Patron saint of Holy Fools! And puppeteers. Sillier than thou. Canonized for throwing walnuts in church and streaking. Self-parody. Pitied by
@MrT
. Pronouns!
By request, the ongoing
#ChooseYourOwnAdventure
thread!
It all started as a riff on a
#FollowFriday
meme that was making the rounds on Christian Twitter a few weeks ago. I… genuinely have no idea how it turned into this.
You’re stuck in an evangelical megachurch. You look around. There are respectable supplies of mediocre coffee and stirring sticks, and a suspiciously clean bookstore. Your eye lights on a table full of pastries. Well, this could be promising after all.
Do you:
There is oof, there is Oof, there is OOOF, and then there is the guy who said "you'd think differently if someone in your family was murdered" to Bernice King.
Pro Tip:
If you are putting the Spanish words for “Feliz Navidad” in your program,
“prospero año” means “prosperous new year”,
and “prospero ano” means “prosperous anus.”
Don’t ask my church how we know
Time for your reminder that Jesus once told a parable about an unjust judge, who was finally persuaded to do the right thing because a woman wouldn’t stop yelling at him.
@NYMag
@lizweil
Just a usage note here, as an old editor:
SHUNNED is the word for what people should do to sexual abusers in their friend group.
CANCELED is the word for what people should do to their
@NYMag
subscriptions.
Hope that clarifies!
Unpopular Opinion:
“Tax the churches!” is an understandable reaction to egregiously wealthy preachers
But in PRACTICE
if you don’t think they would make loopholes for the Osteens
and crush Black churches for doing community organizing
may I recommend
any good US history book
"I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who opened up her church's doors and hung a big sign that said Welcome All Face-Eating Leopards Please Come In And Eat The Faces Of Every Last Person In This Church And Yes To Be Clear That Specifically Includes My Own Face
EVANGELICALS: "Our nation needs to be governed by Judeo-Christian biblical principles!"
CANDIDATE: "Ok, here's a policy to enact a Year of Jubilee where all debts will be graciously forgiven by unmerited favor for—"
EVANGELICALS: "You godless socialist!"
China may send 100,000 ducks to Pakistan to battle locust swarms. Pakistan has declared an emergency saying locust numbers were the worst in more than two decades. A single duck can eat more than 200 locusts a day, more effective than pesticides: expert
Lawful Good: Times New Roman
Neutral Good: Helvetica
Chaotic Good: Old English Text MT
Lawful Neutral: Calibri
True Neutral: Arial
Chaotic Neutral: Making a custom font based on your own handwriting
Lawful Evil: Courier New
Neutral Evil: Wingdings
Chaotic Evil: Comic Sans
@Faith_Salie
Annie is the part you get if you are good at wearing a wig and want to be cute. Miss Hannigan is the part you get if you are good at musical theatre and want to be a legend.
SATAN: "Throw yourself from the temple, for it is written, 'He shall give his angels charge over thee…'"
JESUS: "lol no"
SATAN: "You deny the clear teaching of the Bible. Your issue is not with me, it's with the Scripture, you lack a high view of the authority of the Word."
CHURCH PEOPLE: Do you know why so many people have left the church?
PEOPLE WHO LEFT THE CHURCH: Hi! It's because of abuse, racism, sexism—
CHURCH PEOPLE: It must be that we've compromised with worldly liberal theology!
PEOPLE WHO &c: GAAAAAAAAH
CHURCH PEOPLE: Whoa, bitter.
THEM: “The Bible says I have freedom of worship, so I don’t have to wear a mask during a pandemic!”
THE BIBLE: “Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.”
THEM:
THE BIBLE: 1 Peter 2:16.
THEM:
Wow it's clearly a troll trying to get engagement you say?
Too bad I didn't notice that and think to screenshot it instead of retweeting to keep them from getting any oxygen
Maybe I can fix it retroactively
There we go
Picketing the Straight Pride Parade with a sign that says
"It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman—1 Corinthians 7:11."
I don't hate the straights, I just can't endorse their unbiblical lifestyle
ESCAPE ROOM THEME: One of you is a Mormon, one of you is a Baptist, and the other is a Jehovah’s Witness. Nobody leaves until one has converted the other two.
“Jesus wasn’t a refugee!”
“But his family fled…”
“Yes.”
“…to escape violence…”
“Yes.”
“…in their own country…”
“Yes.”
“…and take refuge…”
“Yes.”
“…in another country?”
“Yes.”
“They weren’t refugees in Egypt because?”
“Because under Roman rule countries had OPEN BORDERS!”
@isierranichole
@JacobFalcon23
While some rando in the replies keeps on reposting screenshots of Saul's deleted tweets saying something about keeping the receipts
Heaven is not a place where you are made perfect after you die.
Heaven is a big big house with lots and lots of room, a big big table with lots and lots of food, a big big yard where we can play f
—BIBLE DOCUMENTARY—
HOST: "David is one of the people in the Bible.
[PICTURES OF STONE WALLS]
HOST: "But, is the Bible true?!?!?"
[MONTAGE OF THE HOST RIDING LAND ROVERS. DRAMATIC MUSIC]
HOST: "We spoke to an archaeologist."
[MORE WALLS]
GUY: "This might be in the Bible."
THEM: “David committed conspiracy to have one of his most loyal men murdered after having sex with his wife.”
ME: “Yeah, and the sex wasn’t even all that consensual.”
THEM: “HOW VERY DARE YOU BESMIRCH HIS GOOD NAME LIKE THAT SIR”
Imagine thinking you’ve deconstructed American Evangelicalism when you haven’t even deconstructed the urge to start a webinar and monetize your book about it on the self-help lecture circuit
Pro Tip: If they don’t like it when you say “I’m deconstructing,” you can always say, “I’m turning from unbiblical false teachings and embracing sound doctrine”
Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day fall on the same day this year, so, an idea: Love Hearts which say "Ashes to Ashes", "Dust to Dust", and "remember you will die" on them.
To all the theology bros arguing the Bible says slavery is okay:
Congratulations! You win the debate! Be at my place Monday at 6:00 AM; you’ll start with the heavy construction crew.
…What? You expected to be the slave *owners*? Why?? Oh well, too late now. Beatings in room 6.
Let's get this straight! Different academic studies make very different categories of claims:
History: "A Jewish preacher named Jesus lived c.30 CE."
Theology: "He was the Son of God."
Science: "He weighed 83.9 kg."
Math: "That's 185 lbs."
Archaeology: "This was his spoon."
Ye have heard it said, not my circus, not my monkeys. But verily, verily I say unto you: it is thy circus, and lo, these monkeys art thine also, even unto the last in the barrel.
@ostrachan
No drinking?!?
No dancing?!?
No open bars???
Mandatory dress requirements??!!
Wow Owen, that sounds just like
every single Baptist Bible College Code of Student Conduct ever
Desperate polls call for desperate measures: Dems consider forgiving trillions in student loans. Other bribe suggestions: Forgive auto loans? Forgive credit card debt? Forgive mortgages? And put a wealth tax on the super-rich to pay for it all. What could possibly go wrong?
JOHN MacARTHUR: “The biggest danger and heresy facing the church today is people believing a political social justice agenda instead of preaching the Gospel.”
ALSO JOHN MacARTHUR: “You’re not a real Christian if you vote Democrat.”
@PMourdoukoutas
@Forbes
This article is incredibly poorly cited. If only there was some place you could have gone where you'd have had free access to a wide array of current sources--books and periodicals and free internet. Maybe even staffed with some experts to ask for help researching?
I don’t know who needs to hear this (
@johnmacarthur
) but
If your theology says “I don’t need to wear a mask during a respiratory pandemic because God is with me so I don’t need to be afraid!”
Then your theology is functionally indistinguishable from snake handlers.
Carry on.
[SCENE: Martin LUTHER pounds on the door of the church at Wittenburg]
LUTHER: Trick or treat!
PRIEST: Sorry Marty, we're all out of chocolate
LUTHER: Dude not cool, that means you get a trick
PRIEST: Oh no, a prank, what are you going to do
LUTHER (setting his jaw): Here I stand
@EWErickson
If you cannot care about correct pronouns for your trans neighbors, whom you have seen, how can you say you care about correct pronouns for God, whom you have not seen?
(1 John 4:20, lightly paraphrased)
@eScarry
As we all know, people who *really* struggle to look good dress themselves in ill-fitting jackets, wrinkled shirts, skinny floral pattern ties, and clipper cuts that accentuate their receding hairlines.
#JustHereForTheRatio
If we take the Bible literally when it commands “Rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep,” then empathy is a virtue and refusing to have empathy is a sin.
Éowyn sipped her latte in awkward silence. She had never considered that her anonymous romantic pen pal might turn out to be someone she already knew in real life.
EVANGELICALS: "Debt forgiveness is always wrong!"
JESUS: "Do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful." (Luke 6:35)
EVANGELICALS: "That's contrary to the word of God!"
@JustnBullington
I had a friend once who was so anxious that when he prayed his sweat was like drops of blood
I wish you’d been there to tell him this, I bet he would have been impressed with how much more you know than he does
@epistemophagy
A bit rich coming from a movement led by an author who literally made up a fake middle initial because her publishers thought it sounded cooler
And who published the half of her books under a man’s name
And Jesus answered him and said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
But he, wishing to justify himself, said “Isn’t the most loving thing you can do to tell someone when they are wrong and speak the truth in love with a godly rebuke from the word of scripture—”
And Jesus sighed.
@dutch85169
@ParisDaguerre
Except your immune system isn’t “fully functioning” unless it knows how to protect you against SARS-CoV-2.
Better get that fixed.
@Nicole_Cliffe
Sharks come in five varieties: Baby, Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, and Grandpa, which may be distinguished by the things they do, do do do do. Most people's favorite type of shark is the Baby, but I find the Grandpa to be distinctly underrated.
@timkellernyc
The biblical model of marriage is an exclusive life long covenant relationship between one man and seven hundred wives + three hundred concubines
I still remember how disenchanting it was and how much of the magic went out of the season when I found out the whole time it was really my Mom and Dad who punched out Arius at the Council of Nicaea
I once saw a “Christian Classical Education” teacher on here saying he wanted to make sure his kids learned in the style of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, so they would not be influenced by pagan philosophies in the schools.
Think about it a sec.
🧐
@BuzzFeedNews
Sorry but I don’t give content for free to media outlets, in solidarity with the BuzzFeed journalists union, who were all fired by their rich pals in a surprising display of wealth.
@dianabutlerbass
I knew a guy who worked in IT at an evangelical Bible college. He said their busiest work week was the annual Pastors’ conference, because so many of the pastors would get their computers blocked for trying to get around the automatic p0rn firewall.
Nobody:
Complementarians: “THIS IS MY DOCTRINAL HILL TO DIE ON!!!”
Somebody: “You realize that literally nobody is ever going to ask you to die for—“
Complementarians: “I’M GOING OUT IN A BLAZE OF GOD’S GLORY!!!”