Hannity, and most “christian’s” religious beliefs go only as far to project pious nationalism and identity. They don’t practice, read, follow, or understand the bible or its content. So it’s all smoke and mirrors anyway. When’s the last time Hannity was in church on a Sunday, confessed, or participated in Ash Wednesday?
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KingOfEthanopia6 hr ago
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Dude Ive been an atheist for like 20 years. I was a teenager when Hitchens, Dawkins, and Harris were huge. I have far more respect for religion than evangelicals.
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empire_of_the_moon5 hr ago
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Isn’t it funny to try and explain that you can respect someone’s faith but not share it.
Evangelicals won’t reciprocate your respect as someone who doesn’t believe in the supernatural.
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KingOfEthanopia5 hr ago
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Yeah I went to Sunday school growing up, read the entire Bible, and even took courses on it in college. Its not a lack of knowledge that makes me not believe but instead too much.
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luluwolfbeard6 hr ago
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My hope is that current events don’t turn people further from religion, but back to it. Not the farce that is American christian nationalism. But honest, truthful, world embracing unity and peace, which is what religion is actually about.
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KingOfEthanopia6 hr ago
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"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
-Mahatma Gandhi
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malthar766 hr ago
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“Jesus, I like him very much, but he no help with curveball” - Pedro Cerrano, Major League
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NavierIsStoked6 hr ago
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Jobu needs a refill!
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Ancient_Profession316 hr ago
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You trying to tell me Jesus Christ can’t hit a curveball???!?
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TeeFuce6 hr ago
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He can rope curveballs all day long; just won’t help you do it.
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Bl1nk96 hr ago
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That’s cuz he can’t let go of the bat.
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Flying-Fox6 hr ago
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Heard an Archbishop once caution against 'letting those in the pews keep the Churches empty'.
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Pleasant_Character286 hr ago
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You just described every atheist and agnostic I know. Wild concept: you can embrace honest, truthful, world unity and peace - all without religion!
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Huge_Struggle96726 hr ago
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Exactly.
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LeoDiamant6 hr ago
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Low key hope this is the end phase for religion. Maybe maybe the final season.
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Huge_Struggle96726 hr ago
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Not a hope . Too much money to be made on the grift . Look at Scientology . Who’d of thought a book from the worst Hollywood hack would ever be taken seriously. F****** yanks
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DickWhittingtonsCat6 hr ago
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a majority of Men are generally subservient to “great men”- and pathetically kowtow hero worship.
The story of the world, and thus the best stories, involve proud men getting slapped across the face by someone they see as a superior and not doing shit.
Remove religion from equation and some new “influence” viewed as more intelligent, successful, virile or knowledgeable will fill the void immediately.
Religion simply provides the historical frame work for the men in the hierarchy to make abject submission by men more justifiable to women. Why does Hannity need a Pope when he has a Trump creating a schema for him to profit under
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scriptingends6 hr ago
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Except it's not - religious wars and religion-led persecution have killed more people throughout history than basically any other human-generated cause. Religion and religious adherents love to preach peace while fomenting death.
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Pounder8886 hr ago
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Absolutely.
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atomic_jarhead6 hr ago
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Religious wars and persecution are man’s words interpreted incorrectly. You are also reaching to the Old Testament and not the Good News.
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Eecka6 hr ago
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The old testament is part of the scripture, you don’t get to just pick and choose the parts you like
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scriptingends6 hr ago
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Ah, yes, the old "No True Scotsman" fallacy, right on time.
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KingOfEthanopia6 hr ago
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It comes up every time. I think that Protestants are the worst about it. Their view is that all you have to do to be forgiven for any sin is to ask forgiveness. You can act like a total prick your whole life but ask forgiveness right before you die and make it to heaven. What difference do your actions really make then?
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scriptingends6 hr ago
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Sure, but also that comically tired line "Any violence perpetrated in the name of religion is because the people - *misinterpreted the religion*! A REAL religious person '*can't*' act with violence!"
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OneBillPhil6 hr ago
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I’ve been baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. I think it’s all bullshit, I’m not a believer.
However, I do think that some of the values have made me and others into the people that we are. There’s good stuff there, I like parts of it as a way to live *my life*, but I have no business telling others how to live theirs.
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CrankyYankers6 hr ago
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Same for me, also went to nine years of Catholic school, no longer a believer. I have found the Catholic families who belonged to our school and church to be pretty awesome people. Normal, relaxed, easy with a laugh, not interested in proselytizing or wearing their faith like a giant neon sign (unlike some other religions).
Also, I was in eighth grade when the NUNS told us the truth about Adam and Eve and Noah's Ark etc, that it's all stories and none of it was true.
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spinbutton6 hr ago
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Organized religion especially in the US seems to be an enormous problem. I agree that there are plenty of denominations that provide good oversight over their power structure and the communities they foster.
But often those power structures are corrupted, they protect their own power rather than protecting community members. Even to the point of protecting people who break their own ethical rules and laws.
Religious groups without power structures appear to be even more vulnerable to unethical, power hungry, greedy individuals who are happy to use religion as a cover for their own personal gains.
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BowlEducational67226 hr ago
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In the US, conservative Christians are conservative first, Christian a *very* distant second.
It's nothing more than an identity marker, a call sign to signal that they are part of the tribe. All you have to do is identify as it and hate the same people they do. All those pesky commandments and "love thy neighbor" stuff is irrelevant.
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KingOfEthanopia6 hr ago
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You can thank the prosperity gospel for that. The very existence of mega churches is anathema to the teachings of Jesus.
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Formal_Baker_87466 hr ago
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They are not so conservative either, given the complete abandonment of ideals for a civil society or the basic concepts of our constitutional government.
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Unusual-Horror71406 hr ago
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They are also very exclusive. I had a neighbor that only invited me to her house when she thought I was a Christian. When she realized I was Catholic, she stopped talking and inviting me. Definitely love thy neighbor.
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spacemoses7 hr ago
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He said there were all these examples and then pick the "battle" of David and Goliath? Writers getting sloppy.
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blitzbeard6 hr ago
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Also wouldn't we be Goliath in that analogy?
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suppaduppasleuth6 hr ago
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Technically he'd be the rock.
A useful tool to someone else's main story.
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forgotmyusername44446 hr ago
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Brilliant
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atomic_jarhead6 hr ago
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I am responding as though the Bible is 100% true.
David v. Goliath is Old Testament and not the gospels. There are significant teachings in the gospels that contradict many of the teachings in the Old Testament. These were the words of Jesus.
As for Hannity, 12 years of Catholic Church is likely 12 years of CEO (Christmas & Easter Only) church. My bias against Hannity is the same for any Christian or wannabe Christian who twist the words of the Bible to fit their agenda.
Or use movie scripts and claim them to be from the Gospel of Ezekiel which there is no gospel of Ezekiel. There is the book of Ezekiel. Externally a subtle difference but definitely not a Gospel.
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N4RQ6 hr ago
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Trump pisses on the world, Hannity tells us it's just rain.
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Wizchine5 hr ago
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And smirks while he’s telling us that.
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ABA4776 hr ago
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Nope and Nope. He doesn't deserve to even speak about the Pope, let alone be even near him or talk about him. Jeez- I'm a Presbyterian from Tennessee and want to start an army of spiritual protection of True Christians in prayer of world Peace and for Leo. Truth, Honor, Integrity Justice and Peace.
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Jorgen_G_Pakieto6 hr ago
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Hannity is a potato and it is time for him to retire.
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SmackyTheBurrito6 hr ago
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Why now? Why not twenty years ago?
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Key_Statistician31706 hr ago
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I say we mash him
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Scheming_Deming6 hr ago
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Henceforth I shall refer to him as King Edward!
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kafka_lite6 hr ago
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Now Huffpost is paywalled?
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Greatsnes6 hr ago
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[:)](https://removepaywalls.com/)
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atomic_jarhead6 hr ago
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I saw that. Use archive.ph if you want to read paywall articles.
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rockerscott6 hr ago
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Is Sean Hannity’s face getting smaller?
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Spikel146 hr ago
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Its always been too small
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SmartQuokka6 hr ago
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Trump sees himself as Jesus and Fox news is his mouthpiece so this all tracks.
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Dry-Newspaper-83116 hr ago
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He’s a c*nt.
Trump is a c*nt.
Most Americans have voted for this c*nt twice.
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exerda6 hr ago
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Thanks to the stupid way our elections work, more like a slight plurality of people who bothered to vote in a single of the three times he ran. Across the three elections, his opponents netted 8m more votes than he did. Yet he won two of those three because American electoral institutions are dumb and voters who don't bother to show up even dumber.
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toomuchtv9875 hr ago
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Some voted for him three times. Truly brainless.
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True_Pirate6 hr ago
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The propagandists are fighting
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CarolinaPanthers20156 hr ago
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Yep. This is just ABSOLUTELY why not everyone wants to watch Fox News at all. It's such a BIG TIME swing and a miss for one of the network's longtime anchors and hosts, Sean Hannity.
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MadMarsian_6 hr ago
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… I think I’m uniquely qualified. I studied Latin, theology, went to Catholic Church for 12 years. I’d love to interview the pope.”
Studies Latin theology / went to church = unique qualifications
HA!!!
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DomPedro_676 hr ago
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The Catholics benefited from the removal of that poisonous monkey. Individuals like him might start climbing trees and staying there.
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Calm-Professional1036 hr ago
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Idiots always level down
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Kozmic_River6 hr ago
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It’s peole like Sean Hannity that make me hope that hell exists.
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ddeads6 hr ago
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Non-denominational evangelicals are vultures
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Foolgazi6 hr ago
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Republicans claiming they know more about religion than the pope is Final Boss level Dunning-Kruger.
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rbrt136 hr ago
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People like this make it clear that religion is just a tool to be used by the powerful to support their agenda. It’s otherwise a completely unnecessary appendage from our primitive past. Even for those who believe in a god or any creator why even bother with a religion? Seems like a pointless middle man.
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Sudden-Earth92816 hr ago
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Klannity’s right wing views clashed with some of Catholicism’s stances on things like immigration. And now he hates the pope for preaching peace and going against Trump. Religion is simply used as something to confirm your own biases, not something that teaches you about morality.
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beavis6176 hr ago
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The Catholic community has been taken over in a sense by white Christian nationalists who are Trump loving worshiping right wing FOX watching propaganda lovers.
Hannity is a partisan hack and there’s no room for debate with these people. If you want to be part of the Trump political party you must follow in the ways of Trump!
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GregFromStateFarm5 hr ago
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Oh, no! Social media comments??? Such a “hellish backfire!” What is this trash article?
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pecan766 hr ago
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Catholics were always gonna be next on the shit list
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AlfromtheBay6 hr ago
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It’s time these pinhead Americans, and I’m not talking about the Pope, learnt how to treat the rest of the world with respect.
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