• youmaynotknow@lemmy.zip
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    15 minutes ago

    This is a ridiculous measure. I am a Christian, I go to the gym (mixed) and I go, work out and then go home. While it is true that some people, men and women alike, go to the gym to “show skin and muscle”, the vast majority go to stay healthy and try (sometimes failing miserably, like me) to be a bit healthier and lose some weight.

    Now, let’s hear all the people here tell me how being a Christian makes me a far-right Republican pedophile homophobic whatever else.

    That way of thinking is so tiresome. If I’m not gay, it makes me a homophobic, if I disagree with anything left-leaning, it makes me a Nazi, if I disagree with anything right-leaning, now I’m a liberal.

    While I am disgusted to no end at how so many people is dumping on Jesus, I do understand that the only cure for ignorance is not wanting to be ignorant anymore and doing something about it, like having open minded conversations instead of doing, well, that which I mentioned above.

    No wonder this world is failing the way it is. Hopefully more people will understand the merciful sacrifice of Jesus so that everyone that trusts Him does not ‘die’, but Jas access to eternal life. We all will be removed from this world at some point. Make what you will from this, I for one want to be able to enjoy a new earth when it’s time. And if I am wrong, well, no harm done, it is what it is, but if right, I certainly don’t want to risk the consequences.

  • Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world
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    20 minutes ago

    I can’t be decent and resist my urges. So lets all get together in a setting where I can live out my urges with those with the same genitalia.

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    It’s sad that seeking out like minded people who share your values and hobbies is to be mocked. Men go, create a gym for other guys to enjoy a space where they can work on themselves and not to oggle women is a bad thing?

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      It’s worrying that these people need a separate gym because they are unable to control their urges. Seems like they have bigger problems they should be working on tbh.

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          So what do they do once they are outside of the “safe” gym? If you need a separate workout space because women are around you in gym clothes then you’re going to struggle a lot in the rest of your life. Do they need separate beaches, swimming pools, have to stay at home during the summer months?

          I’d suggest counselling with a professional would be better use of their time.

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    I seem to recall that the very same passage in their Bible that condemns lust as thoughtcrime also prescribes a remedy—and it’s to gouge out your own leering eyes, not bar women from public spaces.

    You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away; it is better for you to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

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      Holy fuck, the Bible is fucked up, man. No amount of slasher films can compete with this level of crazy

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      Thanks for the bible verse, the next time I get asked why I’m not religious, I’ll use “I don’t want to gouge out my own eyes” as the reason. I also don’t want to whip slaves, but I think they removed that after the old testament

      • peripinkel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        13 hours ago

        God approves and disapproves of slavery in both the new testament and old testament. Also in matthew 5:17-20 Jesus very clearly states that the old testament is to be followed. So even if the new testament did not include what seems to be approval of slavery, it would still not matter. But the bible also disapproves of slavery. If you want a whole lot of stuff you can quote on what you do not want to do, I would suggest looking up the skeptics annotated bible. They make some great collections.

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          8 hours ago

          Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to loosen the law or the prophets. I have not come to loosen, but to fulfill.

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      9 hours ago

      These are specifically for gay conservatives who are so far in the closet that they are in a castle in Narnia. It’s honestly kind of pathetic.