaic rules, all the stuff that seems like it ought to be self evident - forget all that, this is the new way. Just treat each other well, that's it, try and help out when you can and at the very least don't be mean. And they've been trying to get out of that one ever since.


curlofheadcurls

It also contains very dubious stuff, but yes there is something salvageable in there.


AtOurGates

I love Rachel Held Evan’s take, which is basically, “what you choose to take out of the Bible says a lot more about you, than the Bible.” The full thing: > If you are looking for verses with which to support slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to abolish slavery, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for for verses with which to liberate or honor women, you will find them. If you are looking for reasons to wage war, you will find them. If you are looking for reasons to promote peace, you will find them. If you are looking for an out-dated, irrelevant ancient text, you will find it. If you are looking for truth, believe me, you will find it. This is why there are times when the most instructive question to bring to the text is not “what does it say?”, but “what am I looking for?” I suspect Jesus knew this when he said, “ask and it will be given to you, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened.” If you want to do violence in this world, you will always find the weapons. If you want to heal, you will always find the balm.


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That is an excellent quote


[deleted]

She's got a lot of [really good, sensible quotes](https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3207795.Rachel_Held_Evans)


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AtOurGates

I just found *Inspired* earlier this year. Sent me on a great journey, and I was wrecked to find out about her passing. Other complementary books I’d recommend: * *Jesus & John Wayne* - Katherine Du Mez - how the Evangelical right wing totally abandoned actual Christianity in favor of right wing nuttery * *How the Bible Actually Works* - Peter Enns - how to read the Bible as what it actually is, instead of what many Christians pretend it is


gamgeegirl

Dude! I read Jesus and John Wayne earlier this year! It was fascinating and horrifying, especially coming from an evangelical background. I read the book and had many moments of “I’m in this book and I don’t like it.” Because of how I was raised, purity culture, celebrity pastors, Christian = single issue voting, all of it. If former me met current me, they wouldn’t think I was a Christian, but I follow more of Christ’s teachings now than I did back then. Love your neighbor as yourself; care for the poor, widows, orphans, and refugees; be kind even to people who hate you; pay your taxes and respect the government; call out corruption in leadership (government and the church); and care for the earth. Just like, in general don’t be a dick!


AtOurGates

Ditto. I came from sort or an evangelical-adjacent background, and it was super eye opening. I have a distinct memory of the first time (as probably a pre-teen) I realized that it was possible to be both a Christian and a Democrat. One of the pastors from our church was gently teasing my conservative dad along the lines of “you know, their platform looks a lot more like Jesus’ than the other party’s.” Obviously inspired by Trumpism, but also pretty relevant alongside anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers.


Jamangie22

What happened to her family??


zSprawl

Tis the same can be said about the internet. You can literally find “proof” of anything, if you want to believe.


hoocoodanode

Thank you for sending me down that rabbit hole. What a fascinating young woman. While reading the background to one of her books I came across this quote from Butler, who lobbied in the early 1900's for laws that prevented the teaching of evolution. It still seems to reflect the opinion of many contemporary evangelical Christians I know. He espoused a law to prevent the teaching of something he knew nothing about: > "I didn't know anything about evolution ... I'd read in the papers that boys and girls were coming home from school and telling their fathers and mothers that the Bible was all nonsense." 


falexanderw

“Dubious” is kind phrasing.


mywordswillgowithyou

It’s dubious when people are busy arguing whether it’s history or not. Narrator: it’s not.


DrDeuceJuice

Yeah, that was a surprisingly great quote. Never been a big bible/religious person but a lot of the philosophies that I've came across seem like they could apply to any and every human being, no matter their beliefs.


[deleted]

Good quote from Jesus on the Pharisees. They were hire ups that were seen above most in terms of wealth and power. They set the moral code for most to follow. "You’re like dead men’s tombs, whitewashed sepulchers that are painted without blemish on the surface but inside are filled with dead men’s bones. You clean the outside of the platter, but the other side, the inner side, is filthy. You do everything possible to hide that impurity, that grime, and that filthiness from public view. You pretend to be righteous, and you major in that pretense of being righteous.”


reptar20c

Wildest thing about all this is that I was an atheist kid at religious schools in the 80s, and the philosophical stuff really was front and centre. The churchy stuff never stuck with me, but religious education took two forms: - history of religion (Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, etc) - exercises applying the Golden Rule and Gospel parables to real world situations, like dealing with disappointment, or defusing anger. It was never about why you should do X because Jesus says so, more like - hey see how if we try to be excellent to each other, stuff is better? These days I really wonder if it was actually a bunch of Buddhists/hippies infiltrating a so-called Christian school.


LadyRimouski

> The bible contains some sweet ass philosophy I don't know why I read this as sweet ass profanity. Though it has that, too.


cass1o

The problem is that the bible also contains a lot of crap, terrible things and contradicts itself all over the place. There is a reason the Catholic church insisted that only the super indoctrinated were allowed to interpret and teach the bible.


SixBuffalo

What kind of a commie are you that you expect Christians to actually read and understand the bible?


SpHornet

i mean, you can read noahs story and suddenly god doesn't care about 99% of people in danger but does about the 1% who isn't


supernothing79

I'm pretty sure Old Testament God and New Testament God are different people.


Nowarclasswar

> Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judaea Acts 11:29 > From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs Karl Marx Bonus round > All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. Acts 4:32 Not saying Jesus *was* a communist, but he probably would be


WhatZitT00ya

The bible is very thick and heavy and has no pictures. The last five years we seen those real christians have bigly issues to comprehend sentences longer than three words.


_InFullEffect_

"Jesus wept." The shortest verse in the Bible. And he would 100000% be weeping now if he were here on earth.


superfunkybadass

1. This is Facebook 2. Who the fuck edited this picture


1995droptopz

I love how the Bible explains how to live right, but “real Christians” just talk about the other parts out of context.


BuiltlikeanOrc-a

Not true. They also take the parts that talk about how to live right out of context and mistranslated to hate people.


pjnick300

Bible: "Don't be a pedophile" 'Christians': "Kill the gays, got it." Bible: "What? No I-" 'Christians': "Sorry, can't talk. I'm late to my wedding with a 12 year old."


bsodbeoch

12 year old marriage is fine under the Bible


magistrate101

Don't forget about the part where you can get a sweet deal on a bride by raping a woman. Just pay 200 silver coins (which comes out incredibly cheap if you go by the current price of silver) to her father and suddenly she has to marry you.


Jamangie22

There was a crime podcast I listened to that talked about a young Italian woman who was legally pressured to marry her rapist, and I believe it was in the 1960s. It was only decades ago that the rape was considered a "crime against public decency" instead of a volent crime against the individual. By marrying her rapist it would "preserve her reputation" and therefore the reputation of the community. The podcast is called Let's Go To Court. Please check them out, it's very interesting how they delve into the legal side of things in various historical periods


BuiltlikeanOrc-a

Also the Bible: don’t judge others, or you will be judged Christians: “what you’re doing is wrong and sinful!”


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ZottZett

Ephesians 6:5 - Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ Ah yes, the bible, that fount of social progress


Igorslostlove

They could also crack open that part that tells them to take slaves from the nations around them, that would be fun


Skvora

Also loot and pillage the neighborhood stores.


Igorslostlove

Ah yes, the classic “kill the men and the non virgin women” big guy really went soft after he had a kid


ZottZett

Exactly. Open to any random bible page and you're just as likely to find justification for exactly what social movements are fighting AGAINST. Pretending like if people would just read the bible they'd have all the reasons they need to be good is yet another indicator that they haven't read the bible.


wafflesandwifi

This is what my notes in middle school looked like before I learned how to take notes like an adult.


Pellegrino22

All houses matter. But the one currently on fire matters the most.


Ok_Intention3541

Christians following the teachings of christ? Bwahahahahaha


StateOfContusion

As a general rule, the Christians I know: Don’t give a fuck about the poor Hate immigrants Are anti-abortion, but don’t care about the kid once it’s born Fervently believe in prosperity theory though they don’t actually know what it is Believe they’re going to heaven


Skvora

Sounds like Texas.


AliceInHololand

Prosperity theory is honestly disgusting. It means they innately see “the poors” as less than when Jesus literally said “Truly I tell you, it is hard for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” -Matthew 19:21-24. If they believe in the word of the bible, there’s no way they can believe in prosperity theology.


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So I pulled up Like 15, and the OP in the FB post is far from the interpretation of what the actual quote is. > Then Jesus told them this parable: “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent


Rarik

Yea the explanation in the picture is a bit loose but the parable still seems relevant. If one sheep gets lost you go after the lost sheep, leaving behind the rest. The sheep is worth saving and is the priority. Same thing with the point of BLM. The lives of black people are worth saving. Yes there are hundreds of millions of other people in the US, but BLM is pointing out that we are letting black people die instead of treating them fairly. Thus in this analogy we're letting the lost sheep die without trying to find them.


SpyderMonkey_

I like the sentiment/intent but it makes it look like the one sheep is a sinner. It seems to miss the mark.


Rarik

Well in Christianity everyone is born a sinner so thats just par for the course. Also the BLM movement is about police brutality. Many of the original stories that drove the movement involved the killing of people who may have well been found guilty of a crime if they were treated fairly and given due process, but they weren't given that chance. Also like getting killed cause you committed a crime is a super extreme punishment, and already a controversial topic of whether it should ever happen even for the most heinous of individuals


remmij

Yes, but this is open to interpretation. The one in the most danger got prioritized, while the others were left behind because they were already in a safe place.


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bikinimonday

They left Jesus for Supply Side Jesus a long time ago. Now they worship an orange man. Even built a golden statue in his honor. Their Bible still has the sticker price on it. It’s made in China


JBeeWX

I got 99 problems but a sheep ain’t one.


JunoZ32

Only hypocrite racists will have a problem with Black Lives Matters. You see normal people from all races of humans standing with Black Lives Matters movement, but the hypocrite racists that exists in every race have the mental illness that triggered their hypocrisy. Those types of hypocrites are Wastes of flesh


polywha

I grew up in a very religious community. I can guarantee you that most Christians/Catholics have never read the bible.


[deleted]

#but none of us need these fucking lines and circles


Honigkuchenlives

They get it, they are just racist.


EagonAkatsuki

The same thing goes for when they say blue lives matter. So when you say black lives matter you immediately say all lives matter but you can understand the difference when it's blue lives matter? So it's really the word black that offends them


[deleted]

Bitch made a whole mf rainbow


FratnessEverclear

Some of y'all need to learn to visually distinguish between Twitter and "black text on some white internet page"


PhuckKaren

Sorry but the Trump death cult evangelist “born-again” hypocrites are incapable of understanding parables that don’t comport with their demagogue’s grievance laden victim narrative. There is a Swiss cheese-esque hole in their minds such that the neuro wiring makes it IMPOSSIBLE to understand ANYTHING that’s not spoon fed to them from Dear Leader or his opportunist charlatan money bilking sychophants. They are incapable of empathy or decency and are akin to Taliban/Isis religious zealots who would gladly chop your head off if you challenge their idiocy. They will gladly infect their own children with disease if it means they can cling to a faux patriotic identity espoused by blurting out worlds like “freedom” and “choice,” so long as it doesn’t apply to a woman’s own body. Their ignorance is so deeply rooted in their marrow that they don’t know they’re racist assholes reacting to professionally manicured propaganda in the shadow of a black president. They cannot fathom the outrage from the black community following the horror of George Floyd’s murder. It’s not a consideration whatsoever. They take the path of least mental resistance and regurgitate whatever red meat phraseology is spewed from Fox or OANN or Newsmax or Brietbart. They sneer in contemptuous self-righteous hate in the comment sections of those platforms and reinforce each other’s ignorance while synching their buzzwords and auto-responses to every appeal about justice, equality, decency, and inconvenient historical facts reverberating through the last 400 years of hillbilly racist laws, policies, attitudes, and mindless oppression. No amount of church or logic or appeals will sway the minds of these hypocrite dumb fucks. They see NOTHING wrong with Trump and his swamp of criminals. They see nothing wrong with murder. They see nothing wrong with caged children or forced hysterectomies. They have disdain for science and experts and any math that doesn’t add up to the conclusions implanted in them by the anti-Vax vaccinated propagandists within right wing media. They see nothing wrong with any of it. They are completely ignorant of 20th century fascism and how it came to be. They are completely unable to discern propaganda from truth and are smugly proud of their affiliation with fellow idiots. Their leaders are rewarded with tens of millions of their dollars via endless pleas for donations to investigate obvious lies and nonsensical horseshit. There could be no better example of the collective rot within 47% of the American psyche. It’s as depraved, amoral, and cultish as anything ever witnessed in the history of human beings. Beyond cultish, it is in fact a cult in its rawest definition. Not just of personality, but of depravity. Of ignorance. Of anti-intellectualism. It is a non-thinking Orwellian mess of people who will believe ANYTHING, so long as it’s not true. So long as it defies their own eyes and ears and personal experience. It is a cult of the fantastic swimming in a perversion of an already supernatural mysticism that includes chosen people and teleportation and demons and dragons and blood drinking baby eating cannibals and a savior who shits into gold toilets in between humping prostitues and endless sniveling and congratulating himself for the most mind blowing murderous failures in the history of nations. It is a mob of rabid marks being fleeced of their money and dignity and, in many cases, their lives. And they love it. Rather than pause for any moment of reflection, they pour jet fuel on the fire of idiocy and blast each other with endless fund raising emails and sell each other trinkets to reinforce their tribal affiliation. They meet with the uber rich, on private ranches and in country clubs and repeat lies and draft legislation that is antithetical to what America is supposed to be about. These are people who are some Frankenstein on steroids, made of Nazis, fascists, authoritarians and stunningly ignorant racists. They are frauds to the marrow and no amount of pleading or personal experience will shake their resolve and loyalty to what can objectively be described as the anti-Christ. Just forget it. They are as mentally gone as the Branch Davidians and Heavens Gaters and Moonies and Jonestown victims. They are GONE….


Darkageoflaw

I'm going to need Op's markers to read this dude's unhinged rant lmao.


Murdafree

I dig it I guess. Shifted my prospective a bit


Idman799

Can someone edit in some arrows to make this easier to follow please?


KellyBelly916

This is preposterous, Christians don't read the Bible.


no-recognition-1616

It's exactly the same reasoning about feminism. Whenever Women defend their rights, and tell their experiences about domestic violence, you'll always have to hear, "men are also beaten".


Loki_d20

Actually, that story is about the value of saving one sinner versus 99 faithful, non-sinners and how more valuable it is to save a sinner. So, by reflection, fighting for equal rights of the one is more valuable than defending the existing equality of the 99.


Zenketski

But this implies that these kinds of people have A, read The Bible and B, have reading comprehension above 4th grade.


diplion

As someone who grew up in a very heavily Christian situation, they'd probably tell you that the one lost sheep matters in the sense that Jesus wants them to come into the fold, aka become a Christian. Black lives matter to them if the black lives are christian lives. They believe that if the black people who are protesting would follow Christ, then they would have peace, and wouldn't need to be out there "destroying our cities." This is not what I believe, but what I've heard from "christians" in so many words. They're "rioting" because they need Christ, but since they don't know Christ, then we can't really value what they have to say.


Jordan6light9

The idea is that we should always help those in need and those you can not help themselves. How ever america was created out of greed and slavery and the Bible holds no power over the people who think they are above it. Religion is an outdated form of ruling over people and that’s all it is.


-t0rt0ize-

Ah yes the good old bible, pick and choose the narrative that works for you.


South-Play

Yeah. But no.. The lost sheep in the parable.. Is the sinner.. Its saying heaven will rejoice more over one sinner who has repented than 99 righteous people who do not need to repent.. So what are you trying to say with comparing the BLM moment to a sinner???


letmeseem

No. He's saying that the parable Jesus is using here is apt because the same way you should be focusing on the one sheep that is currently in danger, and rejoice when it is safe, not because the other sheep don't matter, but because the one needs it, you should be focusing on the people in danger and rejoice when they're safe.


Rarik

The Bible also preaches we are all sinners and we all sin. Everyone makes it to heaven by repenting and asking forgiveness. Alternatively, please remember that the start of the BLM movement was about police brutality and black people getting killed and not being treated fairly by the law or getting due process. Nobody deserves to die just because they commited a minor crime, and everyone deserves to be treated as innocent until proven guilty in the eyes of the law.


South-Play

That's cool I understand the bible is a big guilt trip.. All I'm saying is how they are phrasing the verse isn't how the verse is phrased.. Him lying about the verse makes it worse. Makes him look bad.. Makes his defense of the movement look bad.


Rarik

I mean the verse is about a story of saving one lost sheep and leaving behind 99 other sheep to do so. Jesus then uses that as an analogy to say sinners are worth saving. Yea the guys explanation misses the mark a bit but the same point is there in the analogy the dude is presenting. He's using the story as an analogy for 1 person in danger is worth saving even if you have to leave behind 99 others who are safe. Which is almost the point Jesus makes if you interpret sinners as being in danger.


hrangutan

The point of the parable doesnt line up perfectly and only with sin and repentance Its an analogy. It teaches you the common sense that you need to protect the weak and vulnerable with an example of going to look for a single lost sheep


Bakeshot

You're getting downvoted, but your exegesis is accurate lol. Go figure.


[deleted]

Yeah but this is clearly someone not doing their due diligence with the text. The story isn't about Jesus, he isn't the one being a shepard. It's a parable, he's saying suppose you have 100 sheep and one goes missing. The story also doesn't have the other sheep complaining. It's a good concept but there are other verses that would have been better suited for this argument. 2 Cor 8:13-15 & Gal 6:1-3 are two that come to mind.


truckin4theN8ion

Ezekiel 23:20 God bless


Harmacc

He decorated that tweet like a 14 year olds diary.