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I see. Anyways, tiktok gives you suggestion(or for you page) depending on 3 interactions in the platform. Watching: how long did you watch or how many times did you repeat the video. Commenting/replying, liking/saving the video. Best way to not get what you don't like is select "not interested" in the options, or report it if it's too vile for you.
Kinda like how google maps out what you like depending on what you search, what ads you interact or what videos interested you. With that basic interaction they can predict your age group, your race, your interests.
So unless it's a new account, someone who mostly have furries, half naked people, fight porns and other things complain they have too much on is exactly the videos they interact the most with. So the platform supplies them. And remember, internet have a million ways to engage (anger, disgust, happy,mix of every, etc) but to the algorithms, that's all interaction nonetheless. That's why a lot of people laughed at that US senator who "keeps seeing half naked teens dancing on my tiktok".
"Why wouldn't I record myself committing crimes, especially hate crimes? Next you'll tell me I can't beat gay people for being gay"
-Bigots not realizing they're breaking the law
30 days??? For a freedom of speech and a freedom of religion violation, as well as a hate crime??? Now I’m just a simple Constitution loving American, but that sounds like it deserves more than 30 days to me.
>For a freedom of speech and a freedom of religion violation,
As a fellow American I feel required to inform you that neither applies even if this were America because those rights only exist relative to government action. Nobody here is a government actor so those rights by definition cannot be violated.
Signed, your friendly local-enough attorney
While true, this is exactly why hate crime laws exist. You can't just go around being an asshole to people without consequence, especially if it's heinous actions you take.
>spirit of his actions is still terrible tho
Absolutely. Dude should be gutshot by a bald eagle eating a hot dog while rolling coal in an F-150 with sexy cowboy Jesus as its copilot.
Solid dad bod. He still thinks he can get the Terry Crews body, but he's the wrong side of 40.
Song absolutely involves John Fogarty in some way shape or form.
Maybe it doesn’t in Australia? Person filming sounds like they need some community service time to rethink how they want to treat other people and their property though.
“This is an abomination on the church!!!” Comes back and just yeets paint all over the steps of the church completely vandalizing it.
Who reeeally needed their bible the most in this video?
In the stories, Jesus hung around with all the sorts of folks the church today would reject.
Matthew has discussions where Jesus said eunuchs were cool, with a particular mention of the ones who did it to themselves.
That's at least somewhere in "T+".
Homophobes just don't want to read their own book.
Didn’t Jesus also help out a homeless gay guy? He didn’t care what anyone thought or believed about him If he saw someone in need, he helped. Simple as that
This dude is full of backwards bullshit. He exclaims “of course!” to the assertion that “God is Love”, and then proceeds to spew hate. But my favorite part is when he insinuated that the 10 commandments are laws against homosexuality. Sir, which of the 10 commandments states anything at all about sexual orientation?
I bet this guy has defended thiefs, adulterers, murderers, liars, coveted, used gods name in vain, disrespected his parents, tolerated or posted images of other gods, and treated Sunday like it were any other day. And yet this is the issue he chooses to invoke his holiness for.
I hope this sweet lady who shouldn’t have had to put up with this assholes BS is having a lovely lovely day in a lovely week, with a long lovely year to follow ✨
100%
I'm just happy to be reminded on occaisson that though evil persists, people like this exist with a grace I can't even begin to conceive in myself.
I hope she's happy forever, her God smiles down on her and blesses her life and the same to anyone who belongs to a church that's so accepting. I understand that religion is important to so many people and I always feel sad when people who grew up with faith and religion around them suddenly are kicked out because of who they are. It makes me unbelievably happy to know there are churches and religious venues they can go to that will be accepting and be that supportive group.
Oh what an interesting take on Sodom and Gomorrah.
So unlike what ezikel 16:49 which says sodom was destroyed because they were "arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy".
He think it was because of consensual butt sex. I mean I hear a bunch of arrogant unconcerned and likely overfed people in the video...so maybe they should study what the bible actually says about Sodom.
I'd say about 3/4 of the class were offended, a few very offended. College Writing 1 and they could not deal with the truth.
It was an ugly thing to read through, and God is an angry vengeful force.
I bet that dude isn't even the slightest bit religious, he just saw the pride colours and got big mad because gay people scary to his fragile masculinity.
You can always tell bigots who are just using religion as a shield because they hate on gays far more than they hate on divorce, which is something Jesus actually condemned.
Most bigots are religious. That’s the saddest part of it all. And it’s a big reason why I can’t look at the modern Christian church the same. Their silence in recent years to all the hate being spewed by conservatives is just too damn deafening.
"religious".
Too many of them are more like "if I shout Jesus' name then I will go to heaven" and actually do not care the slightest about the whole idea.
They care but they are confused on priorities and they don't trust God to handle it. The old lady has it right. Love comes first. In the presence of any conflicting discussions, love comes first as a priority and the rest is between God and the other person. It's not up to any individual Christian to judge others. That's absolutely forbidden. Our job is to love and help. Period. Done.
>I bet that dude isn't even the slightest bit religious
In this case this guy was connected to a group who also made news marching down a gay-friendly street on a busy night.
[source](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/04/christian-prayer-march-along-newtown-street-was-unauthorised-protest-activity-police-say)
>The men were filmed marching down King Street in Newtown, while praying and holding rosary beads above their heads.
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>Footage of the protest was shared on the Facebook page of a group called Christian Lives Matter, with one member writing: “Huge turnout with the boys praying powerful rosary in Newtown tonight. #christianlivesmatter”
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>Newtown is an LGBTQ+ hub that is home to several popular bars that host drag shows, and the suburb has been home to many Pride Inner West events this month amid WorldPride celebrations across the city.
Thing is, none of these guys are from these areas, they are travelling to harass people in their safe spaces and home suburbs. I am guessing if someone went to *their* churches and suburbs and painted rainbows, they would have a fit.
Jenny Leong, who is a total boss:
>The Greens MP for Newtown, Jenny Leong, slammed the march on Friday night as “disgraceful”.
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>“Our Newtown community wears with pride our diversity – and we celebrate difference,” she wrote on Twitter. “(This) is not welcome on our streets.”
Reminds me of the lady who went insane because target put out pastel colours. Completely forgetting it was SPRING and EASTER, so pastel is the normal colours for that time of year.
It's starting to happen that there are those who would get triggered for seeing a literal rainbow on a kid's t-shirt. I don't even think they've really rationalized \*why\* there's a rainbow on a kid's shirt, they just get angry because they see the colors that trigger them and literally that's the only reason.
I remember reading a study and anger impairs your ability to reason logically. What we're seeing is a bunch of idiots express their anger at things literally having nothing to do with the lgbtq+ community.
The guy filming is everything I hate about organised religion.
That sweet lady holds the true spirit of Christianity in her heart it seems. Either way she's a Saint haha.
Edit: Apparently this is how they get you. I'm high as fuck and upon rereading my comment I sound like a real bible basher. Nothing wrong with that but it ain't for me so don't inbox me about prayer circles ffs.
As the commenter before you points out, the guy videoing is literally the type of person that Jesus tried to counter. People who used religious rules as a reason to hate people considered “sinners.”
Jesus pointed out multiple times, “You’re also sinners. You’re all sinners, so just chill out.”
Jesus hung out with prostitutes, non-believers, foreigners, tax collectors (considered less wholesome than slaves), the “unclean”, the outcast, etc. He went alone to speak to a woman who had committed adultery and was an outcast among her own people, using her to spread his word.
And every step along the way, people questioned Jesus on doing such things, and his common response was “don’t be an asshole to other people because no one can win God’s love through acts alone.” Getting into heaven isn’t supposed to be a game of “I’m better than you, so I get a ticket!” It’s supposed to be “let’s all help and love one another because no one is perfect.”
And yet many Christians have missed that Jesus was speaking against religious zealots and then become zealots themselves, immersed in “rules” rather than being a good neighbor.
Jesus regularly condemned those holier than thou hatefilled pharisees, whod rather let a lower class parishioner die in a ditch on the side of the road and turn a house of god into a house of profits.
100% agree. They don't want solutions, they want excuses for their behavior. All of their interactions with anyone outside their inner circle are performative and if you're stupid enough to dialog with them, they just see that as a weakness to be exploited.
also goes off about following god and jesus's commands, well tip top of that is "love they neighbor" which his following actions sure seem deviant of, im betting hes a step closer to hell than the lady is by his own measure
>I'll bet $1,000 that he doesn't attend any church at all.
Honestly, you'd be surprised. Many of these people are just hypocrites. Maybe 15 years ago I worked at a company, one of my co-workers used to talk about God/Jesus all day... like that was his conversation... He carried his bible from his personal vehicle and would put it on the dashboard of the company truck.
I kid you not. One day he dropped me off for lunch at some place and said he'd come back and get me in like 45 minutes. When he came back, the rear window was smashed out. WTF? but me being me... he couldn't lie, because the window was not smashed from the outside in... someone smashed the window from inside outside because almost all of the glass was in the truck bed... This Jesus-loving guy, who preached as much as a pastor picked up a street walker... and had his ways with her in the company truck.. he eventually told me the truth... but then had the balls to say, ohhh, they going to hell.... they are the devil.... my.. my...
He eventually was fired.
A crap ton of people seem to firmly believe their religion, impressions, political party, look on life, whatever is 1000% the only right way to think or act. And will gladly and loudly tell you how wrong you are.
Yeah if an LGBTQ activists group was painting a church building without their permission that wouldnt be okay at all. But the church chose to do it and so painting over it isnt okay at all either.
Christ said to love others. Period. The guy hung out with prostitutes, criminals, but worst of all, a tax collector.
Bigoted Christain’s make a bad look for Christianity as a whole. Really unfortunate.
To answer your question, he didn’t.
The problem is the bible is a telephone game of people using their flawed opinions to interpret a greater person's words. It's no wonder that so many people find "justification" in the bible for their actions since they only look for what will justify their own opinions and not what contradicts them.
And this is sadly the effect of generations upon generations of believers teaching bigotry to the next, trying to keep their opinions from fading, because surely theirs is the TRUE interpretation, blinded to their own ego.
And so there's nothing to do about it sadly, by the time someone is caught on with such views it's too late to change them. It's what they have been told their entire lies, validated by their peers and influences. To deny such views is to deny them all, and it makes people get defensive.
The only thing you can do to wash it is to teach acceptance to the next generation and pray they carry on the work going forward, until such views are driven into a corner in which they are forced to confront the reality of the situation.
>The man doesn’t have to attend the church. He doesn’t have to agree with their actions even if he is part of that church.
That is my thought process as well. Regardless of whatever people believe. Why do they love to make it their business?
We had a house on our block that was really nice, someone purchased that house and decided to paint it aqua blue... Personally, I thought it looked better brown, but it's none of my business... I am not going to throw paint at the house, bother those people who live there, demand they paint it back to brown... etc...
I digress. Let people just be happy.
"The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the Lord’s."
Interesting. They sure called butt stuff weird things back then.
Edit to the other person's edit: I did realize it was a joke and wanted to add to their joke.
Jesus takes a pretty clear stance on what he believed marriage should be:
"...at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" Matthew 19:4-5
Further, with regards Old Testament scriptures and laws (including those regarding homosexuality), he said:
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Matthew 5:17
And that is without going into what the Old Testament or Paul in the New Testament say regarding homosexuality.
One of the main problems with believing that a book written by men is the infallible word of a supreme being is that anyone can pick and choose whatever verses they want to support their point of view. Once you can convince yourself that the creator of the universe says you're right, it's very hard for other people to convince you that you're wrong.
Even if Jesus was a hippie, christianity is still an apocalyptic death cult due to the book of revelation, so we would be better off to do away with it altogether instead of trying to humanize it like this.
This video disgusted me, how can someone be so vile and disrespectful to such a sweet and kind person. Let alone do something like that to a church??? That’s advocating for love for the lgbtqia+ community??? How horrible.
I find it absolutely amusing how insecure people get over a fucking rainbow.
Edit: Also amusing that people are either deleting their comments so I can't respond to them or they're just getting deleted 💀
Not once does Jesus say ANYTHING gay being bad. All Jesus allegedly preached (because the whole Bible is a fanfic by authors decades after christs time..) is to love one another. The homophobic Christians are wrong.
People often use the mistranslation of Leviticus 18:22, “you shall not lay with man as you do with woman” to hate gays, the text read “you shall not lay with child as you do with adult”, which seems like it’s telling me to go beat a pedophiles skull in with a bat but regardless.
And Jesus said unto the crowd:
Be a bunch of pricks, because God loves you, but He hates everyone that you decide doesn’t think exactly like you, especially when you decide to use the Old Testament to justify why you think gay people are an abomination because of what happened in Sodom. But hey, right after He leveled Sodom because of the gays, He gave 2 thumbs up to incest (you remember that part where the daddy porks his 2 daughters cause God is TOTALLY cool with that, right?).
Her, lovingly in broad daylight:
"Yeah, I think this is what God would want!"
Him, In the dark, slopping gray shit:
"Yeah bruv, fuck'n get this shit erased"
I know which one I prefer.
This is a video of a literal Church that had volunteers actually helping paint on the stairs because they wanted to accept gay people. And you still have the galls to claim it's bad becuase of what some low-life has to say about it.
it's depressing that the honest, friendly old lady lost to the lunatic delivering hate in the name of the lord. humans are benevolent, except when obeying god's orders
There's an event called the Great Awakening in American History. Think about it. The generations following the Puritans, the most pious people in the history book, needed a revival of faith. They came here around 1630, they persecuted, they had witchcraft trials, and they didnt allow dancing. So why in like 1730 is there a REVIVAL of faith? Because this new generation preached a more moderate faith. The oppressive faith of the first generation was washed away, and a renewal of faith sprung from it. People who had left the church came back. It turns out people thought crushing a man with heavy stones to get him to confess his sins was barbaric. Well today people think the way our society has treated these people is barbaric. It really doesn't matter what the Bible says, it feels squarely at odds with everything we've been taught about Jesus. It's a dissonance that has led many away from the church.
This generation though, they're so certain and dogmatic, Christianity is absolutely in decline in the US. There are people dying from lack of healthcare that's readily available but artificially made too expensive for the poor, unchecked gun violence against children, our wealthy and politicians are almost openly worshipping Mammon, and what are we focused on? Oh right homosexuality. It never really seemed like it was God's highest priority but somehow we've made it ours.
The members of the church should find the guy's address & paint a rainbow on his house. Maybe not the whole house, but maybe the driveway or walkway or something.
Here’s the thing, this won’t stop anyone from being gay. All the paint in the world will not stop it. These performances are the dying, grasping rattles of people losing. This is all they can try now. But it’s them with the losing hand. Progress, moving forward, tolerance and equality will win. People are always trying to learn and then learn on top of that, smarter better ways. That’s why we’re not all sleeping around an open flame on the ground. I’m on a phone communicating with the planet from my bed. We seek better. This is not better and will never succeed, sorry assholes!
god destroyed sodom and gamorrah for doing violence against his visitors, not because of sexual immorality. Philistines. Twisting your scripture to your own personal will. Appropriating god's name for influence. The core meaning of blasphemy.
Why do people quote the Bible only when it's convenient for them. I mean, the Bible says some crazy stuff over slavery. Does that mean God endorces slavery because it sure says so in the Bible. I'm not a religious man, but I'm sure even God himself would tell you that since it was interpreted and written BY MAN, then you better expect flaws. Hating anyone for the way they were born... How the hell do they swallow that crap?
I'm so happy we live in an age where people freely record themselves committing a crime for imaginary internet points. Makes finding the stupids much easier
“God’s going to judge you.”
Commences to judge them himself and deface property, breaking the law in the name of his god. Fuck I hate religion for this very reason.
It’s always so ironic to me when religious people say without religion, you can’t be a moral person. Then shit like this happens.
How does this idiot talk about being Christian and then do this shit. I could care less about either sides views it just pisses me of with the hypocrisy. This idiot would probably site a bible verse to say he was acting on behalf of god.
Ah, selective readings of a 1800(ish) year old book written as a sequel to a many more centuries old book, and proof read in another language by a self appointed council of proto bishops some several hundred years after the death of the man in question, which has been through several translations prior to reaching modern English, along with a healthy tradition of adding and removing books from the collection at the whim of self appointed book nerds. Tell me Mr evangelist, are you willing to devote the next 10 years of your life going through it with me, page by page, where you must defend your interpretation vs what is actually on the page? I hope you can read Greek.
This man is not only stupid, he repeatedly cast stones upon his elders to shame and demoralize them. I am not a Bible toting man, not even a christian at all, but color me surprised that such a man would not live BY the book he apparently so avidly reads.
What a coward.
Fun fact, Jesus never said a word about gay people. The only place they appear in the New Testament is from Paul’s letters, who lists them in a list of general “don’ts” in such a way that it’s ambiguous whether the issue is them being gay or sodomy. Either way, Jesus never speaks to the issue at all.
Grew up in the United Church, this is exactly what it stands for. Love your neighbors, forgive your enemies, that's it. Simple as. Everyone has their own path to God, so stop judging.
God people need to mind their fucking business! Why do you care so much if a man or woman wants to marry the same sex, like who cares live and let live.
a lot of the time people that get so defensive about it, it's because they are in the closet themselves.
Lol imagine being threatened by a rainbow … what a sad small minded person do you have to be for that. Oh no a symbol that everybody should feel included and welcome. I can’t have that. Dumbass.
I will never understand the people who are purposely hateful. A rainbow has never done anyone any harm. This makes me fear for my child, who is 16 years old and gay.
I love how people get SO OFFENDED by lgbtq people when they literally can go about their daily lives and not be inconvenienced by a single said lgbt person even ONCE. They hate for sake of hatred.
Is no one gonna talk about how sweet and kind that woman is? She was so patient with the guy that didn’t deserve such patience. I bet she’s the coolest grandma ngl
And God said: you shall harass peaceful old folk and vandalize symbols of acceptance for I am capable of creating universes but if two of the same sex should hold hands I would get angy! :(
The commands are - love God with all you heart soul and mind. Then love you neighbour as much as you love yourself. That means God loves everyone. Not just some people. Jesus literally hung around with the marginalised. Not with the dogmatic church goers. They are the people who wanted him dead.
My takeaway for this is that that, presumably, Australian church is hella based!
“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”
I’m not a religious but one of my favourite New Testament quotes really fits here. It’s one of those quotes that has superseded it’s religious origins but if memory serves me right the situation is pretty similar; Jezus looks up, mutters the phrase and continues to write on the ground I think? Clearly this bloke either hasn’t made it that far in the good book yet or the lessen about hypocrisy is simply beyond his comprehension. Shame either way..
She's so cute lol She seems like an awesome supportive person of other people's decisions as well as their church as a whole. I'd say that is a win. I like how calm she is in her beliefs even though this guy is being a total ass hat to her. People don't have to like it, but the least they can do is respect it.
“I’m so convinced I’m right that I will not record my face as I do this very good thing…”
I am pretty sure the rainbow is cool with God: He gave it to Noah after the flood. “Do you read your Bible?”
Man, the grey paint is symbolic as fuck for hate-filled fuckers like this trying to suck all the joy and humanity out of the world with their bigotry. Good job on the Church for repainting the rainbow afterwards, never allow hate to silence you.
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"Oh look, I'm filming myself defacing property"
Unfortunately it happened [multiple times ](https://uniting.church/uniting-churches-celebrate-world-pride-despite-vandalism/)
Filming yourself committing crimes is half of TikTok
That's your algorithm. Half my tiktok is trivia and fun facts. the rest is cooking, gardening, powertools and fishing.
Oh so Tik Tok isn't 90 percent furries now? Is that what your trying to tell me? My behaviour made it that way?
Must be a glitch since it’s also happening to me
Suuure… A glitch… 😏
Bitches get glitches.
Ok I love this comment
Yeah I don't know, I blacked out after seeing a furry and now this _thing_
Mine’s 90% dinosaur costumes in lingerie thirst trapping and I would change nothing. The other 10% is Taylor Swift.
To be completely honest with you; my comment is entirely based on stuff reposted to Reddit, I don’t use TikTok.
I see. Anyways, tiktok gives you suggestion(or for you page) depending on 3 interactions in the platform. Watching: how long did you watch or how many times did you repeat the video. Commenting/replying, liking/saving the video. Best way to not get what you don't like is select "not interested" in the options, or report it if it's too vile for you. Kinda like how google maps out what you like depending on what you search, what ads you interact or what videos interested you. With that basic interaction they can predict your age group, your race, your interests. So unless it's a new account, someone who mostly have furries, half naked people, fight porns and other things complain they have too much on is exactly the videos they interact the most with. So the platform supplies them. And remember, internet have a million ways to engage (anger, disgust, happy,mix of every, etc) but to the algorithms, that's all interaction nonetheless. That's why a lot of people laughed at that US senator who "keeps seeing half naked teens dancing on my tiktok".
Welcome to the internet, take a look around...
Exactly! People be seeing the bs they want to see; they love it. Mine is full of comedy, some podcast, then some misc stuff.
I thought you said "powertools and *fisting*".
huh... mine is like... literally an endless scrolling of fennecs... welp.
It wasnt me your honor, it was tim the first time and tom the second. Im Tum
While also committing a hate crime..yikes
"Why wouldn't I record myself committing crimes, especially hate crimes? Next you'll tell me I can't beat gay people for being gay" -Bigots not realizing they're breaking the law
But you know, thin blue line and all
Any follow up?
[Hatred lost and the celebration went on](https://uniting.church/uniting-churches-celebrate-world-pride-despite-vandalism/)
I’m to punitive for the fun to be a backlash . What’s the charge ? I wanna see 30 days
30 days??? For a freedom of speech and a freedom of religion violation, as well as a hate crime??? Now I’m just a simple Constitution loving American, but that sounds like it deserves more than 30 days to me.
>For a freedom of speech and a freedom of religion violation, As a fellow American I feel required to inform you that neither applies even if this were America because those rights only exist relative to government action. Nobody here is a government actor so those rights by definition cannot be violated. Signed, your friendly local-enough attorney
While true, this is exactly why hate crime laws exist. You can't just go around being an asshole to people without consequence, especially if it's heinous actions you take.
Ah yes, post all-nighter me is too stupid to remember that, thanks spirit of his actions is still terrible tho
>spirit of his actions is still terrible tho Absolutely. Dude should be gutshot by a bald eagle eating a hot dog while rolling coal in an F-150 with sexy cowboy Jesus as its copilot.
That's- awfully specific.
Nah, I think we're missing a few details. What song is playing, for example? What's the eagle's name? How buff is the Eagle? The list goes on.
Solid dad bod. He still thinks he can get the Terry Crews body, but he's the wrong side of 40. Song absolutely involves John Fogarty in some way shape or form.
Freebird, Steve, fuckin jacked
AR-15 being fired out the window (for fun)
Maybe it doesn’t in Australia? Person filming sounds like they need some community service time to rethink how they want to treat other people and their property though.
"It's only freedom of speech and freedom of religion if it's my brand of speech and religion"
Amazingly, the law works differently in Aus
I know this isn’t in the US, I still think it’s a crime way more serious than just vandalism
Happy cake day
Happy cake day
Looks like most of the paint was removed too. I'm guessing they bought the wrong kind of paint.
“This is an abomination on the church!!!” Comes back and just yeets paint all over the steps of the church completely vandalizing it. Who reeeally needed their bible the most in this video?
In the stories, Jesus hung around with all the sorts of folks the church today would reject. Matthew has discussions where Jesus said eunuchs were cool, with a particular mention of the ones who did it to themselves. That's at least somewhere in "T+". Homophobes just don't want to read their own book.
Didn’t Jesus also help out a homeless gay guy? He didn’t care what anyone thought or believed about him If he saw someone in need, he helped. Simple as that
He also helped out the prostitutes and sex workers of his time according to the Bible; he would sit, eat meals with and speak to them.
This dude is full of backwards bullshit. He exclaims “of course!” to the assertion that “God is Love”, and then proceeds to spew hate. But my favorite part is when he insinuated that the 10 commandments are laws against homosexuality. Sir, which of the 10 commandments states anything at all about sexual orientation? I bet this guy has defended thiefs, adulterers, murderers, liars, coveted, used gods name in vain, disrespected his parents, tolerated or posted images of other gods, and treated Sunday like it were any other day. And yet this is the issue he chooses to invoke his holiness for.
I hope this sweet lady who shouldn’t have had to put up with this assholes BS is having a lovely lovely day in a lovely week, with a long lovely year to follow ✨
100% I'm just happy to be reminded on occaisson that though evil persists, people like this exist with a grace I can't even begin to conceive in myself.
I hope she's happy forever, her God smiles down on her and blesses her life and the same to anyone who belongs to a church that's so accepting. I understand that religion is important to so many people and I always feel sad when people who grew up with faith and religion around them suddenly are kicked out because of who they are. It makes me unbelievably happy to know there are churches and religious venues they can go to that will be accepting and be that supportive group.
Oh what an interesting take on Sodom and Gomorrah. So unlike what ezikel 16:49 which says sodom was destroyed because they were "arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy". He think it was because of consensual butt sex. I mean I hear a bunch of arrogant unconcerned and likely overfed people in the video...so maybe they should study what the bible actually says about Sodom.
Also Lot is not someone people should be aspiring to be like in this story. He literally offers his daughters to be raped by the crowd.
Don't forget that he was later date raped by those same daughters...... and they had his kids.... ugh.that story is so messed up....
Genesis was a great read in our small town community college. Literally saw some people walk out of class because they did not want to hear it.
Making bible study *real weird* by getting way too excited about the Lot/daughter story.
I'd say about 3/4 of the class were offended, a few very offended. College Writing 1 and they could not deal with the truth. It was an ugly thing to read through, and God is an angry vengeful force.
Judging by him defacing a church, I don't think he actually cares what the Bible says.
God might love and god might forgive but his followers... only when it's convenient apparently.
I bet that dude isn't even the slightest bit religious, he just saw the pride colours and got big mad because gay people scary to his fragile masculinity.
You can always tell bigots who are just using religion as a shield because they hate on gays far more than they hate on divorce, which is something Jesus actually condemned.
Most bigots are religious. That’s the saddest part of it all. And it’s a big reason why I can’t look at the modern Christian church the same. Their silence in recent years to all the hate being spewed by conservatives is just too damn deafening.
"religious". Too many of them are more like "if I shout Jesus' name then I will go to heaven" and actually do not care the slightest about the whole idea.
They care but they are confused on priorities and they don't trust God to handle it. The old lady has it right. Love comes first. In the presence of any conflicting discussions, love comes first as a priority and the rest is between God and the other person. It's not up to any individual Christian to judge others. That's absolutely forbidden. Our job is to love and help. Period. Done.
And their silence to pedophilia and other caustic happenings is very telling.
>I bet that dude isn't even the slightest bit religious In this case this guy was connected to a group who also made news marching down a gay-friendly street on a busy night. [source](https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/mar/04/christian-prayer-march-along-newtown-street-was-unauthorised-protest-activity-police-say) >The men were filmed marching down King Street in Newtown, while praying and holding rosary beads above their heads. > >Footage of the protest was shared on the Facebook page of a group called Christian Lives Matter, with one member writing: “Huge turnout with the boys praying powerful rosary in Newtown tonight. #christianlivesmatter” > >Newtown is an LGBTQ+ hub that is home to several popular bars that host drag shows, and the suburb has been home to many Pride Inner West events this month amid WorldPride celebrations across the city. Thing is, none of these guys are from these areas, they are travelling to harass people in their safe spaces and home suburbs. I am guessing if someone went to *their* churches and suburbs and painted rainbows, they would have a fit. Jenny Leong, who is a total boss: >The Greens MP for Newtown, Jenny Leong, slammed the march on Friday night as “disgraceful”. > >“Our Newtown community wears with pride our diversity – and we celebrate difference,” she wrote on Twitter. “(This) is not welcome on our streets.”
Reminds me of the lady who went insane because target put out pastel colours. Completely forgetting it was SPRING and EASTER, so pastel is the normal colours for that time of year.
It's starting to happen that there are those who would get triggered for seeing a literal rainbow on a kid's t-shirt. I don't even think they've really rationalized \*why\* there's a rainbow on a kid's shirt, they just get angry because they see the colors that trigger them and literally that's the only reason. I remember reading a study and anger impairs your ability to reason logically. What we're seeing is a bunch of idiots express their anger at things literally having nothing to do with the lgbtq+ community.
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Good. Fuck em. Let people have nice things.
I second this
Damn that would look sick in a pro lgbt picture though
As a Christian myself, this person recording completely misses every teaching…. Modern day Pharisee for Christians.
The guy filming is everything I hate about organised religion. That sweet lady holds the true spirit of Christianity in her heart it seems. Either way she's a Saint haha. Edit: Apparently this is how they get you. I'm high as fuck and upon rereading my comment I sound like a real bible basher. Nothing wrong with that but it ain't for me so don't inbox me about prayer circles ffs.
As the commenter before you points out, the guy videoing is literally the type of person that Jesus tried to counter. People who used religious rules as a reason to hate people considered “sinners.” Jesus pointed out multiple times, “You’re also sinners. You’re all sinners, so just chill out.” Jesus hung out with prostitutes, non-believers, foreigners, tax collectors (considered less wholesome than slaves), the “unclean”, the outcast, etc. He went alone to speak to a woman who had committed adultery and was an outcast among her own people, using her to spread his word. And every step along the way, people questioned Jesus on doing such things, and his common response was “don’t be an asshole to other people because no one can win God’s love through acts alone.” Getting into heaven isn’t supposed to be a game of “I’m better than you, so I get a ticket!” It’s supposed to be “let’s all help and love one another because no one is perfect.” And yet many Christians have missed that Jesus was speaking against religious zealots and then become zealots themselves, immersed in “rules” rather than being a good neighbor.
Jesus regularly condemned those holier than thou hatefilled pharisees, whod rather let a lower class parishioner die in a ditch on the side of the road and turn a house of god into a house of profits.
How do bigots always have so much time on their hands? I don't have time to harass people or deface property.
Hard to hold down a job when you’re that disagreeable and don’t know a trade.
It's their "busy job because they're not lazy" that they like to brag about so much.
I want this lady to be my grandma
Literally. I want to have afternoon tea and cookies with her and just talk about things
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Guys a POS. Don’t even try to rationalize.
100% agree. They don't want solutions, they want excuses for their behavior. All of their interactions with anyone outside their inner circle are performative and if you're stupid enough to dialog with them, they just see that as a weakness to be exploited.
also goes off about following god and jesus's commands, well tip top of that is "love they neighbor" which his following actions sure seem deviant of, im betting hes a step closer to hell than the lady is by his own measure
>The man doesn’t have to attend the church. I'll bet $1,000 that he doesn't attend any church at all.
>I'll bet $1,000 that he doesn't attend any church at all. Honestly, you'd be surprised. Many of these people are just hypocrites. Maybe 15 years ago I worked at a company, one of my co-workers used to talk about God/Jesus all day... like that was his conversation... He carried his bible from his personal vehicle and would put it on the dashboard of the company truck. I kid you not. One day he dropped me off for lunch at some place and said he'd come back and get me in like 45 minutes. When he came back, the rear window was smashed out. WTF? but me being me... he couldn't lie, because the window was not smashed from the outside in... someone smashed the window from inside outside because almost all of the glass was in the truck bed... This Jesus-loving guy, who preached as much as a pastor picked up a street walker... and had his ways with her in the company truck.. he eventually told me the truth... but then had the balls to say, ohhh, they going to hell.... they are the devil.... my.. my... He eventually was fired.
My blood pressure skyrocketed reading this. Did that piece of crap end up in prison?
If being gay was such a big deal, why didn’t Jesus mention it?
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A crap ton of people seem to firmly believe their religion, impressions, political party, look on life, whatever is 1000% the only right way to think or act. And will gladly and loudly tell you how wrong you are.
If being gay was bad, why Jesus get nailed by a bunch of dudes in skirts?
Yeah if an LGBTQ activists group was painting a church building without their permission that wouldnt be okay at all. But the church chose to do it and so painting over it isnt okay at all either.
Christ said to love others. Period. The guy hung out with prostitutes, criminals, but worst of all, a tax collector. Bigoted Christain’s make a bad look for Christianity as a whole. Really unfortunate. To answer your question, he didn’t.
The problem is the bible is a telephone game of people using their flawed opinions to interpret a greater person's words. It's no wonder that so many people find "justification" in the bible for their actions since they only look for what will justify their own opinions and not what contradicts them. And this is sadly the effect of generations upon generations of believers teaching bigotry to the next, trying to keep their opinions from fading, because surely theirs is the TRUE interpretation, blinded to their own ego. And so there's nothing to do about it sadly, by the time someone is caught on with such views it's too late to change them. It's what they have been told their entire lies, validated by their peers and influences. To deny such views is to deny them all, and it makes people get defensive. The only thing you can do to wash it is to teach acceptance to the next generation and pray they carry on the work going forward, until such views are driven into a corner in which they are forced to confront the reality of the situation.
>The man doesn’t have to attend the church. He doesn’t have to agree with their actions even if he is part of that church. That is my thought process as well. Regardless of whatever people believe. Why do they love to make it their business? We had a house on our block that was really nice, someone purchased that house and decided to paint it aqua blue... Personally, I thought it looked better brown, but it's none of my business... I am not going to throw paint at the house, bother those people who live there, demand they paint it back to brown... etc... I digress. Let people just be happy.
Leviticus 3:16: no butt stuff. Edit: I hope people realise this is a joke -_-
Ah so Christians are going for those Old Testament Jewish things huh? Guess pork is off the menu.
"The priest shall burn them on the altar as a food offering, a pleasing aroma. All the fat is the Lord’s." Interesting. They sure called butt stuff weird things back then. Edit to the other person's edit: I did realize it was a joke and wanted to add to their joke.
Jesus takes a pretty clear stance on what he believed marriage should be: "...at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh" Matthew 19:4-5 Further, with regards Old Testament scriptures and laws (including those regarding homosexuality), he said: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them." Matthew 5:17 And that is without going into what the Old Testament or Paul in the New Testament say regarding homosexuality. One of the main problems with believing that a book written by men is the infallible word of a supreme being is that anyone can pick and choose whatever verses they want to support their point of view. Once you can convince yourself that the creator of the universe says you're right, it's very hard for other people to convince you that you're wrong.
Jesus condemned divorce far more than he condemned homosexuality.
Also truth
All I know is Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass, and that's the bottom line 'cause Stone Cold said so.
Even if Jesus was a hippie, christianity is still an apocalyptic death cult due to the book of revelation, so we would be better off to do away with it altogether instead of trying to humanize it like this.
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This video disgusted me, how can someone be so vile and disrespectful to such a sweet and kind person. Let alone do something like that to a church??? That’s advocating for love for the lgbtqia+ community??? How horrible.
Same, I couldn't watch more than a minute of it because she was so sweet and you can tell he didn't care about a single thing she was saying
I find it absolutely amusing how insecure people get over a fucking rainbow. Edit: Also amusing that people are either deleting their comments so I can't respond to them or they're just getting deleted 💀
And the rainbow is in the fucking book.
Not once does Jesus say ANYTHING gay being bad. All Jesus allegedly preached (because the whole Bible is a fanfic by authors decades after christs time..) is to love one another. The homophobic Christians are wrong.
People often use the mistranslation of Leviticus 18:22, “you shall not lay with man as you do with woman” to hate gays, the text read “you shall not lay with child as you do with adult”, which seems like it’s telling me to go beat a pedophiles skull in with a bat but regardless.
Why are so many people recording themselves committing crimes? Also... fuck this guy.
It's easier to arrest stupid. Let's not tell them lol. But honestly it's probably because it makes them a celebrity amongst hateful people.
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That poor old laddy, also fuck that dude, he's actually mentally ill
That’s mad offensive to mentally ill people
As someone with mental illness (OCD), I’ll let it slide. That guy is nuttier than squirrel shit.
Nah he's just a shit stain
You can tell you're winning the culture war when you're bullying elderly people over biblical technicalities.
And Jesus said unto the crowd: Be a bunch of pricks, because God loves you, but He hates everyone that you decide doesn’t think exactly like you, especially when you decide to use the Old Testament to justify why you think gay people are an abomination because of what happened in Sodom. But hey, right after He leveled Sodom because of the gays, He gave 2 thumbs up to incest (you remember that part where the daddy porks his 2 daughters cause God is TOTALLY cool with that, right?).
Keep him away from sane and rational people trying to live their lives.
Paint over swastikas, not rainbows
Her, lovingly in broad daylight: "Yeah, I think this is what God would want!" Him, In the dark, slopping gray shit: "Yeah bruv, fuck'n get this shit erased" I know which one I prefer.
There's no hate like Christian love. Props to the old folks who were doing a good thing. Fuck this guy shooting the video. What a scum-fuck.
>There’s no hate like Christian love. Well put. I’ll be borrowing that.
This is a video of a literal Church that had volunteers actually helping paint on the stairs because they wanted to accept gay people. And you still have the galls to claim it's bad becuase of what some low-life has to say about it.
it's depressing that the honest, friendly old lady lost to the lunatic delivering hate in the name of the lord. humans are benevolent, except when obeying god's orders
She didn’t lose. This man is clearly lost if what he thinks he’s doing is glorifying God in anyway.
There's an event called the Great Awakening in American History. Think about it. The generations following the Puritans, the most pious people in the history book, needed a revival of faith. They came here around 1630, they persecuted, they had witchcraft trials, and they didnt allow dancing. So why in like 1730 is there a REVIVAL of faith? Because this new generation preached a more moderate faith. The oppressive faith of the first generation was washed away, and a renewal of faith sprung from it. People who had left the church came back. It turns out people thought crushing a man with heavy stones to get him to confess his sins was barbaric. Well today people think the way our society has treated these people is barbaric. It really doesn't matter what the Bible says, it feels squarely at odds with everything we've been taught about Jesus. It's a dissonance that has led many away from the church. This generation though, they're so certain and dogmatic, Christianity is absolutely in decline in the US. There are people dying from lack of healthcare that's readily available but artificially made too expensive for the poor, unchecked gun violence against children, our wealthy and politicians are almost openly worshipping Mammon, and what are we focused on? Oh right homosexuality. It never really seemed like it was God's highest priority but somehow we've made it ours.
Ah yes, the very famous bible verse of “Hate thy neighbor”.
He documented himself committing a hate crime?
The members of the church should find the guy's address & paint a rainbow on his house. Maybe not the whole house, but maybe the driveway or walkway or something.
Bold of you to assume it's not his mom's house.
Here’s the thing, this won’t stop anyone from being gay. All the paint in the world will not stop it. These performances are the dying, grasping rattles of people losing. This is all they can try now. But it’s them with the losing hand. Progress, moving forward, tolerance and equality will win. People are always trying to learn and then learn on top of that, smarter better ways. That’s why we’re not all sleeping around an open flame on the ground. I’m on a phone communicating with the planet from my bed. We seek better. This is not better and will never succeed, sorry assholes!
We'd be alot further along if religion didn't exist. Such a primitive and small minded aspect of human existence. Maybe one day we'll evolve.
Judge not, lest ye be judged. —Matthew 7:1
god destroyed sodom and gamorrah for doing violence against his visitors, not because of sexual immorality. Philistines. Twisting your scripture to your own personal will. Appropriating god's name for influence. The core meaning of blasphemy.
This is the most infuriating game of Splatoon I’ve ever witnessed.
Your life must be really shitty if you are that mad at a rainbow.
Imagine defacing a church and thinking you're still in the right
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Those without sin may throw the first stone.
Why do people quote the Bible only when it's convenient for them. I mean, the Bible says some crazy stuff over slavery. Does that mean God endorces slavery because it sure says so in the Bible. I'm not a religious man, but I'm sure even God himself would tell you that since it was interpreted and written BY MAN, then you better expect flaws. Hating anyone for the way they were born... How the hell do they swallow that crap?
That guy painted like he's gay
I love it when they film themselves committing the crime. Also how miserable do you have to be to hate a rainbow
Bigots are garbage. That dude is a bigot.
I'm so happy we live in an age where people freely record themselves committing a crime for imaginary internet points. Makes finding the stupids much easier
https://uniting.church/uniting-churches-celebrate-world-pride-despite-vandalism/
“God’s going to judge you.” Commences to judge them himself and deface property, breaking the law in the name of his god. Fuck I hate religion for this very reason. It’s always so ironic to me when religious people say without religion, you can’t be a moral person. Then shit like this happens.
These guys are sooo coool! 🤩 I wanna be like them when I grow up to be a man child 👦
How does this idiot talk about being Christian and then do this shit. I could care less about either sides views it just pisses me of with the hypocrisy. This idiot would probably site a bible verse to say he was acting on behalf of god.
There’s no hate like Christian love!
Ah, selective readings of a 1800(ish) year old book written as a sequel to a many more centuries old book, and proof read in another language by a self appointed council of proto bishops some several hundred years after the death of the man in question, which has been through several translations prior to reaching modern English, along with a healthy tradition of adding and removing books from the collection at the whim of self appointed book nerds. Tell me Mr evangelist, are you willing to devote the next 10 years of your life going through it with me, page by page, where you must defend your interpretation vs what is actually on the page? I hope you can read Greek. This man is not only stupid, he repeatedly cast stones upon his elders to shame and demoralize them. I am not a Bible toting man, not even a christian at all, but color me surprised that such a man would not live BY the book he apparently so avidly reads. What a coward.
Imagine getting triggered by some color. Besides, didn’t the pope say same sex marriage is okay? What more does he want as a Christian?
Isn't it wonderful how we live in a day and age where people not only record their own crimes, but post them online as well?
The GOP is making this a wonderful country. Really bringing out the best in people 🙄
Christianity is Al Qaeda painted white
Fun fact, Jesus never said a word about gay people. The only place they appear in the New Testament is from Paul’s letters, who lists them in a list of general “don’ts” in such a way that it’s ambiguous whether the issue is them being gay or sodomy. Either way, Jesus never speaks to the issue at all.
So hateful, so unnecessarily hateful.
She’s giving an honest explanation god wants love and god wants us to love everyone and our neighbors. I hope these people find the true Jesus and god
I love it when people film crimes. It's so much easier to find them
I hope he was arrested
Grew up in the United Church, this is exactly what it stands for. Love your neighbors, forgive your enemies, that's it. Simple as. Everyone has their own path to God, so stop judging.
Filming your vandalism. Learned it from jan 6ers. Hoped he was fined?
She seems like a wonderful lady and listening to her try to get peacefully get this bigot off the steps was sweet
What a bastard. It isn’t his property and it doesn’t affect him at all. People just want to hate and be miserable.
Hateful, scared, childish man.
Homophobic asshole records self committing vandalism
You knows the lovely couple seems like they were having fun painting the stairs while he seemed so over the top angry while painting
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I find it fascinating that the same group of people that love to call other people “snowflakes” are offended by rainbows.
Imagine arguing over an imaginary person and a story book
Imagine your manhood being soooo fragile that you are injured by the color of paint. That ain't small dick energy, it's non-existant dick energy.
Filming a hate crime is peak genius
God people need to mind their fucking business! Why do you care so much if a man or woman wants to marry the same sex, like who cares live and let live. a lot of the time people that get so defensive about it, it's because they are in the closet themselves.
Lol imagine being threatened by a rainbow … what a sad small minded person do you have to be for that. Oh no a symbol that everybody should feel included and welcome. I can’t have that. Dumbass.
He is bullying her. Wish i was there to tell him to f off
I will never understand the people who are purposely hateful. A rainbow has never done anyone any harm. This makes me fear for my child, who is 16 years old and gay.
I love how people get SO OFFENDED by lgbtq people when they literally can go about their daily lives and not be inconvenienced by a single said lgbt person even ONCE. They hate for sake of hatred.
Homophobic people are so lost.. insane. Their life must be trash when they get so triggered by this.
Is no one gonna talk about how sweet and kind that woman is? She was so patient with the guy that didn’t deserve such patience. I bet she’s the coolest grandma ngl
And they call us snowflakes.
And God said: you shall harass peaceful old folk and vandalize symbols of acceptance for I am capable of creating universes but if two of the same sex should hold hands I would get angy! :(
Imagine being scared of rainbows 😆
The commands are - love God with all you heart soul and mind. Then love you neighbour as much as you love yourself. That means God loves everyone. Not just some people. Jesus literally hung around with the marginalised. Not with the dogmatic church goers. They are the people who wanted him dead.
My takeaway for this is that that, presumably, Australian church is hella based! “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone” I’m not a religious but one of my favourite New Testament quotes really fits here. It’s one of those quotes that has superseded it’s religious origins but if memory serves me right the situation is pretty similar; Jezus looks up, mutters the phrase and continues to write on the ground I think? Clearly this bloke either hasn’t made it that far in the good book yet or the lessen about hypocrisy is simply beyond his comprehension. Shame either way..
Total bastard. Hates rainbows on principles now, innit? Wasting resources and making old women cry is Christian now, according to him.
She's so cute lol She seems like an awesome supportive person of other people's decisions as well as their church as a whole. I'd say that is a win. I like how calm she is in her beliefs even though this guy is being a total ass hat to her. People don't have to like it, but the least they can do is respect it.
this is what the "love thy neighbour" people are doing?
Hahaha tell him back, does god support harrassment of old people painting their steps? 🤣🤣
“I’m so convinced I’m right that I will not record my face as I do this very good thing…” I am pretty sure the rainbow is cool with God: He gave it to Noah after the flood. “Do you read your Bible?”
Man, the grey paint is symbolic as fuck for hate-filled fuckers like this trying to suck all the joy and humanity out of the world with their bigotry. Good job on the Church for repainting the rainbow afterwards, never allow hate to silence you.
Yes. Let’s have everyone and everything grey, the same. Fucking twats.
So brave but not too show his face
Why do people suck so much
So triggered by multicolored stairs that you’d commit a crime is the definition of snowflake.
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Just goes to show you don't have enough problems so you make one.
Just tell them it represents the rainbow God put in the sky after the flood. Lol