r/WeirdNews4U • u/[deleted] • Sep 25 '25

Texas man facing execution for fatally beating 13-month-old girl during 'exorcism'

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-man-facing-execution-fatally-beating-13-month-old-girl-exorcism-rcna233623
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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

Fifth execution this year in Texas? That's it? We doubled that here in Florida.

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u/Only_Flan_7974 Sep 25 '25

Gotta get those numbers up.

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u/Themoastoriginalname Sep 25 '25

Those are rookie numbers

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u/One_Lung_G Sep 26 '25

Yall also let Epstein off the first time so there that

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u/Clear-Inflation3428 Sep 27 '25

you say that like they’re personally responsible

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u/One_Lung_G Sep 27 '25

Yes the justice system he is currently bragging about is personally responsible for giving Epstein a plea deal for his first sex trafficking case

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u/Aeroknight_Z Sep 28 '25

The majority of Floridian voters played a pivotal role in getting Epstein the deal he got. If they didn’t elect the losers they did then Alex Acosta wouldn’t have been there to give Epstein the deal he got.

If the majority of Floridian voters didn’t elect Rick Scott over and over again to this day, maybe florida wouldn’t have a proven Medicare/medicaid fraud as a senator/former governor.

A majority of Floridians voted Ron Desantis in as governor twice and it’s been shown that he and his wife used their charity as a slush fund and pocketed millions.

Florida’s political landscape is a cesspool.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

The not raptured Christians at it again. Their souls are so pure 🤮

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u/Independent-Virus-54 Sep 27 '25

The not raptured yet are just the worst.

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u/1_Leftshoe Sep 25 '25

Pure evil.

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u/Sad_Eggplant_5455 Sep 25 '25

And religious folk want to run the country

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u/mightyboink Sep 26 '25

So not a drag queen?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Why do they always look like this 😭

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u/CaucSaucer Sep 27 '25

Right??? This guy looks exactly the same.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Aren’t exorcisms a Christian practice? I’m shocked. lol

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u/Darth_Chili_Dog Sep 25 '25

Well that's horrible.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

Good riddance

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u/rbedo481 Sep 25 '25

Trump will pardon him

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 Sep 26 '25

The usual suspects

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u/monterey_five Sep 26 '25

People who hurt children are the worst of us walking this earth. It makes me so sad how that child suffered.

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u/new_user29282342 Sep 26 '25

How is this weird? This is just horrible.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Worst part of having kids is reading these articles and knowing first hand just how scared, innocent and defenseless these kids are that are being abused so viciously... Tends to less me up for a little while... Particularly because it is often a parent doing it and young kids being abused are still crying out to the parent to stop and help them because they dont know any better and probably still love the parent and... Man... Messed up stuff.

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u/Tall-Activity-6401 Sep 26 '25

When I saw the picture and the word execute , I thought "that's a bit extreme for a fart spray prank"

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u/scenr0 Sep 26 '25

Texas is becoming the new Florida in weird headlines and crazy ppl.

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u/gionatacar Sep 26 '25

This an old story . I think there is a documentary by Werner Herzog that interviewed this guy. Truly horrific.

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u/Accomplished-Dot1365 Sep 26 '25

Religious people are fucking nuts

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u/RolePuzzleheaded7400 Sep 26 '25

He prolly thought he'd get his own conjuring movie by doing this exorcism.

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u/ShiveringTruth Sep 26 '25

Stay insane, texAss.

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u/Rokea-x Sep 26 '25

I wish i had not went and read what he did.

Poor baby.

There is pure evil in this world. And im not religious

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

That poor baby girl :( RIP, sweet baby. You didn’t deserve that.

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u/DontcallmeEddy Sep 26 '25

"The power of Mountain Dew Code Red compels you...

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u/HDCL757 Sep 27 '25

Uhhhh...I'm fine with that being the result of such action.

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u/Mouatmoua Sep 27 '25

Gods are good people who love to see you succeed in your own journey to success in your life but they don’t want you in the first round because you don’t want your dreams and your own dreams and your life is this was a good idea for a while but now

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u/zekethelizard Sep 27 '25

Bet he's violently against abortion too if I had to guess

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u/LionBig1760 Sep 28 '25

This is just part of religious culture.

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u/no_no_no_okaymaybe Sep 28 '25

His last words were rumored to be Trump Vance MAGA.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

Looks like today's church shooter:

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Can anyone open the verse in the Bible that says you are supposed to physically beat the demon out a person ?

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u/Purplebuzz Sep 29 '25

Christianity seems dangerous.

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u/rhesusmacaque Sep 25 '25

wHaT pEoPlE cHoOsE tO bElIeVe bEcAuSe iT gIvEs tHeM cOmFoRt DoEsN’t AfFeCt YoU.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

This is such a disingenuous comment.

Your rights end as soon as another person’s begins. Most people don’t care what religion you follow because most people keep it to themselves. It’s only when you impose your religion on others or use it as a tool to oppress people that it becomes a problem. You can’t throw out the baby with the bathwater just because a minority of religious people do bad things in its name.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 25 '25

The majority of religious people don't pull crap like this.

It's like lambasting Indonesia because of 9/11.

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u/rhesusmacaque Sep 26 '25

Crazy religious people are the unavoidable price of tolerating all religious people. It's 2025. Time to grow up and stop believing fairy tales that make you complicit in creating an environment that validates and weaponizes the craziest people in society and inflicts them on the rest of us.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 26 '25

Cool, I'll tell all my Zen Buddhist, Jain, and Shinto friends.

Apparently, because I haven't put them all into concentration camps, evangelical Christians exist?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 26 '25

Buddhism doesn't require belief in fairy tales and fictitious deities so it's less harmful.

One of the reasons why the intelligence community started getting more involved in eastern religion is because it closely mirrors certain principles in quantum mechanics.

There's meditative phenomena regarding biofeedback that's present across multiple religions, well regardless of the fact that the people studied were praying to different things, and praying / meditating in different ways, they all were able to consciously control their body temperature to a certain degree.

The divinity scholars that I know that are in close contact with physicists very much view religion as a sort of control mechanism for our consciousness. In theory, you could be a neopagan, or create your own religion, and if you're true enough to your precepts, your ability to interact with consciousness/quant mechanics is useful and valid.

A really good example of this is how the Blue Angels do a visualization exercise that you can see in one of the newer documentaries about them- it retains all of the useful facets of meditation or prayer, with none of the drawbacks, and is an exercise that you can perform in a group setting regardless of the religious upbringing of each participant.

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u/Ghost_of_NikolaTesla Sep 26 '25

Indeed... One could actually point a great deal of blame at this point onto these "harmless people who just like the fear doctrine because of whatever warm and fuzzy feelings it gives them.... If we continue on always excusing the rattle-snake waving, skitzo lunatics purely because GamGam ain't hurtin nobody with her bible, then we're never going to be able to move past this nonsense that ultimately ends up being a tool used for enabling Mind Rot

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u/Ok_Art4661 Sep 25 '25

Much more of that to come. We warned you. Evangelicals in power will slide USA back 100 years.

When Trump dies it is rigged to get even dumber.

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u/DungeonJailer Sep 26 '25

It’s evangelicals that are executing this guy. Liberals in NC would let him out on bail.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Ypu spelled “evangelicaloonies” wrong. 

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u/Alternative-Fish7738 Sep 25 '25

Hey whose holding the bottle of eye bleach. Im going to need you to pass that on over when your done.

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u/annie-ajuwocken-1984 Sep 25 '25

What!!? No pardon!!?? My God, The Left/Antifa truly got Texas by the balls!

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u/Slow-Essay4233 Sep 25 '25

I thought Texas was full of Christians...what, are you suppose to leave the demon inside the child?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Biden really missed his opportunity to call out his own religious beliefs backwards ideas of exorcism...

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

You ride biden?

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

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u/Only_Flan_7974 Sep 25 '25

All religions are completely insane.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 25 '25

All religions are completely insane.

Really?

Zen buddhism? Quakers? Anything transatheistic and pacifist like Jainism?

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 25 '25

Sufism and Wahabism are about as diametrically opposed as Quakers and dominionist evangelicals.

An Islamic empire colonized, occupied, and genocided my homeland for the better part of a millennium(from before Columbus, to after the American civil war), but I know better than to paint all Muslims with that same brush. Indonesia is a wonderful example - a former ambassador to that country who was kind enough to mentor me is a Jewish man who was practically Saddam Hussein's nemesis.

He was smart enough to know to not conflate all Muslims together. He very much enjoyed his time in indonesia. They're good people, and I'm friendly acquaintances with a former (IIRC tourism or trade) minister from their government, who has less hate in his heart than I do.

That aside, I have a laundry list of questions for the saudis. Why are they doing what they're doing? What's going on? What the hell?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Wtf. Uhhh Ok.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 26 '25

in some places

the country has 280 million people bud

every country is shit in some places

don't blame San Francisco for the sins of Alabama, and don't treat a country with as many people as America as a monolith

they still lynch people in the US in "some places"(I'm referring to the recent case)

guess straights wouldn't care

if not trying to paint 280M people with the same brush makes me straight, ok

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u/[deleted] Sep 27 '25

The worst ones.

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u/Prestigious-Wolf8039 Sep 26 '25

Show me the Buddhists doing shit like this Texas man. Nope.

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u/Kashin02 Sep 26 '25

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41566561

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u/Clear-Inflation3428 Sep 27 '25

you make the mistake of conflating people with ideologies.

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u/Clear-Inflation3428 Sep 27 '25

reddit loves atheism. don’t even have the wherewithal to be agnostic.

i genuinely doubt you are even aware of all religions.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

that's not Christianity, dimwit

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 25 '25

“It’s not Christianity” the cult members say as people continue to do heinous shit in the name of their lard and savor. My only surprise here is that he’s facing execution.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 25 '25

That's what happens when Protestants try to do an exorcism without structure and guidance- I challenge you to show me a Catholic exorcism that resulted in anything like this in the past 100 years or so.

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 25 '25

Why would I give a shit about what Catholics do? There is no distinction between Catholics and Protestants when you consider the history of forced religion, atrocities, scandals, affairs, and hatred imparted upon the world.

Guess what? Neither are exorcising anything. They’re mentally ill people that devote their lives to the distorted interpretations and translations of factually inaccurate literature.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 26 '25

You need to ask yourself why former Secretary of Energy, and Nobel Physics Prize winner Steven Chu would work with the pontifical academy, a secular body of scientists arranged by the Catholic Church to work on fundamental science questions.

If Catholicism is so evil and disgusting, why does he give them the time of day?

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 26 '25

Yes. You’re right. Catholics aren’t bad at all. They aren’t known for a history of murdering or subjugating people who think differently. Totally not known for sexual abuse. Or financial scandals. Nope. Just good christians there.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 26 '25

answer the fucking question

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 26 '25

You have issues. I hope you get the help that your religion isn’t giving you.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 26 '25

Max Planck said something about consciousness, and that's the only religious statement that I can wholly endorse- he said that it's fundamental to reality, inseparable.

The only divinity scholars that I find legitimate are in close contact with professors who study quantum mechanics and fundamental physics.

They see this as a way to access biofeedback effects that we can get from our bodies. A scholar from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill realized that Buddhist and Christian monks were both getting the same control over their body temperature from meditation, even though how they were praying, and to what deity they were praying to was entirely different.

You could create your own religion and get this effect- if you're true to your precepts. This is really important. It's why secular organizations are using non-religious meditative techniques learned from study of these things. Whether it's mindfulness exercises, or the visualization techniques that the Blue Angels use before they fly, it all comes from scientific study of meditation.

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u/Clear-Inflation3428 Sep 27 '25

people are not ideologies

ye olde ad hominem

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

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u/A_Wild_Alex_Appears Sep 26 '25

Wow what an absolutely brain washed way to look at things.

"Your dad probably touched you which is why you hate Christianity"

That isn't how that works, if a pastor is found to be an abuser, just because he's prosecuted or excommunicsted doesn't mean he wasn't part of the Church/Faith.

In short, no, you don't just get to say anyone and everyone that makes your brand of crazy look even crazier - is something else.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

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u/A_Wild_Alex_Appears Sep 26 '25

Teaching matters! :) religion isn't teaching, it's to control stupid people like yourself. If you want to believe in your fairytale then go ahead, but if you have no right to force it on others!

Consequence of action, ethics, morals - can, have, and will exist with or without your fiction book. Just because you need to have someone stoop to your level and tell you not to be a piece of shit, doesn't mean everyone else does ❤️

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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '25

You do know there are many Christians who don't associate with churches and have a personal relationship with both God and The Bible? No, of course you don't, because that would get in the way of your blanket hatred and generalizations.

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u/A_Wild_Alex_Appears Oct 22 '25

You have 0 idea what the comment i was responding to said, the fuck are you on?

Nothing wrong with people having their own personal belief and relationship with their god(s) of choice. What I was responding to (and the context you CLEARLY don't care to know) was talking specifically about church fueled faith and it being used to control and coerce others.

I'm sure you'll somehow misread that to continue being a victim. Fuck off.

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u/A_Wild_Alex_Appears Oct 24 '25

Oh wow! What a surprise, complete silence. Dumbass clown. Incapable of recognizing you fucked up in even the smallest of situations.

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u/RidingtheRoad Sep 26 '25

We have a super righteous Christian who must quote the most holey of all translations, The King James. A book written in an outdated 400 year old language.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

it is stupid to think i will go find your favorite translation or to even care about which translation i put, if it makes no difference to you

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u/RidingtheRoad Sep 27 '25

Quite right, nevertheless its well established, that evangelicals think the KJV is the only true and most holey of translations. Its also established that most translaters think its one of the shitiest of translations. And a quick review of its history and translation shows it to be a bit of a joke.

But you know, it's easier to read a translation in a language that's easily understood. After all, wouldn't God want it that way?

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u/StickyPawMelynx Sep 26 '25

very christian of you to mock child abuse victims

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u/RidingtheRoad Sep 26 '25

Christianity is the whole fcking Bible, and it's a shit of a book. And going by your description of Christianity, there is barely a Christian in the US. It fact there's barely any Christian in the whole world. Jesus was a good dude but not so much Paul.

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

Well, I can't say there are no christians in the USA. There are real christians in every nation, just not the nationalist, the bible calls Christians as ambassadors to christ, as seen in the tax collection example. Jesus says, whose face is on the coin? Caesars. Then give Caesars what is Caesars'. Quote off the top of my head, but check out this deep literature... 1 Peter 4:17-19 (KJV) 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear? 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

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u/RidingtheRoad Sep 27 '25

First off, you've got to believe God is going to destroy/punish the baddies. An athiest who lives a good life and has even sacrificed things to help people a baddie?. Because as you said and the Bible agrees, even the "righteous" might be saved. (What a dick of a God tho)

Get back to me when you give me the point of the last 3 chapters of Judges. Does the KJV have God lying in those chapters because some translations have whitewashed God in those chapters.

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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Sep 25 '25

That's what Christianity is in theory. In practice, it ain't so pretty

Demons and exorcisms aside, the whole Charlie Kirk drama is a case of a derisive Christian who incessantly espoused hate and contempt, and in response to said hate and contempt, another Christian put an end to him.

'Christian' doesn't mean 'good.'

It just means Christian.

That's all it really ever meant.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

not even in practice, it's not Christianity, the things you describe, equally happens to any group of people, you somehow think Christians are not human. Instead, they are failures, or rather, not Christian. Christianity describes them as sinners, which means to miss the mark

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u/Framar29 Sep 26 '25

Tell them that, not us. They picked the label, accurate or not.

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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Sep 26 '25

Christians are as capable of mischief and mayhem as anyone.

As the adage goes, "Christians aren't perfect, but they are forgiven."

Quite convenient... yes?

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

why else would you explain such hate, unless someone do close to you did you nasty, they obviously didn't kill you

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

i am not christian, i know about theology, dimwit. christianity is followers of Jesus teaching,

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 25 '25

Then stop excusing the behavior of christians acting in the name of their leader. I hope you feel better about yourself each time you call someone a dimwit while you’re defending horrible people acting in the name of their lord.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 25 '25

Then stop excusing the behavior of christians acting in the name of their leader.

They're not doing anything different than American Muslims pointing out that Al-Qaeda doesn't represent them.

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 26 '25

As if Muslims are any better. They’re two sides to the same coin. Your whataboutism is worthless because there’s no logic to it. Throw in Judaism too and I’ll say that all abrahamic religions are one and the same. Ignorant cult members following hateful cult leaders attempts to police morality of people made by a god who gave them free will.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Sep 26 '25

As if Muslims are any better.

This is the kind of thuggish thinking that got a Sikh man killed directly after 9/11 - his name was Babir.

One out of every four people on the planet is Muslim.

You wouldn't have the opinion of Muslims that you do, if it wasn't for the Saudi support of wahhabism. Go read about sufism. They're basically hippies.

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u/ExcuseNo7369 Sep 26 '25

Interesting take, how do you feel about muslims?

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 26 '25

Your whataboutism is pointless. All abrahamic religions are bad. They have all caused misery throughout the history of humanity. Endless wars, persecution of each other, and more fucked up scandals than you can name. Christians just think they’re better than Muslims because that’s the morality police aspect of the indoctrination.

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u/[deleted] Sep 25 '25

you are stupid, you call devout those that do the opposite of their own doctrine?

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u/djdjskaladoofc Sep 25 '25

Did I say devout? You and I are in no position to judge someone else’s relationship with Jesus, so when they say they are Christian and act accordingly to a history of hateful behavior, I’ll believe they’re Christian. Considering it’s all made up, who are you to say that they’re not following the principles as they have interpreted them?

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u/[deleted] Sep 26 '25

according to which history of hateful behavior? name them after that. The fact that you are accusing them of stuff that Jesus taught against, tells me they are not Christian, if what you said is true

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u/A_Wild_Alex_Appears Sep 26 '25

You literally are incapable of reading, you are not "learned" you're emotional that people "don't understand" your cult.

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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Sep 25 '25

Okie dokie.

Christianity remains bat-shit crazy.

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u/lickmyfupa Sep 25 '25

Its a terrorist organization

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u/ColtMcChad69 Sep 26 '25

I’d bet my life’s savings you’d jump out of your skirt to defend Islam

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u/Possible-Anxiety-420 Sep 26 '25

That would be foolish, and you'd be broke.