Performative Christianity is a lot easier than actually helping people.
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cardboardunderwear1 day ago
+164
And the corollary to your already wise comment:
Most Christianity you actually see is purely performative.
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Luna__Moonkitty1 day ago
+75
The quiet people who are Christian are usually the ones working helping their local communities with little publicity, often without being paid for it.
The loud ones are the ones who help with nothing, demand everyone follows rules they themselves don't follow and demand tax-free donations.
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CharcoalGreyWolf1 day ago
+25
As said by Jesus, [Matthew 6](https://biblehub.com/nkjv/matthew/6.htm)
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dayvekeem1 day ago
+36
Real Christians don't have the time to criticize others. They should be busy criticizing themselves.
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Khaldara1 day ago
+19
“let the little children come to me and do not hinder them”
Republicans: Oh, they got this all screwed up. “Let me come in the little children’s hinders”
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dontrike1 day ago
+3
That's pretty much all Christianity is at this point.
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TheBioethicist871 day ago
+1
Hey, it’s not like she’s in a position to help feed the poor or anything.
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hilinia2 days ago
+512
"In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, 'While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process.'"
It's too much 😂
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VorAbaddon1 day ago
+166
I have a feeling that will turn up in the suit. Hopefully it gets a judge that isnt corrupt, but no hopes here.
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kraftdinnerwithsalsa1 day ago
+42
Justice needs to be blind to not cry
She’s the real victim here
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AdevilSboyU1 day ago
+11
Even if it does, I’m sure there will be a pardon waiting at the end of the process.
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personalleytea1 day ago
+49
I’m going to sacrifice a goat to Gozer and Zuul for ol’ Brookie!
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malthar761 day ago
+26
Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Slor!
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BaconISgoodSOGOOD1 day ago
+5
There is no Gozer, *only* Zuul!
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personalleytea1 day ago
+4
There is no Dana, only Zuul!
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RobutNotRobot1 day ago
+7
Cool. Another point of evidence in favor of the plaintiffs. Not that this f***** cares. It's taxpayers' money.
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SpiritualB0x31 day ago
+6
“Praise be to Allah”?
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Yonder_Zach1 day ago
+2
Republicans make a mockery of our constitution and the rule of law every chance they get
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ecklesweb1 day ago
-2
D1 rage bait. I literally laughed out loud when I read it.
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AudibleNod2 days ago
+315
>"Secretary Rollins's practice and policy of subjecting agency employees to proselytizing messages conveys the expectation that USDA employees share in the Secretary's religious beliefs, even when doing so would betray an employee's own beliefs," the lawsuit said. "It is exactly the sort of government-sponsored religious coercion, religious sermonizing, and denominational preference that the Establishment Clause prohibits."
Having religion turn up in government emails is utter bullshit.
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Ntroepy2 days ago
+120
Not surprising - I was a DoD contractor for a long time and 2 of our DoD clients started every meeting with an extended prayer. (Can’t say much as a contractor). At least they didn’t leave a paper trail via email.
Awkward, but there’s a lot of aggressive Christianity in that space - almost as if to challenge you to call them out, although they don’t see it that way.
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tmdblya1 day ago
+78
“I’m being persecuted!” 🙄
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CondescendingShitbag1 day ago
+43
*"Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed!"*
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Bart_Yellowbeard1 day ago
+3
Bloody peasant!
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UselessInsight1 day ago
+48
My money is on your clients being Chair Force. The evangelicals go hard on recruiting in Colorado Springs.
And yes, they do want you to challenge them. It feeds into the pseudo-self fulfilling prophecy that they will be persecuted for their faith. That the “persecution” comes in the form of being told to f*** off and keep their religion to themselves doesn’t matter.
Same reason they send missionaries where they know they’ll be rejected, often rudely. They’re not trying to win converts. They’re just reinforcing the group identity.
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Ntroepy1 day ago
+16
While I agree missionaries bond over rejection as that’s a common cult bonding strategy, I think this was much more about asserting dominance and forcing Christian conformity. Rather like how Trump weaponizes Christianity to force blind obedience rather than him actually being a Christian.
I say this because they weren’t bonding over rejection - they were forcing non-Christians to pray to their Christian god.
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UnderABig_W1 day ago
+33
I think it would be hilarious to then break out a prayer from a different religion. Bonus points if it’s Catholic, because the evangelical hatred for them is unreal.
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danb1kenobi1 day ago
+19
“Greetings, do you have a moment to scream about our lord and savior, Kahless?”
[Smiles in Gowron]
You don't even need to be a different denomination, just pray in Spanish and watch them get uncomfortable
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UselessInsight1 day ago
+4
They want you to do that. They’ll see it as “persecution”.
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OpheliaRainGalaxy1 day ago
+16
I ran into that in fast food! Fella owned half a dozen franchise locations, only promoted folks to upper management if they attended his church. Started every meeting with prayers.
He was in the habit of deliberately torturing his employees. The best manager I ever worked with flat out quit eventually, just couldn't cope with all the ways he was demanding she ramp up the abuse.
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OtherUserCharges1 day ago
+9
I am a local union president. Our international starts things with prayers. I was pissed cause I’m an atheist and I have a Muslim on my board, so it’s just incredibly inappropriate, even the Christian woman on my board agreed his stupid it was. I complained to our district presidents, but they didn’t do anything.
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c-williams881 day ago
+5
I have a buddy who works for a defense contractor and he was telling me about an incident at work where one of his employees was writing bible verses on the inner compartments of the vehicles they were building and it was a huge deal
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waffle_iron_maiden1 day ago
+14
Separation of church and state has never been so meaningless
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RobutNotRobot1 day ago
+1
The Sinister Six will demand that you praise your leader and join their religion.
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AlcibiadesTheCat21 hr ago
+2
Soon they're going to rule 6-3 that it's the "Sinister Five and Three-Fifths." Thomas will write the opinion of the Court.
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IvoShandor1 day ago
+26
*In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, "While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process."*
Basically their response is F.U.
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Donna_Schrump1 day ago
+2
Please tell me you're kidding.
Edit: holy shit, add another claim to the lawsuit.
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Flash_ina_pan2 days ago
+45
Forcing themselves upon people is standard practice for evangelicals and this administration.
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ZzBitch1 day ago
+2
Maybe people should just hit back and claim **Jedi** as a religion. We can use all the stories and other material created over decades.
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onceinawhile2222 days ago
+108
Wouldn’t it be nice if as much effort really went into helping farmers. Things aren’t looking good down on the farm and prayers for them won’t be enough.
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overthemountain2 days ago
+67
Have they considered voting FOR their interests for once?
They seem to place social justice issues higher than their own financial well being in voting for Republicans. Until that changes they are getting exactly what they voted for.
Not sure why they should get help from others when they refuse to help themselves.
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epidemicsaints1 day ago
+42
These farmers are millionaires that get tons of public money in bail outs from Trump and wanted more. They did vote for their interests. They aren't a crew of rag tag waifs from a John Steinbeck story.
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onceinawhile2221 day ago
+12
They seem to forget every time that elections have consequences. Stop digging and the hole won’t keep getting deeper. Just sad that they drink the kool aid.
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Niceromancer1 day ago
+10
They help millionaires plenty enough as it is.
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onceinawhile2221 day ago
+7
86% of farms are small farms with gross cash farm income less than $350k.
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Niceromancer1 day ago
+2
The majority of farms have millions of dollars in land and assets.
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onceinawhile2221 day ago
+1
Where do you get that info? Average farm size 470 acres median size is 72 acres. Agree most government payments go to corporations but that wasn’t the focus of my post.
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Niceromancer1 day ago
+2
His much do you think that 72 acres of land is worth?
The average American farm is worth 1.6 million dollars
The idea of a poor farmer is fabricated.
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onceinawhile2221 day ago
+3
Average price for American farmland is 4.3 k.
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Niceromancer1 day ago
+3
Name me one person you consider poor that owns 1.6 mill in assets. I'll f****** wait
I'm sick and tired of rich people trying to cosplay as poor people.
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onceinawhile2221 day ago
There is a difference between liquid assets and fixed assets. The farmer has primarily fixed assets used for production. Most of the small farms that I was discussing also depend on non farm income for survival.
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Runiat1 day ago
+2
>His much do you think that 72 acres of land is worth?
>The average American farm is worth 1.6 million dollars
1.6 million ÷ 450 acres × 72 acres = 245 grand, on the off chance small farms get equally as high value land.
And fully half of all farms are smaller than that.
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bigredthesnorer1 day ago
+14
“In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, "While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process."
Is this The Onion? These people scare me.
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Sedert18821 day ago
+14
Zealots of any religion get my blood boiling. You do your thing, and I'll do mine, ok.
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Thorse1 day ago
+5
Id go one step further and add any strongly held opinion to this. Sharing thoughts and feelings is one thing. Stop trying to change my opinion on subjective matters
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Sedert18821 day ago
+5
True, very true.
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mmbg782 days ago
+34
Yeah Brooke I'm sure God just loves that you've successfully gotten vulnerable people thrown off food stamp programs...and brag about it
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PandaJesus1 day ago
+6
If their god existed he’d be very upset.
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Ok_Pollution70931 day ago
+19
Separation of church and state is not a suggestion. It is the whole point.
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cribsaw1 day ago
+7
“In response to the lawsuit, a USDA spokesperson said in a statement, ‘While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process.’”
What a nasty c***.
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I_might_be_weasel1 day ago
+6
"All employees are required to pray to the Corn Mother to ensure a bountiful harvest."
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ActualizationStation1 day ago
+8
Christianity may be the worst thing humanity has ever invented.
the horrors... wait, who did farmers overwhelmingly vote for again? Kamala right?
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steve_ample1 day ago
+3
It won't be too far a stretch for her call on the public to start praying for rain in dry times. And most certainly over action that can effectuate change.
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UselessInsight1 day ago
+3
Utah is already doing this while watching the Great Salt Lake dry up.
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GreedyNovel1 day ago
+3
Reminds me of the memo going around last year urging anyone who felt like they'd been persecuted over their Christian beliefs during the Biden administration to report it. That memo also encouraged that anyone who'd felt persecuted for any other religion was also welcome to report that, but that it would be "handled internally", i.e. buried.
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forcedintothis-1 day ago
+4
This woman is a nut bucket.
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Bishopjones21121 day ago
+5
Whose word of the day calendar did that come from? Seriously what is it like over 50 percent of Americans have a grade 6 or below reading comprehension and ABC decided to use proselytizing as a headline word.
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jedre1 day ago
+4
Surely not the first agency to put big propaganda banners on its building. Gasp.
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deviltrombone1 day ago
+2
>The complaint listed a series of emails sent by Rollins to commemorate recent holidays, including crediting "gratitude towards a loving God" in her Thanksgiving email, writing that "God gave us the greatest gift possible" in her Christmas email, and describing the story of Jesus' resurrection as the "greatest story ever told" in her Easter email.
At least her Easter email was accurate. I think that phrasing is an in-joke among the *real* Christian elites.
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PigFarmer11 day ago
+2
The scandalous behavior didn't take long to begin... lol
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Easy_Difficulty_76561 day ago
+2
Feels like more than an accusation when they put it in writing
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th3_st0rm1 day ago
+2
Funny. I felt the same way in Catholic high school.
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TheRexRider1 day ago
+2
I'd reply to her with Matthew 6:5.
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njman1001 day ago
+3
Fucked Up Trump Administration, America, Wake the F*** Up!
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YellowButterfly71 day ago
+3
The Christian Nationalists will see the lawsuit as more Christian persecution.
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Rogue_AI_Construct1 day ago
+2
Good. Keep your shitty religion out of the government.
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EatinSumGrapes1 day ago
+1
Farmers have already gotten massive bailouts from Trump this term. So most likely Trump will give them more bailouts as their farms continue to fail. Farmers tend to take pride in their work and don't enjoy taking handouts instead of producing food, I hope despite the handouts that they will be unhappy with Republicans for taking away their pride. Farmers are used to taking handouts due to weather, pests, or things outside human's control. Taking handouts due to failed political policies and fertilizer shortage (it's going to get really bad, food prices will skyrocket) is just embarassing.
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vankirk1 day ago
+1
You gonna' run to the sea
But the sea will be boiling
When you run to the sea
The sea will be boiling
When you run to the sea
The sea will be boiling
All along that day
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ladysadi1 day ago
+1
Outlook would be more than happy to filter all Rollins emails straight into the trash.
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